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  • fritz Says -> bye bye 2007
    1:49 pm on January 1, 2008 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    Well the passing year has bought its share of good and bad experiences in my life they are as follows lets start with the
    bad things

    • heart break
    • bad health (malaria,heart attack,cold,fever, food poisoning etc etc)
    • killed the company I spent 2 years building it was very hard but had to do it

    good things

    • frizilla
    • good team for frizilla
    • some of my ideas finally took off
    • saw some of the work which brother has a capability to deliver am impressed with it
    • made some new friends
    • friends chipping in to help with my own venture (thank you guys)
    • brother finally found a calling and put his head down and got his first product finally ready the launch of it is next year

    This is my last post for this year so happy new year to everyone :)

     

  • fritz Says -> thanx to all who care about my welfare
    6:27 am on November 12, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Thanx to all the people who made phone calls sent sms’s and mails and had long chat sessions with me to know about my health and give advice and tips and even offered their cleartrip coupons etc hahahahaha.

    I really appreciate the concern shown and am really thankful for all the best wishes.

    Hmm from this episode I did come to know that there are a few people who want to see me alive hahahahaha yes from now on I am still pushing myself but not as much now I sleep for a decent amount and eat food on time and don’t skip meals anymore.

    But have not yet given up on pushing my mind and body but now do it a bit smarter like I told a friend few days back it is worth dying while trying in something you believe in and feel worth giving your body and mind rather then dying later in life repenting that you never had the will power to pursue your dreams.

    Well thanks once again on a lighter note the below image done by a close friend of mine selwyn is inspired by my the small incident in my life and no there are no prizes for guessing which incident hahahahaha :) so enjoy !!!!

    The image is not loading from blogger :( so here is the link chk out the selwyn’s blog and guess the image :)

     

  • fritz Says -> why intel why??
    11:33 pm on October 9, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Intel has silently launched a new product no no it is not a new chip or a server or a gadget but a website yes yes a php based website that they have launched you can see it here. BTW the coolsw in the name of the site is for cool software and it is a digg clone for submitting upcoming software applications but the question which everyone is asking is why did Intel do this site?? yes were they bored from all their hardware adventures that they needed a small laugh so they went ahead and said lets create a niche version of digg and see if it gets a better evaluation then our entire biz maybe it will since we are heading towards a bubble. But I guess the investors wont be laughing at this and will seriously take note of why such a venture came into existence and why is it having the Intel stamp all over it as if this venture fails it will take down a bit of the value from the Intel brand.

    Well I still remember that once Intel was criticized for getting into consumer electronics space with their digital cameras and microscope for kids but even this offerings didn’t divert much from intel’s core competence which is hardware and internals of systems but this totally beats me lets wait and watch they might have more such ventures to hit the market in the future only time will tell. Well if you ask me this wont last long as this category is also there on digg so why would someone come to this site and not go to digg? beats me but maybe Intel knows why Wink

     

  • fritz Says -> online collaboration heating up
    12:08 am on October 4, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Online collaboration space is all heating up with now the big players in this space being Zoho, Google with its hosted apps for your domain and now Microsoft with its latest announcements (this) of Office going Live. Well the others are not far behind even companies like AT&T (see this) and Cisco (see this) are trying to get into this space and not to forget even Intel is making a huge push into consumer internet with its investment arm Intel Capital providing funding to many consumer internet companies.

    But out of all this players there is one player which is doing this with killer technology by its side and that is Adobe yes the new owners of the Flash platform now with all the pieces falling in place it looks like Macromedia was a killer deal for Adobe to inject new DNA into itself to become part of the innovation wave that is hitting the web now and Flash is paying a key part of it. With (this) announcement they have made it clear that they are taking part in the race and they do have the technology and the resources to win the race but will they be able to do it is the multi billion dollar question.

    But The runner that will win in this might not be the one who owns the technology but the one that builds on top of it see this the company called communigate systems have built a flash client for collaborative groupware and the interface in the screenshots look killer and since Google is in the acquisition spree and so are many others this might be the perfect target for anyone who is looking at a very innovative way to get into this race with one acquisition and their management team looks good with loads of experience behind them so they will fit well in the bigger picture.

    Out of all the big guns the one that I am very interested in is Adobe with the glimpses of what they have shown of what they are cooking in their labs it looks like a good place for lots of fun work going on now. For a very long time I have not seen anything fun reported or leaked from sources from Google labs.

    The new adobe service share looks pretty impressive but the best review has been for the media player as that would be a perfect replacement for information devices on the go.
    This is the holy grail of consumer and biz tech now finding the perfect online collaboration suite so that people people can work in a decentralized environment from multiple locations in the web 2.0 world. only time will tell who will become the winner but till the time comes niche players who are solving small problems in a innovative way of the bigger collaborative pie are good targets for acquisition. So If you are working on any nifty little project in the collaboration space or you come across something nice leave a comment.

     

  • fritz Says -> scrabble goes online and is very addictive try it out
    11:39 pm on October 2, 2007 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Well as children am sure most of us have played scrabble with our siblings and parents well if I certainly did and also with one of my uncle who used to cheat and make up words which were not there at all in the english dictionary.

    Well today came across scrabulous and online scrabble game developed by two indian brothers well first of all the game is highly addictive. I signed up for it the sign up process is a bit troublesome there is Ajax used but not to its web 2.0 potential but after that just entered a game and created a table and was soon joined by a fellow player for a game it was nice but then I wanted more but then again I had to get back to work so could not play but will head there anytime I want break from my work and some exercise to challenge my grey cells.

    Scrabulous is a venture undertaken by two brothers they are claiming that they have 5 million page views a month which is remarkable and the brothers do plan to launch the game in many international versions and also adding more games to their offering. well good luck to them it is a great offering and I think they are cool enough to pull off more success stories in online gaming space. the website is built on php and the actual game is built as a java applet this is what i didn’t like it was a flash widget then it would have been good but java applets now are considered to be irritating but then again am sure they must be making plans to migrate it to either a pure ajax app or a flash based one. The site also has a basic social networking features like buddy list etc but overall it is a great game and very innovative it is good to see young Indians like this keeping the innovation alive and now as they have released this as a facebook app they will be reaching a much bigger target audience which is good for them.

    Do try it out if you liked scrabble am sure you will like this online avatar of the game. am waiting to see what more good games the brothers can come up with one of them is still in college and is 21 years old.

     

  • fritz Says -> XML Internet OS is this the future?
    3:47 pm on October 2, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Came across (this) very interesting article on DDJ.

    What is a XML Internet OS?
    It is an operating system that uses XML as core component of its architecture whether it is for UI , or System level messaging or application logic containers basically it uses XML for everything and it is internet based because it can be used over the internet

    It is just another one of those the web based operating system which everyone is talking about
    but what caught my attention was the ability of it to be used in SAAS architecture this would be very very useful for biz environments for the end user a web OS with just the normal application stuff like email, messenger,rss reader, calendar etc is more then enough but for a biz environment you need more like integration with your CRM, ERP etc etc and this is where such an XML based Internet OS can be killer as it would be easy to integrate with your existing infrastructure with a little bit of hassle.

    There is a rumor floating around for a long time now that Google is working on a web based OS well one thing to be assured is it will come with email,rss,social networking,calendar etc etc but till that comes it will just be a rumor nothing more then that.

    But till there is a one full fledged web OS available I guess it is good to learn and follow all the news coming from that space and the XML Internet OS by Xcerion looks like an interesting piece of technology to see whats under the hood and who knows they might be bought by Google after all their product seems to be good and integrating it will Google offerings will make it killer and who knows a little bit of Ubuntu for bootstrapping your PC and then loading Firefox and thats it you are logged in to a central OS with all your normal applications there and Google has the capacity to do this if someone can come up with something like this well it will put a serious dent in Microsoft’s desktop OS market share.

    This can be the future secure environment like Ubuntu then you have a secure browser Firefox and then you are just left at the insecurities of the app that you use and not worry about the other insecurities that creep in at all the levels of the normal OS for the Desktop architecture. Well the biggest losers in this architecture would be the anti virus companies etc as they would be left with no market for their products as far as viruses go well there have been quite a few web 2.0 viruses that have been seen in the wild. So this people will just have to change their product offerings I guess to be on demand virus scanning maybe form like a layer between the Web OS and the third party application provider. Well this is a challenging area lots of opportunities for anyone who wants to take them.

     

  • fritz Says -> nice presentation for startup entrepreneurs
    2:43 am on September 28, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  • fritz Says -> Mentally FUBAR and Physically FUBAR
    11:42 pm on August 10, 2007 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Well the first thing you must be asking is WTF is FUBAR well for all you people out there who don’t know what it is hmmm well I will tell you it stands for F****d Up Beyond All Repair.

    Why am I Mentally as well as Physically FUBAR you might ask well there is too many things on my plate right now with my ventures finally on the road and starting too many ventures at one shot is not a good idea and is very very taxing am really stressed out and I am beginning to feel that I have lost the ability to relax or in fact forgotten how to have fun all together. All the time I find myself working working working and then when I am not working I find myself thinking thinking thinking about the ventures and the pros and cons, marketing , financial forecasting , competitor analysis etc etc there is a constant battle going on in my head well that is all that I do now work think work think eat and sleep .

    Coming down with a mild attack of malaria gave me a much needed break from my actual 9 to 5 job (yes am stuck there till I can hand over and move on) The break had to be cut shot because you cant afford to relax when you are in a startup mode if it was just a break from my work then I would have taken a few days off and got paid for it but when you are the person in charge of a startup you worry about optimal use of the resources at your disposal before your startup is secure both financially and also in capturing the market share of the market that you are entering into.

    But the working during the day and monitoring and working on my strategies and ideas at night is a very very taxing ritual am actually cursing myself for not having the ability to walk away from something that I help build for two years and not worrying about the future of that entity and just concentrate on my own ventures but I guess am emotionally attached to my current job but now the question remains to be seen is for how long can I take it before I snap.

    And as if holding a 9 to 5 job working on two startups was not enough I am also mentoring 6 university projects with a group of around 24 people in total. Well all I can say to myself now is learn to relax and unwind asap otherwise you are headed to the mad house hahahahaha

    Well Maybe blogging might be one of the stress busters some of my other stress busters normally are Beer and Music. Music I still listen too but beer is not yet on the menu for me as am still on medication for recovery from malaria.

    Once I fully recover and am off the medication am back to beer gulping, potato chips munching , salad eating, music listening, restaurant hopping and constantly blogging hot blooded male and then will be a bit more relaxed but i guess the only time i can relax now is hmmmmmm never well why you ask well once this startups mature to sustainable businesses am moving onto the next challenge have already mentally sketched the blueprint for my next startup it’s in a totally different industry and all I can say is it is a very very challenging industry.

     

  • fritz Says -> Launch of Pholog
    9:55 am on June 26, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Today I officially announce the launch of pholog.

    Whats a pholog you ask? yes pholog is a short term for photo blog.

    Well without any further ado my pholog can be reached here happy viewing. Wink

    Please note it is in beta stages right now so it might not be stable hahahahahaha which product out there is not in beta hahahaha anyway enjoy and let me know what you feel about the Pholog.

     

  • fritz Says -> blogshowcase a Rediff product
    7:21 pm on June 24, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Well the big sponsorship for the event was because Rediff was launching their product called blogshowcase targeted at the bloggers. Well blogcamp pune was the right place to meet those bloggers who would test out their product. The product is a combined effort of a startup called WATConsult and Rediff according to this piece of info.

    The Launch presentation was given by Rajiv Dingra of WATConsult and Jasmeet Singh who is the VP of product marketing at Rediff.
    The Initial talking and showing of screenshots was done by Rajiv and then after the first few slides and intro there were questions from the public and Rajiv told the audience that it would be good if the questions were held till last when the presentation was over. Once the initial feature set and screenshots were shown the questions started pouring in most of them were valid questions and were rapidly fired by some of the people in the audience.

    The answers given to the questions were not satisfactory(not just my opinion many others felt this too) plus it was shocking to see the response of both Rajiv and Jasmeet of some of the criticism coming their way apparently they were considering their offering was god sent and bloggers will accept it with their eyes closed no questions asked. I was more shocked with the fact that Rajiv was also having a bit of a problem with criticism which is not at all good for a person in charge of a startup being open minded to criticism helps in survival in this fierce competitive world.

    The problem with this product is that it adds to the problem of information overload affecting all us net junkies.
    Personally there were lots of issues which were not good for the users of the service things like them using the content from the blogs onto their portal and with mainstream content. pulling stuff from blogs and putting it without modification does not work as bloggers tend to be colloquial in their writing.
    Plus the fact that the meta content generated around your content was Rediff property plus it pulls your rss feed so if you give full post in your feed you wont as that will not get traffic onto your site so the question is will you maintain two feeds one for full post and one special one to submit to blogshowcase.

    The Logic behind the entire product is you give us access to your feed and we give you an audience but the question is will be audience be willing to go through hundreds of posts everyday (it is a well known fact that most users just go to the Digg homepage only) the product will fail if not positioned properly for both bloggers and rediff users.

    Well me being a blogger would not use the product why you ask?
    Simply because my doubts about the product have not been cleared and also with the fact that if you sign up and once they crawl your feed and copy the content onto their servers and what do you know how they will use your content?
    apparently Rediff is so dumb they didn’t even bother to put a terms and conditions page they just expect people to come there and submit their details with no assurance.

    Overall from this launch I have learned some important lessons

    • never launch a half baked product
    • be open to criticism
    • come up with better way of presenting to target audience
    • research well to see if there is a market for the product
    • always think about monetizing if you cant find a way don’t get into it

    The product did not create any much buzz in the blogosphere also plus the main stream media also didn’t cover it much.

    To read the blogshowcase teams blog read this they are trying to explain here how their offering is different from digg

     

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