Ravi’s Blog

I discovered google charts api via jeremy’s blog. I have to agree with jeremy. This is a pretty cool api. I wonder how easy it is to hook up the google finance data to this api. I suppose like all financial data, the difficulty might be in the contracts relating to (re)distributing financial data and […]

Pretty ghastly news from hyderabad, India - my hometown. Approximately 12 hours ago, some unknown terrorists targeted crowded places in hyderabad. There were 2 bomb blasts, 10 mins and 4 kms apart, killing over 40 people. Quite a shocking news.
It is hard to think of reasons why Hyderabad is targeted for such attacks. […]

Recent days, i started queueing my blog reading. The good part about it is that i am able to get a lot more done during the week. The bad part is that i am missing cool news. One such news is that YSlow - firefox extension - was released late last month.
Y Slow is […]

For few months now, quite a few people have been calling for the removal of Terry Semel as CEO. While it may be justified for folks to call for his head, it was always unclear who would replace Terry Semel. What kind of leader is the right one for yahoo!? Who are the right candidates? […]

I found out about the release of y! mail api from jeremy’s blog. This is really great news. Pipes came out, it is an innovative product and all, but y! mail is one of the top 5 properties for y!. I would say the top 4 properties for y! are Home Page, Search, Mail, […]

This article on ibnlive talks about how india is losing it’s shine as an outsourcing partner. There are several reasons highlighted by the report.
This doesn’t come as a surprise for people familiar close to the outsourcing business. Since early last year, a lot of the entrepreneurs i met made comments about how working with […]

Last night i noticed AT&T + Yahoo story on WSJ. The gist of the story is covered well in this article.
When i initially saw this article, I thought AT&T would be paying more to be partnering with y!. In the past 5 years y! has delivered pretty much on the promise. Y! was in […]

I came across this blog post on business 2.0 (beta?) titled “Why Valley VCs are like the mob“. The catchy title hooked me in and i went on to read it. Basically, the blog’s premise is that startups in the valley don’t need to raise money but they raise it anyway, in order to win […]

It’s been more than 5 months since the last blog entry. There isn’t a real reason for not blogging. For a while i wanted to blog about all the brouhaha related to yahoo! competitive position. But, i really didn’t like the negative tone about what was being said and didn’t feel like contributing to the […]

I have been 6 months into this start up adventure. I started with a brilliant idea and kept working on the product. This has been a great learning experience about startup life, starting a company, working with folks across the oceans and a whole lot of other stuff.
The great news is that the company’s idea […]