Category Archives: media

Murdoch and the story of digital paper

By Nistha | Published: August 17, 2010

Just wanted to share this since I’ve previously blogged on Rupert Murdoch’s attempt on gaining credible share in e-newspapers. Contrary to the demeaning approach of Techcrunch, I like Murdoch’s persistence trials. I mean, someone’s got to figure out the money for newspapers, right? Murdoch’s New iPaper: One Last Tragic Roll Of The Digital Dice News [...]

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My name is Jobs. Steve Jobs.

By Nistha | Published: June 10, 2010

Forget the Bonds or Bournes – they are fictional. If anyone has redefined cool over the last decade – he is the 55 years old technology magnate at Apple Inc – Steve Jobs. I am not going to dwell on his success or strategy as there are far more intelligent and excellent posts on those [...]

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Update from Startup2010

By Nistha | Published: May 20, 2010

This is going to be short as I’ll be posting detailed thoughts later on. Crazy stuff, ideas and energy. Volunteering was a good decision since I met some very relevant people because of it (and of course, the free t-shirt). Congrats to ex-Googlers’ team Red Beacon which won the Business Plan Competition and double thumbs [...]

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Still figuring the big Q of ‘monetization’

By Nistha | Published: April 29, 2010

The Media and Information industry has been struggling over monetization for long now. It is obviously a high time companies started trying stuff out. So in 2010, we saw some bold attempts. I will take a shot on 2 major headlines in this space: 0   Liked this article? Follow me on Twitter and Subscribe by [...]

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Technology behind Twitter

By Nistha | Published: March 24, 2010

I was interested in the actual Web Technologies used to develop some of the big social media sites. So, I looked at Twitter and found some interesting information. It was built using Ruby on Rails and did face certain scaling issues which led to beliefs that Twitter would move off RoR or Rails in mid [...]

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