I came across this interesting question in an in-flight magazine: What would your life be like if you lived it without any fear? It started me thinking about fear and how the primal emotion impacted us humans. To be sure,...
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Orkut and Facebook are the most popular social networking sites in India. Photo sharing has been a prime feature for both these socio-nets. Given this, I am surprised that neither of these two socio-nets has a feature of image search among the friends’ network and public photos on these sites.
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Every where I have gone, be it barcamps, be it startup events, one question asked by lot of budding entrepreneurs is “What if BIG companies decide to enter my market and compete with me?”. What I generally feel is small companies,...
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What’s the difference between a Carpenter and a Potter? That’s roughly the difference between Mahalo and Wikipedia. Not precisely, but roughly. Carpenter works with tools. Potter works with hands. Carpenter cuts the wood in pieces, gives them shape by applying a lot of force, then puts these pieces in some order back again....
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The Wall Street as we know it doesn’t exist. This could be the onset of worst financial crisis in the last fifty years. The alarms are being sounded. It’s going to be gloomy ahead. ‘Brace yourself for the...
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Since last year, we have seen an array of services introduced by Google basically to grab the attention of large pool of users. A year before, on December 2007, Google...
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Yahoo Messenger and GTalk will be made interoperable and users will be able to exchange IMs, see friend’s online presence and add contacts from either service to their friend’s list....
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– Whats in the name? Traffic! Unsolicited traffic! Well...
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Search is not an application. It is not a feature. It is a...
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When I want to get to a webpage whose URL I don’t know,...
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If I were to say 3 things Research has shown that catchy articles titles like “Top...
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Water Balakrishna has created a turbine to generate power from slow moving water, and he has even used sewage water at Medahalli near Yellamallappan lake (near Bangalore) to experiment. On a side note, Balakrishna’s family previously were bonded labourers. Wind SasiNarayan has patented a...
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This article is a result of a chat i had with Amit Aggarwal an ex IITian who is the creator of ‘mnemonic dictionary’ Everyday you read in newspapers that “Someone from IIT (or IIM) rejected big placement...
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Muziboo is trying to be Flickr of music, allows people to upload their music, and audience to rate and give feedback on that music. They are a “online music community” to build music collaboratively. Targeting themselves to the audiophiles, who both listen to and create music, Muzibo charges for pro account to get access...
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Storrz.com presenting itself as a “social shopping mall”, brings a social experience to shopping. Merchants can set up stores at Storrz.com, which acts as a mall, and does not keep any inventory. Buyers deal directly with the associated stores. Storrz does quality control by calling the buyers and asking for satisfaction. The stores need...
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Lipikaar provides a single simple typing method for typing in various Indian scripts using the standard qwerty keyboard. Currently 16 scripts are supported. While most other software use a transliteration scheme, Lipikaar uses a simple SMS style mapping to do a Roman to Indic script conversion, which is a method patented by Lipikaar. Lipikaar...
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Gcosign aims to make targeted out of home advertising affordable. It has an embedded device which connect to any display device and the internet using standard interfaces. Gcosign works on
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For the past many years, I had some ideas regarding how to utilize e-mail service and offer various other services effectively. As I have weakness with my writing, I never put it down until last year. I wrote the following...
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Part 2 of 3-part series on Online Communities/Social Media. Well, I have been meaning to write about the Firefox Download Day and their grand record. One brand which used Social Media Marketing and an existing community to generate buzz like never before. Of course the Guinness Record helped too. Guinness and Buzz Marketing A Guinness World Record...
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After 5 hrs of wait at the Michigan Ave store and playing with of for almost one full day this is what I think Good the predictive text system is better than anything I have seen before. It takes care of the issue that there are no keys...
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