A while back, I blogged on pustak.co.in. Today, I came across one more online book store aimed at Indian buyers - thestorez.com. This is started in May 2008. I quickly browsed thru thestorez.com, compared this with pustak.co.in and this blog is about that comparison -
1. User Interface - Look & Feel, Ease of Navigation - [...]

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Yesterday was Earth Day. I gathered some gadgets that conserve energy thus making Earth a Greener place to live. Most of these gadgets are relevant to Indian audience and environment - but does not mean others cannot use these and benefit.
1. TV Channel Monitor - This simple gadget when fitted to any TV/Setup box will [...]

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A sad day - Oracle buys Sun.
I, like many others, only hopethat Oracle will continue all the open source initiatives of Sun and most importantly the Java platform - wishful thinking indeed.
The future of Java / J2EE app servers  suddenly looks very bleak. God knows how fast/slowly will Oracle kill Java, MySQL for its benefits. [...]

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cplash.com - a website for Citizen Journalism. This is a website started by three college students.
The most impressive thing about this website is the design and ease of navigation. Very well done. One can “cplash” (a fancy word for a post) on any topic. I also liked the “Governance” section of the website which talks about [...]

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After reviewing PAW yesterday, I was thinking if Open Source is really killing entry level product companies or if it is enabling them. I had this dilemma because what would prevent any one from implementing PAW in open source and give it free to every one! True, one may not be implement features such as [...]

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Came across this start up - PAW.
I must congratulate Mr. Rajat Gupta for venturing into software products. The product space is very empty with almost every one else wanting to start one more web2.0 website with no real revenue generation capabilites!
Coming to PAW 1.0 - as the name indicates this is a work bench to [...]

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Every dawn, even before the sun is to rise in full
glory, I lie in my bed, half-awake, holding my breath,
waiting to hear the jingle of your anklets.

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