Tag: Web 2.0

  • India to Leapfrog Web 2.0 to Mobile 3.0

    Much like India missed the industrial revolution, it is clear that India is going to miss the Web 2.0 revolution as well. There are many “Web 2.0” startups in India and some have been doing well, e.g. Zoho and SlideShare but that’s mainly due to an international user base and not indigenous Indian users. I’ve…

  • Web Timelines

    Recently, I’ve seen three interesting timeline applications. Kronomy which Guy Kawasaki twittered about, LifeBlob which presented at Proto.in and I just stumbled upon the third, Dipity. Here’s my Dipity timeline (it might be a little slow to load b/c of the various pictures and videos): I haven’t tried LifeBlob yet, but creating a time line…

  • Social Mobile Mapping (Mapiki)

    With Google’s release of Google Maps for Australia, I am hoping Google Maps India isn’t going to be that far away. Being a complete outsider to Indian roads and traffic, it would be a very welcome addition to our list of expat related sites and tools that we’ll be relying on after we move to…

  • Job Board, Schmob Board.

    It’s almost anti-climactic to hear of another job board or social networking site. So what? There’s nothing exciting or interesting about another job board launching. I do, however, think that many (but not all) of these job boards will add significant value to the people looking to hire specific niche talent as well as those…

  • It’s been a few weeks more than “weekly”

    I’m a big fan of TechCrunch and I was a fan of TalkCrunch for the few episodes that came out. I’m really happy to see that Mike Arrington’s been really busy with CrunchBoard, TechCrunch, and other things but it’s been about six weeks since the last “weekly” TalkCrunch podcast and I’d love to hear some…