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The Biz of Coding

Archive for January 2008

January 30th, 2008

5 Blogging Lessons from 100,000 Blog Page Views

Happy to share that today Jan 30th, 2008 TheBizofCoding officially crossed the 100,000 Page View mark. I started this blog in 2006 March and have had a fantastic time writing this journal, sharing my thoughts and reading your comments. My heartfelt thanks for taking time to read my posts and respond with your thoughts, comments and ideas!
  1) Slashdot […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 0 comments

January 28th, 2008

IIMs missing while ISB Hyderabad is 20th in Financial Times MBA Rankings

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad has been ranked 20th by Financial Times in its 2008 B-School Rankings. This is the highest rank that an India based B-School has achieved and worthy of much appreciation.
Whats Missing? India's IIM's (especially A, B, C) don't figure in this list which obviously doesn't correlate with reality (salaries offerred by […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 2 comments

January 27th, 2008

Coffee Table Explanation of Google’s MapReduce

In tech Product development I like to find simple worded explanations of complex terms. It helps to get everyone on the same page; especially end consumers who often dont have a clue of what exactly the engineers are excited about!  Not everyone is a programmer or has the time to drop all work and check-out the latest […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 0 comments

January 27th, 2008

Get YouTube Videos on your Mobile Phones

YouTube has released a mobile application that will allow users to watch YouTube videos on mobile phones. Before you get too excited right now the YouTube app is available only on Nokia's N73, N95, E65, 6110, 6120 and SonyEricsson k800 and w880.
To download the YouTube app on your mobile phone point your mobile browser to: […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 0 comments

January 25th, 2008

NASA Pictures Show Man on Mars?

A NASA rover has taken this picture. Video from YouTube…I first found this video on Yahoo! Home Page. (Embedding a YT video as in past I have faced trouble using Yahoo! Video code in my blog). The image does look human, but it could be a stone formation…who knows.
 

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January 22nd, 2008

Yahoo! Plans Layoff of over 1000 employees

Amidst all sorts of denails, Silcon Alley Insider and New York Times are abuzz with reports that Yahoo! will layoff between 1500-2000 people. Analysts agree. If true, it isnt a surprise to anyone. Is it? No heavy analysis is required. The current stock price of Yahoo! is around $ 20 and the company's market cap has eroded […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 2 comments

January 16th, 2008

Oracle Acquires BEA

Oracle has finally acquired BEA for $8.5 billion. Goal is market capture by Oracle in Middleware business…

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 0 comments

January 12th, 2008

Tata Nano proves India’s Tech strength beyond IT

If India's IT industry has become the torchbearer in spreading Brand "Tech India" worldwide, Tata Nova is the innovation that will give fresh & perhaps unprecedented momentum to this brand. Ratan Tata calls Nano the biggest thing he has done in his life! View photos of the people's car on Flickr 
In some parts of the sceptical media the Indian […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 0 comments

January 9th, 2008

Fund Flow for Social Network Aggregators

On December 11, when I predicated that Social Network Aggregation Will emerge as a Killer App in 2008 little did I realize that Funding Flow in this area had already started. Good to find money based validation! Mashable had reported in October 07 that Social Thing got funded for $ 300K which I found via Tod's blog Startup […]

By Ujwal Tickoo -- 4 comments

January 9th, 2008

What is Success?

Success is a very complex word. It often conjures images of media, music, movie and business celebrities in our minds or gets associated with heavy sounding titles like CEO, CFO, CTO. The IT world has its own cliched examples of success: Bill Gates of Microsoft, Narayan Murthy of Infosys or Larry Page and Sergey Brin of […]

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