Amazon’s Moat

love the acquisition of Kiva by Amazon.

Amazon’s key strength is in it’s supply chain and distribution centers, delivering a vast array of long-tail products – this is how they started with books, and how they thrive with general merchandise today. Of course, excellent customer service.

So it makes sense they protect this strength from [...]

Kahaani is an Unusual Suspect

It’s one of the best movies i have seen in recent times, go watch it.

For what starts looking like a typical hindi movie with pity-inducing melodrama, it ends on a note that stuns even the most sophisticated indian movie goer. Not that we haven’t seen such films from hollywood before, but because a hindi [...]

VoIP Multiplexing with Synchronized Actions

A grandmotherly voice introduced herself over a very unwelcome cold call over my Sunday morning. It’s hard to hang up on her, especially when she insisted that she wasn’t calling to sell me anything.  She went on to walk me patiently through a series of survey questions, about a local measure on the ballet for [...]

A prelude to Apple TV?

Apple’s iOS5 features all point to preparing the operating system for TV. look at some of them -

PC-Free : TV needs to work out of the box, right? Voice : Wouldn’t Jobs have wanted to get rid of the remote? Wouldn’t you? Newsstand : how close is it to “Channel lineup” Mirroring : wouldn’t be [...]

Quora Integration w/ Google

Quora integration within Google Search results

spotted in the wild.., driving social graph through search results