Regular readers to this site are few and far in between – the lack of updates certainly would’ve been a buzzkill. But that is because I’ve spent the past one month blogging at another website – StartupDispatch.com
The idea is the same: startups, founders, cool stuff, resources, but only with a better domain name, and (I hope) a better design.
Head over to StartupDispatch.com pronto, subscribe to the RSS feed, plug into my Twitter feed and let me know if the blog is any good at all.
Yes, I realize this blog has borne a barren look the past few days. Pardon the interruption, but blame not me but exams.
Studying for semester-end graduate school exams and nursing a startup addiction isn’t exactly the best recipe to top the grade curve. Hence, the sabbatical.
I will, in the unlikely event that I can get the time to excuse myself from a daily slog through dense literary studies on the conceptualization of the speaker in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, post a few updates here. My backlog of articles runs deep. It keeps shaming me into firing up Windows Live Writer before I panic and (wisely) head back to studies. Literary theory doesn’t make for pretty reading, but it is what I do, what I love (besides tech startups, just to clear the air). But be sure, that come December 9th, when I get done with the exams, this blog machinery will be in full swing.
I’ve been collecting data on funding rounds throughout November and will post a detailed report soon. Also in the works are profiles on dozens of new startups, including a few interviews (yes, I persuaded someone to do that), and a gradual enlargement of the site’s focus towards news and resources for entrepreneurs.
I lead no hallucinatory existence though; this is a small, young blog, and I hold no ambitions of it stepping into the worn out shoes of tech-press luminaries like TechCrunch or Mashable. But if I can make this blog a worthwhile stopover – daily, weekly, even monthly – I would consider it a job well done and grant myself a generous pat on the back.
TL;DR - I have exams. So no new posts. Sorry.
In an interview to AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes yesterday, Google+’s VP of Product, Bradley Horowitz revealed some interesting insight about the inner workings of the platform, as well as some indications of the direction of its future growth.
One thing stood out in the interview: that “Google+ is absolutely in a features race” – with Facebook, presumably. While he does name drop a keyword – ‘simplicity’ in conjunction with the above statement, it comes across as more of an afterthought.
In attempting to ‘out-feature’ Facebook, I daresay that Google has adopted a particularly flawed strategy, one you wouldn’t have expected from a company with such an overwhelming focus on Spartan minimalism. That all important keyword – simplicity – appears to have been carefully brushed under the carpet even as it urges attention to itself.
I hope this blog turns out to be greater than the sum of its parts. I wanted this blog to be a repository of my own curious opinion on technology and startups, but I would also cover tech news, and anything interesting that I find online. Be sure though that my focus will remain on startups, technology, business, and what makes stuff tick online.
As much as I’d like to focus on the entire technology and startup sphere, it’s not feasible – physically, or intellectually. I don’t understand solar tech startups; little sense in writing about them. What I do understand is technology, specifically, internet startups (gee, at least I hope so!), and I’ll devote this space to writing about them.
I hope to see this post buried beneath a mountain of content, so most likely, you won’t read this. But if you do, thanks for stopping by 
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