Monthly Archives: July 2009

Test post via Posterous

Can I email a post to this blog through Posterous? Apparently I can.

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Expanding social networks and shortening attention spans

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits fame has ditched email and will primarily use Twitter: … the people I communicate with the most are (mostly) on Twitter. What I love about Twitter is that it’s very limited (140 characters), so you … Continue reading

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About Yahoo!'s home page redesign this week

Yahoo! just redesigned the Yahoo.com home page, its crown jewel for a decade. The big change is a bar on the left with widgets that display updates from Facebook, Gmail, New York Times and some 60 other sources. The company … Continue reading

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More Firefox: beating the competition and making money

My last post generated a fair amount of discussion (comments+email) about Firefox’s future given the increased competition in the browser marketplace. Let’s say Firefox does buck the trends that open-source applications seem to follow (either having their best features taken … Continue reading

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Why you (probably) won't be using Firefox a while from now

Mozilla CEO John Lilly on the number of fast, capable browsers in the market: “The world is a lot different from a year ago, and we have three brand new browsers and there is a lot more competition and as … Continue reading

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Marc Andreessen bets on the Internet Operating System too

Marc Andreessen agrees with the view that building the components of the nascent Internet Operating System is a massive opportunity. In fact, a $300 million venture fund opportunity. (With reference to last week’s post “What you need to do to … Continue reading

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Bigger pie, more slices

For the longest time, the only two entities that made money from a mobile phone were the carrier and the handset manufacturer. Open and shut [1]. No longer. Not only are more mobile phones being sold now than ever before, … Continue reading

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Building a large Internet business in India (in the incumbents' face)

When it comes to the Internet in India, the low-hanging fruit has beeen picked, across sectors. Think Travel. Books. Jobs. Dating. Electronics. Money. In his post today, Rajesh Jain lists a few more: Search (dominated by Google), News (Rediff, NDTV, … Continue reading

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