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Announcing Sunoh.fmMay 8 2008

 

 

For the past few months we have been hard at work at building Sunoh.fm, a social music network for India. Today we are announcing the launch of beta signup phase. Click here to be part of the Beta.

For those wondering what really “Sunoh” means - “Sunoh” means “Listen” in Hindi.

Pointlessness of Live MeshMay 4 2008

Best article I found on pointlessness of Microsoft Live Mesh(via). Nothing much I can add except for the fact that Live Mesh will get it’s early death in the very near future. This would be the same for SugarSync from Sharpcast, a startup that has completely burnt the $13+ million in VC money on a useless product.

RIM - End of Days?April 28 2008

Yesterday, New York Times did a good job at hinting at future direction RIM is planning to take. Although nothing concrete, but still ideas around how RIM plans to compete with iPhone and Android. Coming to point - going forward, whatever RIM does, will it be enough for it to survive? I don’t really think so. Why?

1. High Price Point - For long long time, RIM played an anti-consumer role with it’s $45/user/month data plan. Since there was no other option, consumers grudgingly paid for it. But that came at a cost. Even after being in the market for a long time, along with a sturdy device range, RIM failed to get mass market adoption. In the current scenario, I highly doubt RIM will get a second chance.
2. Delayed WiFi & 3G - Had it not been for iPhone, RIM would have kept selling the toothless 2G handsets forever possible. In my opinion, RIM could technically have launched a WiFi enabled more then 2 years back, but choose not to do so for whatever reasons. Since the launch of 3G on RIM and iPhone is expected to happen almost simultaneously, it will be anyones guess which phone is going to sell more.
3. Developer Community - Support from external developers for RIM handhelds is next to none. One reason can be attributed to the fact that RIM’s footprint in Europe is really small, which is the region with most mobile hackers. Yeah, RIM

Me @ Web20 ExpoApril 18 2008

Just about time for Web20 Expo. I will be there for all 3 days at one of the BungeeLabs.com booths. Will be talking mostly about upcoming launch of my startup(name not disclosed right now ), and ofcourse experiences in building a major app in the Cloud, aka BungeeConnect.com. Feel free to stop by. I will update my location on the conference floor once I get a chance to dig into that.

Wanna Digg In BungeeConnect?March 19 2008

Couple of weeks back i came across Scott Gu’s blog post on the upcoming release of Microsoft Silverlight 2 and a first look at the new features. While the blog post gives good initial insights into what new Silverlight has to offer, what caught my attention was the Digg app they have created to demo the new feature set and also the statement - “The entire application is implemented in about 35 lines of C# code and 75 lines of XAML page/user-control markup.”

Sounds cool? Most would say YES if they have always worked on Microsoft technologies. But anyone who has spent a bit of time in BungeeConnect’s On-Demand Application Development Platform would say - Are you serious? Cause it takes only 15 lines of code to make a similar Digg application that also without any need for XAML. And all this just for starters. Before i get into more details, you can take quick look of the Digg app i developed in BungeeConnect. While i am not sure how much time it took for Silverlight folks to create the app, it took me around 45 mins to complete this start-to-end including the UI, fonts, etc. So what’s so cool about BungeeConnect besides the less code?

No Developer Software Downloads
Few weeks back i was downloading the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Total download