Archive for March, 2008

Business plan contest at 8th Mile, RVCE

I got an email couple of weeks back from NEN asking me if I would want to judge a business plan contest for RVCE Bangalore. I have been hitting the road with NEN for last couple of months, talking to students at various colleges in Bangalore about entrepreneurship and its quite a lot of fun. […]

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Attending Barcamp Mumbai 3 (29th March 2008)

Just wanted to shout out here that I will be attending Barcamp Mumbai 3. Details of the event can be found at the wiki
You can spot me very easily in my Muziboo.com t-shirt there. If you would like to meet up  .. .lets plan a little bit in advance :)
See you there!
Blogged with the Flock […]

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Life in the Garage (Part 1)

If you like listening to music while you read, checkout the Muziboo.com radio on the sidebar. Some great independent music there on its three channels
The title of this post is inspired by countless articles about statups in the garage that i have read or read for motivation or to feel that I am not mad […]

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OpenSocial on Orkut Tutorial - Part 1 (Basic Setup)

May I request you to checkout the radio on the sidebar while you read this article. Its powered by my startup Muziboo.com. Some amazing music by independent musicians. Am sure you would love the music while reading this long post.
So you want to leverage the social graph :)
I will be finally writing (atleast a basic) […]

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Jobs or internships at Startups

Btw .. can i request you to play the radio on the sidebar while you read this. You are going to love it and this is a long post
I happened to be at the Open Coffee Club meet yesterday. I as usual arrived late and missed the open commune talk by Venkat from Outsmart 360. […]

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Why I love Flock

Its official now. What started as a casual lemme check it out is turning into a more serious affair. I have to say I am almost in love with the flock browser. It totally rocks
Why does flock rock. In the last 2 weeks that I have used flock, I have come to love the fact […]

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The joy of gimp-ing

I have to accept it .. rather I always accept it that I am no great designer .. for that matter am not even an ace coder. I am more of a guy who can get things done …
Ok anyways, coming back to design, I started learning this cool thing called openlaszlo a few […]

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Working with icecast

Last few days have been lot of fun. I tried out icecast that lets you run your own online radio station and here you have a beta version of Muziboo Radio. Currently there are three streams, English, Hindi and Instrumentals and as we find more content (rather as more content is uploaded to Muziboo), we […]

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1.5 Million Web 2.0 Users in India

The article titled Web 2.0 start-ups together have 15 lakh users in India: IDC at AlooTechie is a great read. What it basically says is “According to a study by IDC, India-focused Web 2.0 start-ups such as MingleBox, Fropper, SirfDosti and BigAdda have a combined user base of around 15 lakh users in the country, […]

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How Virality Works

I have lately been trying to understand how virality and WOM works. I know that if your service is compelling enough, many users will talk about you. But what I have been discovering in the last few weeks is that you can also structure your application, the flow etc in such a way that users […]

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