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Ecomatra: Ecotourism & Nature
2007-09-12 16:08:00 EcoMantra is an eco-tourism and corporate training company that promotes responsible tourism using a non-formal, non-conventional and experiential approach. The company conducts learning eco-camps for corporates and other groups in the Pune and Mumbai areas of India.Value Proposition: Multi faceted, customised responsible travel, with a unique mix & choice of eco adventures, which is created at client?s doorstep.1. EcoMantra?s Experiential Services - Natur e Camps, Eco Tours and Experiential Learning2. Are Unique because - They are Responsible, Green, Natural, Sustainable & Sharing3. Clients can choose an eco tour as per their Holiday mood - Nature Ventures, Wildlife Safaris, Backpacking or Unique Landscape4. Customise eco tours as per budget - 55+ Eco Adventures - River & Sea, Forest & Mountains5. Get oriented right at their doorstep - Highly Convenient, Personally Oriented & Detailed Trip Dossiers offered6. The result - a rare custom built, green, experiential activity holi... More About: Ecotourism , Matra
Daily Round-up?
2007-09-10 13:30:00 Ring around the ringtone! Apple wants to charge iPhone owners an extra 99 cents to turn songs they've already bought into ringtones. iPhone owners find a way around this. Apple pushes out a new version of iTunes to plug the hole. iPhone owners find a new way around this. Hmm - wonder what will happen next? Meanwhile, the good news is that all these work-around's are legal. Apple cut the price of the iPhone by a third two months after shipping it, hoping consumers would start yelling "Buy!" Instead they got Wall Street is hollering "Sell!" $11 billion fell from the company's market capitalization in a few short days. Barron's has an excellent roundup of what a dozen analysts have to say about this. Could Apple's next big price cut be in TV episodes? Who really knows? The future is unwritten. It's not even burnt into toast. Perhaps the brilliant toasters of today are harbingers of an imminent takeover by co-mingled human/machine intelligence? A Bay Area gatherin... More About: Daily , Round Up , Round
Housing?The Bottom?
2007-08-21 15:06:00 I could care less about the financials and homebuilders because I don?t own them, but the tech leaders are going to explode and I own a lot of them.I don?t know if Bank of America can fix things, but they are going to put a new world of hurt on the shortsellers once again. More About: Housing , Bottom
Enophi.com - iPhone Feed Reader
2007-08-20 13:14:00 Most of us are accustomed to having Feed Reader s on our computers, but not yet on our phones.Now that the iPhone is out, Enophi.com has created a free RSS feed reader app to use with the device so its users can just as easily access their feeds on their phones as they would on their home computers. With Enophi a user simply needs to go to the site and register and then pick the feeds that they want to subscribe to. The reader is just as easy to use as any other feed reader that you would use on your home computer.As people become more and more accustomed to having feed readers at home it will be totally inconvenient for these people to have an iPhone and not be able to access these things on the iPhone. Enophi stepped in quickly to make sure to be the first to offer this service.As of now the service from Enophi is free and there is no advertising on the site. There's a link to Adbrite and there's a question ' interests' - so plan to monetize the feeds is there and sure.I strong... More About: Iphone
BanKaro - Social Spam Filtering
2007-08-19 14:52:00 As the name suggests, their motto is to ban the mobile spammers!Ban Karo is a social spam filtering service, powered by community participation, to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls.How it worksBan Karo is designed as a special-purpose social network. Every user receives a set of new telemarketing spam numbers on a periodic basis, via SMS, the website, or browser extensions. These numbers are passed through the user's circle of trust [connections that (s)he's built up in the network].The circle of trust, in turn, acts as a social filtering mechanism which ensures that only those numbers which are most likely to call up the user and irritate him/her are on the list.Where do the numbers come from:Just like email spam filters, the BanKaro adaptive spam filtering mechanism is effective upwards of 99% of the time. However, some calls do sneak through and disturb the user. So, just as one would check the box in Gmail and "Report Spam ", all the user has to do is pull down the BanKaro m... More About: Social , Erin
ZING - Satellite Radio Goes With You
2007-08-17 10:22:00 ZING is mobilizing a new generation of mobile audio and entertainment devices that are always connected so you can always stay tuned. With ZING software and services, your mobile experience goes far beyond simple playback. ZING brings you quality real-time streams and two-way connections that let you discover, play, and collect new music wherever you go, whenever you want.If you can?t bear to part with Howard Stern and Martha Stewart when it is time to get out of the car and leave your Sirius radio, take them with you. The Stiletto SL100, Sirius?s new portable satellite radio, offers live reception in pocket-size form, as well as Wi-Fi connectivity for listening to live Internet radio whenever you?re in range of a wireless network.The Stiletto 100, available at retailers and expected soon at shop.sirius.com for $350, can store up to 100 hours of live Sirius programming. The device?s two-gigabyte drive can also store and play songs in the MP3 or WMA formats and is compatible with ma... More About: Radio , Satellite , Satellite Radio , Adio , Goes
Saywit - A Creative freak or a Cognitive Geek?
2007-08-16 13:55:00 Saywit is a social webapp to share our ingenuity, creative thinking, and out-of-box solutions. It aims to bring out our creative intelligence naturally through participation!This is a self-initiated project by Seshu Karthick Tanveer, and a product of Siddhi Labs.Implementation Specifics Technology : Java 1.5, Spring MVC, Hibernate, MySQLLibraries : OpenId4Java, Rome 0.5.Third-Party : Haloscan, JS-Kit, Gigya.Cool?I think so. People spend hours and hours online, often doing not much of anything. This site actually wants to engage the mind and increase brain cells, while having fun too.The site has its creative offerings such as "wittychat", where you can open a dialogue with random people (such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates). The cognitive offerings have algorithms and puzzles. You can then embed any responses on your blog or website.The site is clever and original, and is a very recent launch. The site has potential, but needs some marketing. More About: Creative , Geek , Freak
30 books every young entrepreneur should read
2007-08-16 11:53:00 Becoming an entrepreneur for the first time requires conditioning yourself to a set of attitudes, skills and knowledge you've never encountered anywhere else before. You've got to be prepared to learn faster than any time in your life. However, being prepared for this 'knowledge hit' hinders many young entrepreneurs in taking their $bn ambitions to actually realizing them.For those of you that are starting your entrepreneurial careers, you'll find this list inspiring, immersive and essential reading, even providing comfort for those inevitable moments where everyone tells you that you can't succeed. Here are 30 books I've read, which i think you should too.AttitudeThese books will help you to get inspired, think big and refuse to back down when people say you can't succeed.The Google Story ( The story behind the greatest start up in history)Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure (An emotional roller coaster through the founding of Go computer. How do u deal with technology whic... More About: Books , Entrepreneur , Read , Young , Rene
Startup Review: Townster
2007-08-15 13:48:00 Townster is a German startup based in Cologne that is all about helping its users search locally. Currently the service offers the ability to search for people, places, events, groups, or lists. While it is still only available in German, they plan to move stateside next year. The space shown below hold 10 employees and is much larger than shown in the photos; with another 20 employees expected in the next year, it will definitely be needed. I?ve been noticing that more companies seem to be showing their dogs off to us. Here at Office Snapshots, we may not have a dog, but we do have a dilophosaurus. Sure it spits poison in our eyes, but their eggs make great omelettes. More About: Review , Startup , Towns
Startup Review: Adpinion
2007-08-14 10:54:00 Adpinion lets users tell what they want to see.That means brands don't have to guess the consumer's interests based on what websites they visit; Adpinion can advertise diapers to stay-at-home dads while they're reading ESPN. Better still, Adpinion does this without logging any personal information, for any period of time.Here's how it works:You have an ad.adpinion help you place your ad into it's system, where related people and ads group together.Feedback from users helps to move the ad into more relevant groups.When a user goes to a website within adpinion network, it'll display an ad that suits their interests.[ If a user hasn't given feedback yet, we choose based on the likes of other readers of that site.] WOW! that's pretty interesting!Anyways, pretty promising output from Y-Combinator workshop, waiting for my beta invitation. More later.Ojas Venture Partners More About: Review , Startup
Startup Review: NowPos
2007-08-13 16:49:00 We believe that you are a celebrity in your own status on NowPos. So tell us and the world more about yourself. Its been a while I'm hearing about NOWPOS (short for Now Possible), a Hyderabad-based technology start-up.I'm trying to test it.Once logged on to NowPos, which is currently free, one can send and receive voicemail; users need to have a headphone with speaker facility to do so. Those who do not want to listen to advertisements, which currently constitute the revenue stream, might have to pay an annual fee. The structure is being worked out.Frost & Sullivan has chosen NowPos (Now Possible) as one of the 20 top broadband innovations in Asia Pacific, describing it as the "coolest bridge in the Internet space." NowPos, which has just 20+ employees.Crunched or Clone? Michael Arrington got a story. Its TeleflipWhats your call people? More About: Review , Startup
Daily Dump
2007-08-08 17:53:00 A new start-up in Bangalore, India, hopes to arm consumers with products and services to empower them toward a simple solution for reducing landfill waste: composting. The Daily Dump offers an array of decorative composting containers that can be used in the home to manage organic household waste and convert it to useful high-quality compost. What's more, they offer a full range of service plans for customers wary of braving the ordeal on their own.Composting pots and vessels made of biodegradable terracotta in a variety of shapes and sizes can be purchased on the website, which features a guide to help customers choose which is right for their needs. Rakes, spoons, spatulas and other supplies are also available. The website offers extensive information and tips, such as what items can and can't compost. Consumers who lack the time or desire to care for their composting pot can select a weekly, fortnightly or monthly service plan, with a Daily Dump ?servicewalla? dropping by to ta...
Put that coffee down!
2007-08-06 14:35:00 Put that coffee down! One of my colleagues yelled at me. "You drink so-much of coffee and smokes alot"!Trust me people, whenever I hear "Put that coffee down" I remember 1992 Hollywood flick Glengarry Glen Ross where Mr. Blake yells at Laveen.PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN! Coffee is for closers...So where were we? Coffee + Cig? Nope, but everybody's blaming Cig / Espresso for my lost look and they are really disturbed with my slim looks.Why don't you take care of yourself Kris? Grow some muscles.I used to answer them with smiles. Then used to say " Toughness is the quality of mind, nothing to do with muscles" then I fedup!Today some 15 guys commented on my new looks & shirt and said, "Mannn, try to grow some muscles"!Enough is enough, I need fix this. "Listen genttlemen" I said " My job is to make long term and short term strategies for my firm. I research a lot, read a lot. I spend fucking 15 hours a day in office ( not because I'm not productive in 8hrs - just for the sake of it, I lov...
Web 2.0 Long / Short
2007-08-05 11:39:00 Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic, about the best and worst parts of Web 2.0 . More About: Long , Short
Why we must close the Internet?
2007-08-03 14:34:00 Because Elton John feels so. He says the internet is destroying music! ?The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff."!Feeling liuke WTF? Elton John baby!Sales of Elton?s last album The Captain & The Kid were disappointing ? it barely shifted 100,000 copies. And in the past Sir Elt has opposed illegal downloading of his music from the net.hmmm Elton asks for something he's not going to get. I guess that?s what Sir Elt would call a net loss . . .Now stop that Meow between the sheets; Lonelygirl 15 is no loner single!MySpace Nabs Lonelygirl15 Finale!!! In a deal that signals the ascendance of the independent video creator, MySpace will host and feature the Lonelygirl15 season finale this Friday. The finale, a culmination of the series to date, with 12 episodes released every hour over starting at 8 a.m. Pacific, is a bit of creative freedom that the Lonelygirl creators are taking to wrap up some storylines and play with the pacing of their ... More About: Internet , Close , The Internet
Web Alert
2007-08-02 13:51:00 If you liked Wallstrip, you might like this new short daily video show called Webb Alert .Check this out, Guess it's gonna be good!
Music 2.0
2007-07-13 14:10:00 Lindsay chats with Fred Davis, founding partner at Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP, to discuss Music 2.0.
Introducing my new virtual pet 'tutu'.
Back in pr...
2007-07-10 14:35:00 Introducing my new virtual pet 'tutu'.Back in primary school, I had one turtle. His/her name was "tutu"!With all those 6 year old's curiosity, I used to feed him and there was some special reason to invite all my friends home. ( first social networking platform?)Anyways, now, thanks to bunnyhero labs - You can feed him snacks by clicking on the snack bag. Or play ball with him by click on more.adopt your own virtual pet! More About: Virtual , Virt , Intro
Social Networking 2.0
2007-07-09 14:49:00 we?ve been hearing about a new Yahoo social network initiative called Mosh, which is at mosh.yahoo.com but can only be accessed from inside the Yahoo offices. If you happen to be using the guest wifi at Yahoo, you should be able to access the site, although this may be shut down soon. It?s likely this would replace Yahoo?s 360 social network service, which has never really gotten traction. The existence of Yahoo Mosh also most likely puts a bullet in any further speculation that they are in acquisition talks with Bebo, a somewhat unsubstantiated rumor from May. Last year Yahoo made a serious effort at acquiring Facebook but the deal was never closed. Google Social streamSocialstream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other: Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking Refined Focus: Discover the... More About: Social Networking , Networking , Working , Workin
Scoopt
2007-07-05 12:40:00 Scoopt, the self-styled ?citizen journalism picture agency?, will now allow Flickr members to tag their images with the keyword ?scoopt?, enabling Scoopt to push tagged images to their media outlet buyers. Scoopt will also encourage buyers to use Flickr as a commercial image resource. Scoopt founder Kyle MacRae said the new feature makes sense as ?there?s no easy way to connect Flick members to buyers? and ?Flickr members are not allowed to advertise their content commercially?. The Scoopt move is unofficial and does not have a formal relationship with Flickr. Sales revenue is split 50/50% between Scoopt and the photographer. The photographer always keeps full copyright. It?s free to join Scoopt. Scoopt has 12,000 members and is based in Scotland. More About: Coop
The Green Wiki
2007-07-05 12:36:00 Here come the niche Wiki launches. Following on from JobberWiki, the career information resource site that anyone can edit, comes Tiptheplanet.com (quoting): Tiptheplanet is a project to create a green wiki website that encourages discussion and the generation of tips that benefit you and the planet - From tips for individuals about staying happy and healthy to tips for multi-national companies to limit their carbon footprints, with accompanying explanations.The site is coming out of the UK and has a nicely random feel to it, as in: ?Switch to green energy; Find out about distributive power?.The site has been launched by Tom Savage, who also run Blueventures.org, a not-for-profit organisation which facilitates projects in global marine conservation and research. More About: Green , The G
'O' Word Sour on Riya ?
2007-07-04 12:53:00 "Some in Silicon Valley begin to sour on India" - Wallstreet Journal homepage loaded with a little bit of surprise.Read the full article (subscription required) or I quoteSilicon Valley has helped power India's outsourcing boom by shifting technology jobs to that country. Three months ago, Munjal Shah reversed a bit of that shift.Munjal Shah, who leads a California start-up called Riya Inc., had opened an office in India's technology capital of Bangalore in 2005, hiring about 20 skilled software developers. The lure was the wage level: just a quarter of what experienced Silicon Valley computer engineers make.Then Indian salaries soared. Last year, Mr. Shah paid his engineers in India about half of Silicon Valley levels. By early this year, it was 75%. "Taking into account the time difference with India," he says, "we weren't saving any money by being there anymore." In April, Mr. Shah shut down the Bangalore office and offered half of its engineers a chance to move to San Mateo,... More About: Word
Social Media kicks Ass!
2007-07-02 13:06:00 Kickass study by ComScore/Piper Jaffray indicating the rapid increase in time spent online interacting with social media experiences. The growth is astounding and suggests that our inflection point may be right around the corner. More About: Social , Media , Kicks , Kick
Chat with Sumir Chadha of Sequoia Capital
2007-06-18 12:45:00 Got an interesting video from YouTube. Interview with Sumir Chadha - Sr. Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India @ TiECon 2007. More About: Chat
Boxing & a lot more can happen over coffee
2007-06-14 08:27:00 8.00 PM IST. Barista Coffee PVR Saket, New Delhi"You are not been to the boxing arena, then why those black circles? ... Not having enough sleep, tired, or just stress? ... You need to be cared, are ya single? "Too many questions? Yup - Defnitly from a female!They say "a lot more can happen over coffee" - True! Since you wanted to sip those awesome beans in warm water with awesome tar filled inside white paper and most of the time you have to share table with others! Blessed!"Yup, I am - Infact 'Romatically Challenged' ! I replied.Trust me folks - It feels great watching some chick laughing for a genune cause, trust me! "But why"? The smile etc,etc ...Blame it on the schools I attened, all boys - I never had an opportunity to groom myself as a 'nice guy'! Hard luck! - Answer."Ohhh ... but ... hey you have a cute face, gals love that and I see - you dress well, I saw you comming in Avis and the driver is opening the door for ya - you must be earning well, you told me you are int... More About: Boxing , Xing
Bubble - Long ? Short?
2007-06-12 13:17:00 Marc Andreessen, the inventor of the first commercially viable Web browser and the co-creator of Netscape, finally has a blog. And he started this week with a splash: in his third post, he offered a harsh (for him) rebuttal of the spreading notion that there is a new Internet bubble forming, that Silicon Valley is overexuberant about ?Web 2.0,? and that soon it will all come crashing down (blog.pmarca.com).?If you?re going to call a bubble on the basis of lots of bad start-ups getting funded and failing,? he writes, ?then you have to conclude that the industry is in a perpetual bubble, and has been for 40 years.?For the most part, he argues, the companies that are getting the most money and attention are those that deserve it. ?People laughed when Fox bought MySpace for $580 million,? he wrote, but now, given its revenue growth, ?MySpace would probably be valued at between $3 billion and $5 billion.?BTW More Bubble Stuff? Thanks to NY Times & Dan Mitchell here's some.markevanst... More About: Long , Short
25th Year & 25th Hour : Happy Birthday!
2007-06-10 13:23:00 Hey! Its my Birthday todayAnd after a long 25 hrs of work, I'm going to the hills to celibrate!Catch ya ! More About: Happy , Happy Birthday , Hour , Year
TV - the Blip way
2007-06-08 12:59:00 Blip.tv, the video sharing site focused on independently produced shows, today announces the closing of its series B financing and its first venture capital investors. The round was led by Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the venture capital fund established by the four founding engineers of Skype.Other participants in the round include the venture fund Lauder Partners; Jeffrey Sechrest, Managing Director and co-head of the media and entertainment division of Lazard; Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum; Jonathan Kopp, a partner in the PR, marketing and advertising firm SS+K; and Ken Sawyer, founder of Saints Capital.Blip.tv, founded in May 2005, is also marking its second anniversary.With ASI's support, blip.tv, which shares revenue with content creators on a 50/50 basis, will expand its ability to give content creators the opportunity to generate revenue by offering new advertising options, advanced technologies, and an extended distribution network to make blip...
Whats your pitch?
More articles from this author:2007-06-07 15:33:00 Vator.TV, the video site started by Bambi Francisco, the former MarketWatch columnist, officially launched! It is designed for people to share ideas about their companies, to investors and others. From the main page, you can select ?My Vator? to create a pitch and manage your profile. Outsiders can use a search bar to find pitches. There is also a text news section and a place where pitching competitions are listed. Interesting features: They've managed to get the who's who of the VC industry. Vinod Khosla, Tim Drapper etc etc....! Khosla's pitch on "Areas of interest" is a message to future biggies - think different, give that social networking concept a break! I like the "Competitions" session: Business Plan competitions!The competition section is a place to find and search for business or product ideas submitted to the latest contests held by Universities, venture capitalists, angel investor groups, conferences, and companies. Competitions typically last for 3 months and are ... More About: Pitch , Hats 1, 2, 3 |
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