Archive for April, 2008
Is your code touching lives?
I was chatting with George yesterday and he mentioned how Muziboo had really touched his life and made it better in the last few months. He also told about how Orkut is an indispensable part of his life as it helped him connect with friends he lost touch with years ago. I think thats the […]
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Is a million good enough anymore?
I was at barcamp bangalore 6 yesterday and as I wrote, it was a lot of fun. I spent almost the entire day hanging out with people I know and there were lots of discussions on startups in general and muziboo in particular. On e question keeps coming up again and again. What is our […]
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Barcamp Bangalore 6 Rocked
Barcamp Bangalore (BCB) 6 (18th and 19th April 2008) totally surpassed my expectation. I had previously attended BCB3 and BCB5 and I never found the sessions as amazing as this time. I had even mentioned this when I announced on the blog that I am attending barcamp. I am happy I was proved wrong!
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Starting up! How We started Muziboo.com
*This is crossposted from Muziboo.com Blog. The only thing not true anymore is that I am not fulltime into Muziboo (as in no consulting on the side). The original post can found here
Nithya and I started Muziboo.com around July 2007 and have been running it since then. I have been hacking away to keep the […]
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Bored of Myspace? Go to Minglebox
Social Networking is a very competitive space and every one believes their network is the best. But what bolder way to claim it than to have an ad on your competitors website saying you are better. Something like this caught my attention today on in.myspace.com where I saw an ad from minglebox asking the reader […]
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Barcamp Bangalore 6 this weekend
Barcamp is an unconference. I would love to call it a geek unconference but I think it goes beyond that to filmmaking, photography, music etc. The most interesting thing about barcamps are the kind of people you get to meet there.
Personally I have not found many sessions very interesting but I have found the […]
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Why shared hosting is bad for your startup
One of the first lessons I learnt was that $10 hosting is so cool is very misleading. If you do a quick google search for cheap hosting will throw up lots of sponsored and unsponsored results. Providers would offer you 100s of GBs of space and terrabytes of data transfer and you would do a […]
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How to outsource on small budget
Many people would tell you thats its a good idea to outsource something that is not your core competency when you are doing a startup. Its all very romantic to sweep the floor and write the code at the same time but frankly neither is it possible or advisable. Specially when you are a small […]
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Follow me on twitter
I have finally given in .. I am reading so much about twitter in blogs, websites, papers etc that I have signed up on twitter and plan to use it.
You can follow me http://twitter.com/prateekdayal
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Follow comments by email … please put it!
Hi Fellow Bloggers
Please take out sometime and install the notify me of follow up comments by email plugin for your wordpress installation
Whenever I comment on your blog, I want to read the followup comments. Please help me out there and also gain more traffic for your blog
Regards,
Prateek Dayal
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