Archive for March, 2008

Talentty… hitting the right recuiting notes, but needs better implementation

Talentty is a recruiting website with a few good ideas up it's sleeves. It describes itself as a career matchmaking & specialized jobboard and is trying to adopt a bottoms-up approach to online recruitment. It comes from the same people who run JobMilan, a recruitment centric blog that aggregates jobs on the web and has a ...

StartupLunch…. startup hiring a la speed dating style

The team behind Proto has come up with a useful idea... it's called Startuplunch and it's meant to help startups & job seekers serenade each other before tying themselves into a hiring relationship. How is this supposed to work? Check out this excerpt from their website ".......the principle is roughly the same as the SpeedDating ...

Nasscom talk- ‘How organisations can harness the power of Web 2.0?”

Last Friday , I gave a talk at Nasscom (New Delhi) titled "How organisations can harness the power of Web 2.0?" This was attended by some 25-30 folks from Nasscom's member companies. The presentation was focused on the marketing & social media aspects of Web 2.0, and the kind of opportunities Web 2.0 is throwing up ...

How Web2.0 has almost killed the pageview?

If you run a web startup , chances are that the question "how many pageviews are you getting..?" is more often than not used as a surrogate metric for your site's current traction; The pageview has existed ever since the internet has been around and it made eminent sense when the internet was dominate by HTML ...

Listen to your RSS feeds with Blogbard

Blogbard is a new web application which lets you listen to your feeds. Currently you can hear feeds from Google reader and Bloglines. Probably in the future they'll add more feed readers. The interface is decent for a product in beta, but not very intuitive or easy to navigate with keyboard arrows. Their text to ...

Criticat… community for rating & reviewing your employer (also a little bit of bashing)

Criticat is a really useful website for the lakhs of software developers that work in this country. It is a job/career oriented community, where people can rate their employer and share their own workplace experiences. Employees can write reviews, as also give out advise to their employer anonymously. People looking to find out about specific ...

Treasure trove of scalability stories - Flickr, Digg, FeedBurner, LiveJournal, SixApart, Last.fm, Twitter, Wordpress

If you are having sleepless nights about scaling your website to take on a 3x/10x/100X loadburst in a short time, here's a resource that many will be willing to pay a king's ransom for. These are a bunch of presentations about some of the biggest websites in the world and their scalability stories (I call them ...