Taking the dive!!!

Has been a long time since I updated this space . . . Has been a very hectic schedule for past motnh or so . . .

Finally it is done! I have taken the dive, and am learning to swim. No not swimming in water, swimming in the business world. Today was my first day out of Pramati and SocialTwist. After 2 years of association with the place like that the most difficult part is coming over it. I can always say that Pramati is one of the best employers and best place to work at. But as everyone around me always knew, this day had to come and I had to do it . . . Start pursuing my own dreams!!! I am starting as a consultant from today and soon will anounce my product plans. Will definitely miss Pramati.

Though I have figured out the whole consulting model I am venturing in, I haven't yet put it formally on paper. Didn't have the need to, till now, except for explaining a few close friends. I have seen the intelligent entreprenuers know very well, what they want, so all I have to discuss with them is what I have to offer from their list.  Have been interacting with a few clients and will update again when I finalize the deal materializes.

Many people have been asking what model I'll be working on, and so I'll be updating you all soon on that.

Today, with this new post, I am also trying this new blog writer Qumana, form the initial looks it seems that it might very well become my default blog writer . . . But who knows?

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Fight in the Search arena - All contestants look like pygmy in front of Google's Dinosuar

I was just wondering what's the status of Bing, Microsoft's brand new search engine (which I admit I liked, but fell back to using Google) and from one of the links I got a link to StatCounter page with the comparison data.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Search Engine Market Share


Far from beating Google, Bing again fell back in the race going below Yahoo! Google remains the huge unchallenged Sumo wrestler.

Simple interface or interaction enhancements definitely won't be able to dethrone Google Search, It has to be a ground breaking innovation. I think Wolfram Alpha stands a chance to displace Google in the research niche, but for the general search Google seems will remain the undisputed leader for quite sometime. . .

SocialTwist is hiring . . .

We are hiring for the SocialTwist team. Being on this team and with the company for over 2 years now, I can say Pramati is one of the best employers and SocialTwist is the best team here to work with.

Check out the openings here - http://careers.socialtwist.com/web20dev

So, if you have a love for innovation and are looking for interesting challenges you are looking at the right place!

Your product will have a very high visibility and you can gain some easy points over those friends of yours slogging in "Enterprise software development" and doing the boring routine work . . .