Jitendra Gupta

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Sunday, 10th June 2007

Open Source Economics Driving Web 2.0 Innovation

Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb In the area of computers and Internet, the open source movement is almost as old as computers themselves. In the beginning there was Multics, Unix, BSD, Minix etc. Than came Richard Stallman's GPL, GNU and FSF. That was followed by Linux, Apache and many more projects. Over time, the open source movement…

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Friday, 4th May 2007

What Happened At Digg?

The firestorm that erupted at Digg earlier this week over a censored post has led to a lot of discussion about the nature of censorship in a world where everyone is a publisher. Called "The Great Digg Revolt," by some, the incident illustrated how much power users have over the social sites they contribute to. First, though, here's a summary…

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Wednesday, 18th April 2007

Web 2.0 Expo 2007

OpenID at Web 2.0 Expo

There were two sessions today on User-Centric identity at Web 2.0 Expo. I attended the first one etitled “Implementing OpenID”, which was conducted by David Recordon of Verisign and Brian Ellin of JanRain. The session was well attended and it was surprising to see that more than 50% (according to a raised hand vote by David) of the…

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Tuesday, 20th March 2007

How to Build a Profitable Startup by Knowing Your Users Better

How to build a $50M online company is a topic that Dan Mitchell at the NYT explored recently, taking his cue from Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed. A few weeks ago Jeremy wrote about the scale a business has to achieve to get to $50M in revenue. I have summarized the scenarios from Jeremy's post in the table below: RPM = Revenue per thousand…

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Monday, 12th March 2007

Improving Online Communities: MyBlogLog, Explode, OthersOnline

Online community, or for that matter any community, is built upon the shared experiences of its participants. In the real world, people in a community typically interact with each other by gathering at same physical location, at the same time. In online communities, it is easy for users to interact with each other without any geographical or…

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Monday, 19th February 2007

Why AOL Created 63 Million New OpenIDs

Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus Late last week AOL announced its support of the open identity system OpenID, for all 63 million of their AOL/AIM Ids (for those looking for a quick introduction to OpenID, click here). The details of the announcement, via the dev.aol.com blog, are as follows: Every AOL/AIM user…

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Wednesday, 14th February 2007

Five Key Takeaways From Microsoft, OpenID Announcement

Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus Bill Gates of Microsoft just announced a deal with Jan Rain, VeriSign and Sxip to develop integration between Microsoft CardSpace and the open source project, OpenID. This is an interesting deal between the software giant in Redmond and a popular open source project, which…

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Sunday, 28th January 2007

Nobody Knows You're A Dog 2.0

Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus On the internet it is easy to pretend to be somebody else. DonÄôt like your name, adopt a new one. DonÄôt like the way you look, Photoshop your picture. Think you are too young or too old, select a new age. How is anybody going to find out anyway? As the now classic…

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Monday, 22nd January 2007

Throwaway Identities

Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus Social Media researcher danah boyd recently wrote in her blog about throwaway identities in MySpace: "Sara created a MySpace using an email address that she made specifically for that purpose. After vacation, she couldn't remember her MySpace password (or her email password…

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Thursday, 11th January 2007

PowerReviews Takes On Amazon.com With Distributed Model

Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus At the NewTechMeetup on Tuesday, I saw a presentation from Robert Chea, Founder and COO of PowerReviews. PowerReviews is a new startup that provides free Amazon.com-like user reviews to web retailers. Amazon.com reviews are one of the main reasons why the giant retailer is…

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