Geekovation

An interesting talk by Clay Shirky with insights on the impact of social media.

Sphinx search (www.sphinxsearch.com) is one of the fastest developing search engine. Sphinx is used by Craigslist amongst several popular sites. If you have not already tried Sphinx and you are interested in a building your own search engine, give it a shot. Some of the salient features of sphinx is around easier integration with [...]

Today Nokia released its much publicized Ovi Store and reviews have not been too kind. Nokia expects 3.5 million developers in Forum Nokia ‘creating hundreds of thousands of apps‘. Nokia had originally released Ovi in October 2007 allowing customers to buy music and games. By that time, AAPL had already crossed $600M revenue in it’s [...]

I was reading an article titled ‘Engineering wants to rewrite‘ on the SVPG blog and couldn’t help keying in my own thoughts around the dynamics engineering has to work its way through in a technology startup. To quote the article:
When a company does get into this situation, everyone typically blames engineering. But in my experience, [...]