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Have not blogged for a while, so thought will get right back to it. At a recent catch up with friends over beer, we started discussing if facebook should start charging users to monetize instead of trying an ad based model. Well the opinions were 50-50 with some people feeling that facebook will loose its midas touch if it starts to charge.

I am on the side of charging users or at least a free-mium model where users are charged for advanced services. I have always believed if a service is worth… Continue

Guys, I volunteer for SIPA and this promises to be a great event. I have a few discount code, send me a message if you need one.

Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA) announces its annual event SIPACON 2008. The theme for this year’s event is one of the most talked about topics in the industry “Social Media & the Enterprise”

We have all seen the explosive growth of social networking and experienced ways in which it touches and changes our everyday lives. It has indeed chan… Continue

One of the members of this network, Praneeth, sent me a link to the story of a hot young start up rocking the music scene in India. The story is at the this

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I got an email yesterday from NEN about their second annual Entrepreneurship Week, Feb 2-9, 2008. It seems to be one hell of an event with about 2,000 events and activities across 30 cities.

Check out the event web site at

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