Micro funding is gaining momentum

Lately there’s been a surge in the number of Internet startup’s and entrepreneurs willing to experiment more vividly with their ideas. Everyday I read about startup’s [http://news.ycombinator.com], meet [http://www.meetup.com/] like-minded entrepreneurs, and focus on my own startup Over the period of…

The Water Wars

The politics of the state, and the state of politics – both mirror each other in today’s world. Politically-driven wars have been fought for oil (the black gold, as they call it). However, many skeptics believe that the next wave of socially-driven wars will be fought over Earth’s most…

PAYG Web Hosting

Web hosting is a tricky affair – for the hosting company as well as the end-user. If you find a reliable web host as per your requirements then it works out great, else you might end up facing issues like downtime, lack of support, refund disputes, and continuous hopping from one…

Best Non-US Startups

Some of the world’s hottest Web 2.0 startups are outside the United States. Find out where they are, and what they’re up to. Read more at CNN Money … [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0707/gallery.web_world.biz2/index.html]…

When to quit, when to stick

> If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. [cartoon by Hugh Macleod [http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003998.html]]…

Orcas baby!

Microsoft will release Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700830.aspx] (codename Orcas) tomorrow (26th July). Keep an eye on the downloads [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx] page, which also includes the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1.…

Forward-Thinking Cultures

As per the competitive rankings of the World Economic Forum, the most competitive and future-oriented country in the world is Singapore, closely followed by Switzerland. (source Harvard Business Review [http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?articleID=F0707B&ml_action=get-article&print=true&ml_…