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Go Through This Checklist If You Want To Build A New Twitter

There is a lot of ire about what Twitter is doing to its developer ecosystem and its users these days. An often-mentioned suggestion that comes out of it is to build another Twitter, this time one that will set right

Posted in Internet, Social, Start-ups

Review Of Prismatic

Wavii and Prismatic are two of the latest warriors in the perilous battlefield of automated social content discovery and recommendations and over the past few weeks I have grown quite fond of using Prismatic. The domain of automated content discovery has seen much

Posted in Internet, Media, Social, Start-ups

Samsung Galaxy S, GT-19000: Two-Year Review

My trusted Android road-warrior – the Galaxy S — completed 2-years sometime late last year. I had picked up the phone as a replacement for my tough-as-nails Nokia E71, long  before the platforms were burning and tablets and mini-tablets had become the

Posted in Android, Mobile, Technology

The Price Is Right: YouTube Versus Labels

The Guardian has an interesting story on how record labels are learning how to make money from YouTube. Five years ago, this is what I had written in ‘Youtube: The future of music distribution?‘ Now, if Youtube were to give

Posted in Advertising, Industry, Internet

Avoiding Entrepreneurial Meltdowns

One of the inevitable side effects of being an entrepreneur is that the first few years of trying to be one finds you never tuned out from a state of being always tuned in. It starts with the extremely long

Posted in Start-ups

2012 Review

One of the main reasons why I do these reviews (have to force myself a bit at times) is that it gives me a good reference point to go back and look at how far I have come (or not).

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Is ‘My Airtel’ App A Hint Of Airtel’s Future?

The image on the left is a message I received from Airtel on the 29th of December, 2012, suggesting that I should upgrade to Android 4.0.4 on my Samsung Android device and it says I should visit the Samsung India website to

Posted in Android, India, Mobile

Why do Investors and Start-ups Ignore Small Businesses in India?

Every enterprise, be it micro, small or medium these days have a common set of requirements at the digital level. In an earlier era, office automation or digitization involved the installation of computers and digitization of documents. Today, the story

Posted in Business, India, Start-ups

Change The Thinking

Last evening, I had the opportunity to attend the Delhi chapter of Hacks/Hackers (terrible name, if you ask me) organized by Anika Gupta and  Shrey Malhotra. The idea was to get both hackers (better known as programmers) and hacks (better known

Posted in Business, India, Media, Start-ups

Setting up Fat Free CRM on Webfaction

Fat Free CRM is a lightweight Ruby on Rails application, which is very similar to the Highrise application by 37 Signals. These days I am trying to reduce my dependency on SAAS providers by hosting applications I use on a

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