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Mobile Money

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Mobile money (or simply m-Money as it is commonly referred to) is getting lot of attention lately. Businessline today published an article on mobile money. As the article mentioned, Japan already has three providers successfully executing this concept.
There are two different ideas that people are talking about:

Link the phone with some credit card account and […]

Get paid for advertisements on the cell phone

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

A new website has come out of stealth mode: mginger.com. It offers a feature that many have been thinking about.. get paid for the advertisements on your cellphone. The website mentions the following points -

Earn money for reading ads on your mobile
Get SMS ads of only those products that you want to buy
[…]

Twitter India?

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

After making waves in USA, I always thought a service like Twitter will be hugely popular in India. To the uninitiated, twitter is a service where you can register and create your channel. Now you can send a messge from your cell phone or IM or web to that channel. Your friends can subscribe to […]

New way to write resume; the web2.0 way!

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Kinan from Tectactic.com has created an interesting mash-up/beta website to write resumes. Thingsicando.com comes with a different perspective to introduce yourself. It enables the user to express himself in a better way. More liberty and more power to communicate skills and strengths. You add a skill or “thing” as per the site’s terminology […]

Hobo - the web app builder for rails

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Ruby on Rails is the biggest thing since sliced bread! Ok ok, I am dramatically exaggerating it. Nevertheless, it is really GREAT! I myself have worked on java, struts, spring, turbine and many more frameworks but none can match the prowess, simplicity and speed of rails! I sometimes still lean towards perl when it comes […]

Unique web2.0 companies

Friday, April 20th, 2007

With the success of youtube, myspace, facebook, del.icio.us, flickr and many more; every one wants to replicate these websites and make money! So many clones of myspace and facebook are being created, same is true for flickr, youtube and other. But there are some web 2.0 websites that are really innovating and introducing very unique […]

Best Tech Products

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

PC World magazine has ranked the major technological inventions of the past few decades that have changed the way we live and work. Which is your favorite?

Netscape Navigator (1994)
Apple II (1977)
TiVo HDR110 (1999)
Napster (1999)
Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983)
Apple iPod (2001)
Hayes Smartmodem (1981)
Motorola StarTAC (1996)
WordPerfect 5.1 (1989)
Tetris (1985)

Half of the list consists of products that have […]

Top 10 web 2.0 companies

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

List of top 10 web 2.0 companies has been published. I was very happy to see a non-profit company wikipedia to make the top 10 list. Will there be more individuals and groups who would try to replicate the success of wikipedia? Here is the list:

MySpace

YouTube

Facebook

Wikipedia

Bebo

Digg

Flickr

Netvibes

Del.icio.us

Meebo

Social address book - Tabber.org

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

This is the tool that I always wanted to build. In fact, just a month back, I started to work on it! And here comes Tabber.org. Depends on how you look at it, It stole my idea or validated my idea Whatever it may be, it was a pressing need. I think it […]

Mobile-Internet convergence

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Lots of companies, VCs and investors are betting big on mobile phone web users. With the increasing smart phones and iPhones, the bet is getting bigger and bigger. I have my own apprehensions around it. How many people really surf web over their blackberries, N73s or jazzy samsung smart phones? I do not know many […]

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