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Ideas to Toss: Beacon Unplugged.

Posted by: Vijay on: June 7, 2008

In: Business| Ideas to Toss| India| Technology
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Social Networks are the way to the future. Ah, I can see people getting ready with pitchforks to nail me to the wall, but lets hear this out.
There is this basic ideology. The paradox of the masses. Whenever at any given network the number of members become too huge, the system starts to break down. [...]

Tags: advertisement, beacon, Facebook, Ideas, India, internet, markets, ning, opensocial, social+networks, startups, verticals, vijay+anand, web

So What is Yahoo! Planning? A Theory.

Posted by: Vijay on: April 28, 2008

In: Business| Entrepreneurship| India| Review| Technology| Web 2.0
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Disclaimer: This is just a theory. Not the fact.
The war between the giants, Microsoft and Yahoo continues. But none of the threats, nor the position that Yahoo is in, seems to be putting a brake on the companies they are going around acquiring, nor the services they are releasing. Life is as normal, infact on [...]

Tags: Adsense, Facebook, fire+eagle, Flickr, google, Mashup, Microsoft, openID, Pipes, strategy, web+2.0, yahoo

The Law of Startups.

Posted by: Vijay on: April 24, 2008

In: Business| Entrepreneurship| Open Source Innovation| Technology| Web 2.0
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I think I have figured something. It goes something like this.
Markets and Companies are neither created nor destroyed. They just transform from one form to the another.
I’ll give you some examples. Amazon.com when it started in 95 was a very ambitious project. A few years later, they were raking in 30million dollars as revenues. But [...]

Tags: twitter, Facebook, amazon.com, pluggd.in, reliance, orkut, bookstore, web+economy, walmart, subiksha, fropper.com, bigadda, myspace, webyantra, slideshare, pownce

Rumor: Social Networking not working?

Posted by: Vijay on: April 13, 2008

In: Entrepreneurship| India| Web 2.0
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Disclaimer: These are just rumours. Tell me if they are true.
1. I’m hearing reports that a social networking site, one of the investments of Sequoia and ,the SN offering of reliance (Note: Update below) are both finding it hard to scale up and might face the inevitable very soon.
Is it true? if it is, then [...]

Tags: bidadda, Facebook, India, minglebox, orkut, reliance, sequoia, social+networking, web+2.0

Opensocial Vs. Facebook. It’s apples to oranges.

Posted by: Vijay on: November 26, 2007

In: Business| Entrepreneurship| Ideas to Toss| India| Mobile| Open Source Innovation| Technology
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Facebook is undoubtedly enjoying its fanbase, and with more and more people moving to facebook (even from networks such as Linkedin), it only strengthens the case. As of today it seems that Facebook has even gone after some of the popular bands to setup their pages in facebook so that profiles can be created as [...]

Tags: Alec, Alec+Saunders, brad+fitz, communications, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, innovation, Iotum, opensocial, Relevance, vijay+anand, web+2.0, web+3.0

The Hoopla on Facebook’s valuation.

Posted by: Vijay on: October 27, 2007

In: Chennai| Entrepreneurship| India| Proto.in| Technology| Web 2.0
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The Bubble is back again. Facebook is grossly-overvalued. I am turning green with envy at the guys who are raking in money. This is not going to last. Facebook should go public.
I hear many such comments at the recent news that facebook is valued at USD 15 billion.
Hold your horses, will ya?
Microsoft has bought a [...]

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft, valuation, vijay+anand