Archive for May, 2006

Web2.0: Symantec CTO validates spending and surge

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

In a keynote at Symantec’s annual user conference, Ajei Gopal presented some key data points to validate the impending surge in tech spending. According to him, the IT sector as a whole is on the brink of a major innovation and spending cycle. He also presented a chart showing the IT-investments-to-GDP ratio growth overlaid with the advancements in computing and echoed the unabated progress in hardware; commoditization of memory, disk, CPU devices have reduced the prices by factor of thousands with net increase in ROI.
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If this is an indicator of change, we are also seeing spurt in funding activity which is a strong supplementing signal.
This is also changing the rules of entrepreneurship and the startup culture, with incubators like “Y Combinator” seeding companies for as little as $6,000 while trying to replicate the success of Flickr and del.icio.us (both got acquired by Yahoo); wherein Google is saying that the whole valley is the research lab and then acquiring companies for a little change.
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If I’m flying, I’m in Second Life: Joining Second Life as a Hindi Instructor

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Joined the Second Life crowd over the weekend as “TuFan Till”. Thinking of something unique to do there — I thought it would be a good idea to teach Hindi to the Second Life community. I already have a request :D) from a citizen! Let’s see if I could spend 30 minutes over the weekend teaching the “pleasantries” atleast; between tonnes of other stuff I have going on.
Second Life has a great potential as a platform or an OS (as Scobel calls it). Overall, I see lot of innovative stuff which could be done there (Lot of light bulbs glowing in my head, right now!).
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Browser Marketshare

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Fred Wilson is reporting about the growing market share of FireFox.
Good to know that best of the breed browsers are controlling around 95% of the market. These are the browsers which support XMLHttpRequest, L1 DOM, CSS2 (in parts) and XHTML. The developer community should blindly remove any code which shows courtesy to the remaining 5% browsers and let the nasty javascript errors be visible so that the users actually upgrade.
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Sigh of relief! Come IE 7, it wil probably take away the remaining 1.7% marketshare which Netscape still commands.