Ayojak… where venue booking meets event management

August 30, 2008

Ayojak is a website where you can plan/manage an event and also book a venue for it. While there are many websites that let you do event planning (or ones that aggregate events), Ayojak claims to be India’s first Event & Venue Organizer. Ayojak has a simple and effective layout & navigation. It contains tools [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 launches- new standards of usability and safety

August 28, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 beta launched today and its new features promise to take the browser to new standards of user friendliness and safety. I was part of a live online demo (Live meeting + phone) organised by Microsoft’s Bangalore based evangelism team and the demo did not disspaoint me. Check out key features & changes [...]

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Resource: China Internet Industry trends & datapoints

August 27, 2008

If you are an Indian company with a substantial exposure to the Chinese market, you should check out these slide decks. They are a treasure trove of hard to get, easily digestable information about the Red Dragon. With the Olympics having been the success that they were, China is clearly the flavour of the season. [...]

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Google workshop on Social Web and Cloud Computing in New Delhi

August 26, 2008

Google is organising a workshop in Delhi on the Social Web & Cloud Computing. Its a day long event (September 5th) and on the agenda are discussions & presentations about Open Social & Google App Engine. The presenters will be developers/evangelists from Google and even a session by Impetus about OpenSocial integration with open source [...]

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How software bugs can lead to national catastrophic disasters?

August 24, 2008

This is a slide deck that that every software developer reading this blog should pay special attention to. It gives a visually appealing account of how software bugs have been the root cause behind many of the technology/scientific disasters (the context is US space exploration & other telecom /nuclear related mishaps). 9 Software Disasters View [...]

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Why website address (URL) should be short and simple?

August 22, 2008

Check out the snap below; need one say more? www.kapoormedicalandambulanceservices.com… one ambulance length seems too short for this… Thanks Ashwan for the image tip off. Print

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Apple confirms iPhone 3G pricing in India- 31K for 8 GB & 36K for 16 GB

August 20, 2008

Apple has officially announced prices for the iPhone in India. The news first reached many Vodafone subscribers via SMS, who had pre-registered for the iPhone via Vodafone’s website. The 8GB model will be priced at Rs. 31,000 whereas the 16GB model would be priced at Rs. 36,100. This news has caused a major upset among [...]

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Storrz… online shopping with the social hook

August 20, 2008

Storrz is a Bangalore based online social shopping website that seems to have a few good things going for it. It recently demoed at the Delhi edition of Proto (where I thought it was one of the best startups on display). They have a concept that is intriguing, they seems to have struck the right [...]

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How RIAs are going mainstream with pamphlets & inserts…

August 13, 2008

I chanced across this funny blogpost about a local advertisement in Hyderabad for RIA (rich internet applications) training. It looks like a pamphlet or newspaper insert, and as the writer points out, its trying to do the offline equivalent of keyword stuffing by sprinkling words like “real time Technocrat”, “complex US projects”, “Rich Internet Applications”, [...]

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iPhone Launch in India – Will Nokia survive the hype?

August 12, 2008

The Hindu reports, “Apple’s iPhone, the touch screen handset that acquired a cult status in the US and other western countries, will be available to Indian mobile users through private telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar from August 22, giving competitors like Nokia, Samsung and others a run for their money”. The first part [...]

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