Wed 12 Mar 2008
A weeks worth of blogging!
Posted by Tony under Personal, Stock market, Tech News
[4] Comments
Its been a crazy week. I guess its been three weeks. Even went home… for just a day, missed my best friends wedding, bahhh but I managed to meet my DEAD line.
Got invite for the first tweet-up. It is like a blog meet, but for twitter users. It is going to be a blog meet and a tweet-up and it sure is going to be fun this sunday.
The stock market continues to be in a hysteria. I stopped guessing a long time ago. I don’t like to see red in my portfolio though, but then who does. I kept some amount in stocks thinking I will sell off in march just in time to buy into ELSS for the years tax savings, but since they are in deep red, I didn’t dare sell. Well, this year might not be a very good year.
There already are rumours about firing freeze and IT spendings cut and what not.
India should grow though. Chidambaram’s master stroke of putting more disposable income onto the hands of the middle class might give a much needed boost to our consumer driven economy, and it might actually start to show in the second Qtr results. I am still bullish..
Thank god that my TV no more has more of Obama, Hillary and Britney Spears.
Slide got a 50 million funding. Big time valuation for a company that makes facebook apps and other social widgets. Facebook apps are getting big, even though there is no indication of any revenue in the near term. Two partners of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Bayers has already started a 100 million facebook apps only fund.
Iphone and Facebook seems like the only great invention since the invention of the wheel.
Iphone’s innovation lies in the design. But its greatness will be how people adopts it as a platform.
Facebook’s innovation lies in its platform. Anybody with a good idea can implement it on facebook. The possibility that facebook offers is endless.
Newyorktimes added mixx chiclets. Mixx looks great, the voting button makes it look so boring. They had to copy digg, but calling the button as migg or mixx would have been a downright copy of digg, so they used the more generic vote button, which made it look like the rating plugin that many wordpress users have.
Also the MIXX homepage breaks on my IE…. If you want to have the second mover advantage, you need to be far far better than the first mover. Just like Digg did to delicious.
And delhi bloggers, see you at the meet!

May 5th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Tweet Up? Sweet!!
May 12th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Delhi bloggers meet? when? where?
May 12th, 2008 at 4:48 am
@Anks: There has been another blogger meet after that..
I will let you know when there is one next month or this…
June 28th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Hi,
I came across your blog while surfing through the internet.
While reading your About page, I felt we have a lot in common.
I have been a blogger for a short period of time in my life too. But now, while I am about to complete my MBA, I am looking out to start my own venture.
For that, I am looking for partners. Now, you would think how can I offer you to be my partner just by reading your blog. You are right! But I am not offering your to be my partner or something.
I am just trying to explore the possibility of us having common ideas and aims. If that is what we discover, we can someday, become business partners.
If you would also like to explore that possibility, please let me know.
Besides, its no harm knowing people without a strong motive to do so!