Category Archives: opensource
Sim-OnDemand: OpenSim on EC2- Personal Virtual World Server
In the last post I mentioned that Sim-OnDemand is a learning by doing initiative in DevPay context. Let me elaborate on Sim-OnDemand a bit. The intended purpose of Sim-OnDemand is as a personal Sim for experimentation, development and testing. Sim-OnDemand: … Continue reading
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Tagged AWS DevPay, ec2 AMi launcher, ec2 paid ami, firefox extension, opensim, opensim on ec2, Personal Virtual World for experimentation, Sim-OnDemand, virtual world, virtual world software plus cloud
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AWS DevPay: Learning by Doing – Making Money With OpenSource
AWS DevPay is one of lesser publicized and presumably under utilized service by Amazon Web Services. A Platform + Community play becomes an growing, thriving ecosystem when barriers of making money off the ecosystem are reduced. DevPay makes it possible … Continue reading
Take Over The Sky – Slowly
Amazon and Jeff Bezos are all set to take over the world – in their typical way – Slowly. With the announcement of AWS DevPay today closely following SimpleDB announcement last week, the game is getting interesting by the hour. … Continue reading
Twitter Story:The Darkness Inside
Via Angela Thomas Have a writter’s block? Ask your twitter network for help. Or better still, get the entire writeup get done by the network. Twittories are new genre of collaborative creative writing. Here is how the story ends: Savanna … Continue reading
Milemeter got my vote in AWS Challenge
Today I voted for Amazon Web Services StartUp challenge. I voted for MileMeter – an auto insurance company that offers insurance by the mile. It seems they have sixty ‘patent pendings’ on the concept and processes. They are going to … Continue reading
Booting AWS Community in Chennai: Wanna mash Tiddly +AWS?
I’ve been experimenting with getting coding work done through Freelance coders in Chennai. Recently I hired Mukundan to mashup of SecondLife Linden Scripting Language(LSL) with Amazon Web Services. Mukundan overcame strange stack heap collisions by tactfully dividing the code and … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Web Service, Chennai, crowdsourcing, Entrepreneurship, Idea Factory, longtail, lslsha, mashups, mturk, opensource, Startup, tiddlywiki, wiki
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Proto.in Summer Edition: Internet and Web2.0
The first to be called on stage was Pramati Software as they experienced setup glitches, BriteSoft took the stage. To quote from their website: BriteWorks The BriteWorks platform enables users to create enterprise applications in a fraction of the time … Continue reading
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Proto.in Summer Edition: Mobile
I was busy with other things so I was not able to complete my featuring of other proto.in presentations. The first one to take up the stage in this segment was RareFind and their product is called MoCoDile. They threw … Continue reading
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Proto.in Second Edition: Enterprise Solutions
Proto.in India startup action event started with an ‘Invocation’ – video featuring Amithabh Bachchan on the theme India Poised( by Times of India). Ravi Naraina kicked off the session by drawing parallel between Proto.in and Woodstock . Vijay Anand, the … Continue reading
Posted in Chennai, Chinese, opensource, proto, proto.in
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Mturk + Opensource Process = ?
1)The code opensource movement initiated by RMS resulted in Linux which culminated into many things including Wikipedia. 2) J P Rangaswami( Confused of Calcutta) in his on going four pillars discourse talks about Opensourcing processes. 3) I’m presently very excited … Continue reading
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