Category: Business

Business Education Productivity Technology

Book: Free and Open Source Software

Post author By goelp
Post date March 21, 2007

“MIT Press has released its book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software as a free PDF download. The book is a collection of research essays covering topics such as open source motivation, economics, business models, software development process and tools, law, and community. Sort of like ‘Open Sources’ from academics. David Parnas, Larry Lessig, Eric von Hippel, and Clay Shirky are among the contributors.” – /.

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Business Productivity Technology

Encrypt your sensitive data

Post author By srungta
Post date March 20, 2007

Encrypt your sensitive data with TrueCrypt, perhaps the best tool for the job. God forbid but even if your notebook gets stolen or misplaced, then your sensitive or confidential data is secure. For the paranoid, there is a hidden chamber option and algorithm cascading! See the manual if you’re paranoid 🙂 Cross-platform, free, open-source, comprehensive and easy-to-use.

Encrypt your hard drive with TrueCrypt (2)

Business Productivity Technology

Getting Real

Post author By srungta
Post date March 17, 2007

Why being small, simple and agile is important. It’s about “getting real”. By the Ruby-on-rails folks! Many thoughts in this mini-book resonate very well with me and I think they are applicable beyond software development, i.e. in real life too!

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application (pdf)

Business Innovation Productivity Technology

Flashpaper – a huge success in making?

Post author By srungta
Post date March 16, 2007

I’m surprised that Flashpaper hasn’t been all over the blogosphere! It’s looks like an amazing thing. No additional viewer to load! Flashpaper file over the network outperforms loading the viewer on my system, scrolling page is faster & neater; the overall experience is very cool! It also seems to be very closely compatible with PDF. Also see, Scribd — very elegant UI and design.

Flashpaper tour

Disposable credit cards

Post author By srungta
Post date March 12, 2007

Paranoid about shopping online? Disposable credit cards will be of interest to you. Use them for a single transaction, with a limit of transaction amount to ensure you are not over-charged for any reason. Neat! Launched nearly five years ago; and has shown some success.

Disposable card numbers cutting online fraud, says Cahoot

Business History Innovation Science Technology

Disruptive Innovation

Post author By srungta
Post date March 11, 2007

Clayton Christensen describes how one of his friends was responsible for that choice when he commented that “those who study genetics avoid studying humans because new generations come along only every thirty years or so, it takes a long time to understand the cause and effect of any changes. Instead, they study fruit flies, because they are conceived, born, mature and die all within a single day. If you want to understand why something happens in business, study the disk drive industry. Those companies are the closest things to fruit flies that the business world will ever see”. More about Disruptive Innovation at wikipedia.

Disruptive Innovation

Business Finance India Innovation Technology

Web 2.0 in India

Post author By srungta
Post date March 10, 2007

An impressive collection of the key Web 2.0 startups in India.

IndiaUpcoming.com