Ashoke Sen gets $3 million in Fundamental Physics Prize for Research on...
If you read about Uddhab Bharali earlier on Pluggd.in, and were excited by him being conferred with the NASA Technology Award, Ashoke Sen brings you more reason to rejoice. For his pioneering...
View ArticleTirupati-based DoloArts: Where Ecommerce Meets God
Yes, you read that right. A startup based out of Tirupati, that is based around what else but devotion. DoloArts.com is basically an e-shop that connects people around the globe to the world of art...
View ArticleAndroid in Appliances: From Cameras to Satellites, Appliances to NASA’s...
Last week, Nikon announced its latest camera in the point and shoot category: the Coolpix S800c, a tool powered with a 16 megapixel, BSI CMOS sensor that can click pictures at 10X optical zoom, but...
View ArticleWhat the Pluck! Who Needs a Book to Share on a Social Network! [Book Review]
When I had remarked exactly a year ago, “Google + is an excellent product– a brilliantly planned, and well developed web-app, with a striking UX and great features, that has the potential to take...
View ArticleAmrita Smart: A Smart solar charger for your smartphone
When it comes to technology, mobility is the apple (pun unintended) of everyone’s eyes today, from hardware manufacturers to software companies to marketeers to app-churners. However, there is one...
View ArticleInteractively Analyze Big Data in the Cloud using Google BigQuery
Organizations and businesses today live and breathe data. Data is being used for a variety of different purposes such as understanding and predicting, user traffic and trends, improve supply chain...
View ArticleNivaata’s Verayu Helps You Locate Without GPS [Location as a Service]
If you own a smartphone, you would be aware of location-based services. Most apps today provide you information based on where are you at the time of requesting that piece of info, be it about choosing...
View ArticleTwitter API v1.1: What Does it Mean For Developers?
Earlier this month, Twitter released v1.1 of its public API, the first upgrade to the API since launch. The initial version still works, and all developers and consumers of the API have six months to...
View ArticleParis-based Jib.li Makes Use of Surplus Luggage Space to Deliver Shipments...
Requesting friends to get you stuff when they travel to the US, or to a common hometown, has been a popular practice. It could be anything from a latest camera, which is cheaper in the US, but Amazon...
View ArticlerBus Attempts to Reduce Mumbai Traffic by Creating Buspools
One of the major reasons for stress in a metropolitan area today is the traffic you have to brave every day while commuting to work. Since working from home is not feasible for everyone everyday,...
View ArticleLinkedIn Introduces Endorsements: One-Click Mini Recommendations?
LinkedIn announced Endorsements Monday, a new feature that allows you to recognize professionals for their skills and expertise. The official statement was published only this week though our own...
View ArticleTracking makers of modern India: Grassroot Innovators & their Innovations
If you are a regular reader of Pluggd.in, you’d have seen the on-and-off coverage of Grassroots Innovation and Innovators, primarily from rural India. These innovators, with or without a formal...
View ArticleAn Illiterate Farmer’s Low-Cost Wind and Water Mills to Generate Power
Siddappa G Hullajogi, a farmer who never went to school, uses a self-designed and self-installed water mill to generate electricity that lights up his modest dwelling in Somapura village in Gadag...
View ArticleWriterBabu: A Social Platform to Share your Creativity, Anonymously if you Like
In the era of SoLoMo, social networks have obviously been flourishing, and the space is becoming crowded. The crowd and the noise is also giving way to niche social networks and platforms being...
View ArticleAccessing Third-Party API Resources via OAuth [Tech Treats]
The last post in this column provided an in-depth discussion on the changes mandated by the new specification of the Twitter API v1.1. Two of the major changes were a limit on the number of users per...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Taking an (online) Cab
Rashi had to discontinue driving after she entered her sixth month of pregnancy. Every evening, she would call a few taxi services (Meru, City Taxi, Spot Taxi etc) but none of them would have a cab...
View ArticleStockoy: A Social network for the Trading Community
Last week we had argued that heavy noise on the popular social networks is giving way to niche social networks and platforms. While it was WriterBabu, a social networking platform dedicated to improve...
View ArticleGoogle, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, et al Launch WebPlatform.org with W3C to...
If you are a web developer, or someone who has been on a team that builds applications for the web, you’d have gone through the pains of making your client side code work smoothly on multiple browsers....
View ArticleA Drilling Machine that does not need Electricity [Grassroot Innovation]
Power, or rather, the lack of it, is the biggest problem in rural India. The previous post in this fortnightly column featured an illiterate farmer’s attempts to generate electricity out of a simple...
View ArticleWeb Storage HTML5 API: Cookies are so 1994 [Tech Treats]
If there is one area where native apps definitely outrule web applications, it is persistent local storage. For native applications, the OS provisions for application-specific data like preferences or...
View ArticleCouchPotato.be Creates a Social Way to Discover Movies
Movie reviews are generally biased. I do not read too many movie reviews before deciding to watch a movie or not, but used to glance through the late Nikhat Kazmi’s reviews in the Times of India, and...
View ArticleMagiXcan Promises to Make Computers 10X Faster, or More
A rise in megapixel count in a camera may not necessarily result in a better photo, but one thing it surely implies is a bigger file, and hence a longer time to open it on a typical computer. CPU...
View ArticleAirJaldi Brings Internet to Difficult Terrains in Rural India
In this golden age of social networks and ecommerce, and everything else online, internet is taken for granted. Urban India is constantly logged in–be it on their phones, tablets, laptops, or those...
View ArticleSweden based MouseStats Provides Eye-Tracking Heatmaps for your Website
With multi-billion dollar businesses relying entirely on the web, Web Analytics has become an important and useful subject. The measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data can be...
View ArticleOnline grocery store, Shopveg shuts shop due to lack of funds [Expectation...
ShopVeg.in, one of the first online fruits-vegetables and groceries stores in Mumbai, (read our previous coverage), shut shop earlier this month for lack of funds. To give you a quick recap of their...
View ArticleMyAdCorner helps you Advertise in Print Media, Online
Many of the startups today make money out of online advertising. Why, we are no exception. Not only startups, behemoths like Google and Facebook too rely on online ads for their billions of dollars,...
View ArticleOyeChotu.com Delivers Authentic Indian Snacks to NRIs Worldwide
Indians can be found in any corner of the world today, working, studying, or settled with families. No matter where in the world they are, they will always crave for Indian food. While Indian...
View ArticleKoolkart: What went wrong? [Marketing turned out to be a blind spot]
As we had reported some time ago, online price-comparison-engine-social-commerce turned etailer Koolkart has shut down thanks to investors’ frugality. Even though it was a very strong product, running...
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