January 23, 2008
- Open-source products are great. But know the limitations before you use it.
Apart from doing software / web development on Open-source platform, Indus Net Technologies also customize and implement open-source products for clients on demand. Some popular (and free) open-source products are SugarCRM, Drupal, osCommerce for CRM, content management and e-commerce respectively.
IMHO, these are some limitations that I have observed. It is important to know them before [...]
January 13, 2008
- SEZs are not good for Small & Medium sized IT Enterprises
With the uncertainty over the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) scheme after the union budget, a mad rush towards Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is very much expected. I have been studying about SEZ or last three weeks and two things are very clear -
The SEZ Act is under constant change. So whatever is stated there [...]
September 23, 2007
- Businesses can never be in equilibrium
Business organizations can never be in equilibrium or achieve stable position. Either they are moving up or they are moving down, depending upon their innovation quotient.
If you are trying to keep things stable, they won’t remain so. You will slowly slide down simply because:
there is no exclusivity,
competition will catch up on the technology front and [...]
September 20, 2007
- How to handle social networking redundancy
I was reading about Ed Kohler’s post about social networking update redundancy.
I think there can be a simple solution. To do this we may need a simple new standard format of data syndication, which can be a simple derivative of RSS. Basically every individual can have a personal RSS feed.
A person shall provide an input socket (it [...]
September 19, 2007
- Which “Google Apps” program do you use the most?
I recently read Ed Kohler’s comment where he has ranked the importance of various "Google Apps" programs in the following order:
1. Docs
2. Presentation
3. Spreadsheet
However, I beg to differ.
In my personal experience I have found spreadsheet to be most used online collaborative tool of the entire office suite.
An online spreadsheet can be used in hundreds [...]
August 20, 2007
- Reliance & Naukri steps into social networking marketplace
Reliance’s BigAdda, Rediff’s iShare and Naurki’s Brijj.com are the latest dotcoms to hit the Indian social networking marketplace. It may trigger the next dotcom explosion with many more mindless dotcoms in line with these me-too networking sites by public listed biggies of India. Soon, we will forget why the first dotcom boom wave came down crashing [...]
August 14, 2007
- Who needs whom? An acid test!
There is a big debate over India becoming an IT super-power. Every few days I will meet an over-excited guy who is impressed with the growth of Indian IT companies an think that they will take over the world soon!
Let us do an acid test to determine if this is true!
Let us consider a hypothetical [...]
June 16, 2007
- Check out Voki
Hi,
I recently stumbled upon Voki (www.voki.com) which seems like a nice widget. It comes from Sitepal (www.sitepal.com). Actually I have used Sitepal in past. Unfortunately it didnt work great for me (nothing wrong with their product, but it was just a bit irritating for our customers). However I can see good potential for a concept [...]
May 17, 2007
- Indus Net Academy – A step closer to my dream
There has been a lot of talk over the BIG IT talent pool in India. Every bureaucrat and market research agency in the country shows towering numbers of colleges and students that they produce.
But the burning question is – Is this talent employable?
The biggest challenge Indian IT industry faces today is the ever-growing gap between graduating [...]
March 14, 2007
- Hostorix launches fail-safe linux based reseller hosting
I recently visited Hostorix.com. This is a new hosting company from an Internet marketing veteran – Armand Morin.
I was impressed how Armand has identified a pain that most webmasters feel – Downtime! Aren’t we all worried about our website going down? I fail to understand how large hosting companies like Lunarpages, 1&1, Hostgator, GoDaddy etc. overlooked this [...]
December 2, 2006
- When Gmail makes life difficult
I am a big fan of Gmail because of its speed and simplicity. However Gmail makes life hell lot of difficult in some cases -
1. The Threading Bug
While threading, Gmail creates threads based on the “Subject” of the email. It should be “Subject” & “Sender/Reciepient”. It is very cumbersome to sort out and read mails [...]
July 19, 2006
- Want to rank sites by quality? Check spelling and grammar!
Hi Folks,
Google is doing everything in their capacity to weed out spam and return meaningful results for search queries. However it seems that they missed on an important aspect!
Concept
A good quality website will definitely have proper (if not accurate) spelling and grammar. Using advanced spelling and grammer checking routines, it is very much possible to [...]
