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To get them reading

Read a short essay by Adrian Hon about decline in reading . It talks about how people are reading less these days and what would get them to read more. I don’t know if people are reading less overall but I tend to agree that in this age of microblogs, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:04 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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Lala: Yet another business model around selling Music

Selling music online is an interesting business. So many people have tried their hands at it with so many different approaches… iTunes and Zune were revolutionary. They freed good music tracks from the otherwise mediocre albums. iTunes pioneered this Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:06 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments

Pirates to Profits – Deregulating the copy

Lawrence Lessig had an interesting essay yesterday at the WSJ. Based on his upcoming book remix, the essay is subtitled “ Digital technology has made it easy to create new works from existing art, but copyright law has yet to catch up ”. Among the solutions Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 3:31 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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Naive Joel on Mesh

Joel's blog is one of the best resources on the net for software development. I find myself agreeing with him most of the times but his latest post on Live Mesh didn't come out to be as insightful as some of his others. If you take out his histrionics, Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:06 AM by Ashutosh Galande | 7 Comments
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How to beat Guy Kawasaki to a startup

I admire Guy Kawasaki and love The art of start . I'd recommend his book to anybody who has ever dreamt of starting anything. So when he announced his latest venture today, I was all ears. It's called alltop . A concept so simple that it'd make you think Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:35 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 2 Comments
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Office Live Test Drive

The "live" wave has brought some pretty cool products to the web. I was more intrigued by Office live. I thought it was going to be a web based version of Office products but they came out with something totally different. Free domain sounded Read More...
Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 6:14 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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Pirates to profits

There's unrest in the music industry since last couple of years. Napster and its cousins have created agitation in their camp. The industry has fought back with measures ranging from suing creators and users of p2p services to educating users about the Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 22, 2004 11:08 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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Good virus/Bad Virus

Microsoft has always been blamed for being a monopoly. But Dan Geer went further ahead to term it the cause of a monoculture. Here's the famous paper where he comapred the Internet to Microsoft Monoculture! According to him the network could be sharing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:57 AM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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