Technology – Nikhil Kulkarni

September 14, 2009

Speaking At The Facebook Developer Garage

One was part of the Speaker Panel at the Facebook Developer Garage held in Bangalore on the 28th of August at The Taj West End. Having worked on building applications on the Open Social and the Facebook platforms, growing them to be among the top applications, building an active user base and monetizing the apps Continue reading

Bangalore, Events, Experiences, India, Internet, Life Update, Media, Photo Posts, Social Networking, Speaking, Technology

May 16, 2008

Mr. Cock-a-lock

Hail buffalax and Benny Lava, aka Prabhudeva in India! Here’s more on the geniuses. The original Benny Lava video by buffalax! Oh, and I did not know Urvasi could also become this! Polly’s bum for fantasty, ah! Continue reading

Internet, Media, Social Networking, Technology, YouTube

August 6, 2007

Too Much Is Too Bad

Sometimes it rings so true, what our grandmothers used to tell us and we never used to listen. Too much is too bad, isn’t this what they used to tell us? Once upon a time, there was social network utility named Facebook which was known for its simpicity, ease of use and uncluttered look. And Continue reading

Commentary, Internet, Media, My Projects, Observations, Research, Social Networking, Technology

August 3, 2007

What’s This Stupid Internet Thing? Shut It Down

Sir Elton John wants the internet to be shut down. And pray, why is he singing this tune? In his own words – “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t Continue reading

Commentary, India, Internet, Music, Observations, Research, Technology

July 8, 2007

The Long Tail in radio

I’m no rocket scientist(I’ve never wanted to be one), or an economist(which I’ve sometimes wanted to be) or a social scientist(which I want to be), but one doesn’t need to be any of the above to figure this out. For Jaane Do Na from Cheeni Kum, Illayaraja uses one of his earlier compositions, Jothe Jotheyali Continue reading

Bollywood, Commentary, Internet, Media, Movies, Technology

October 14, 2006

Thinking beyond Google and the search for the next big thing in search.

Search begins and ends with Google, or so you thought. Ofcourse, there are the other search engines which you never really bothered to visit – Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and Ask. But there are a slew of other search engines which are sure to make search more interesting. Whether they’ll be able to give Google a Continue reading

Internet, Media, Observations, Research, Technology

September 12, 2006

BlogCamp 2006

How do I feel now? Great!. If you were at the BlogCamp, you’d know what I’m talking about. BlogCamp un-happened. The success of this meet was no mean feat considering the novel nature of this event. The fact that it was an unconference and attracted around 200 participants from all over India speaks volumes about Continue reading

Been There Done That, Chennai, Events, People, Technology, Travel

September 5, 2005

The battle heats up-Microsoft CEO: ‘I’m going to f—ing kill Google’

my shift key has a problem, so no ‘capitalised'(exactly..that’s what one of our teachers said..all keywords in java should begin with ‘capitalised’)letters and my mind’s not working. i donno the reason. is it because of the excess of movies that i’m watching or is it because i’m attending more classes this time! continuing on the Continue reading

Google, Internet, Movies, My Projects, Personal, Technology

August 25, 2005

What happens when you dream and grow ‘big’

THIS Will come back with another post soon…i see less people coming to my blog these days..what’s (not) happening????!!!!! Continue reading

Google, Observations, Technology