While Gmail may not have a stand alone monetization model of it’s own, looks like lawyers are having a great time minting the product. Ever since the product was launched, expansion across geographies has been an issue for Google. The GMail trademark was challenged in UK and Google finally lost to a UK-based financial research [...]
NEN [National Entrepreneurship Network], a non-profit organization is supporting the Entrepreneurial Indian spirit by celebrating Feb 24th – Mar 3rd as Entrepreneurship Week. And what does that mean? Well, there are interesting sessions planned across cities [Bangalore/Delhi/ Mumbai/Pune/Chennai etc.]; for eg. Business game/idea Generation/Book Review competitions etc]. The goals of Entrepreneurship Week are two-fold: to [...]
Oh well!! One of the drivers of success/failure of a product is how well you can expand the ecosystem!!. Have a look at iPod – it’s not just the product, but the ecosystem [i.e. sexy iPod accessories/gadgets] which boosts the user experience. This phenomena is also referred as Network effect. And it’s the same with [...]
How do you plan your travel trip? Sift thru’ travel sites/books? My personal experience has been that none of this helps. Travel sites’ have vested interest [interested in your pocket, so mostly biased reviews] and travel books are, most of the times outdated. How about a guided tour/video of the place that you wanna visit? [...]
Where do you keep your bank account/credit card details? Store them in your emails/PC? Do you send important documents thru’ emails? If your answer is ‘Yes’, you are a hacker’s delight! I strongly suggest you to try out KeepYouSafe- an online safety deposit box. “KeepYouSafe.Com offers digital safe deposit boxes that people use to safely [...]
So you wanna enjoy the benefit of Windows XP OS as well as the sexiness of Mac? Try out FlyaKiteOSX – It’s a transformation tool [free download] that changes the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. In short, FlyaKiteOSX marries the sexy Mac controls with your [...]
I have received few emails on whether one should go for part time MBA or full time MBA? and whether part time MBA can boosts someone’s career or not etc.. Here are my thoughts: Part time MBA If you have substantial work experience [more than 6 years] in the industry and if you plan to [...]
i have a subscription list of 180+ feeds and quite lately, have been struggling to find a good desktop/offline feed reader. My minimal requirement from the desktop feed reader is as follows: Import my existing OPML file [from Google Reader, the online reader that I use] Organize the content, in a tree form [that's a [...]
So what does it take to copy Digg? Ability to submit story?Voting Buttons? Yellow, curved-corner? Pastel voting icons? Ask folks at Yahoo and Dell – they will scream YES! It’s not that these companies are the first ones to copy Digg, there are tons of Digg clones. But it’s stunning to see tech giants doing [...]
Adobe, in its effort to explore the web2.0 space has launched myFeedz [what a cheesy web2.0 name!] So what is myFeedz?? Well, to understand what is myFeedz, it’s important to understand what myFeedz is not:: It is not a feed reader. It is not a bookmarking service. So what is myFeedz? Its a web app [...]
