Monthly Archives: September 2007

Poll results - Why you want to become an entrepreneur

A week ago, I started a poll on the site - Asking you to vote for ‘Why you want to be become an entrepreneur‘.
Fast forward a week, and I’m overwhelmed with the results -
110 votes were received in a period of 1 week
Honestly, I hadnt imagined such a tremendous response to the poll. I want […]

KyaKare, an event listings site

KyaKare is a new, collaborative events listing site for India. Anyone can add an event listing and events are categorized into a broad spectrum of categories. You can drill down events by a city and a particular category. There’s also a ‘most viewed’ module that lists the most viewed events.
The site currently has events for […]

The great Indian telecom license frenzy

Back in August, TRAI decided not to put a cap on the number of telecom operators in India. And this has triggered a frenzy in getting telecom licenses.
Day by day, it looks like every big Indian firm, who is sitting on a pile of some extra cash, is applying for a telecom license. You have […]

Hotmail India offers personalized email ID’s via CoolHotmail.com

If MySpace profile pages are anything to go by, one thing is clear - personalization is a very popular feature with the younger generation. Younger folks are highly likely to do their own thing and make use of personalized bling to highlight their online personalities.
Building up on this personalization feature, Microsoft has announced the launch […]

Is there a thing called too many ideas ?

Ideas, by themselves, are worthless. Unless there is proper execution, ideas will go nowhere. To execute, you need focus and persistence. Unwavering focus on your ultimate goal.
While some of the aspiring entrepreneurs wither away trying to find that ‘perfect idea’, several others suffer from a different syndrome - one that can be attributed to ‘too […]

InterviewUp - interview question and answers repository

InterviewUp is a new Web 2.0 site with the goal of becoming the go-to site for users to find, share, ask and answer job interview related questions.
Why Web 2.0 ? Because, it combines and leverages Web 2.0 concepts of a wiki and social voting (ala Digg). When you sign up with the site, […]

Oops…I did it again…..

So says (& proves) the Indian Government.
A while back, it was the key loggers.
Now, they seem to have taken another regressive step towards technology adoption. Not heeding to a recommendation by the IT ministry, a parliamentary committee has proposed that service providers (mobile service providers and Internet websites) will be liable for any […]

Kite photography in India - simply amazing

A bit off-topic, but I couldnt help writing about this one (pardon me for going off-topic every once a while….I dont keep a separate personal blog). Check out this novel way of photography of India by Nicolas Chorier.
Why is his photography unique ?
Well, he attaches a camera below a kite (not your normal kite, mind […]

Wireless and broadband subscriber numbers at end of August 2007

TRAI has released the latest numbers for the wireless and broadband subscriber base, ending August 2007.
As per the release, the wireless subscriber base in India has reached 201.29 million users with 8.31 million users added in August.
Broadband connections (>= 256 Kbps) have reached 2.56 million. There was an addition of 90,000 users in August 2007.
Detailed […]

Sabeer Bhatia enters social networking market with ApnaCircle

Sabeer Bhatia, Hotmail founder, is entering the Indian social networking scene with the soon to be launched site, ApnaCircle. Another stealth site, which offers free conference calls, is also in the works.
via BS
The ‘About Us‘ page on ApnaCircle, however, labels itself as a social as well as a professional networking site. Social or professional, do […]