Archive for June, 2010
Interesting Reads – 25 June 2010
Economics and Finance The Long Now of Finance update. An ongoing attempt to see what the world of finance be in 10,000 years from now. Making it fun to save. A very interesting idea to enable savings products on top of the usual no frills account that financial inclusion typically provides. The average credit rating [...]
Misunderstanding Indian Culture
Aakar Patel, in his Mint column, quotes some very interesting data on culture but draws incomplete conclusions. I think that the real story underneath the data is very different and more complex. Aakar took Time Out; “the most comprehensive events magazine in the world” and counted the no of cultural events listed in roughly the [...]
Mobile App opportunity on Nokia Phones
There are new Mobile apps coming out every day but inexplicably almost all of them skip the Nokia platform. This could be an interesting opportunity for other developers who could fill in these gaps for Nokia/Symbian platform which arguably is bigger than iPhone, Android or Blackberry. Foursquare is a good example of a popular and [...]
Recommended: Krishan Partap Singh
Just read Krishan Partap Singh’s Young Turks as a part of the South Asian Author Challenge. Back cover says “pure Jeffrey Archer” and its not off the mark. The story itself has elements of Kane and Abel and the its a political thriller like many of Archer’s books. The story just flows with hardly anything superfluous [...]
South Asian Author Challenge
S Krishna is running an interesting challenge to encourage people to read books by South Asian Authors. South Asia means India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. One can sign up for a challenge level which is measured in no of books and then can review the books on one’s blog. Thus, it becomes a great [...]