FrontierNxt Blogs

Is Google Me Going To Be The Anti-Facebook?
Shyam Somanadh
Jul 2 2010 - 8:30pm

At 216 slides, 'The Real Life Social Network' by Paul Adams takes a fair bit of time to wade through, but it does offer some interesting insights into the various ways in which identity, context and connections play out (and differ) in the real and virtual worlds. More importantly, with rumours flying thick and fast about Google Me, this could be a pointer as to how the product could work. Of course, with the assumption that Google Me is indeed a reality.

Small Victories
Shyam Somanadh
Jul 1 2010 - 8:17am

The story behind every start up runs along two chapters. The first is the search for a sustainable business model and the second is the search for an operational model which is sustainable in the business you are looking to operate. '7-days a week' is a concept that is at the core of the start up folklore and it goes something on the lines of "if you are not killing yourself (and your team in the process), you are not worthy enough to call yourself a start up".

The Frontiernxt Story: A Year And A Bit Later
Shyam Somanadh
Jun 29 2010 - 1:51pm

When I left the big company job in 2008 to start on my own, it was not the ideal scenario be venturing out. The global financial meltdown was well on its way and it was becoming increasingly clear that chasing the digital opportunity in India was going to be an uphill task. Now, about two years down the line from then, it has been an interesting experience to look at what all I've wanted to do and what all I have wound up doing.

Of Habits And Expectations
Shyam Somanadh
Jun 28 2010 - 2:21pm

After being positively addicted to using Chromium for a while now, I decided to give something else a try the past week. I like switching browsers every now and then to see what I've missed out on and for some reason Chromium had become very slow on my machine, giving me another reason for the switch.

So I wound up giving Camnio a shot again and it felt a lot like going a decade back in terms of browsing experience. This is not a criticism of Camino - it is a lovely, fast, no frills browser. It is more a note on user behaviour and expectations.

Privacy Is Dead? Not For Facebook's Executive Team
Shyam Somanadh
May 15 2010 - 3:25pm

Facebook has been trying very hard to communicate to all of the internet that the new defaults are something that will benefit all of us and the internet as a whole. The founder CEO, Mark Zuckerberg does not spare any opportunity to remind us that he wants to make the world a more open place.

For a company that wants its users to open up and share everything, you'd assume that Facebook's senior executives would practice what they preach. But reality is far from that assumption.