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Diaz Nesamoney of Jivox, Video Ad Network

By kamla bhatt • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
 Diaz Nesamoney of Jivox: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The online world is undergoing a huge change with video and audio downloads growing at a fast clip. Video is the biggest growth area in the online world. So, it is any surprise that online video ads are projected to be over $2 billion by 2010 by eMarketer. Unsurprisingly, there are a fair amount of […]



Murugan Pal of CK-12

By kamla bhatt • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
 
 Murugan Pal of CK12-12: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

CK-12 is a Silicon Valley non-profit organization co-founded by Murugan Pal and Neeru Khosla.
Take Wikipedia, iTunes, Netflix, MySpace and club it all together and target it to textbook manufacturing system and that is CK-12 for you.
CK-12 helps students and teacher create customized content in the form of flexbooks for free. This is a collaborative […]



An Expats POV: Hiring And Working In India

By kamla bhatt • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
 Lin Chase of Accenture: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lin Chase of Accenture spent 2 years in India as the first head of Accenture’s R&D lab. In Part-2 of the interview Lin discusses and shares her experience of working in India. Her advice for working in India is this: India always wins and you cannot win India.
What are the cultural underpinnings and context […]



Melek Pulatkonak of Hakia, Semantic Search Engine

By kamla bhatt • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
 Melek Pulatkonka of Hakia: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Melek Pulotkonak is COO of Hakia, a 4-year old semantic search startup based in New York city.
I caught up with Melek at the BlogHer conference in San Francisco to find out about Hakia, semantic search engine and how they are different from Google. I also wanted to find out how would semantic search change […]