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Hot Startups of 2008 from India
Great to see a lot of entrepreneurial activity in the Indian software industry. NEN has been doing a great job of bringing people together to create visibility for startups.
From a country with great engineering talent and high visibility into the global software industry, it should be certain and sooner that world-class products start coming out. [...]
Using Facebook for marketing new products
Social Networks and Major events (sports, entertainment, etc) provide a great opportunity for marketing. While the former provides a community and medium to target, the latter gives an effective reason for sending new a message.
Those of you who visited Java.com or other sites of Sun Microsystems might have noticed a promotional game called myPicks Beijing [...]
Web 2.0 Expo, interactions were excellent
Today we ended the Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco with a great feeling.
For Dekoh this show was an important milestone, the unveiling of the product to the public for the first time. We reached a thousand downloads on just the first day.
The feedback and interactions with a wide cross-section of people was very useful [...]
Evolution of Dekoh idea
Jay Fortner wrote this article Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop/Web Platform on Read/Write web. One observation he made was “…makes it hard to describe what Dekoh is in a sentence”. He is probably right to some extent because Dekoh offers several different things, at a first glance it appears it is doing too many things. [...]
Bringing the best of Desktop and Web together
The main idea of Dekoh is to bring the best of features on Desktop and Web to end users and developers. Jay in his presentation had a nice slide that captures this.
Here is a brief description:
Universal Data: Applications can blend data on their file system with data on the web (website APIs) in their applications.
Control [...]
Flash application on Dekoh
Yesterday, a few people asked me about running flash applications on Dekoh. We are working on a music organizing/streaming application which is a flash application. We only have a preview of screen shots now. In the meantime I created a small video of the dashboard that also uses XML-HTTP from Flash.
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Call for budding entrepreneurs in India
The culture of entrepreneurship and startups has started blooming in India again. This is very good considering the brain power the country carries. I came across “dreamzhunt” a new ideas contest for technoprenuers in India. The submissions are already open. Check out if this is for you.
Dekoh got Techcrunched
Ryan Stewart did a quick preview of Dekoh and it got covered on TechCrunch.
As expected Techcrunch effect showed on our website with hits and registrations soaring up dramatically. Our excitement has gone up several notches after a very positive review and getting on Techcrunch. If you are not aware of how many pitches Techcrunch receives, [...]
Dekoh a new platform for RIA on the desktop announced today
Press Release | San Jose, CA. | February 21, 2007.
Pramati announces Dekoh, a new desktop platform for applications that can deliver integrated experience of web and desktop
Out-of-the-box the platform provides web 2.0 features like tagging, sharing and commenting features. Soon to follow the release will be Dekoh personal media applications.
Pramati Technologies today announces its plan [...]
Proto.in, a DEMO conference in India?
Nice to see an event like PROTO come up in INdia, showcasing new products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering. This is on the lines of Demo.com event, the launchpad for emerging technologies. Right time for creating platform for showcasing innovation, in this fast growing Indian software industry.I see PodTech as sponsor, so a [...]
