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First things first. I dislike MySpace immensely. Not the concept, but the site. I survived there for a grand total of two weeks and then canceled my account. Facebook on the other hand is a different matter. I signed up to Facebook quite serendipitously at the same time that [...]

Apatar, Inc. has been selected by Red Herring Magazine to present and officially launch the company today at the Red Herring East Conference, in Boston, MA. Ten CEOs are invited onstage to present their companies and business plans to an audience of 400 technology executives, CEOs, venture capitalists, and business leaders. Apatar’s founder and CEO [...]

37Signals, whose products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire, has opened up two of their products to use OpenID based authentication. Now you can use OpenID to log into your Basecamp account and Highrise account. OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user identity management. You can find more information about 37Signal’s OpenID implementation [...]

As recently as six months ago, I barely consumed any internet video, with the exception of tech talks on Google Video. What a difference six months makes. Today I watch at least some video every day, usually news sites like Beet.tv or some form of science/technology discussion (most of which I capture via [...]

Thanks to Ryan Stewart, I got an invite to the long rumored Kevin Rose startup, called Pownce. I have been playing around with it for some time and it is pretty interesting. As per their claim, you can send stuff with Pownce. You could pass on a quick note to your friend or share photos, [...]

In my previous article on the Startup 101 series, I spoke about the problems one will encounter if he/she starts the business alone. In this article I am going to talk about the various issues one should consider when selecting a business partner.

According to Mike Arrington, Google has acquired GrandCentral. You can follow the blogosphere buzz on this news here. In my opinion, this is a smart move by Google. Google has been pushing its Gtalk application for a long time. They integrated Gtalk with Gmail sometime back and, recently, they also created a Gtalk gadget. In [...]

By now all of you have read the entire sordid story on the People Ready campaign by Federated Media and the Valleywag post that started the whole brouhaha. What jumped out at me was the identity of the people involved in the campaign. Now I don’t know any of these people personally, but [...]

Wetpaint and Wikia allow people to set up communities around a particular subject. Wikis or other community-oriented sites that foster participation and information sharing work very well for businesses that are consumer facing. The best case scenario is one where the company does not even need to set up such a service. Rather, [...]

The rumor mill is busy spinning out various merger/acquisition options for Yahoo. Starting with Microsoft’s takeover of Yahoo to Yahoo’s discussions with Facebook to News Corp’s attempt to control Yahoo by throwing the bait of Myspace to Yahoo-Ebay merger. Some of them are good for Yahoo while others are bad in the long term perspective. [...]