http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog Debunking Entrepreneurship Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:01:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my opinion it hardly is. By saying its an alternate career option are we trying to tell the students that they can choose to work with Wipro or Infy or heck, they can do something on their own? Well entrepreneurship is not an alternate choice, its a personal option ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/06/17/entrepreneurship-an-alternate-career-choice-for-students/ Orkut is undeniably the biggest and the most used social network in India. But slowly the Facebook fad is catching up here for many reasons- their cool apps, the privacy settings, the american population etc etc., Also, am really not sure how the apps on orkut are faring. I have ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/06/09/something-not-so-google-about-orkut/ It is not fashionable anymore to say that Web 2.0 is not as much about technology as it is about people. When this is an accepted truism of such degree, it is worth spending some time to analyze the dynamics of a such a model. Before one builds a website (hence ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/05/16/building-online-communities/ Muziboo is offering a couple of interesting internship opportunities over the summer. Candidates could be Ruby/AJAX hackers, or music afficionados / evangelists Location is not a constraint and we are flexible about work hours and duration of the internship. Stipend will be decided on a case to case basis. http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/05/12/internship-at-muziboo/ It is fun to be a part of a strong growing community like Muziboo with a growing number of enthusiastic users collaborating with each other across countries to come up with real cool and contemporary music. And one of our talented users, Ronak felt the strong urge to popularise artists ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/04/30/muzicast/ How often do you feel trapped by the routine of hearing the redundant play-lists of mainstream music? If you are a music enthusiast or an upcoming artist yourself, willing to lend an ear to innovative and unexplored styles of music, your destination is 'Radio Muziboo'. Experience the ride through the ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/04/16/music-for-enthusiasts-not-masses/ The World Wide Web (WWW) becoming the primary medium for information gathering and dissemination - from communication and business to education and entertainment - the threat this not so regulated sphere poses to the copyright ethics is immense.   The Unconventional nature of the Threat Copyright laws provide incentives for creating by ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/04/09/copyright-laws-and-online-piracy/ MMSC is an event organized by the Manipal Institute Of Communication on the 18th and 19th of this month, as an effort to bridge the gap between the media industry and the academia. It is the first of the kinds where a platform is provided to create awareness about media ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/04/09/sponsored-delegate-for-mmsc-manipal-media-students-convention/ The obvious reason for more and more people to try their hand at entrepreneurship with a web venture is because of the significant decline in hardware costs and the availability of Open source Software these days. That apart theres no real need for an office which greatly ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/04/02/whats-the-measure-for-success-for-a-web-20-venture/ Some tunes grow on you and this is one such by Simon & Garfunkel with its beautiful lyrics. Heres Sound of Silence presented to us by one of the talented muziboo members 'George Kuruvilla' "Hello darkness, my old friend, Ive come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left ... http://www.nithyadayal.com/blog/2008/03/28/sound-of-silence/