Uhooroo derives from Uhuru - the Swahali word for freedom. And that is exactly what they set out to find with this website - freedom for the musicians.
India was always a singing and dancing community, though the music was lost somewhere in the din of the cities. Uhooroo plans to bring the music back into [...]
A company by definition is a collection of people.
This means that every company, no matter how big or small, will always be looking for people. This was the very idea that made one of the biggest web companies in India - Naukri.com.
Now when you think about it, there are so many sectors where an internet [...]
Gautam Ghosh pointed out on Twitter today that google is showing results from bloggers in a slightly different fashion today. I checked it out and it sure looks great.
This is definitely another great reason to start a company blog. Just replace my name in the picture with that of your company, and the posts by [...]
The iPaper is here.
Scribd, one of the hottest startups of last year, has just released the Scribd Platform. This would allow developers to integrate documents into their websites, with a simple and clean flash interface.
I have loved Scribd from the moment they came on the scene and have covered them a number of times. But [...]
There is a new startup on the political scene.
The founders include 8 energetic men, aged 28-45, with degrees and business experience. The startup is still in beta, and you can’t yet cast a vote. The priorities and mission statement has been defined, though the last one seems a little absurd, the other two are worth [...]
The internet is full of advice, both good and bad, and most of us keep running through hundreds of feeds every day, to make sure that if there is any good in there we will find it.
So when you happen to reach a place where you find tons of excellent posts, it’s hard not to [...]
QuarkRuby, one of the hottest shopping startups in India has a new post about building widgets. It is a great post and they talk about all sorts of widgets one can possibly make.
On seeing a post on programming, it is surprising that most developers at Indian Startups hardly ever talk much about the technology they [...]
Getting funding is easy.
Recently, I had read Sujai Karampuri, founder of Sloka Telecom (henceforth, the Sloka guy) ranting about the fact that VCs were shying away from funding his company. I felt bad for for about half a second because it looks like a great idea, but then I moved on hoping that somebody on [...]
Over the last one year or so, a number of Indian blogs have come up, which cater to upcoming webapps and entrepreneurship.
I remember that when I had started there was only AlooTechie.com and WebYantra which I read almost everyday. But now there are really a lot of them - Trak.in (the latest of [...]
While surfing across the bid bad internet today, I came across two really cool mobile products. I believe both of them are amongst the pioneers in the Indian mobile market, though it waits to be seen who really is going to dominate. But till that time comes, we as the customers should know what these [...]
