Making of YouTube From Scratch, A Video

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Indians Are Privately Smart and Publicly Dumb

In his book Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are, V. Raghunathan writes about a farmer whose corn won top awards year after year. When a reporter asked about the secret of his success, the farmer attributed it to the fact that he shared his corn with his neighbors. Why, the reporter [...]

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The Internet is Dead and Boring

 
Every new technological, mechanical or intellectual breakthrough has its day, days, months and years. But they don’t rule forever. That’s the reality.
 
Every generation has its defining breakthrough. Cars, TV, Radio, Planes,highways, the wheel, the printing press, the list goes on forever. I’m sure in each generation to whom the invention was a breakthrough it may [...]

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Stop Building Social Networking Sites

The problem of social network fatigue as stemming from the:

Creation of yet another login/password to manage
Need to re-enter profile information for new services
Need to search and re-add network contacts at each new service
Need to reset notification and privacy preferences for each new service
Inability to manage and add value to these networks from a central app/work [...]

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50 Rupees Biz Started by Mount Carmel Students, Bangalore

42 teams with three students each from Mount Carmel College took this game from theory to practice. Each team got fifty rupees and had to come up a business idea, start and run the business and earn profit – all in three days! Initial apprehension turned into wild enthusiasm as finalist teams made a profit [...]

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7 Hyper Complex Wonders of the IT World

The fastest supercomputer. The most intriguing data center. The constantly changing core[kernel] at the heart of Linux. The Google Data Center. Take a tour of the most impressive and most unusual marvels of the IT world:
 
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World’s Most Intriguing Data Center: Google

Location: The Dalles, Oregon, on the banks of the Columbia River, 80 miles east of [...]

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Building Scale in a Start-Up Company

TiE Bangalore organized an event on Scaling Startup. The Panelists analyzed the lifecycle of the start-up and the challenges faced by the start-up entity. The speakers shared, among other things, the importance of vision; the need for companies to think big but focus on execution; by doing it right; the importance of the entrepreneur (s) [...]

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Secret of Apple Inc. Marketing: by ex Apple Marketing Executive

Former Apple Marketing Executive Steve Chazin has released an ebook called Marketing Apple, which concisely describes how companies can market the way Apple does.
 
The ebook covers five secrets to Apple’s success, spanning the company’s ability to harvest an in-crowd (“the iPod generation”); early adopters, such as iPhone users; and fringe users who do not want [...]

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Google is now Venture Capitalist: VCoogle

Google (GOOG) has begun making VC-style investments to the tune of about $500,000 or less in promising startups, often buying those companies afterward, according to partners at Silicon Valley VC firms who spoke on condition of anonymity. In an effort to keep spotting promising deals, Google has been hiring a stable of finance pros. [...]

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Facebook Clones Flooding: Russia’s Vkontakte

International ripoffs of successful web companies can be found everywhere, from Frazr, the German Twitter clone, to Digg Malaysia, the Malaysian clone of the news-ranking site Digg.
Not to be outdone, the Russian social network Vkontakte (or “virtual contact”) has copied Facebook’s look and feel almost exactly — not to mention its growth rate. See Alexa [...]

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