Google Apps … I like it!

by Sumit Chachra August 27, 2006

The concept is simple. You have a 1-N person company and have the domain www.mystartup.com. You want to provide all your employees with basic email, Instant Messaging, Calendaring etc. capabilities. All of the above can be bought or set up in some ad-hoc manner. But this is where Google Apps comes in. It gives you [...]

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Google bearish on GOOG ?

by Sumit Chachra August 10, 2006

For the record I am bullish on GOOG currently and own a small # (< 10) of their stock. I got up this morning and typed GOOG on well Google and this is what I got back (can give quite a shock to the weak hearted!):

Its still happening with some random numbers showing [...]

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Jim Cramer effect

by Sumit Chachra August 9, 2006

Today is an extremely good example of how Jim Cramer’s Mad Money effects after hours stock trading. He recommended Interactive Corp (IACI), ValuClick (VCLK) and Blue Nile Inc (NILE) and this is what happened to them after market closing:

Each of them up 3-4%. Cramer seems to have the power [...]

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Google (Checkout) encouraging clicking on ads

by Sumit Chachra July 26, 2006

My last blog post was on Google checkout (I like the product). This one focuses on something new I saw today. Google using its most expensive real estate (www.google.com) to promote checkout as a “faster, safer online shopping” method.

Now had they been simply linking to the checkout homepage I wouldn’t have even blogged about it! [...]

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Checkout + GBuy + Froogle = jellyfish.com ?

by Sumit Chachra June 29, 2006

So Google launched Checkout today there is going to be a lot of buzz around it. In a nutshell Checkout will let people like me buy from several online retailers (that may or may not advertise online using adwords?) in a safe and secure manner (Google knows my credit card, billing address info etc.). This [...]

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Faces of India

by Sumit Chachra June 27, 2006

A friend of mine sent an email which was meant to be a joke. The images are from here. Walls covered with Nike and Coke, an old man in a grocery shop full of Colgate toothpaste and a homeless man with a mastercard logo can. It did seem funny to me at first, but then [...]

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Of browser bookmarks and delicious

by Sumit Chachra June 24, 2006

I increasingly find myself storing “interesting” links on del.icio.us. Most of these links simply do not belong on my browser bookmark bar. So what exactly is the difference ? What I have on my browser are things like my bank e-account, stock trading website etc. What is on my delicious account are things I am [...]

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Google Spreadsheet and Browser Sync

by Sumit Chachra June 8, 2006

So everyone’s busy talking about Google Spreadsheets all over the internet. I won’t repeat things here but I would like to point out some really fancy stuff I noticed:

Not only can you share spreadsheets… you can literally chat in real time with the other person. Any changes made by the either person to the spreadsheet [...]

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ICRA 2006

by Sumit Chachra May 18, 2006

I should have been in FLorida today attending ICRA 2006 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation). Due to lack of time, resources and inclination I wasn’t able to make it. Would have been nice to go out to Florida and meet up with the brightest people in the field at THE technical conference for Robotics. [...]

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Let the search war begin!

by Sumit Chachra May 1, 2006

Just read the NYT article (requires registration) about how Google is against the idea of MSN being the default search (in the box on the top right) for Internet Explorer 7.
Google estimates that the boxes, when available, are the starting point for 30 to 50 percent of a user’s searches, making them a crucial gateway [...]

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