Facebook’s current worth: $10 billion US
Cost of registering & using Facebook: ZERO
Finding your school friends (on facebook), after 15 years: PRICELESS!
If I ever meet Mark Zuckerberg, the first thing I’d tell him:
“What an idea SIR Ji“
Ever since Microsoft’s search engine Bing.com made its debut, it seems to be getting a lot of press and apparently sizable traction.
There are some who believe that Bing will be a real challenger to Google’s dominance in the SEARCH ENGINE world. There is speculation that Google is beginning to loose market share to Bing (link)
My view on the Bing Vs Google battle:
The only market share Bing is capable of eating into is Yahoo’s
Google offers a better user-experience, has great “mindshare” and a gigantic marketshare. Bing might do *some* things better but thats not enough to make users switch.
You dont displace a market leader (like Google) by being incrementally better… You have a chance if you are exponentially better.
All this percentage talk, is essentially Microsoft’s hype machine at work. Bing’s traffic will spiral downwards once the marketing budget is exhausted!
Also, Google has been around for a long time. They are not a company that rests on past laurels… they are only going to get better.
As for Microsoft’s strategy: first there was MSN search, then LIVE and now Bing. I guess their biggest strength is not search technology related, it is in fact “Re-Branding”
Bucking the global slowdown, Startups in India are still hiring.
Here are some resources to find startup jobs in India:
http://www.pluggd.in/coffee/forum/indian-startup-jobs/
http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/venturejobs/
http://www.startupdunia.com/jobs
http://jobs.joelonsoftware.co.in
I’d like to start (or is that restart!) blogging with a thank you note to the team behind Django - The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
The Django Framework is everything that it claims to be and more… we @ DoubleSpring have used it extensively for internal projects and I’d recommend it to developers who are looking to build complex & scalable web applications.
Over the last few years we’ve dabbled with differently technologies including PHP, .NET, J2EE (Spring/Hibernate), Perl, etc. but I must admit that there is something very likable about Python and something very convenient about Django.
For those exploring other options, Ruby On Rails is a great framework as well.
