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Posted on | January 6, 2009 | No Comments
It cost only $1999!
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EMC is buying Sourcelabs
Posted on | January 5, 2009 | No Comments
Here is an unsuspecting new years news:
EMC is buying Sourcelabs for an undisclosed amount, here are some sources:
- EMC buys SourceLabs, operator of open source site Swik.net
- EMC reportedly buys SourceLabs, but for what purpose?
At conception, SourceLabs had been touted as Spikesource’s direct competitor. Both companies were building opensource stacks. However, as time goes by, both companies evolved differently.
UPDATE:
ZDnet reported that SourceLabs will be part of EMC’s personal backup division, Decho. Makes sense…
State of the Onion, Dec 2008
Posted on | December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments
It’s been a while since I was blogging last…
It’s been quite a roller coaster month, and I guess it is now time to finally break the news: I am leaving Spikesource in January. I will be joining my mentor and my lunch buddy, Murugan Pal, at cK12.
The decision was genuinely one of the hardest ones I have had ever made. Spike has been good to me and good for me in the past 3.5 years. The experience of being in a KPCB start-up (if you open your eyes, ears, and minds) is probably comparable to half an MBA (Okay… maybe a quarter). And I made it no secret that I am entrepreneurial at heart, therefore I really value my spike experience.
However, at times, you really know when it’s time to make a drastic move. Just like when I decided to end my single lifestyle (boy… it sounded so bad). Or to have a child (I have yet to make the decission). I know that moving out of Spike to cK12 is going to be good for me. I will write about cK12 and what it does later, it deserves a post of its own.
More on the onion:
I’ve been reading a lot lately. A few things worth mentioning, like the Forbes 400 list, and Google Is My B*&%$! (hint: rhymes with “Witch”).
I plan to start twittering in 2009.
Some where at the back of my head, a new idea is growing: “sometime, I should probably go to a business school…”
I don’t know how many people really read this post, but drop me a note if you do. I’d appreciate it.
Pownce to be Shut Down by Six Apart
Posted on | December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment
Pownce, the media-rich Twitter competitor that was co-founded by Digg
’s Kevin Rose along with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka, has been acquired by Six Apart and will be closing its doors on December 15.
I am a little bit surprised to hear this, considering the amount of hype that Pownce and it’s founder Leah Culver have been getting. Pownce was once labelled by the New York Times as the hottest startup in Silicon Valley, while Leah was recently named by Inc. Magazine as one of the “Cool, Determined & Under 30” entrepreneurs.
However, Just as Jason Kincaid wrote at TechCrunch, Pownce couldn’t compete with it’s main competitor: titter. Leah herself has a twitter account.
read more | digg story
Tags: entrepreneur > failed startup > leah culver > pownce > startup > twitter
Fedora Vs. Ubuntu
Posted on | November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments
Uzie jokingly said that my wife is smarter than me because she uses Hardy Heron, while I use Fedora 9.
He got it right about my wife being smarter, but as a long time Redhat & Fedora user, I got to at least say something about my OS of choice :).
I choose Fedora because it fits me like an old pair of jeans. Except that the tears and holes are ever tightening. I know where most of the scripts are, and how they are organized. If it doesn’t run well, I have good ideas on how to get it working, fast.
When I installed FC9 on our Optiplex 755, it crashed at the last leg of installation. But it didn’t take me much time to rescue it, and get it working rock solid. It’s now been up for 70 days without rebooting, and it is still feel snappy. That says a lot since I run KDE 4 with 12 virtual desktops, lots of processes, and a few servers.
Ubuntu is good to, no doubt about it. It’s just that it doesn’t provide me with compelling reason to switch yet. Going with the denim analogy again, it’s just a different style of jeans, but it wouldn’t clothe me any better. For my wife, since she didn’t have much linux experience before, the new style doesn’t hurt.
Another thing was the KDE factor. Hardy and Fedora 9 were released at about the same time. However Hardy has KDE 3 while Fedora 9 has KDE 4. I was obliged to choose Fedora 9 last may.
Lastly, talking about being cool by association, Linus himself uses Fedora! Here is for a proof.
People get very religious, though, about distribution choice. Some Eduardo Natali told Linus to switch to Ubuntu to get his Fedora video bug fixed.
Fedora 10 is coming tomorrow!! Make sure you get it:
‘The’ quote from Vinod Khosla
Posted on | November 19, 2008 | No Comments
“An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.” — Vinod Khosla
Hedonic Treadmill
Posted on | November 19, 2008 | No Comments
This is from Investopedia.com.
What Does it Mean?
The tendency to remain at a relatively stable level of happiness despite a change in fortune or the achievement of major goals. According to the hedonic treadmill, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. The hedonic treadmill theory compares the pursuit of happiness to the actions of a person on a treadmill, who has to keep working just to stay in the same place.
My wife and I earned much much more compared to when I was single living in a basement in, Goshen, Indiana. I didn’t have much then, but my life was much simpler.
Now I am striving to earn much more. Hopefully for real gain, instead of for stagnant progress.
Don’t contradict yourself
Posted on | November 19, 2008 | No Comments
Two days ago, I listened to John C. Maxwell’s latest Audio Book, titled “Leadership Gold.” In the preface, he mentioned that he had been wanting to write such a book for a while, but he strove to wait until he turned 60 before writing it. There is a wisdom to hold yourself off, especially when you are about to make a statement. Chances are, the longer you wait, the less you contradict yourself.
If you do public speaking for living, watch what you say. Self contradiction can be very expensive. Ask Hillary Clinton, or John Kerry if you need some proofs.
Quote of the day
Posted on | November 18, 2008 | No Comments
“Try and fail; Do not fail to try” — Dhandapani Murugesan
ISearch Anyone?
Posted on | November 13, 2008 | No Comments
Mike Arrington just posted a story over at TechCrunch that Apple may be building their own search engine.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they do, I think it would be just unavoidable.
See, Google and Apple relationship is like Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s. While they were married to each other, they had to kill each other for survival.
While Mr. Eric Scmidth* is in Apple board, and Google has so much presence in IPhones, Google created it’s own Android and G1. Apple search is just such a natural answer to it.
I’d wait for ITunes for G1 as well, that would be interesting.
“Honey… Are you dead yet..?!?!”
*: Pun unavoidable, and definitely intended.
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