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Developing for the other worldNovember 18

Most Webservices that are catered to the “always on” mentality. While that is certainly true in the USA and other european countries it is certainly not true even for the best in places like India. Electricity is still not “always on”. It can be “mostly on” at best! I live in an apartment where if electricity goes I’m covered for 16 hours so my electricity is “almost always on”, but that is not true for the rest of the country!

Internet in this part of the world is again “mostly on”, server outages happen often and is unavailable for hours together! Bandwidth is metered if ur on a 1mbps connection, slower connections however have the unlimited option. Internet is still expensive in this country I pay about 3000Rs / 75$ per month for 10gb. So CNN pls think again before u automatically start playing a video on money.com! You just lost me! Broadband still accounts for 10% of the internet population in India. Think about the rest of country!

Mobile is “always on” in India my phone is connected for unlimited bandwidth for 400Rs / 8$ a month! The speed isn’t too great but gets the job done. A mobile phone is so vital in this country that coffee shops are providing cell phone charging ports while u sip ur latte!

Given the importance of mobile and “mostly on” Internet access the “cloud” becomes vital in this part of the world! I am willing to bet that most broadband users in this country carry high end mobile

Has Conversation on the web lost its intimacy?September 13

Image via b_d_solis

Now that I have your attention.. Here it goes ..

Bangalore had its 7th version of the ‘Barcamp’ unconference! Yes you heard it right, thats 7 in 2.5 yrs! I attended the first one in April of 2006. Kudos to the group for keeping it going.. But the coverage of this event has got me thinking about the conversation on the web .. I am only using this event as a example to illustrate my thinking..

Back in 2006.. The event coverage for Barcamp was great.. Tools like ustream.tv, seesmic, backtype and twitter were not in place. Blog was still in fashion, flickr and tags were being used liberally and one would even find youtube videos of the event.. Tracking the conversation would be as simple as tracking google’s blog search and flickr. Youtube videos were linked to blog posts. The conversation felt intimate and networking was great!

The conversation on the web has obviously evolved and is a lot more distributed today. A variety of mediums are being exploited but various tools that address the need. But it feels like the very purpos

My favorite tweetsSeptember 13

scobleslinkblog NowPublic Unleashes Scan: Crowd Powered Media - http://wgt.qlnk.net

Jason Calacanis JasonCalacanis some nice DEMOPIT feedback: http://tinyurl.com/5lz46b

om om does anyone else feel that for news thatmatters to user turn tolocal news. ike delhi bomb blasts how many times old tv is just late-lame about 3 hours ago from Twinkle
Robert Scoble Scobleizer I am getting a demo of http://www.hubdub.com cool predictive engine for news.

Chr15 P1r1LL0 chrispirillo Best way to download photos (en masse) from Flickr: http://ping.fm/HYRiO (OS X, free)

Steve Rubel steverubel Jeff Sandquist has long had a great 7-day rule for new apps. If it doesn’t stick, it’s gone. I am doing the same. http://tinyurl.com/5j63l2

Anybody know of a good way to share twitter favorites other than retweeting or cut/paste?

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Yipee! My Old blog has been migrated!September 6

I finally migrated off of my JRoller blog to wordpress. Thanks to the wonderful support of Rick Ross @ DZone. I have known him since the Freeroller days and he was kind enough to hook me up. He had to tinker with a setting for a couple of minutes and I ran the template that exported all my entries from 2002. Yep thats right! Thats when I started blogging! Conversation used to be lot more intense and exciting .. Didnt have to reblog a whole lot to get on top of Techmeme!

Anyways heres a shout out to Rick! Thanks dude!

P.S: I am selling my old domain blogforthought.com, let me know if you are interested!

Revamping my digital identitySeptember 5

Finally got around to making the transition from blogforthought.com to arjunram.com! Imported a good chunk of my older blog from jroller in here! They still need a proper export functionality!

New posts will be sent to my Twitter page!

Still need to integrate my google reader likes! More to come soon!