Author Archives: Nishith Rastogi

About Nishith Rastogi

Nishith is a full time devotee of all things Tech. A loyal FOSS supporter, passionate programmer and a budding Entrepreneur. Enjoys photography, whistling and dreaming.

Q3 Earnings – Yahoo vs Google [Analysis]

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We had covered a brief introduction to quarterly earnings and Google’s performance in the last quarter. Keeping up, now we would look at Yahoo!. Yahoo!’s next quarter earning should be definitely worth a watch given their major overhaul and media … Read More »

Quaterly Earning Analysis – Internet Based Companies [Google]

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October sees the filing of 3rd quarter earnings by companies across the globe. Investor confidence and sentiments can be greatly affected by the these reports and hence their importance can’t be underestimated, especially so, in the current scenario, where the … Read More »

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Opera Mini – How it Captured the Mobile Browser Market Share

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This post shall cover the story of the massive success of Opera Mobile (for this article Opera Mobile and Opera Mini will be clubbed together under the umbrella of Opera Mobile), which has now become the most downloaded Java Application … Read More »

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Twitter’s Move towards Real-Time Search

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Signaling a further focus from the Twitter Team on Real Time search, #HashTags are now hyperlinked.

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Napster – Digging the Success Story

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Napster was an online peer-2-peer file sharing (read MP3) service started in June, 1999 (Yepp, this month is the ten year anniversary, coincidence?) by Shawn Fanning with support from his uncle. It reached over 13 million unique users by February … Read More »

 

Command Line to Browsers – Full Circle

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When I first started using internet back in 1996, Command Line was my interface to the Internet (I had a shell account from VSNL and I used to use Lynx Browser) and was introduced to Linux then via a ‘telnet’ … Read More »

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Google Search – The Success story

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[This article is part of Ten Years, Ten Products and Ten Million Lessons series, where we will take successful startups and drilll down their success story.] Few justifications if any, need to be given for choosing “Google Search” as the … Read More »

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Ten Years, Ten Products and Ten Million Lessons

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“Experience is an excellent teacher, but the fees may be a bit high” – Yours Truly Starting today I shall be authoring a series of articles which shall analyze the reason for the success of “10 Technology Products/Services” picked up … Read More »

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Usability Tip – One Click Less!

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Why do people use Facebook and Orkut to poke their friends (instead of emailing them?) How can you make a product simpler by following ‘one-click-less’ phenomena? Read More »

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