Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Ideas’

By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, India, Technology, Web 2.0

LiveJournal, an open source blogging platform is expanding its footprint in India and recently launched a community for their users in India. LiveJournal has ambitious plans for localization by providing translation and multilingual interfaces to its bloggers and readers. While English is the dominant language for Indian bloggers there has been an increase in the […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups

We have a nice mix of interviews that spans life, people and ideas. Murli Wanchoo is a retired Indian government official, who lives in Silicon Valley and he looks back at India in the early days. Then we have Anusuya Devi (88), who is known as  the “Queen of Folk Music” of Andhra Pradesh. Age […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Ideas, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Web 2.0

In this Sunday’s TechLife column in Financial Express the topic is virtual Bollywood and how there is now a new class of Bollywood fans that has been made possible by the spread of Internet and web 2.0 technologies. This new undiscovered class of Bollywood fans are the new age movie goers and I am wondering […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 12th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Technology, Web 2.0

Pingdom’s recent post about Social Network Popularity Around The World has created quite a bit of buzz. This mini-study looked at the popularity of some well-known social networks around the world. An important thing to remember is that this study was based on search and not by the number of […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos

Meet  15-year old Silicon Valley-based Daniel Brusilovsky. He wears many hats. He is an entrepreneur, blogger, vblogger and podcaster. His show is called the Apple Universe. He also works part-time at Qik, the real-time video streaming startup.
Daniel recently launched his  startup TeensinTech and is in talks with lawyers and VCs and is very savvy about […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, Ideas, India, Life, People, Podcast, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos

Here is the line-up for this week’s interview.
A 2-part interview with Murugan Pal of CK-12, a non-profit organization in the education field. CK-12 is co-founded by Neeru Khosla and Murugan and they are working on providing innovative technical solution for  high-school students and teachers. Murugan has an interesting background. Prior to working with CK-12 he […]