http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:34:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Started by two grads from NIT, Trichy - interviewstreet.com takes the preparation for interviews to a new level. The idea is very simple - making me wonder why it has not occurred to me earlier any time :-). In simple terms, the product provides a platform for interviewees to attend mock ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/12/21/interviewstreetcom-attend-mock-interviews/ Anyone who has a kid at home knows how "useless" it is buy a toy - most of time the toy becomes useless from the next day it is bought home as the child quickly loses interest in the toy after the initial exploration. Now starts the trouble for parents  ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/12/09/library-for-toys-rent-a-toy-rentoysin/ I came across this start up - TrackEveryCoin.com. The website name tells it all. This is basically a way to track the money one spends. The product/service is yet to be launched. As per the website, there are two ways to use this service - 1. Download a app on to your ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/11/09/track-every-coin-expense-management/ If you have a dream of leaving your well paid job and then starting something on your own you MUST read this one on Sky Diving (hopefully before leaving the job :)  ) - Sky Diving.  Too good. I could not find a better summary of the thought process that goes in ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/11/05/thoughts-of-an-entrepreneur/ If "Buying home to get safer.." article in Times of India comes true - this is a huge reason to cheer for most Indians. This is a proposal to impose regulations on the property developers to ensure the buyer is protected. Buying a property is a nightmare here with not even a ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/09/26/new-real-estate-bill/ I would like to meet the person who has invented break-time in the TV world. I’d send him/her flowers or maybe just go up to them and give a congratulatory pat on the back. It is one of the best things that ever happened to the TV, since TV.   For without ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/09/08/life-after-the-break/ 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 ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/08/26/icici-bank-service-charges-for-online-fund-transfers/ 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 ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/08/19/screenr-online-screencasting-tool/ 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 ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/08/14/govasoolcom-get-bulk-discounts/ 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. http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/08/14/wpme/ 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 ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/08/10/indianstartupportals/ 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 ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/08/02/bighelpin-virutal-private-assistant/ Got this below thru forwarded email (also remember seeing a news snippet in Times of India). You can now get any vehicle's details from RTO. Just SMS, RTO followed by registration no. (Example: RTO KA-05-MR-7678) to 56006. This will be very useful in hit & run cases. Pass it on to ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/07/20/karnataka-rto-get-vehicle-details-by-sms-but-why/ Google did the most expected - announce an OS to compete with Microsoft. After all, if Microsoft announces Bing which reportedly scared Google, what else can Google do other than this? May be Google will launch a "internet" database soon stating current databases are created when internet was not there.  Is Google ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/07/08/google-chrome-os-can-google-do-better/ Just came across this cool website - http://txt2re.com/ thru Venkat's tweet. It is basically regular expression generator in several languages - Perl, PHP, Python, Javascript, ColdFusion , C /C++ , Java, Ruby , VB , VBScript,  J#.net , C#.net , C++.net , VB.net. Its  really useful and reduces lots and lots of effort, time & headache when writing scripts where we ... http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in/2009/07/07/regular-expression-generator/