Startup Jobs that might interest you

October 4, 2008 · Posted in Misc · Comment 

Some startup jobs that might interest you:

Check out other startup jobs on the job board

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Did Google AdSense just screw you up ?

September 26, 2008 · Posted in Misc · 4 Comments 

Google Adsense seems to have goofed up & messed up the exchange rate for Indian publishers.

Seems that instead of reporting an exchange rate of 1$ <–> Rs. 46.55, the payout reports are listing an exchange rate of 1$ <–> 1 Rs.

A glitch no doubt - but significant enough to screw up your minds :-)

via SEORoundtable

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The Big Picture features India

September 24, 2008 · Posted in Misc · Comment 

The Big Picture from the Boston Globe has become one of my daily must-visit sites.  Recently, they featured a series on India.

Check it out here.

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Some interesting reading

July 14, 2008 · Posted in Misc · 3 Comments 

Found some interesting reading stuff over the weekend. Take a peek:

1) Designing and Implementing Scalable Applications with Memcached and MySQL:

Very interesting technical presentation in PDF format.

2) Early YouTube engineer talks about scalability and outages:

via GigaOM

3) The audience for US websites is becoming increasingly international. Sites like Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn etc. not only get US visitors, but they also attract a significant share of international visitors also. This story from Wall Street Journal digs a little deeper into this scenario and how the sites need to gear ads targeted towards these international visitors as well.

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Proto Giveaway winners

June 10, 2008 · Posted in Misc · Comment 

I know - its been a few days since I posted on the blog. After 3 continuous weekends of travel, I’ve been relaxing and trying to de-stress myself.

Anyways, time to announce the winners for the free Proto ticket giveaway. I drew the names out of a raffle to avoid any kind of bias whatsoever.

Congrats to Kenney,  Nipul and Aniket for winning free tickets to Proto. I have forwarded your contact details to Proto folks so please expect some one to contact you within the next few days.

Thanks to all for participating !!

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Combating distraction, procrastination and information overload

June 2, 2008 · Posted in Misc · 7 Comments 

Three things I’ve been struggling to cope up with lately.  Yes, I’ve read and tried the GTD way of life, but for whatever reason, it just didnt work.

Has any particular technique worked for you ?  If so, can you share some tips ?

The way things are currently, I’d be ready to pay, to restore some order in these three aspects of my life.

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What sites do you visit for Indian content ?

April 14, 2008 · Posted in Misc · 15 Comments 

First of all, apologies for last week’s absence - if there’s one word to describe my schedule last week, it’d be ‘maniacal’. I was traveling for most of the week and hardly had time to take a breather. Wonder how the consultants / mobile road warriors manage to travel every week.

I digress. Coming back to the title of this post - One of my favorite weekend activities is to read news stories and articles on global as well as the Indian business, technology, society etc. while sipping my morning cup of tea. While I have no problems in discovering some great quality content on NYT, Portfolio, NewsWeek, Economist, NPR, Salon etc, I find it incredibly difficult to uncover good reading stuff related to India. Besides BusinessWorld and BusinessToday, I cant think of any business-technology focused sites writing about India. For some of the most interesting humor, pop-culture, analysis etc. I read Indian blogs. In fact, I read more Indian content on blogs than on mainstream sites. Mainstream media just cant seem to get past bollywood, cricket, babies with 2 faces & 4 eyes.

I understand that I belong to a minority niche, but I’m pretty sure there are several others who feel the same.

So, in the quest to discover new, good Indian content, let me ask you this - What sites do you frequent for quality Indian content ?

Leave a comment with your top reading list for India. Hopefully, it would help us discover some really good sites, which go beyond the normal realms of bollywood and cricket.

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The trend for stupid April Fool pranks continues into 2008

April 2, 2008 · Posted in Misc · 1 Comment 

Having read some of the stupid April Fool jokes floating around since yesterday and day before, I cant help but wonder - am I the only one who finds them getting progressively lousy each passing year ?

With the proliferation of the blogosphere, its become incredibly easy to float a wild rumor and pass it on as your big, ingenuity laden April fool’s prank.

I dont know about others, but I’m laughing no more. Yawn …..

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Domain names in Hindi will have to wait

February 18, 2008 · Posted in Misc · 2 Comments 

For Internet to be really succcessful in India, its no surprise that it will need to embrace the local languages. While Hindi content is definitely emerging at a lot of places, especially blogs - domain names still need to be entered in English. A meeting of ICANN in India discussed this issue, but no decision has been reached.It looks like domain names in regional Indian languages will have to wait some longer.

For an example of a page in Hindi and which has the domain name in Hindi as well, see here.

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Will be at BrewHaha in Bangalore today evening

February 4, 2008 · Posted in Misc · 2 Comments 

I have been in Bangalore since the weekend and shall be at BrewHaHa (www.brewhaha.in) in Koramangla today evening between 6-8 pm. Feel free to drop by and have a chat over some coffee.

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