Recent Articles by Jitendra Gupta
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Open Source Economics Driving Web 2.0 Innovation
Open Source Business Models The heightened level of interest in the open source model has lead companies to start looking for ways to add value to the process of open source development and distribution, in order to make money from it. Some of the models/approaches that have emerged are: Develop…
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What Happened At Digg?
30th April 2007: A user posts a link on Digg to the encryption key that is used to crack HD DVD protection 30th April 2007 - Midnight PST: Digg pulls the story and bans the user. This causes other users to submit stories about the encryption key and the efforts to suppress it. Some people…
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OpenID at Web 2.0 Expo
David produced a slide that showing there are not only over 100 million OpenIDs in service, but there are close to 2,500 relying parties already accepting OpenID. Some of the interesting platforms/technologies that are supporting OpenID are: Platforms: Joomla, drupal, phpbb, rails, plone Sites…
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How to Build a Profitable Startup by Knowing Your Users Better
I think Scott is onto something here. Take Google AdSense, which shows ads on different sites based on keywords. These keywords provide valuable context for targeting ads. But still, without understanding the users the ad-targeting can go completely off. As an example, say we have two users: one…
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Improving Online Communities: MyBlogLog, Explode, OthersOnline
Where there are visitors, there is spam With all the success of MyBlogLog, came a number of people looking to use it for financial gains. From R-Rated avatars, to people pretending to be somebody else, to other commercial avatars like Mr. Online Pharmacy, there have been a number of instances of…
