October 31, 2007 – 2:18 pm
Phew..Finished developing a moderate sized Django based app yesterday. A good coding session, in some ways, is like sex - intense and very fulfilling
Anyways, I digress.
So, the big news today is about Google’s OpenSocial platform - Google’s answer to the wildly popular Facebook platform. Reports of Google opening up Orkut via API came […]
October 28, 2007 – 11:11 pm
I know I’ve been silent the last several days. The reason - I’ve been busy reading and learning about Django - a Web framework for Python. Yes…I wanted to take some time off and do some skills development of my own. I’ve worked with PHP and couple of PHP Web frameworks, but have never worked […]
October 24, 2007 – 7:15 pm
This story in BS caught my eye.
The Indian government is taking steps to float a fund to make seed capital available to entrepreneurs. The govt. is putting together a framework for setting up an innovation promotion council. The fund’s initial corpus of Rs. 75 crores will come from the Dept. of Science and Technology. Three […]
October 24, 2007 – 9:43 am
As per company release, Sify posted a net loss of $ 1.25 million for 2nd quarter 1007-08 as compared to a net loss of $1.27 million previous quarter.
* Revenues were $37.02 million, 4.7% higher than preceding quarter and 6.4% YoY
* Net profit before exceptional items was $1.12 million as compared to $0.58 million in previous […]
October 23, 2007 – 8:44 pm
myProdoktSpace is a new, social shopping site based in Chennai. The goal of the site is to making online shopping a ’social process’. What that means is that you connect with your friends, discover new products, share ratings and reviews about the products, create wishlists etc. A user is naturally more likely to trust ratings […]
October 23, 2007 – 5:11 pm
Myntra, a consumer Internet startup providing personalized gift services, has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund and a few additional angel investors. Erasmic has nominated a team member to the Myntra board of directors. Sasha Mirchandani of Mumbai Angels has also joined the board.
The funds will be used for procuring advanced technology for on-demand […]
October 23, 2007 – 10:45 am
Raviwar is a newly launched online magazine for Hindi readers. The goal of the site is to highlight and bring issues related to the common people into the limelight. And what better way to reach the common man than providing their service in Hindi ? Very few of of the big players have forayed into […]
October 20, 2007 – 1:21 am
InterviewUp, which I’d reviewed earlier, got TechCrunch’ed today. Congrats and good luck to Dipesh and the entire InterviewUp team.
October 20, 2007 – 1:07 am
Chittr is a new, India based microblogging site, where you can seamlessly send and receive updates via IM, web or SMS . Once you sign up, you can set your profile, including your IM, mobile number and other details. Based on what parts of profile you have completed, you can select how you prefer to […]
October 19, 2007 – 12:08 am
Microsoft’s own Web 2.0 efforts have yet to strike a chord with users. So, looks like they intend to take the acquisition route to acquire new, interesting Web 2.0 companies and their technology. Speaking at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, mentioned that they will acquire 20 companies every year […]
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