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Archive for December, 2008

Sharing your photos: Fotonaut

Posted by Ramesh on December 31st, 2008

Fotonaut.com is trying to become a combination of Flickr and a Wikimedia for photos. Interesting model and ambitious approach. It is still in private beta.
It appears that this service will allow you to link information available on the Web to your photos — thus if you visit Great Wall in China, you will [...]

The State of Venture Capital

Posted by Ramesh on December 28th, 2008

For any budding entrepreneur it will be important to know the state of Venture Capital. A good article is in Fobes.
On the surface it may appear to be a pessimistic scenario. On careful thinking it does suggest that a budding entrepreneur has to think more creatively. In place of raising lots of [...]

Digital Medical Records

Posted by Ramesh on December 27th, 2008

Being one of the person who, unfortunately, has more than his fair share of visits to doctors and hospitals over the last few years, I have seen first hand how ‘primitive’ are digital records kept in USA — probably in every coutry in the world. The excuse commonly given is the privacy and security. [...]

Sharing your photos: Orsiso

Posted by Ramesh on December 25th, 2008

Orsiso.com wants to help you in organizing and simplifying your socially networked life. You can aggregate and pull information, inclusing phot albums, from multiple sites and have a unified access at one place. This company is also in private beta but a cute avatar explains the mission of the company. Also, Neil [...]

Sharing your photos: Animoto

Posted by Ramesh on December 24th, 2008

There are many sites that are apprring with new twists on sharing your photos. I am seeing so many that I will start mentioning some of them briefly here. A problem is that many of these are still in closed beta so I may mention them without much experience with them. In [...]