Techmeme is now Rated R - Let the killing begin.

First I thought I will put  picture from Roland Joffe's classic The Killing Fields. I realized that will be offending to some people so I thought why not just emphasize what is burning in my eyes. I mean burning when I scan Techmeme from top to bottom.
Few disclaimers to start with. I have big [...]

iPhone, iFund and MessageDance’s Photowalking

Long time back I decided to become a follower of Mac religion. Been paying homage with my credit card since then. Last time was when I bought iPhone on very second day. With that simple transaction I crossed one personal barrier. I stopped looking at photo as a piece of memory and started treating photos [...]

Google OpenSocial - like Google Base?

Rumor machine is in full swing and techmeme lately showed more similarity with a script for Sex, Love & Secrets. Latest secret story is that Google is about to unleash facebook killer of gigantic API-proportion. They even managed to gather two big enterprise giants - Oracle and Salesforce. Social graph goes enterprise 2.0?
To me [...]

Fun to watch The Office on Hulu

This is impressive stuff:

Google is in the business of boldness and quirkiness

Google is definitely on an outstanding trajectory. It’s stock hit $600 last week prompting NYT columnist Steve Lohr to lay out all the growing risks ahead of Google. His main question - “Can anything stop the ascent of Google’s stock?”.
As if too much of a success has to be a cause of concern. Is it [...]

Techmeme leaderboard and time based media monitoring

TorrentFreak has more presence than the combined presence of Bloomberg and Washington Post! I am sure that will change typical marketer’s ad placement strategy.
Where presence is the percentage of headline space a source occupies over the 30-day period. This does not include the related discussion links.  This latest techmeme service is clever. List creation based [...]

Information overflow is the new boot

Long time back George Orwell wrote this -
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -forever
Few decades later, we find big brother tyranny replaced by attention tyranny.
Information overflow is the new boot to manage.
Watch out for information overflow. Lot of that will be intentional [...]

Google’s way of defining news, comment and editorial

I love Google news and I think it serves a great purpose by aggregating all the relevant news stories. Mainstream media can thank Google for building this tool as it helps them in many ways. Though the way it’s evolving is bit worrisome. Check this news:

Here is how Google explains the difference between a news [...]

Internet Is Dead, Boring And Half Of That Is Not In Your Language

Internet is all about numbers. Number of nodes connected, number of folks connecting to it, connectivity speed, number of applications, number of browsing hours and number of communication events going across it and many other related numbers.
All those numbers are growing and will increase dramatically as China and India gains broadband penetration. Population matters and [...]

Social media axis of evil

There is so much you can learn by just following smart bloggers. One of the blog I really dig is Fred Wilson’s. He is by far the most impressive practitioner of Thesis driven investing. On his blog he maintains list of Internet axis of evil. Its on the lower left side of the page. I [...]