Random Notes from a tech-crunch reader

-tejaswi

A) Start a company - you are one amongst a few hundreds (counting for a single week). Make decent revenue- you are on the way. Micheal Arrington decides to talk about you- You are being noticed, time to get cautious. He is not a smooth guy, never goes easy on your product. Micheal Arrington talks about you twice - Man o man ! you are pretty awesome.. or everyone in the silicon valley wish you would just disappear to a quieter Ohio or Texas. Google decides to acquire you - you are a dude. You reject the offer- you are a fool or the next Google. Cant say.

Aa) If you wish to be one of any of the above the least you can do is to start reading Tech-Crunch , Tech-Meme every hour. Keep reading. According to my wild wild guess, there is a 70% chance that your idea is already out in the market, making millions for those 'crazy nuts' who came up with it first.

E) What is the 'in-thing' ? - Mash-ups, widgets and Aggregators. I am really excited about them. Twitter + Facebook + Flickr + Maps + Video + Newsfeeds + Friendfeeds and whatever you think can fit in. Social Networking. Open APIs. Ads. Effective Cost-cutting. Feed-Burners. Information repositories like Googledocs, Docstoc, Flickr, Video. Help businesses carry out better business.

Ee) What really works ? - Wont tell you.

U) What doesn't work ? - Lots.

Uu) Future of Research ? - Human Computer interaction and Information Science (the former is a part of the latter?) , Semantic Web, NLP (?), Smaller and Portable devices, Connectivity. (Should add more to this list)

Ae) In how many possible ways can Google maps be used ? If you come up with less than 10 ways, wake up to the web!