Cycle Gap

Sridhar Vembu , the CEO of Zoho makes an interesting observation in a Hacker News discussion thread, about how easy money during the boom ...

(~00:53:00) Question : In your slide on the conceptual integrity examples you made a passing reference to the ones on the left were not the ...

There's lot of hand wringing over the lack of "real" startups in India. Most of the arguments totally miss the point that the ...

If you make it so complicated nobody else understands what you're doing, you own it. - Dave Winer during a discussion of Google Wave dur...

It's amazing how little discussion there is about compensating users of social networking sites for user generated content, community ac...

In the world of painting there are some people who are just fabulously talented at drawing. They can sit down, these are like the kids who c...

The pinnacle of success, as far as PR is concerned, is getting your marketing material into the NY Times, disguised as journalism. ...

Deccan Chronicle: You have, of course, resigned from Infosys. But have you had time to think about conflict of interest issues that might st...

I was chatting with a friend at a mid-sized software company in Bangalore; he said that foreign clients were increasingly insistent that the...

A couple of jokes about statisticians from Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly's TED talk . Someone, one of my senior colleagues told m...

It's always a shame when technologists, who have to answer precisely to the computer, use political spin when talking to users. ...

Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by corruption.

Jim Coudal (JC) in his interview with Ryan Carson (RC) offers valuable insights especially on the importance of being able to write well. S...

In his essay GreatHackers, Paul Graham annoyed the industry with the assertion that Java programmers aren’t as smart as Python programmers. ...

I attended Proto.in , the two day event for startups in Bangalore in Jan'2009. Bangaloreinc has a couple of neat posts in their weekly ...

The 12th Feb issue MoneyLIFE magazine has published a letter from an unnamed head of an Indian IT company. The letter does a great job of ...

Joel Spolsky recently spoke at Y Combinator about selling software to corporate customers. He said that in most companies software costing u...

While going through a presentation (pdf) by John Anderson of the University of Edinburgh at LISA'08 , I came across a fascinating quot...

The free desktop has been in “catchup” mode: catching up to first Windows and now nipping at the heels of the Mac. Our path has been obviou...

Lean staffing also helps Arista keep its costs down. The Menlo Park, Calif., company has fewer than 50 employees and started shipping system...