Recently, Vishal Sharma [http://blog.sharmavishal.com/] and I decided to devote some of our time towards a dedicated blog portal covering technology startups and interviews with prominent people from IT, TeleComm and Green Tech. Vishal successfully led the Australian Startups Carnival [http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/03/summary-australian-startups-carnival.html]…
With the announcement last night of Google App Engine [http://appengine.google.com/], it’s now literally possible to build your entire web app on top of Google’s vaunted infrastructure – the BigTable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigTable], CPU cycles, and bandwidth – all courtesy Google. It has already been…
The other day I was reading an article on Rediff, “Why can’t Indians build a great product in India? [http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2008/mar/03druvaa.htm]“. It got me thinking about the scale of impact that strategies like seed funding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_funding]…
Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget – and so important to repeat new knowledge? With the Brain…
Earlier, I wrote about the SaaS [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2008/03/20/pain-in-the-saas/] (Software as a Service) model of software application delivery, and it drew the attention of Lars Leckie [http://larsleckie.blogspot.com/] who writes about SaaS, and more recently wrote about DaaS (Data as a Service)…
Ben Yoskovitz shares his experience with SaaS [http://www.instigatorblog.com/lessons-learned-running-a-saas-business/2008/03/10/] (Software as a Service), in which he suggests that vendors should charge their customers monthly, or offer discounts for longer term commitments. In my opinion, a more efficient option will be to offer a PAYG…
The KISS principle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle] (“keep it simple, stupid”) is not new to the tech world. It’s the basis of many successful innovations. The principle is somewhat similar to Occam’s razor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor] (“entities should not be…
Technology Review (published by MIT) presents a list of 10 technologies [http://www.technologyreview.com/specialreports/specialreport.aspx?id=25] that they think are most likely to change the way we live. From Offline Web Applications to Graphene Transistors, most of the stuff is darn interesting.…