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The Biz of Coding

Archive for September 2007

September 26th, 2007

Q&A with Founder of BestofIndya — Social News site for India

After the well read Q&A with IndianPad founder here is a new Q&A with another founder of a India focused Internet site — BestofIndya. BestOfIndya is only 5 months young and but seems to have gained a small yet loyal user base. Ramesh, its founder, says that he is positioning & building BestofIndya as a "family friendly" social […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 2 comments

September 24th, 2007

Guest Posts on TheBizofCoding

I am happy to invite regular readers of TheBizofCoding to write Guest Posts on topics of their interest related with the Tech Industry. Here is the first guest post by Monica Jasuja, a regular visitor to TheBizofCoding, on the Indian Online Travel Services Industry (e.g. MakeMyTrip, TravelGuru, IndiaTimes Travel). Monica posted some interesting comments on […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 4 comments

September 23rd, 2007

Indian Online Travel Services Industry - Promises Unmet?

This post by Guest Author on TheBizofCoding : Monica Jasuja 
With the huge explosion in the Indian air space and with the advent of “so-called” low cost airlines what has emerged is the war among the travel services portals. Yet, even with increased competition there are several sites that are not that easy to use. Before […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 2 comments

September 19th, 2007

3 Types of Platforms Explained by Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen has written a great post on his blog explaining 3 types of Platforms — especially using examples of Internet Platforms. He layers the 3 types of platforms by the level of sophistication calling them Level 1 to 3 — 3 being the most complex and difficult to build.
Marc first clarifies by what he […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 1 comment

September 13th, 2007

Sign up for Yahoo! Open Hack Day in Bangalore

Yahoo! is hosting an Open Hack Day in at its Bangalore office from Oct 5-6, 2007. Only a select number of 200 developers would be Invited. You would need to apply here and then wait to see if you get invited to this cool event. So hurry!
This is an opportunity for hackers in India to network and build some cool stuff […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 0 comments

September 5th, 2007

Facebook Opening to Search Engines — Save your Privacy!

Facebook is planning to open itself to Search Engines and is giving its users a few weeks to change their Privacy Settings. I logged into Facebook and saw the following message:
Check out your Public Search ListingNow people can search for this listing from Facebook's Welcome page. In a few weeks, it may also be found through search […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 6 comments

September 5th, 2007

Akamai Leads Fortune Tech 100 Fastest Growing

Akamai topped Fortune's 100 Fastest growing companies in the Tech Sector. Apple is ranked 12th. Google is missing because the rankings have been done in June 2007 for companies listed for atleast 3 years companies. Google's IPO happened in Aug 04. In the overall list for all industries 37 of the Top 100 are Energy Companies!
Other well […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 0 comments