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…
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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…
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…
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…
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).…
Posted in Frontiernxt
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…
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…
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…
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…
