Prashant Sharma

Prashant Sharma is a Delhi based Entrepreneur who spent most of his college days polishing his marketing skills and went for his first business venture at 19. Having tasted failure in his entrepreneurial debut, he turned a Tech-enthusiast, specializing in web technologies later. Join him on Google Plus

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Should TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington continue blogging ?

An incident took place with Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington. Find the complete details below. Michael Arrington,while walking out of DLD conference,came across an 'asshole entrepreneur' who spat on his face and ran away into the crowd in a split of a second. What's latest on TechCrunch is something really embarrassing for the whole startup community. Very recently,Michael Arrington,while walking out of DLD conference,came across an 'asshole entrepreneur' who spat on his face and ran away into the crowd in a split of a second. Arrington,on the other side,was quite astounded(rather shocked) with this mishap and has really spoke his heart out in his recent post.There,he has described the entire incident and a few other life threatening incidents that happened to him in the past. At the end,he has shown his intentions of segregating himself from the tech world for a while,for self-introspecting of what he has been doing for years and is that what he should be doing.It's not just him but his family and his employees who have all been threatened several times for a variety of reasons and after this shameful incident,he's looking very serious about his decision to further pursue independent technology journalism or not. We think,he MUST continue blogging about startups and tech industry in the future....Here's why ! Such things aren't

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 28, 20090Comments

Twitter apps

140it : For all those Twitterers who often hit “140 Char” limit

140it lets you shorten your tweets if they are exceeding the 140 character limit in twitter. There's a newly launched service called 140it(for a change,this time the twitter app isn't "tw........."),that lets you shorten your tweets if they are exceeding the 140 character limit in twitter.They use the usual style of shortening the text,which is commonly used by us while sending an SMS or even a tweet. For instance,we shorten 'are' with 'r' or 'management' with 'mgmnt' and now the same task can be done with this twitter based app.You just need to "drag 'n' drop" it in your browser toolbar and you're done.If your tweet contains a web link then it will automatically convert it using bit.ly.It also replaces company names for their StockTwits symbols. TweetShrink and Twonvert are the two apps that have been providing this very same service for a while now but they force you to go to their homepage.140it,on the contrary never lets you come back

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 27, 20090Comments

Announcements

“ChaCha” raises $30 Million;But who’s “Dumb” ? Investors or TechCrunch

Cha-cha is a free mobile answering service which is powered by a QA service. The complete details of it are given below. It has just raised Series C round of $30 million,adding to the earlier rounds of $6 Million(Series A) and $10 Million(Series B) and making the total investment in this 2 years old startup to whopping $46 Million.For those who haven't heard of this service before,it basically allows people to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate(what they claim) answer as a text message using any mobile phone,from a basic flip phone to advanced Smartphones such as iPhone. TechCrunch,a notable tech blog in Silicon valley has manytimes blogged about its updates and progress and has mostly discouraged it for having a 'dumb concept' as their backbone.ChaCha uses real time humans at the back-end to answer queries coming mostly from the users on the go(using a mobile phone)."Human powered" is something that hits TC the most and forces them to declare it an 'unscalable' and 'dumb' idea. Logically,if ChaCha's usage keeps on increasing,then there will be a time when "human powered" system would really turn impractical and will simply

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 26, 20090Comments

Featured Startups

“Faayda” : An Indian Job Search Engine for Unified Job search

In this article we will tell you about faayda indian job search engine. Faayda crawls hundreds of job portals and adds all the jobs listed to its database. In these troubled days of recession,one online sector that's happily taking the cake away is "Job Portals".Layoffs,shutdowns and every such mishap creates more unemployment which inturn makes people search out for jobs.And the easiest way out is to browse through every Job portal one can possibly find. Hence,one website that might prove to be a 'utility' these days is "Faayda".It's an Indian Job search engine,that crawls various popular job portals and lists out jobs from all such websites. Faayda crawls hundreds of job portals as well as career pages and adds all the jobs listed to its database.It then makes it easy for job seekers to find all the jobs listed at different job portals,at one place.

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 26, 20090Comments

Business oriented

‘Virtual’ threatening ‘Physical’…But ‘Physical events’ still hold core utility !

A survey by ON24 projects that there's an expected decline of nearly 40-60% in the year 2009 in physical events According to a survey by ON24,a San Francisco based virtual events company,Physical events are loosing out against Virtual events.It compiled the results on the basis of responses from its 270 customers (including PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM). The survey also projects that there's an expected decline of nearly 40-60% in the year 2009 in physical events.Reasons are quite obvious.When companies are drying up with funds and laying off employees in massive numbers,they will try their best to save out of every lavish spending they had been doing earlier. Big & glossy physical events such as Trade shows and conventions require some heavy investments and in such an economic downturn,enterprises are now relying more on the nearest alternative to physical events,Virtual events.

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 23, 20090Comments

Featured Startups

Why ‘LocalPrice’ isn’t JAPC(Just Another Price Comparison) site !

In this article we will tell you about Atlanta local service prices localprice. Localprice allows people to compare and shop online for local services. Google any product(books,gadgets,automobiles..),service(web hosting ,restaurant.....) or anything else you can think of and you will find a battery of comparison websites,letting you compare various aspects of a service such as price,specifications,features and related stuff. But there are many neglected local services for which most of such JAPC sites never bother and refuse to take any pains for placing them in their catalogue.For instance,comparisons for services such as Lasik surgery centres,Home alarms,teeth cleaning etc aren't there in abundance on web and if you love details about everything then you are likely to remain disappointed with the results. Such services are mostly provided by local business owners,who are still to reach web and many times don't even have a website to portray their business details.Many such local businesses's 4 page site remains so deeply buried on the search results that hardly anyone gets to reach them. Any solution....? LocalPrice,atleast for Atlanta.It's an atlanta based

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 22, 20090Comments

Digg out

An Indian is probable to serve as Top U.S. Technology Exec.(CTO)

In this article we will tell you that the next us cto to be an indian. As we all will soon be watching and cheering for Obama,officially becoming the U.S. president in a real BIG ceremonious way,Indians have probably one more reason to cheer for him.Under his governance,the first U.S. CTO is most probably to be an Indian.

And if an Indian really makes it to the position of "U.S. Top Tech Exec",then it will be more than just a moment of proud for all the Indians(as they are far

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 16, 20090Comments

User gen. content

Springleap Review

In this article we will tell you about springleap south african designers.Springleap is a platform to submit "Creative Designs" to compete socially. There's an unconventional concept that has been implemented internationally and also in many countries(nation-specific) and has successfully been executed by many entrepreneurs worldwide : "Creative Crowdsourcing". The very recent "Google's latest favicon" has been a baby of this concept only.Users from all over the world poured in their creative inputs to inspire the next Google favicon.And "Creative Crowdsourcing" has a lot of fantics in every corner of the world. Springleap,a South African startup implements the very same concept but finishes it with a commercial outcome,T-shirts .It reaches out to many of the creative souls in South Africa and gives them all,a platform to submit their "Creative Designs" to compete in a socially controlled(think of Digg,Stumbleupon.....hope you got it) environment.The unofficial(may be professionals) designer,who wins maximum

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 15, 20090Comments

Web 2.0 app

Up2Maps lets you create “Data-rich Thematic Maps”

In this article we will tell you about web tool to create data rich maps. Up2maps is a tool that relate to geographical locations. If you're a student,undergrad or into the field of research,then this online tool will prove quite useful to you.We're talking about Up2maps.It's a web based tool that lets you generate,publish and download reports that relates to world geographical locations in any sense. At first,you get to see a wizard based approach to help you choose the appropriate options(ex. selecting regions or states within a country).Then,you just need to fill in require data as per your report requirements and get your thematic map ready to publish with all the colours & numbers in it. For instance,if you want to create a geographical map that intuitively depicts established 3G networks in entire europe and further want to share the created map on your blog and even download it so as to embed it into a powerpoint presentation then this service will solve your purpose quite efficiently.For live examples,have a look at this and

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 13, 20090Comments

Utility focussed

A ‘FF Add-on’ that forced me back to Firefox(from Chrome) : “Cooliris”

In this article we will tell you about cooliris 3d web browsing. Cooliris is basically a firefox add-on that enables much faster image/video/product searching from a bunch of major sources. "Cooliris is really cooooool !" and there is no exaggeration in it.This is the one(add-on)

that forced me back to Firefox as I was loyal enough to Chrome since its launch inspite of all its shortcomings .Chrome,worked quite OK for me for a couple of months but then.... Inspite of Chrome's regular updates and recent 'Out of Beta' announcement,"No FF add-ons"(specially TwitterFox) were adding to my pains every now and then.But when i recently came across a Firefox Add-on,I seriously couldn't resist myself from going back to Firefox and start using it immediately on a regular basis.It's actually a pleasure to use Cooliris(again,no exaggeration!). Cooliris is basically an Add-on that enables much faster image/video/product searching from a bunch of major sources(Google,Yahoo,Flickr,Youtube.Amazon,iTunes and many others) in a 3D environment.It lets you have a thumbnail view of images,videos,products of search results and lets you go directly to the webpage,hosting that particular image,video or product

ByPrashant SharmaJanuary 13, 20090Comments

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