Sadakmap…user generated content meets online maps

There already are a few online mapping webapps centered on Indian cities (mapmyindia, yahoomaps, googlemaps) and all of those are essentially alike. In their midst, springs Sadakmap with a twist in its tale. For this extends the concept of user generate content to online maps. Sadakmap allows users to populate maps with places (businesses or public ...

Web 2.0 Start-Up Field Guide….

I stumbled across this fantastic presentation on slideshare this morning; sharing it here for Indian Web2.0 wannabes to gain from. This is a 30 slide primer about how to plan for a Web2.0 venture. Its context is largely North America centric, but the lessons are applicable to India as well. This is from Idris Mootee, who ...

Slideshows celebrating the Indian T20 victory!

I couldn't resist blogging these two slideshows that have been uploaded to slideshare. A visual tribute to India's stunning run at the T20 World Cup. By popular demand from our developers, this has been also been featured on the slideshare homepage for the world to see (much to the bewilderment of Jon, our CTO, who is ...

IndiaKaHero…talent hunt reality shows come to the internet

TV reality shows/contests (Indian Idol from Sony, SaReGaMaPa from Zee, Voice of India from Star plus, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge from Star One) have stirred up a mass hysteria (not just in metropolitan India but across the hinterland as well) and now the same wave seems to be coming to the internet. IndiaKaHero is ...

SMSmyEmail…get your emails in your non GPRS, non EDGE, non WAP, non MMS cell phone

If you happen to use a simple cell phone and if words like GPRS, WAP, MMS, Blackberry seem Greek to you (as is the likely case for 90% of the cell phone users in India), check out this non pretentious service called SMSmyEmail. This does exactly what the name implies and nothing more i.e. you get ...

Freed.in- for free & open source software enthusiasts in Delhi

Freed.in is an event for open source enthusiasts that is happening in Delhi on the 28-29th of Delhi. It is being organised by The School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (SIT/JNU) and the Delhi Linux User Group (ILUG-D). The event seems to be shaping up quite well and looks like a must-attend for OSS supporters ...

Alabot…AI & NLP enabled automated interactive agent for your portal

Alabot is a very interesting product idea. It is a bot (a bot is a piece of computer code) that has artificial intelligence (AI) & natural language processing (NLP) capabilities. Positioned as an 'Interactive Intelligent Agent' it has been ported to instant messengers (mobile/web) and can act as an automated chat application with AI & search/retrieval ...

MeOnGo…for mobile email on the go!

MeOnGo (for 'mobile email on the go') is a WAP-based, mobile emailing service. It works with most of the popular email services (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Rediffmail, Indiatimes) and these can be accessed using POP/IMAP. You don't need to download/install any software on your phone. All you need is any GPRS/EDGE/3G/ CDMA based phone ...

Yet another web map…the Internet’s Black Holes

Here's another web map to whet your geo-spatial appetites. Its called the Internet's Black Holes- a reference to the 15 countries around the globe that exercise internet censorship to further their own political agendas. The countries (just in case you are curious) are - Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Maldives, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, ...

Entrepreneurialitis…do you suffer from this

Entrepreneurialitis- the acute or chronic stupidity induced by the stress of entrepreneurial activity. This is a presentation I came across on slideshare (originally delivered by Stowe Boyd at Reboot9) and thought I'll share with fellow entrepreneurs here. It talks about the logical fallacies that afflict the thinking of tech (web) entrepreneurs. As I read this, it ...