Due diligence is the process of researching and analyzing a potential investment before making a decision. The process can include reviewing…

Bitcoin and Ethereum had a significant drop and recovery this week. Here are a couple of simple BTCUSD and ETHUSD charts I generated from my…

Welcome to this week’s crypto update. It’s been an interesting week in the crypto and NFT worlds. Bitcoin just broke the all time high this…

Intro It’s been another exciting few days in crypto. I was planning to send this on Fridays but as is the case with the crypto world, things…

I thought you might like a short, curated list of interesting headlines from the crypto world. For now, on a weekly basis, I will include…

2020 is the year of "Work from Home" and has propelled the conversation around the "Future of Work" to the forefront. In February 2019, I…

Doing due diligence on investors is something that should be discussed more frequently. It’s important for founders to take the time to…

For the better part of the last decade, I've been a startup investor and community builder. It's been a lot of fun and I have loved learning…

There was a recent thread on Twitter about how even in 2020 angels and VCs in India continue to put ridiculously onerous terms into early…

Although most people recommend getting an introduction to a VC or an angel investor, it is sometimes necessary to send a cold email. Here…

Fabrice Grinda is the founder of Zingy, Aucland OLX and FJ Labs, a VC firm and venture studio based in NYC, focusing on marketplace…

Arjun Dev Arora, Founder of Valence Advisory, shares lots of pro tips about how to go about raising an early-stage venture capital fund for…

Who is "Pankaj Jain" besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before? If you've followed my erratic writing…

How does one go from being an operator to starting a venture capital fund? On the next Invest Stream Live, I will chat with Rob Go, co…

Over the last twenty years, India has seen a tremendous amount of economic activity in the tech arena. The startup and venture capital…

In a post covid-19 environment, startup founders and investors are adapting rapidly to contactless funding. Pitching over Zoom, Google Meet…

A lot is changing in the startup world. Even before getting hit with COVID-19, the definitions of pre-seed, seed, post-seed/pre-series A…

Angel investing in Indian startups has been growing rapidly over the last 5 years. The risk capital these individuals, family offices and…

IP Protection can be something very important for a startup but it can also be a very expensive thing to do and do right. Some tech startups…

VCs and angel investors take risks when they invest money into a startup. Most VCs (but not all) get access to updates through "information…

As the quarantine continues across the United States and many parts of the world, economic prospects remain uncertain and many founders find…

As tech startups have continued to thrive over the last decade, more and more people have been either thinking of investing in startups or…

In this online panel, we're going to discuss the changing meaning of FinTech and how that introduces new opportunities as well as challenges…

Angel investing into startups has risen significantly over the last decade. Part of the increase in angel investing has been because of the…

Once you've reached the point that you're ready for venture, your biggest responsibility is to organize and execute a fundraising process…

What is the difference between venture capitalists and angel investors? In this episode of InvestStream, I discuss the difference between…

Raising money for a startup has become a default option for most founders. Very few even consider bootstrapping anymore. That's neither a…

As founders, a VC, angel and, now, through our advisory business at Founder Craft, we get asked for advice or "feedback" a lot. The…

After landing in India, I realized the bureaucracy was going to make it really difficult to get started. I won't bore you with the details…

March 11th 2019 marked the twelfth anniversary of the day I landed in New Delhi with my family with the intention of starting a company. It…

Are you a co-founder of a startup? Are you thinking of raising money? Have you already raised money and are navigating the relationship with…

There are a multitude of things that help make #startups attractive to #angel #investors & #venturecapitalists. In this video, I shared…

Venture Capital can be complex and in this episode of InvestStream, I explain carried interest or carry as it's more commonly known and why…

There are many good reasons to update your investors regularly on what's happening with your business. Some venture capitalists and angels…

I've helped run two accelerators in India and Silicon Valley. I also serve on the Investment Committee for an accelerator program based in…

A toolkit of collaboration and productivity tools really helps get things done better and faster. Over time, we all develop an appreciation…

In this InvestStream Q&A I answer a viewer's question about what are some things that VCs and angels frown upon. If you've got things that…

In this video, I answer a viewer's question about raising money to take one's idea and turn it into a reality. The question was focusing on…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLq_kxN9Gk Instamojo raises a series B, whiz.ai closes their seed round, OYO Rooms shares guest details…

A few weeks ago, my friend Harjit, and I decided to start recording our conversations about the economy, startups, and tech in the US and…

https://youtu.be/VGfbJswRZ9A In this first episode of InvestStream, Harjit Singh and I discuss the unemployment report and wage growth in…

tl;dr: Read a lot and educate yourself and don't think technical analysis alone will make you rich. I've been a part of various Telegram and…

I was first introduced to Bitcoin by Vaishali when it was around $30 per BTC. Like most people, I brushed it off as another open source…

The number of Bitcoin transactions is rising rapidly. The number of wallets, and likely, the number of people jumping into the Bitcoin and…

It is Indian budget season for the new fiscal year starting in April and just like every year, the pundits are all weighing in with what…

Emerging markets often leapfrog technologies. For much of Independent India, it was very difficult to get a fixed-line phone. They were…

Not many individuals other than some of the partners from Long-Term Capital Management have spoken or written anything public about their…

According to CBInsights, there are seven Indian startups are already valued at more than $1 billion. If you include Micromax, Mu Sigma, and…

Unmodified picture by Ramesh Lalwani under Creative Commons 2.0 All over the world, opportunities are flourishing for mobile development…

The trouble that some Indian startups are facing is being touted as the harbinger of a coming apocalypse. What happened at TinyOwl in Pune…

Photo by Pankaj Jain. All Rights Reserved._This post originally appeared on CitizenTekk._In a country of almost 1.3 billion people, mid-20th…

_This post originally appeared on the 500 Startups blog_Geeks on a Plane is a 10-12 day trip to various parts of the world with 20-25 "Geeks…

Good morning Founders!You might have heard that 500 Startups recently announced a public application process. This is the first time we're…

Over the last year I've been getting a lot of introductions and requests for intros to other investors. I've been surprised by the low…

A lot of very very smart, experienced investors have put similar information out there over the last few years. If you've read it before…

Over the last few months, I've Been hearing lots of pitches from entrepreneurs. Before going on, I want to say, congrats to all of you on…

If you're a startup and would like an opportunity meet, pitch, and hang out with 20-25 serial entrepreneurs, investors and startup ecosystem…

The first round of Startup Weekend events in India came to a close in March. Startup Weekend Delhi was held at the American Center from…

Startup Weekend is a 54 hour event where developers, designers, and entrepreneurs get together and build great new Internet and mobile…

Here's a great video from the Web 2.0 Summit 2010 of John Doerr and Fred Wilson discussing all things vc/angel/startup.Web 2.0 Summit 201…

The Mac Mini has always been a great little workgroup or home server. The low power consumption combined with the form factor have convinced…

This past weekend was one of the best weekends I've ever had. It was a little over 50 hours of intense execution by 150 people dedicated to…

I took this video in February 2008 on a trip from the Taj Mahal to Fatehpur Sikri in Agra, India. Overall, it was a pleasant drive once we…

The Taj Mahal is one of those things that no picture or video can ever do it justice. I've been to the Taj a few times and each time I've…

AT&T has started selling the iPhone 4 to walk-on customers today and lines have formed again. No idea yet on what kind of volumes the stores…

Here are some scenes from the iPhone 4 launch at Apple's Flagship store in New York CIty on Fifth Avenue. There were thousands of people…

Management/Co-Founding Team In India, specifically, New Delhi, it's a completely different ballgame. Though the word "startup" has become en…

**** Find a Recommended Chartered Accountant (CA) and Lawyer As with any country, when starting a business, it's advisable to have a good…

Namaste India - Taj Mahal

TechCrunch and Mashable are reporting that Apple has announced dates and countries for the international launch of the iPad in May and July…

I am looking for someone with intimate knowledge of the PubSubHubbub Protocol and Perl to implement a Perl module that uses a hub to provide…

UPDATE: All Items are sold and no longer available. Thanks for your interest.We are moving so we're selling the following items before we…

URL Shortening services like Bit.ly have been all the rage with the popularity of Twitter and other micro-blogging services. As some of us…

I picked up my factory unlocked iPhone 3G[S] on a trip to Malaysia in September. To my pleasant surprise, Internet tethering, and MMS were…

I am writing (most of) this post on my iPhone 3G[S] using Airtel in New Delhi. The 3G[S] is not available in India yet and there is no…

Sunday, October 25th was another installment of BarCamp Delhi. The turnout was intimate and the location, IMI (International Management…

Looking for people that can design WordPress themes for clients that are located in the US

Bipin Singh from MobiKwik at Startup Saturday Delhi Oct. 2009 Manish Rathi from GlobalLogic was up next to talk about opportunities in the…

CamelI wanted to put an image of the Perl Camel up on this post but it would have required getting permission from O'Reilly to do so. Hence…

Eric Rosenfeld, one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), gave this presentation at MIT back in February. If you have even…

Twitter opened up their OAuth implementation last week. It's a much welcome aspect of working with Twitter's API since we're planning on…

Startup Saturday Delhi is just around the corner. We're holding our next event on the 14th of March at the American Center from 2pm to 6pm…

Happy 2009 everyone!2008 has been a very interesting year by all measures. We saw record drops in global stock market indices - 34% drop for…

This is a little tip on how to get Perl(32bit) working with a 64bit version of MySQL on OS X Leopard.I was working on a small project today…

Here's a great post over at the Financial Ninja's Blog about how Greenspan sees the market rebounding in six to twelve months. I couldn't…

Intro As all of you who've been keeping up-to-date on the happenings in the financial markets know, there's been a good deal of turmoil and…

For anyone interested in volunteering for Startup Saturday Delhi, we're meeting today, November 22nd, 2008 at 3pm at the Teknatus office in…

A quick update on Startup Saturday. Startup Saturday Delhi is going to be hosted by the American Center on the 13th of December 200…

Delhi's first installment of Startup Saturday is scheduled for the 13th of December 2008. The event will be held from 2pm till 6pm at the…

If you would like to present at Startup Saturday, please fill out the form below and we will contact you regarding which session we have an…

This is an absolutely great presentation by Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot, that was originally posted at OnStartups. The presentation…

To help the Indian Startup Ecosystem in some small way, we're going to be involved in setting up the Delhi chapter of Startup Saturday which…

This is a nice presentation on the need for startups to be lean and how agile development can help the process. It would have been nice to…

Below is a nice little video from IBM explaining enterprise mashups succinctly and in a language that non techies could understand. Enjoy.

I came across this presentation by Saul Klein from Index Ventures. What I found most interesting was slide 33 which is a table listing the…

Most people advising startups focus on critical points like the business model, revenue model, and team. Remember, I said "critical" but I'm…

Hiring is one of the most important tasks of any startup. It's critical to the success of a business. Hiring people can be fun and even…

During the weekend, Arun gave a presentation at BarCamp Delhi on Blog Action Day. This year's Blog Action Day (today - October 15th, 200…

Yesterday at BarCamp Delhi Prateek and Pratul decided to hold a hack-a-thon. The idea being, that in 2 to 3 hours, the group of programmers…

BarCamp Delhi has been going on this weekend. I don't think anyone took any video of the presentation but I turned into a bit of a pig and…

BarCamp Delhi is set for October 11th and 12th. IIT Delhi is playing host to this two day event. The location will be the Bharti building on…

Back in July, I put up a post about the chinks in the economic armor of India. Since July, the BSE Sensex has dropped to a low of 12,575 and…

This posting doesn't have anything to do with tech or other geeky stuff. However, being a foodie, I just had to write about my experience at…

OSSCamp is gearing up for another meet on September 27th and 28th in Delhi. The volunteers have just spent a great deal of time and energy…

BarCamp Delhi is scheduled for October 11th and 12th 2008 at IIT Delhi. We're currently working on reaching out to bloggers to help spread…

I've been in New Delhi for almost a year and a half now. Though it's been difficult getting things going, I've been fortunate to meet some…

Much like India missed the industrial revolution, it is clear that India is going to miss the Web 2.0 revolution as well. There are many…

I've recently gotten back into some development and needed to run MySQL on my Leopard computers. The easy way out was downloading and…

A great post by Fred Wilson titled "Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns". Do take a look if you're even remotely interested…

Preparations for BarCamp Delhi are under way. The date for the fifth installment of BarCamp Delhi has been set for the 4th and 5th of…

It's great to finally hear that MSFT is beginning to see the light and getting involved in open source projects like Apache.  I just hope…

Here are some screenshots of apps I have downloaded from the Apple App store. All the apps are running on a 1st generation 8gb iPhone that…

Recently, I've seen three interesting timeline applications. Kronomy which Guy Kawasaki twittered about, LifeBlob which presented at Proto…

This is my first post using the new Wordpress App from the iTunes App Store. Pretty good so far and really easy to use.So far the Indian…

Proto.in is an event very similar to DEMO held in the US. The basic premise is to help startups gain visibility by being able to showcase…

Finding decent quality office space for any company is a challenge. However, the space challenges that a startup faces have a far greater…

For all you economics and business-minded folks out there, I put up a post about my thoughts on the Indian economy and the direction it's…

This is an interesting article from BusinessWeek Online. I swear, I read this article today, after my previous post on the state of the…

It's been quite some time since I put up a post and I apologize for that. Business matters such as recruiting, product development, and…

OSSCamp Delhi Summer Edition kicked off this morning. There was a movie called "Revolution OS" that talked about the beginning of the Free…

It amazes me how absolutely clueless and slow the Indian Government is at implementing any sort of policies that are for the betterment f…

OSSCamp Delhi is just around the corner. On Saturday, 21st January, 2008 Open Source enthusiasts, users, and businesses will be gathering…

Google announced today that they would finally be providing real-time NASDAQ quotes for free on Google Finance.  This is great news, and…

This is a great video I stumbled upon.

The Apple Store India was relaunched some time back but fairly recently, possibly even today, Apple has dropped the prices on almost all…

According to Ars Technica, Vodafone will be launching the iPhone in India beating out Airtel. It's not a surprise considering Vodafone…

As most people expected, Apple rolled out their iMac upgrades. Most of us didn't expect the upgrades this early and some of us, took a…

Well, I've been trying for almost a whole week to get Airtel's Unlimited GPRS service (or Mobile Office as it's called on their site) setup…

Well, as expected, Steve Jobs & Co., released the much anticipated iPhone SDK. You should be able to download the iPhone SDK in a few hours…

I stumbled upon HungryZone which was launched by the same folks who came up with HungryBangalore. I never used HungryBangalore before but…

Apple has released the 1.1.4 firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apparently, 1.1.4 can be jailbroken using Zibri's jailbreak tool…

Just last week, George Hotz or "geohot" as he is known did some amazing work on unlocking the iPhone for OTB 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 iPhones as well…

iPhone Software Unlocking of firmware 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 is possible for upgraded phones and out of the box phones. I will post more details as…

It took some time to get the correct MMS settings for the iPhone but below is a screenshot of the exact settings to be used with Vodafone in…

A splinter dev team released iBrickr for Windows and Apple OS X to jailbreak Apple iPhones with firmware 1.1.13. This jailbreak will only…

Staples Logo I recently arrived in Bangalore for a few day visit and drove past one of the new Staples office superstores. Walking into the…

I am looking for Perl, PHP, Ruby, and Java Programmers looking to join a brand new startup, right at the ground level, here in New Delhi. Of…

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the first OSSCamp in September so I'm excited to see that the folks that brought us OSSCampDelhi are…

I'm back in New Delhi and brought my iPhone along for the ride. I popped in a Hutch (Vodafone) SIM card into the iPhone. Everything appeared…

If you unlocked your phone using iPhoneSimFree's commercial unlock, stop reading. This post because it won't help you.As I mentioned, I had…

I never thought I would be posting something about the pricing of financial instruments but it's something I know a little bit about. I…

I am looking for an experienced developer and designer with experience developing Wordpress themes and Drupal templates. Experience creating…

Since Apple release firmware 1.1.1 for the iPhone, there's been non-stop commentary and whining about the unlocked iPhones being relocked…

It's been a while since I've been able to blog. Not because I haven't had things to write about but because of a lack of time. We're finally…

On June 27th, Google released Desktop for Linux. I had looked for a download link on the main Desktop page but it only offered a download of…

After downloading from iTunes and watching episode 3 of the second season of Sleeper Cell: American Terror, my MacBook completely froze up…

After the release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I decided to try upgrading my installation of Edgy Eft directly using Ubuntu Update Manager. It…

Well, we've been in India for over two months now. New Delhi is quite honestly one of the largest outdoor saunas I've ever come across. Of…

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We've been in New Delhi for almost 4 weeks now. It's been pretty tough adjusting to living out of temporary quarters. The three of us have…

Novell has gotten into flattering Apple by creating parodies of the "Get a Mac" ads. I thought the ads were "cute" but incredibly unoriginal…

It's been a while since I mentioned that we've decided to move to India, at least for the next 5 months. Part of the reason, I haven't…

The New Zealand Herald gives us an incredible example of "Kiwi ingenuity".  A volunteer, Ken Jones, for the station, 45 South (UHF channel…

There's a great article on the MercuryNews today by India's former candidate for UN Secretary General, Mr. Shashi Tharoor.  Mr. Tharoor…

Lenovo has issued another batter recall. This time it is for batteries manufactured by Sanyo. Systems affected are ThinkPad R60, R60e, T6…

Well, I finally got around to installing openSUSE 10.2 on my ThinkPad T60. Unfortunately, I was running very low on disk space and couldn't…

With Google's release of Google Maps for Australia, I am hoping Google Maps India isn't going to be that far away. Being a complete outsider…

Comic Vine has put together a super hero date quiz for Valentine's Day. Apparently, Aurora is a perfect match for me. Other matches would be…

This is fairly well known news but I just came across a link describing the loophole in detail.  It describes how to install Windows Vista…

Lenovo is offering users of ThinkPads and other Lenovo products who purchased their PC between October 26th, 2006 and March 15th, 2007 a…

http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=07_02_2007_001_028&kword=&mode=1 The 2001 Census projects a yearly requirement of…

Ban Proposed On Walking While Talking, Listening To iPod - News A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce…

I had written about M2I (Moving-2-India) here and about how I've been bitten by the bug. Well, we've made our final decision to make the…

I've decided to use the Redoable theme by Dean J. Robinson. I like the look of this theme and I'm really diggin' the colors. Please let me…

~~LinOSX might be in some strange state for the next few hours as I'm going to be upgrading it to Wordpress 2.1 and probably changing theme…

I was reading an interesting post on Gaurav's blog about founders of startups taking significant paycuts when raising funding from VCs. i…

Actually, I've been back from India for a month but there has just been too much going on personally for me to devote time to blogging. It…

Apparently, I'm Spider-ManYour results: You are Spider-Man…

I'm at FOSS.IN at the National Science Symposium Centre in Bangalore. Mr Atul Chitnis will be giving the keynote in just a few minutes…

Here's a great article by Venkatesh Hariharan. He examines India's tradition of knowledge sharing and how the subversion of this knowledge…

I will be heading to Bangalore Thursday to attend the FOSS.IN event this coming weekend. FOSS.IN is the largest FOSS event in the world. I'm…

Greg Galant from VentureVoice has got a great post with some very useful information from top VCs. Take a peek here.

Since I started writing the previous post on my Passage to India, I've been very fortunate to meet some really incredible people in New…

Most "broadband" providers in India offer a fairly low cost DSL product with top speeds of 256K. At 256K, you are limited to 400MB of…

Emblem of India Nusair asked that I start blogging about my experience in India over the next few weeks. I have toyed with the idea of doing…

The first thing I did after I got the T60 was to format the drive, keeping the rescue partition, and resize the first boot partition to give…

Well, as much as I love OS X, the MacBook just wasn't cutting it for me. The MacBook is a great computer for people who want to get things…

Joining or doing a startup is not for everyone.  It doesn't matter whether you are in the US, China, the UK, France, or India.  It takes a…

As scheduled, Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24th, 2006.  I've upgraded a Dell PowerEdge to FC6 but that was after creating a…

Take a look at the Fedora Core 6 Draft Schedule. They've delayed general release by two more days. The original release date was Oct. 10th…

Google quietly released their blog pinging service on the same day they released their Code Search service.  It's a bit late but, hopefully…

Google announced two new services, Google Code Search and Google Blog Search Pinging. In this post, I'll discuss Google Code Search. Google…

How many presentations do you have locked up on a disk somewhere? Most of us never get around to doing much with our presentations other…

I've been having many problems with my Nokia E61, after the firmware upgrade. I've posted some of the issues on this blog as well as…

CodeWeavers released their second beta of CrossOver Mac yesterday. I downloaded beta 2 and have been running it without noticing any changes…

This is a very disturbing piece of news. One of the biggest reasons India's been such a powerhouse in the offshoring and outsourcing of…

Rajiv Poodar has a great post on Wireless Utopia: Open Source and Charity about his frustration in explaining open source business models to…

I did a firmware upgrade based on some of the issues I was having. The firmware upgrade process is well documented here and ran flawlessly…

A little background on how I was led to the Nokia E61. Back in April, I had picked up a Motorola SLVR L7 and have been pretty happy…

Ok, well, Steve got up on stage yesterday and spent an hour woo'ing journalists and bloggers for the second time in about two months. Every…

The SS Tarapore committee on fuller capital account convertibility has recommended loosening of controls on capital flows in three phases…

This is a great talk from former Vice President Al Gore at TED 2006. technorati tags:TED, Google, Al Gore

Google is making available video from the TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) conferences. Among videos available are talks from former…

CodeWeavers yesterday released a public beta of CroosOver Mac. A list of the supported applications is here. I downloaded and installed it…

Amazon just opened a beta of their aStore for Amazon affiliates. The aStore allows Amazon Affiliates to create a custom store listing Amazon…

Here's a great post on Amit Ranjan's personal blog about how large technology and outsourcing companies in India are turning the cream of…

This is a pretty good article about managing your batteries. After the recent Dell and Apple over heating problems and recalls, the issues…

I came across this great post today. Unfortunately, if you don't speak Hindi, you won't get it. However, if you speak Hindi and you're a fan…

It's almost anti-climactic to hear of another job board or social networking site. So what? There's nothing exciting or interesting about…

Tom Galloway at Google talks about Star Trek's influence on modern technology and heavy influence on us geeks. Google is hosting a booth at…

I just came across the Business Plan Archive while reading a post on VentureWoods. The Business Plan Archive is a research organization that…

I've been using the TVMini HD on my MacBook for a few weeks and I love it. Even with the included antenna, I've been able to easily pick up…

Happy Independence Day to all Indians across the globe! At times like this, with all the chaos and problems in the world, we can appreciate…

Legal activist Lawrence Lessig urges LinuxWorld attendees to use Creative Commons as route to "free culture."read more | digg story

I just spent 15 minutes on the phone with Lenovo trying to get information on their ThinkPads preloaded with SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop…

I haven't been following Riya lately but it is sure going to have it's hands full with Google's acquisition of Neven Vision. From Neven…

I've been using Diigo and the Diigo toolbar for a week or so now and so far, I really like it. I first heard about Diigo over at TechCrunch…

Novell and Lenovo are teaming up on a new ThinkPad laptop with Novell's Suse Linux operating system preinstalled. Hopefully, the price doesn…

This is a great post on GigaOM by their newest blogger, Shailaja Neelakantan. She writes about a recent Reuters story. The story talks about…

Google has announced that they will be holding their prestigious International Code Jam in New York City. The 100 best programmers will be…

Google branded ice cream is available only to Google employees at the Mountainview, Ca campus. I hope it's a great way to boost morale…

Couldn't Lenovo have announced this in May? It is so tempting to think if I could dual-boot SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 ( preloaded and…

Google made some minor revisions to their homepage where they added video search directly on the home page and they added a little drop down…

This technology might actually make me a good photographer or, at the very least, half-way decent. Now if the technology could be open…

This is a very interesting article in today's New York Times. It offers a glimpse into how situations are allowing radicalism to spread to…

The Indian Supreme Court has subpoenaed Coke and Pepsi in India to disclose their ingredients after an independent research body found that…

This post on the Yahoo! Search blog contains the full transcript of Stephen Hawking's answer to his own question, "How will the human race…

I've had my MacBook for over two months now. The more I use OS X, I really like it. As I've mentioned in previous posts here, here and here…

I'm a big fan of TechCrunch and I was a fan of TalkCrunch for the few episodes that came out. I'm really happy to see that Mike Arrington's…

I have just installed and made available forums to discuss anything from Web 2.0, to argue whether a ThinkPad or MacBook is better, to…

Google recently release a Picasa uploader for the Mac thanks to Ted Bonkenburg. Ted worked on this during his twenty-percent time at Google…

Take a look at this great clip of David Letterman's tribute to Bill Gates.

Vanity fair has an incredible article along with audio from NORAD ( North American Aerospace Defense Command ) on the events of the morning…

There's been quite a bit of discussion in the Blogosphere about how a 20yr. old former football player allegedly used Craigslist to get…

BlogBridge 3.0 came out a few days ago. As some of you know, I've been using previous versions for quite a while. What I like most about…

This is a great post by Richard McManus about the future of Microsoft according to Ray Ozzie. Ray Ozzie, as most of us though, is pushing…

I am thinking about moving from Blogger to Wordpress. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts. Please let me know what you think. LinOSX…

And people as me why I don't recommend Dell laptops.... Today's "Dell laptop bursts into flames" story brought to you by "Henrik the…

Via Webyantra, I came across NowPos. What NowPos does is provide an ability to create, send, and receive voicemail from a browser. No…

Via TechCrunch today, I came across Rebtel, a Swedish company that allows cheap international dialing from your mobile phone. The way that…

Via Ajaxian, I cam across this Javascript tutorial presentation given at OSCON. For anyone working with Web technology, this is a great…

Greg and the team at Venture Voice have just put up, episode #36 of the Venture Voice podcast. This episode focuses on the Venture Voice…

I was recently contacted by Raseel Bhagat who runs a very cool site called "OpenSourceDeal". The idea behind the site is to sell Linux…

My dear friend over at Tips are for Waiters and Herb Greenberg over at MarketWatch don't think Apple's earnings were all that impressive. As…

For everyone who has ever received an email from someone in Africa asking for X thousands of dollars for whatever reason, you MUST read this…

Via Emergic: July 19, 2006 Archives, the Wall Street Journal reports analysis done by Dennis Forbes around Internet domain names. All of the…

This is a great video of Darth Vader technorati tags:star wars, darth vader, comedy, parody Blogged with Flock edgeio-key: d177e4a3466ccc36b…

Congrats to Greg Galant of RadioTail and VentureVoice on the interview with TrueNYC!!  Click on the link below for the interview.  TrueNYC…

In response to the train bombings in Mumbai, India on 7/11/06, the Government of India has banned blogs hosted on Blogspot, Xenga, Wordpress…

A great friend of mine just started his own blog yesterday. He's a oney manager who's seen a lot of ups and downs. He's sharing his…

Scott Howard posted an absolutely amazing view of the Sydney skyline using his Canon 10D camera. The picture comes in at 720 Megapixels. It…

I've been using Flock as my primary browser on my work Ubuntu 6.06 PC, my MacBook and my Mac Mini PPC. It is an awesome browser on each…

Amit Ranjan has some great information on Picsquare. I haven't used the service yet but the concept really appeals to me. I have a lot of…

Wishing everyone a very Happy, Healthy, and Safe 4th of July technorati tags:holiday, 4th of July Blogged with Flock

Almost 2/3 of the claims that SCO is making against IBM have been thrown out. After repeated requests to show exactly where code was taken…

A company called CodeWeavers is using an open-source technology called Wine to allow some Windows programs to run under Mac OS X. Turning…

The U.S. Sentate panel has sided with the telcos in allowing them to create a two-tier Internet. Get ready to pay more for your Internet…

As described on Creative Commons, David Byrne, of The Talking Heads, and Brian Eno have remastered and released My Life in the Bush of…

The creater of the Web as we know it today, Tim Berners-Lee has chimed in, loud and clear on his blog regarding the importance of Net…

Watch this short video presentation that tries to explain exactly how losing net neutrality will affect all of us. technorati tags…

I wanted to congratulate the Greg Galant, Aaron Quint, and Laurence Koret for the wonderful job at the first Venture Voice Startup Worshop…

I've been using the Apple MacBook on and off for a little over a month now.Disclosure: The MacBook isn't my only computer. At the office, I…

This is absolutely great. I salute this man's ingenuity and determination. Read more aobut how he started a web business in six to eight…

Amit Ranjan, head of the Delhi office of Uzanto, has started Webyantra to profile Indian web products & services. His focus will be on…

Yabba-Dabba-Do! Google has finally launched Google Earth for Linux. I have Google Earth for Linux working on a PC running Ubuntu 6.0…

Flock is awesome!  If you're a blogger, or love sharing pictures, or reading lots of RSS feeds, or storing your "favorites"/bookmarks…

The Wall Street Journal reported today that at a press conference, Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, announced that he will be…

CNET News.com is reporting that a gene could allow adult cells to be reprogrammed into embryonic stem cells to help treat diseases like…

Motorola, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone will be announcing plans to setup an independent foundation focused on…

The Social Web Browser, Flock, launched today with Beta 1 for windows, Mac and Linux. I have just completed the Mac install and am composing…

Sign the online petition at Save the Internet.com to send a message to Congress that you will not allow the Telcos to control the Internet…

Congratulations to Robert Scoble and PodTech.net. PodTech.net has been generating a great deal of content and I will definitely be on the…

The House of Representatives has sided with telcos and cable operators. The Net Neutrality bill ( H.R.5252 ) proposed by Massachusettes…

I just found this Greasmonkey script for Firefox. It's extremely handy for people using Blogger with firefox. Read more here ... A Consuming…

I've been playing with the preinstalled Quicken 2006 for Mac after exporting most of my data from Quicken 2006 Premier Home and Business…

This is agreat article on MacWorld about gaming on the Apple MacBook. Some older games like Jedi Academy work pretty well, even with Rosetta…

I spent about 3 hours late last night reinstalling OS X on my MacBook, then bringing over my files and data from my Mac Mini, and finally…

Well, I got a little daring last night and decided to compile Postgresql and Apache with mod_ssl and mod_perl on the MacBook so that I can…

Everyone's been talking about how hot the MacBook Pro and MacBooks get. I haven't yet seen anyone post anything about how hot the laptop is…

I've now had my MacBook for over a week now and used it pretty much in just about every real world scenario I have used my ThinkPad (other…

It's great that Google is actually looking at the Linux desktop community and providing Picasa for the Linux environment but this is a bit…

Google is hosting Pearl Jam's latet song, Life Wasted which has been released under a Creative Commons license. Might be time to buy the…

Unfortunately, Doc Searl's IT Garage blog had some issues with posting comments so below is my comment on Doc's Transcending boots post Doc…

As sturdy as Thinkpads are, there are a limited number of drops that even an IBM Thinkpad T40 can sustain (I'm sure the new Lenovo Thinkpads…

Saul, great post and I tend to agree with you. We still need desktop based services because we're not always connected and having…

Disney just decided to make "Desperate Housewives", "Lost", "Commander in Chief", and the entire season of "Alias" available for free online…

Pathetic, Big Business controlling government, stiffling competition, stiffling innovation, some would even say, penalizing competition…

I haven't logged in but this is gotta be an April Fools joke. Google Romance??? Yikes! Read More at ... Cupid's Algorithms technorati tags…

It's about time that big technology companies began looking into selling computers designed for developing nations. It's good business for…

A very interesting interview with David Hammerstein Mintz about the European Green Party and his views on Microsoft, Apple, Software Patents…

Is this MySpace and FaceBook Envy or is it affirmation that Orkut isn't cutting it?Read more at googleblog.blogspot.com...technorati tags…

What's going on at PodTech lately? When I got my first iPod it was mainly for music. As Apple integrated in Podcasting, I began using my…

rPath has a great idea to allow people to cook up their own Linux distributions using only a browser! However, it is way too painful to work…

Very interesting map of the ownership of the Internet by carriers in the US. Mr. Worthen also touches on Net Neutrality, which I have…

I got FC5 installed on my Thinkpad T40 (new install) and on my Dell desktop (upgrade). I haven't had any problems with the installation. I…

No Linux or OS X versions??? I guess I'll be sticking with Skype for now. Read more at beta.messenger.yahoo.co... technorati tags: yahoo…

It's about time. Google finally launched a Finance site to comete with Microsoft, Yahoo, and all the other financial sites out there. The…

Fedora Core 5 is released. Read more at torrent.fedoraproject.o... technorati tags: bittorrent, fedoracore, fedora, linux

Congratulations to John Furrier and the PodTech.net Team! We're all looking forward to more, high quality podcasts from you guys. Read more…

Why didn't George Lucas have these guys in the new Triloogy? It would have had a shot of being a half way decent Trilogy! Thanks Jeremy…

Here we go again - more desperation by the telecoms. only difference is that now Cisco is jumping into the fray knowing that if the telecoms…

Just yesterday, I completed the first pre_alpha release of the core backend and frontend of an open source social networking application…

Steve Jobs announced a revamped Mac Mini running on Intel's single-core chip. Updates: The new single-core will be upto 3x faster a dual…

Not bad for a beta of a web publishing application. There are a decent amount of templates and there's 100MB of space to publish your pages…

Microsoft recently unveiled the highly anticipated MS Office Live Beta. There are 3 packages available. Microsoft Office Live Basics - Free…

I've tried to be patient with Ubuntu and there are things I really like about it such as it's ability to pick up hardware like an Intel…

No surprise here. The question is if Google will keep MeasureMap into independent of Google Analytics, integrate it into the free Google…

I just finished installing the Breezy Badger and started configuring it. I'm sharing it through a dual boot on my IBM ThinkPad T40. So far…

Google is now offering hosted email as a beta. Feel free to read through all the other blogs about competition, etc but the question I ask…

My 3G iPod still works but the LCD died after about 18 months of use. 18 months is an inordinately small amount of time for a device that I…

This is a great little article about *nix basics. Very useful to newbies and for reference. Read more at www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt...

It is truly amazing how Verizon and all the other telecom companies can't get their act straightened out. The still can't accept the telecom…

Don't Believe the hype! The much speculated 1GB Apple iPod Nano is out and prices on the iPod Shuffle have dropped to $69 for the 512 MB and…

FON has gotten a huge amount of blogosphere and media coverage over the last day or two. It appears to be a very interesting idea. I'm not…

Ever since I started using a Mac a year ago, I was always amazed at how everything just worked. There wasn't any tinkering required with…

The first time i tried to get broadband at the end of 1999, I kept getting told by Verizon that "It's coming soon". After about eight or…

Does anyone know why Google has NOT come up with Google Pack for Linux or OS X? Now, I understand that they're gearing their software…

My Jabra BT250v died last week. I'm not sure how it died but I was able to hear people but they weren't able to hear me no matter how loud I…

According to CNET and Microsoft's site, MS is embracing Python, an open source programming language used by Unix, Linux and OS X folks for…

I've been playing around with Windows Live Local and Google Local. I did a few searches like "children party places in north platte, ne…

Interesting article on Emacs but most people using Emacs today are using it on Intel Hardware ( and PowerPC base Macs ). I think the writer…

As indicated on Moosy, Firefox 1.5 for SUSE is available as an RPM. More ...

I just want to thank the Anonymous comment, presumably from Moosy Blog for correcting me. The OSS version of SuSE is called SUSE Linux OSS…

Mozilla Corporation - Home of the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email clientFirefox 1.5 has been running pretty well on my work Fedora…

I've been using OpenSuse for a few months now and though I like OpenSuse enough to be still using it on my Thinkpad T40, I am a little…

Del.icio.us, the shared bookmarking and tagging business was acquired by Yahoo as reported by Reuters on CNET. Yahoo is sure on a Web 2.…

Wow. I never thought I would say this but for a Beta, I am amazed at 1) Windows Live Local beating Google to the punch and putting this Web…

I just finished reading the free Tux Magazine Issue Number 8 ( 9 is also available ). It's a very good quality linux magazine from the same…

I've been a huge fan of Microsoft Natural Keyboards since the original came out in the mid 1990's. I had an ugly though comfortable beige…

I just picked up a Sony PlayStation Portable with Star Wars Battlefront II. I can't say too much about the game yet because I haven't had a…

It's official Mozilla.com has announced Firefox 1.5 is now available. Go Get it NOW! Linux Mac OS X Windows technorati tags: mozilla…

A very Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Google appears to have drastically underestimated the demand for the service and is now playing catch up in providing the necessary…

I signed up for Google Analytics on Tuesday to monitor this blog and see traffic patterns, if any, and really just to test out what Google…

I downloaded and installed OpenSuse 10 on my laptop along with Fedora Core 4. The installation screens were prettier than Fedora but that's…

This is a very interesting story. Maybe it is time to bet big on the G-M duopoly (Google-Microsoft, not General Motors) instead of the G-Y-M…

I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 RC2 for Linux and built the RPM for Fedora Core 4 using Thomas Chung's spec file from http://www.fedoranews…

What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly -- Defining just what Web 2.0 means (the term was first coined at a conference brainstorming session between…

CNET recently posted an article about Apple's decision to, in some cases, provide hardware on their fabulous Mac Mini that performs beyond…

Having been using five or six different email accounts ( 1 with my ISP, 1 for a personal domain I have, 1 for work, 1 for junk mail, and…

This article doesn't have anything to do with Linux or OS X but it was a very interesting article about the Rediff.com in India. Click on…

Apple's recent announcement to move to Intel chips isn't very surprising. However, it will create significant challenges for Linux companies…

Fedora Core 4 was released in the middle of June with some interesting enhancements/additions. Click here to download it.So far, FC4 is the…

I've been using the Mac for roughly a month now and I love the machine but I just finished ordering a 1GB memory upgrae for the Mini. OSX…

Well, I've been playing with the Mini for just over a week now. Everything's been pretty smooth other than needing lots of memory and being…

I've been watching Macs for about 3 years now with a bit of envy. Apple, a few weeks ago, released the Mac Mini - "The most affordable Mac…

I finally modified the script slightly to keep a list of the "bad" IP addresses in a text file. Please feel free to modify the script any…

Ok, I admit it, this script is horrible, even for a quick hack. Duplicate address constantly get processed every hour since they're already…

I wrote a very simple shell script to use iptables to block ip addresses that are use various rootkits to try and hack into your box over…

I've been using Solaris and Linux for more than eight years now and couldn't bare the thought of having to use Windows. I always thought it…

Well, it looks like there's either something wacky with my hardware. After 11 tries, I could not get the Fedora Core 3 installation done on…

I've decided to take the plunge and try rolling my own Linux distribution based on Redhat's Fedora Core 3. I'm including many thirdparty…

Wow...I have never tried 7 straight installations of any OS before. I wound up needing to re-install Fedora Core 3 on my Dell Dimension at…

Another FC2 -> FC3 upgrade I just upgraded my FC2 desktop to FC3 and again, absolutely smooth!! This time, I didn't even have the problem of…

After a bit more playing with my upgraded laptop, I found that not all my FC2 packages were upgraded. I tried opening OpenOffice Writer and…

Fedora Core 3 was released on Monday. By early Wednesday morning I had the DVD ISO downloaded and burnt onto a shiny new DVD+R. I popped the…

Apache 2, Tomcat 4, and mod_jk2 on Fedora Core 2 I am amazed at how cryptic the documentation for Tomcat, mod_jk2 and Apache is. Getting…

It's been a while since I promised to post instructions on getting the Centrino working on my Thinkpad T40 with Fedora Core 2 and…

This turned out to be pretty easy. I installed the RPMs from ATRpms for the hostap and ipw2100 kernel modules. Initially, I couldn't load…

I've been away on vacation, buried with work and spending time with the lovely wife and relatives so it's been a little tough to spend time…

I just installed gnome-blogger on my FC2 Dell desktop. Looks very simple and powerful with decent editing features. What would be nice is to…

This is a strange one. My 128MB Lexar Thumbdrive gets detected and mounted automatically on my Thinkpad T40 but on my Dell desktop, FC2 isn…

I just finished my download of Fedora Core 2 after 4 days of trying and funny enough, using Bittorrent from Europe was faster than using the…

There's a great article on linuxdevcenter on how to create your own bootable Linux CD based on Knoppix. Using and Customizing Knoppix by…

Working out of a different office today, I was extremely apprehensive about being forced to use Windows and Outlook. I decided to download…

Click on the title above to read a case study about how Redhat is being deployed at the Central Bank of India, a bank with over 300…

I was doing some poking around the web to look for Linux projects in India and came up with the links below. Some interesting stuff. A perl…

Looks like Novell GPL'ed the Ximian Connector for hooking Evolution up to Exchange 2000/2003. Panu Matilainen was nice enough to start…

I'm far from being a tech guru. I'm just a tech enthusiast who really likes the freedom, flexibility, and tinkering nature of the *NIX world…