I had a little surprise in store today from ICICI - the bank quietly has imposed a service charge of Rs. 5 + service tax for online fund transfers effective Aug 24th 2009. While the amount is nominal, I am 100% sure this is a regressive step. I was about to do a fund transfer, then [...]

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Came across this really cool technology - ScreenR.
This is a online screen casting tool - one can record screens directly thru web browser with out installing any sort of software. One can record a screencast of up to 5 minutes. The resulting video can be tweeted, uplaoded to youtube, downloaded on to hard disk in [...]

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Came across this online group shopping place - govasool.com.
The basic idea is simple, yet very innovative. Buyers can form a virtual group to buy one item. Sellers can bid for the order with their prices. Idea is that the more the number of buyers, the lower the prices will be at which sellers will bid, providing a [...]

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Wordpress announced url shortening - wp.me. This is absolutely brilliant stuff. The awsesome part is that every wordpress post will now have a permanent short url. Simple idea, brilliantly executed.
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Looks like one of the good start up ideas is to start a portal for the Indian Startups
This post is about a few portals/blogs that I came across which are focused on Indian Startups. I am listing them here (in probably no order of preference) -
1. Pluggd.in
2. Startups.in
3. Theindianstartup.com
4. StartupDuniya
There are couple more I [...]

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Came across this start up - bighelp.in - provider of virutal private assistants - to take care of errands that take up time. Basically, BigHelp is a service provider who provides a virtual personal assistant who takes orders from you and does the job - freeing up your time.
I am sure this is a great [...]

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