Category: Technology

Is @tweet4blood successful? 5

Is @tweet4blood successful?

Its been a year since I launched @tweet4blood with VSR‘s help. It’s not a great geek work, it’s a simple two page application based on twitter api. It didn’t take more than an hour to design and code the app. But for me its been one of the happiest moment as I was...

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Open Data in India

These days my work mainly involves around government data (or the data that I assume govt should provide). You must have already seen the open data initiatives by both USA (Data.Gov) and UK(data.gov.uk) governments. I am not sure how good or the bad the data is but the initiative as such is a...

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From an IT Engineer to HomePlanGuru

This is one of the case where the person tried his hand in DIY project and made it his job after wards. Viru wanted to re-plan his fathers house, which he did as a DIY project, but then he thought he can do it for others too. Thats how HomePlanGuru started. Go ahead...

Standing on the shoulders of the giants to solve chicken and egg problem while building web community 0

Standing on the shoulders of the giants to solve chicken and egg problem while building web community

When building community sites, we will always have the problem of chicken and egg. Nobody gets involved into your community if they don’t have critical mass, and critical mass wont get built if users don’t join the web community. How are you going to solve this problem? I think it can be solved...

At 90di travel search comes naturally 10

At 90di travel search comes naturally

Second in our Outfoscions series is a travel search product which is easy and humane to use. Yes, you don’t have to fill to and from places, date, time textboxes. All you have is one single search box and ask it the way you ask your friend. For example Jammu to Knyakumari next...

LatLong by Onze trying decode the maps for us 4

LatLong by Onze trying decode the maps for us

As promised I am starting the outfoscions series with Onze Technologies. With their first and primary product Latlong.in they are trying to decode the maps for the rest of us. Latlong tries to give you the information on the go, hence the best way is to deliver by SMS. But the biggest problem...