Ritesh on Aug 7th, 2009Whats common between Free online ads and Open source
Disclaimer: I am not an Open Source hater. In fact, I am quite the opposite. I believe that for a innovative software marketplace to exist, there must be an equal mix of open and closed source softwares. This also borders on a project that I did on multiagent systems.
There are claims that Open Source [...]
Ritesh on May 15th, 2008Flock is a great browsing experience
I am really amazed at what flock has done to the browser experience. I have always been a flock fan and the recent additions to the browser are just great. Almost all the userful and popular online applications are integrated into the browser. If you take my case ( take a look at my flock [...]
Ritesh on Jul 20th, 2007Online Community Organizer – a job for the future
Everybody’s writing about the new social organizer phenomenon, So I thought I could add my two cents to it.
What if you want to hire someone to build an online community? Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in an industry feel like they need to be part of it? [...]
Ritesh on Jul 19th, 2007Community as a Service – implications of the facebook platform
The recent opening up of the facebook platform has created a rage in the industry. Facebook themselves , after opening up to public signups, have had an increase of 80% in their monthly uniques. The facebook platform is just another icing in the cake.
There are innumerable number of apps that are being created on the [...]
Ritesh on Jul 5th, 2007Getting Familiar with Google Gears
Google Gears was released recently as an effort to promote offline web. I have written time and again about this genre of web applications and have spoken about the advancements like the Dojo Offline Toolkit, AIR and the new Silverlight that try to blemish the line between web and desktop applications.
Google Gears is designed [...]
