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by movingahead 15y ago
Just take a typekit account. For $50 a year, you get unlimited fonts on unlimited number of websites. There is an upper limit on traffic, but if you hit that number, you won't mind paying more.
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by movingahead 15y ago
In India, since the new Mobile Number Portability rules have been introduced, making it very simple to switch your carrier, more than 10 million people are switching their operators every month. The system must be made easy enough so that t
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by movingahead 15y ago
Even as a passionate Ubuntu follower, I don't see the possibility of Ubuntu going main-stream. The OS may match or even exceed the capabilities of Windows, but it is more important to have a diverse number of generally used apps. I feel Chr
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Why did this not work - Bezos and O'Reilly Patent Reform (2000) (oreilly.com)
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by movingahead 15y ago
I don't think there is any point in asking users to connect their FB/Twitter accounts at the pre-launch stage because it will make users uncomfortable in sharing their social media details with a site that they have not tested and know litt
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by movingahead 15y ago
The point everyone keeps missing about facebook is that they were trying something new in the social space. They did commit mistakes and have accepted it. They also allow you now to download all your data. I believe that if facebook merges
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by movingahead 15y ago
Installing os x on a non-Apple machine is a hack. Installing linux on simple hardware was never supposed to be a hack. As the author says, the drivers of even linux friendly companies like intel and nvidia don't support their latest develop
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by movingahead 15y ago
I agree with you. Price will be the biggest advantage for every other ecosystem. Android's success has largely been possible because of the huge price-range in which you can buy Android devices. Today, you can get an Android phone (unlocked
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by movingahead 15y ago
Agree, partnerships can help them compete. But, the problem is that whoever has a good ecosystem is trying to go for the bigger pie. Amazon is building its own Android ecosystem - has an app store and will most probably come up with a table
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by movingahead 15y ago
Marco's post makes it clear why traditional review sites don't work for the normal consumer. On a different level, this post also raises a big question - how can someone compete with a well established app platform like Apple's ? Android ma
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The Android tablet problem - Marco Arment(marco.org)
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by movingahead 15y ago
It is similar to Google pushing its own services like Maps and Music results in Search. Also, Amazon may think that users looking for physical goods will stop and get enticed to its now impressive collection of digital stores.
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by movingahead 15y ago
As someone who tags a lot of friends on facebook, I love this feature. It was so painful to tag even 5 people over even a 20 photos album. I don't think this is any kind of privacy violation. Moreover, desktop apps like picasa have had bri
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by movingahead 15y ago
I think Microsoft will leverage its relationship with facebook and use skype as their alternative to apple's facetime. Though I am worried about the future of Skype's linux client.
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by movingahead 15y ago
The one thing that the article overlooks is that engineering is still the safest way to get a healthy living standard in India. The salary paid by IT firms is exponentially higher than what middle class India has ever seen. Our culture tabo
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by movingahead 15y ago
Traditional classroom education is too boring. This is not limited to school, but also in colleges unless you have that rare teacher who can make the class interesting. Great to see MIT researchers taking the problem head-on.
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by movingahead 16y ago
As J K Rowling puts it brilliantly, there is an expiry date on how long you can keep blaming your parents for everything that goes wrong. http://www.ted.com/talks/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_f... We lack a culture where hacking and
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by movingahead 16y ago
India does have many private colleges and universities, but their quality varies a lot. CS courses in most of them are dictated by the needs of the outsourcing biggies like Infosys and TCS, which doesn't gel with traditional CS hacking. How
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by movingahead 16y ago
Encouraging internal competition within a company has led to many disasters - Microsoft tablet vs office http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?src=t... and recently at Nokia http://mobilesoftware.tumblr.com/post/35656118
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by movingahead 16y ago
Interesting that you say that because Google did buy Dodgeball, but then didn't support it. Dodgeball founder Dennis Crowley left Google with a lot of bad feelings and went on to start Foursquare. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/4609
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by movingahead 16y ago
I have been sticking with Delicious in the hope that Yahoo will sell it off to a good team, who can revive Delicious. Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Google Bookmarks is a joke - it doesn't even sync with Chrome.
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by movingahead 16y ago
Because there are a few rogue players, should everyone be denied from using a subscription model. How painful will it be to actually subscribe to something and go through this slow painful process every month ?
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by movingahead 16y ago
Being financially conservative is different from making adoption of new technology difficult. Today, Paypal doesn't work in India, the payment gateways are in a horrible mess and the one-time-password rule has given mobile commerce a huge
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by movingahead 16y ago
That depends on how you define a smartphone. Chinese manufacturers as well as Samsung have pushed price of Android phones down to around $150 - unlocked. Samsung's Android phones are not crap. At that price point, it steals the show because
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by movingahead 16y ago
Couldn't help thinking of the similarity between what you advocate and the process switching model in OS course. Hope to remember your advice - every switch has an overhead - clearly.
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I thought this was about a possible bubble in the VC and Angel market. On a different note, a lot has to be done to ensure fast, no/high cap wired/wireless broadband to the world. All our dreams are based on a platform which operators are m