Posts from ‘May, 2008’

I’m sure this is the question most tax payers have in mind over the proposed oil cess on income tax. Agreed that crude oil has touched $135 and the increase in the price needs to be passed on to consumers. But pass it on to the ‘consumer’, not the tax payer alone. Anyway, the price [...]

A lot has been said about the wisdom of crowds, and how the ‘crowds’ built Wikipedia. In fact, to a large extent this assumed ‘wisdom’ is the premise of everything that’s happening in the Web 2.0 space.
Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb makes a good point of having some rules to get the best out of crowds [...]

It’s a Saturday morning, actually noon now and I’ve been waiting for the carpenter from Big Bazaar to come and install our dining table. The appointment was for 10 AM and they have still not arrived. Not sure why people can’t respect time. My cousin is in Bangalore and I need to show her around. [...]

There are a million and one passwords that I have. Bank accounts, Credit cards, Demat account, Trading account, Computers, Mobile Phone, Email, Social Networking sites, you name it… Sometimes multiple passwords for the same thing. For example, a bank account comes with an ATM PIN and a telephone PIN and an internet banking ID [...]

I keep thinking of these little ideas every now and then. Thought it will be a good idea to share them on my blog and also archive them to track how much I imagine! So here goes the first in the Imagination series!
Imagine. A mobile phone application that allows the user to click a text [...]

Watching a sport on TV is like watching pornography. It’s not the real thing. Now come on, I’m not suggesting that watching  a sport can ever equal ‘playing it’ (or did you read ‘doing it’!), but I think it’s much better than seeing it on TV. Even though you don’t get such a good view [...]

Got an idea, have a Proof-of-Concept. Wait no more - present your business plan at the TiE-ISB Connect 2008 forum. There will be plenty venture capitalists there as well, so if you’re looking for some money that’s the place to be in.
Want to be an enterpreneur and are looking at a starting point. Guess, the TiE-ISB [...]

Oh yeah I am and I feel like kicking myself. For months now I’ve been thinking of an idea to link up the stock market with social networking. I mean using the “wisdom of crowds” to decide which stock to pick. After all don’t we follow tips given by analysts and friends!
Good idea, yeah… but the [...]

The IT City, aka Bangalore, still grapples with electricity and water. While there are scheduled power cuts for almost 18 hrs in a week (thanks to Bangalore Mirror for publishing) an equal number or more hours of cut are unscheduled. Well that’s a routine now and I guess I’m not cribbing yet! After all my [...]

I thought I was a master at that. But today we could not get buy-in for an internal project that we wanted to drive. We thought it was a great idea and people will jump off their seats. But that did not happen. Here’s some introspection on what we could have done better:

The team selling [...]