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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layoffs

Layoff continues,It’s Yahoo! this time…So who’s next ?

Jerry Yang recently wrote an e-mail to all his employees intimating the tentative Yahoo layoff of alteast 10% of all his staff So dot-com biggies have started their weight-loosing programme in full blow... Keeping small-sized companies/startups aside,ebay was the one who inaugurated layoff bandwagon among the godzilla companies and next to follow is Yahoo!. Jerry Yang recently wrote an e-mail to all his employees intimating the tentative layoff of alteast 10% of all his staff to achieve company's goal of annual cost rate reduction of roughly $3.9 billion by more than $400 million before the end of 2008. In his mail,he tossed some words of consolation to the "would be ex-Yahoos" like "We are committed to treating affected employees fairly, offering severance and outplacement services" but such words of formality can hardly console any Yahooer at this moment. But Yahoo! just can't help it...

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 23, 20080Comments

Utility focussed

Inkfruit clubs ‘Artistic designers’ and ‘Style fanatics’ (Special !)

Inkfruit is a place for people to submit, discover and buy amazing custom T-shirt designs created by artists from around the world. If you are a young lad and love sporting funky tees then InkFruit may satisfy your soul the most... Inkfruit is India's first online democratic community T-shirt brand till date (and probably the most successful as well) Inkfruit is an Indian portal for awesome T-shirts. It is also a platform for individual designers to submit designs, get acclaim,win prizes and have fun ! In their own words

Inkfruit is a place for people to submit, discover and buy amazing custom T-shirt designs created by artists from around the world. Based around an ongoing T-shirt design contest, all of the designs you see on Inkfruit have been submitted by our community

People submit their earth shattering design ideas for T-shirts. These designs are then

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 22, 20080Comments

Gadgets

T-Mobile G1 is available now

Google Android powered T-mobile G1 had been launched on Oct 22, 2008. Here is the complete detail about it. If you're a U.S. resident(lucky !) then there's hardly any reason left not to give G1 a try(ask the desperate G1 fans outside U.S.) Comparisons to iPhone3G are inevitable and it's already proven(even before G1's public release) that iPhone will now have to battle against its real killer(all other Smartphones look technologically backward now !) And yes,Oct 22 is going be remembered for many events happening for the first time. Take a look...

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 22, 20080Comments

Utility focussed

Teachmate : A place where currency to learn is ‘Knowledge’

Teachmate is a service that maps you with a mate on the basis of geographical location and the 'skill' you want to learn(and that same 'skill' the mate can teach) So you want to learn something...and not just physics or statistics but things like guitar,salsa,cooking or anything else but you also don't want to spend even a penny over it...then ? Try Teachmate ! It's a non-profit service that maps you with another mate registered on their website on the basis of your geographical location and the 'skill' you want to learn(and that same 'skill' the mate can teach). But as you're not willing to spend(and that's what this service wants you to),you have to teach something that you are good at(and that same 'skill' your mate is looking for). According to Techmate's founder,Roman Snitko

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 21, 20080Comments

User gen. content

800Notes helps you track unknown callers…

800Notes how to track unknown callers. It is a web community collects unlisted phone numbers used by businesses and helps the community only by creating a resource of such unwanted callers Are you fed up of unwanted calls you receive from telemarketers,loan agents,scheme sellers etc and you often call back to confirm if the last missed call you had from an unknown number was urgent or crap... If you're the one bearing all this then wouldn't you want a service to let you know who was the one behind that 'unknown' number without dialing the number back ? If yes then 800Notes can serve as a pain-killer to your problem... 800Notes maintains the largest online database of unpublished business numbers and is dedicated to doing just that.The web community collects unlisted phone numbers used by businesses and today,800Notes's users have something to celebrate... They have identified more than 100,000 UNKNOWN callers. The majority of the phone numbers used by banks, credit unions, insurance companies

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 21, 20080Comments

Utility focussed

“Who should be your next employer ?” Confused !! Go Jobeehive…

JobeeHive is a unique community platform for professionals, which brings career information (reviews, ratings, salaries) on companies If you are a working professional with a question "Where should I go next ? " then Jobeehive can definitely help you out for taking a wise career decision... Jobeehive is a place where people anonymously review their past/current employer and get to read the similar kind of reviews about other companies from their employees.This way,the community shares its actual experience and helps creating a place which serves as a transparent and guiding platform for all its contributors to help them decide their "would be" company. In their own words

JobeeHive is a unique community platform for professionals, which brings career information (reviews, ratings, salaries) on companies and industries along with professional networking.

Apart from basic concerns like hiring process,work culture,senior management etc,it also provides rare salary information that helps professionals understand salaries,benefits and

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 21, 20080Comments

shutdowns

Why TechCrunch seems like F**kedCompany nowadays…

The article explains the startup layoff of TechCrunch. All the guys following TechCrunch can definitely realise a sudden rise in posts reporting laying offs,startup shutdowns,financial crisis,founder give-ups and similar stuff in the month of October... Starting from a post reporting eBay's layoff(1500 employees) on Oct 3 and continuing till now(7 layoff reported on a single day,Oct 17),this trend is not looking to end so soon.TC has even created a Layoff Tracker(to keep an account of all such layoffs) This situation(may be called bubble 2.0 climax) reminds me of dot com bubble when cluster of dot-coms went bankrupt and laying off some staff members used to be one of the ways to cut costs and prolong the survival period of startups. That time F**kedCompany played the role of a "reporter" to doomed/troubled dot-coms and this time,TechCrunch is looking to play the 'lead role' in reporting crippled state of tech/IT world. The only difference lies in the approach...

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 20, 20080Comments

Utility focussed

Hibernater Review

Hibernater is about the concept of bringing hibernation onto Internet by saving and resuming work states easily This is something which will prove very useful for those who are addicted to desktop PCs(and not portables). Just imagine how convenient it would be if you are able to hibernate(kinda freeze) your documents & websites(in opened state) at your office PC and resume it back with just one click at your home PC or any other computer. This is what hibernater empowers you with.Hibernater is all about the concept of bringing hibernation onto Internet by saving and resuming work states easily. The main benefit is not just saving time spent on emailing many files and retrieving them but Hibernater also protects you against unintentional overwriting of files. This benefit alone can help many people save time and avoid frustration. This Singapore based startup

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 19, 20080Comments

Events

Have a idea that serves public interest ? Upto $5 Million awaits you…

Knight News Challenge is giving away upto $5 Million for funding bright ideas that will serve public interest Knight Foundation is hosting 'Knight News Challenge',a social effort to encourage ideas that have the capability and novelty of serving public interest but require funds to get them implemented. They're giving away around $5 Million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects,services, and programs. You're a right candidate for this challenge if you have a idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or innovate how we visualize, experience or interact with information. Applications will be taken till November 1, 2008 so hurry if you think you're the ONE and haven't participated yet.There's

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 19, 20080Comments

P2P

AdMatchup lets you advertise(P2P way) for FREE….Effective ?

Advertisement for free Admatchup. Admatchup lets you advertise for free by letting others advertise on your site. AdMatchup is an implementation of an interesting concept....Doing "P2P for advertisements" and making the Ad system FREE to use. Armin Bahramshahry,the lead developer and founder of this website describes AdMatchup as a method to advertise one's website for FREE.Users signup and begin advertising for one another,they receive points as they advertise for others and those points are used towards advertisement for their website. Operating since Oct 1,it has 22+ websites registered on its platform and gearing up for more participation in the time to come. Few such systems based on FREE advertising through mutual sharing have been there already but didn't work out

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 18, 20080Comments

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