It’s highly rumored yet unconfirmed [http://gigaom.com/2005/11/16/googles-riya-designs/], but the buzz is that Google may buy-out Riya [http://www.riya.com], which eventually would make sense for Google to integrate Riya’s photo tagging framework with Picasa [http://www.picasa.com] or even Google Images…
A leaked e-mail from Bill Gates and the attached memo from Roy Ozzie (CTO) has generated some buzz recently and it sheds light on Microsoft’s vision about the “Internet Service approach”. Just goes out to show that Google has not only made its presence felt but it’s an…
Q&A: Riya’s Munjal Shah [http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=14275] (CEO of Riya.com [http://www.riya.com] – face recognition based tagging and photo search service), on Red Herring > Digital clothing and digital items. Already in Korea people are spending $150 million purchasing digital…
Here’s some random blogosphere buzz worth pondering. We’ve heard about Google being the “new” Microsoft [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google+%22the+new+microsoft%22]. Has Google disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft? Scoble thinks so [http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/03/…
> To be a good leader, you must know when to follow. [Ray Chen [http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/11/03/488650.aspx]]…
Create your own Web 2.0 Company [http://andrewwooldridge.com/myapps/webtwopointoh.html], just a little programmatic satire 😉…
Seems liks Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, couldn’t quite keep up with the heavy rainfall there in the past day or so. I’ve spent some 10-11 months in Bangalore, a couple of years back. I have fond memories of Bangalore – specially the weather & people, but I guess…
Voice phone calls to be free within years [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2005-10-20T145634Z_01_SCH009971_RTRUKOC_0_US-TELECOMS-EBAY-SKYPE.xml] , says eBay CEO. And that’s from someone who paid $4.1 billion a few weeks back for a yet-to-profit VoIP service [http://www.…