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Mobile will tranform our business

Friday, November 27, 2009

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If you have any doubts take 5 minutes to watch this Morgan Stanley video

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Some Facebook Numbers….

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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I just read an interesting interview with Vice President of Engineering at Facebook Mike Schroepfer on Venturebeat and with Sheryl Sandberg, COO on Techcrunch - 300M active users a month Pretty large population…. - People spend 8 billion minutes online on Facebook every day. Hence Facebook next to Youtube/Google being the top 2 destinations on the Internet - There [...]

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Real Time Web. It’s not hype, it’s not the next new Internet craze, it’s real, it’s here and you’re probaby using it already.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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The buzzword you hear a lot in the software and internet industry is Real-time…. everything needs to be real-time, from real-time conferences to real-time servers to real-time search engines etc etc… The real-time web is often described as the latest iteration, the new Web 2.0 or the next evolution of the internet largely due to the [...]

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Internet Banking 2.0 Style

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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3 days ago Intuit announced their acquisition of mint for USD 170M. If you haven’t used Mint yet, it’s a brilliant service supporting consumers based on spending habits and methods with alternatives on how to make that dollar stretch further. Making it easy to use was a critical element to their success http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/10/23/mint-vs-quicken-patzer-points-importance-ui Last year we [...]

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Mobile Operator Network API or “extensible Application Famework

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Mobile operators are constantly asking if they should charge for exposing network level API’s. In a discussion just yesterday there was a strong sentiment for “YES” if they add real value…..I had to go back and remind them of a couple of things. Does Facebook charge for accessing their API’s? Does Twitter? Does Java on [...]

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