Climbing Mount Improbable

Why web designers are over-rated

Wired did a competition inviting designers to improve craigslist. As you can see, most designs actually decrease the functionality of Craigslist under the pretense of "making it beautiful" or "making it a webapp". It is possible to do three clicks in today's clicks in the time the home page of these so-called ...

Omnifocus Syncing Design Goofup- what happens when geeks design interfaces

At the outset, I must say that I am a regular user of OmniFocus on my iphone and mac. Its a very well designed product and I use it many times a day every day and cannot imagine how I will manage my tasks without it. I have tried Things and ...

A view about silicon valley from outside

http://www.paulgraham.com/kate.html - From Paul Graham

My Name is Roger Ebert and I am an alc…

Roger Ebert on AA

What email should be

What email needs to be: http://gigaom.com/2009/08/23/dunbars-number-and-the-future-of-communications/ Posted via email from tarunupa's posterous

The 1 book you should read about money

GRS has a great post about the best financial matters books: 25 Essential Books About Money: Financial Wisdom from Your Public Library If you can only read 1 book out of these 25, I will recommend one of the following based on your current situation To reduce your debt: The Total Money Makeover by ...

Full list of websites that you can take offline with google gears

List of web applications that provide at least partial offline functionality to end-user using Google Gears. Listed in the order of perceived decreasing complexity of offline implementation: Zoho Writer and Zoho Mail Word Processor, Email Not transparent. You can access documents stored inside your Zoho account and edit them offline inside the web browser. You can ...

Creating a multi-layered backup strategy for mac

Apple Blog has a good article on how to create a multi-layered backup strategy: http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/05/my-multi-layered-backup-strategy/ Some software worth considering are: Time Machine or Superduper! for daily painless backup. this is your first line of defense JungleDisk or Mozy for the off-site backup (just in case time machine is corrupted or your house is on ...

S corp or C corp

RRW has a nice post on if you should register your company as S-corp or C-corp Company Registration Choices

Building better health insurance plans

We are going thru our yearly open enrollment where we get a chance to change our health insurance plans (among other things). In that context, I am reading a little bit about health care sector. While the sector has clear deficiencies and is probably ripe for a complete change - there ...

Great tips on startup marketing

Startup Marketing: Tactical Tips From The Trenches

10 iphone apps for business travelers

TripIt: Now available for iPhone. forward your trip emails (from airlines, hotels etc) to tripit and have then available as organized trips with offline access on your iPhone. Very useful for people who travel a lot. Kayak: Book the next flight home while you are in the cab going towards airport ...

best sites to finding good airfare

Upgrade:Travel Better has following recommendations for searching airfare: Tripadvisor Flights is a great site overall For International flights starting from US: try Kayak or Trax For international flights not starting in US: try Mobissimo or Momondo

Enterprise 2.0

A few weeks ago, Stowe Boyd asked me if he could do a video interview of me over skype where I can talk about some cool stuff we are doing at Globallogic. I said sure and we did a recorded skype from my home. I don't think he edited ...

What should I buy if I do not want a Mac (or the best business travel laptop)

If after reading our purchase list for using Mac in a corporate environment - you realize its too expensive; then we have the perfect Windows Laptop for you - Asus EeePC 1000- HE Here is what it has going for it: claims 9.5 hours of battery life (real life numbers, IMHO, end ...

10 iPhone apps for business users

If you liked my article on the purchase list for moving from windows to mac - you might want to follow it up with a list of business apps that you can use on your iphone to work with your mac. As always, the list is in the order that I ...

A purchase list for a corporate executive / manager to move from Windows to Mac

I recently moved from Windows to Mac and am posting a full list of all you need to buy to make yourself as productive on Mac as you were on Windows. Hopefully, this will allow you to make a more informed call on if you want to make the change. ...

Getting office work done on Mac

Here is the list of software I use to make my work life easier when I moved from Windows+Blackberry to Mac+iPhone. Microsoft Office for Mac There is really no alternative to Microsoft Entourage (part of Microsoft Office for Mac) if one uses MS Exchange-shared calendars. If the office workflow requires documents formatted in ...

Lyrics and Translation of Jai Ho !!

Jai Ho! Jai Ho! Jai Ho! Jai Ho! (May we always win in life) CHORUS: Aaja aaja jind shamiyaane ke taley (Let us gather under the festive tents of life) Aaja zari waale neele aasmaane ke taley (Let us gather under the embroidered blue sky) Jai Ho! Jai Ho! Jai Ho! Jai Ho! Ratti ratti ...

Best cashback credit cards in US

The best general purpose cash back credit cards in my opinion are: Fidelity Retirement Rewards American Express Card: 2% cashback on everything - even in your Costco purchases (2 points for each dollar spent. 2500 points = $50 in your Fidelity account) Automatic Redemption No Annual Fee No Limits on cashback Schwab Bank Invest ...

Best cashback debit cards in US

It is really hard to find good cashback debit cards in US. This is what I have come up with so far: Washington Mutual has the best deal that returns 3% of your purchase amount. The catch is it only pays a maximum of $250/year (or for about $700/month of purchases). Paypal ...

Opera Mini reports on Mobile Web

Opera has released stats for their Opera Mini browser that runs on some cellphones. Some highlights: Users of Opera Mini browser worldwide grew 9% month on month and 357% year on year. Use per person grew by 11% month on month and 337% year on year This implies that total use grew 21% ...

most popular mobile platforms in next 12 months on internet in India

Admob has released its 2008 report for advertisements delivered to cellphones. Extrapolating from this report: The most internet usage in the next 12 months in India will come from: Nokia N70 (7.4% of all internet use) Nokia 3100C (6.2%) Nokia 6233 (4.3%) Nokia N80 (3.3%) Nokia 2626 (3.1%) Notice, that together the top 5 still make a minuscule ...

most popular mobile platforms in next 12 months on internet in USA

Admob has released its 2008 report for advertisements delivered to cellphones. Extrapolating from this report: The most internet usage in the next 12 months in USA will come from: Apple iPhone (10.6% of all internet use) Motorola RAZR v3 (6.7%) Motorola KRZR (4.1%) Motorola Z6m (4.0 %) Motorola W385 (3.9%) Notice, that together the top 5 still make ...

most popular mobile platforms in next 12 months on internet

Admob has released its 2008 report for advertisements delivered to cellphones. Extrapolating from this report: The most internet usage in the next 12 months will come from: Apple iPhone (6.2% of all internet use) Nokia N70 (3.2% ) Motorola RAZR v3 (2.8%) Nokia 6300 (1.7%) Nokia 3100C (1.7%) Notice, that together the top 5 still make a minuscule ...

Top Visited websites in India in 2008

Email --> Yahoo Instant Messaging --> Yahoo Job Search --> Naukri News --> Yahoo Search in English --> Google Search in local language --> Google Travel --> Yatra Non-travel shopping --> Ebay Real Estate --> Google Financial News --> Money Control Stock Trading --> ICICIDirect Matrimony --> BharatMatrimony Friendship / Dating --> Orkut Sports --> CricInfo Music --> Raaga Buy movie / cd --> Rediff Source: ...

India Internet user statistics for 2008

According to JuxtConsulting: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Random Guy on Phone"][/caption] There are 35 M internet users in India (people who use internet more than once a month). 90% of them use internet daily. All but 5 M of these are in urban areas. This means that 9% of Indian urban population uses internet ...

Cathedral to modern transportation

I just came out of a bullet train into Kyoto Station. This place is a huge glass and steel cathedral to modern transportation. Where else - but in Japan - we have train stations that are 15 stories high !! [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="856" caption="Kyoto Train Station"][/caption] BTW, it is only the ...

Dinner of Boiled Stuff

Walked into this roadside place that was bustling with locals (always a good sign) and had a wonderful dinner entirely of Oden dishes.

Should you buy an iPhone 3G (if you are in India)?

Govt has resolved the 3G license issues and the first 3G networks should start appearing in 6 months. Rumors are on that Airtel will launch an iPhone next month. So, of course, the next big question is here. Should you buy an iPhone. I will give the answer away before I give my ...