Why India lost T20 worldcup?

Why India lost the T20 worldcup 09? That too very badly..

This is why..

Tadaaang...

What should be the next big thing in Social Networking?

Many of us use social networking websites quite often. (I'm a lazy user with a profile in Orkut, still.. ) Have you noticed a problem with social networking, when compared to other communication tools like email, IM, blogs?

Yes, there is one problem. Interoperability... Though there is a bit of IOP between SNS (Social Networking Services), its probably not easy and it hasn't come to the masses. Most of the users are very passionate about their SNS and have created a big friend network and won't switch SNS until absolutely necessary. It's hard to reconstruct the network in a second SNS and your scraps, photo comments and everything else are lost. Some people have profiles on more than one SNS and they endup duplicating their efforts to keep friends on these multiple sites happy.

So, IOP of SNS is absolutely essential. There should be a common protocol for sharing scraps, comments, tweets -whatever you call it. Also you, from orkut should be able to add a friend in Facebook, see his/her profile and send messages/comments/scraps. Imagine..

Internet without World #3

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?_r=1

It blames developing countries adds to the server load of popular social networking and sharing websites, but doesn't contribute back (in terms of money)

Is that true?

Social networking & media sharing sites make money out of advertisements. And the most targeted geographic areas are North America and Europe. Above mentioned article states that ad revenue is good from these areas.

I wonder how, though. Does anybody click on web advertisements? I mean you know its an advertisement, right? Why would you click on it? I never see the right side of google search or gmail. Sometimes "ads by google" disguises as web content itself and it probably triggers some clicks by the visitor. But other than that how do the web page ads attract any user interest? Especially the text ads.

So, how is the web users different in developing countries so that these sites don't get anything in return? I guess it has to do with the avg age of the users. In NA & Europe, there are quite a lot of middle aged and aged internet users. But in world #3, most of the net users are in 20s. And they're smart enough to avoid ads. Many of my friends have software such as adblock installed on their browsers to "clean up" the web page before it comes to them.

Well, then how do you make money here out of ads? I don't know, but I'm sure you can. You guys must check the multimillion dollar advertising program called IPL (Indian Premier League). They've succeeded in making money out of advertisements (directly & indirectly). And that's hell lot of money.

To conclude, avoiding developing world is not the way to go for internet services. But, understand the culture differences, demography and tailor your business model to fit this space. All the best in your business.

My new 5800 XpressMusic

I've been playing with my new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.. Some screen shots to start with. Commentary will follow..

Satyam and Maytas

Maytas - a company created by Satyam founder and sons which focuses on real estate and infrastructure.

It was named Maytas because it spelt the reverse of Satyam. Not sure why would someone name a company like that.

Ironically, it reversed all the fortunes created by Satyam on one fine day.

So, never name your company in the reverse order of your parent company.. :)