Not me, but Businessweek says so. In partnership with YouNoodle, a company that claims to predict startup success, BW has shortlisted 50 global tech startups (started in 2005 and later) flying under the
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Infosys is often termed ‘opportunistic’ and known to take the higher ground at the right time. Case in point, the company has asked it’s HR department  to not hire employees from Satyam. On Hiring Satyam Employees: “We have asked our recruitment staff not to poach anybody from Satyam. The company is in the middle of a...
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Planning to get married? So you register at a matrimony site and subscribe to their email updates. The email updates/newsletter, sometimes will have a damn beautiful chick – so you click and search for her – though you may not find her, you might end up settling with somebody else – atleast that’s what a...
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Quite sad that Google adwords team failed to do a basic sanity check on the ads they were showing. There has to be a basic template for profanity checks as well as banned keywords and looks like Google failed to add ‘terrorism’ in the list. (pic via sanyam, credit)
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Recession will see many of your fav products/companies/blogs shutting shop/stopping their service. The first one to join the list is valleywag – one of the most amazing blog with a great sense of humor (a personal all-time favorite) . Though VW is not
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After our post regarding NEN using pluGGd.in name to nominate startups, Livemint interviewed NEN’s Laura Parkin regd. the goofups and here is an excerpt from the interview: LiveMint: What was the issue with source attribution to Pluggd.in while nominating a start-up? Laura: That was a very early glitch because we were so scared of not giving...
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Stupidity! – That’s what happens when non-technologists run technology blog, especially when they start talking about hacking et al. A great example is the recent Y! India Local launch story that it has ‘already been hacked” For those bloggers who covered the story in the expectation of being dugg or TCed, here is a simple advice...
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Apologies for digressing from our regular category of posts (i.e. startups/IndieBiz related), but couldn’t help writing about these stupid journalists @ Guardian. According to UK’s Guardian (a very respected newspaper), Ganesh Chaturthi is a festival for gay community: “Ganesh has always been non-Hindus’ favourite Hindu deity, as he is most commonly represented in the incarnation of...
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Microsoft does it again! The IE 6 site depicts the true nature of IE – buggy and all screwed up, turned upside down, bruised and jagged! Visit the official site of IE 6: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1E1550CB-5E5D-48F5-B02B-20B602228DE6&displaylang=he (just like Windows, the site works fine at time and is screwed up most of the times!)   “All the king’s...
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Advertising plays a crucial role in branding your products/services. Infact, your brand perception is largely governed by what you advertise and what sort of message you share with the customers. Looks like ibibo has taken a porn turn. Look at the pic on the right: “Funny SMS Non Veg joke” (I took the screen capture video, if...
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Rediffmail has come up with *unlimited* mailbox! i.e. no storage constraint! But all of that doesn’t make sense to me. And here is why: When it comes to mailbox, size does not matter anymore – Google disrupted the market with 1 GB of mailbox, but then everybody followed. And storage is no more a...
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First things first – I have no personal agenda against ByIndia.com. I wrote about them here and found their service to be almost useless. Now I am surprised to see how ByIndia, instead of improving the quality of their product, is pimping the Indian Internet crowd with $5 million sweepstake. Here is the...
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So you have tried all possible ways to make money out of blogging and still wondering what’s the right strategy? Here is some good news. ibibo- the blogging platform from MIH is trying the best possible way (known to mankind) to attract bloggers – i.e. throw money! And its not just some paltry sum – but...
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