Technology

Why Linkedin India makes sense

By Aditya Mhatre at 22 December, 2009, 2:49 am

Its been a week since LinkedIn announced opening an office in Mumbai. While several blogs and sites carried the news about the announcement itself, I am yet to come across an opinion piece on it. So rather than waiting for one, I’m going to give it a shot myself. Lets see if I make any [...]

Animals have a Right to Live on Earth

By Akhilesh at 21 December, 2009, 9:22 pm

This Sunday I was on my way from Hampi to ‘Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary’ in the wilderness of Northern Karnataka. This was my first visit to a forest reserve in many years. My Auto rickshaw was wiggling like a snake and wobbling like a duck through the dusty rocky terrain of the jungle. Our destination [...]

World kup is koming to Afrikaaa!

By Adwait at 5 December, 2009, 1:16 pm

There’s one thing in the world which will never ever cease to get my attention. I’ll always be interested in it. It’s a simple eight letter word, known to everyone in this world as football.

What is Phisling and how to avoid it?

By abhishek at 8 October, 2009, 7:52 am

The first thing my 55 year old not so IT savvy boss told me when I reached office yesterday was, ‘Did you read today’s front page news? Some thousands of emails from Google and Hotmail have been hacked and posted online for every one of us to see.’ As a subscriber of Google News, I simply nodded for I admittedly had not received any RSS feed of any such news that morning! And then my boss enquired, “What’s this deal with Phishing?”

Twitter: Venture Capitalist’s new Infatuation

By abhishek at 28 September, 2009, 10:51 am

Not very long ago, Marc Andreessen, the hungry and ambitions founder of Netscape Communications was remembered more for his being a casualty of the dot com era than for earning the first billion dollars on the Internet. His quick shot to success and the sudden realization that gravity is not a myth confirmed that not [...]