Surya Prakash Jayanti

Two things that are going to be there in 2011 are Cloud and Social Network. Any blog I write on these two things I fully enjoy. Having social presence is important these days as more business offers and identifications are happening basing on social network potential you have. Palm hotel in Lasvegas takes into count your KLOUT score to provide you extra facilities so that you can influence others in your network to go to this hotel. Recently McDonald's offered discount for all Four Square users checking into McDonald's. I can see the trend growing. Next year we are going to see some more innovative things basing on Location based services and Social Networks. I was reading through some factoids on what makes you social expert. There are some parameters for this. 1. Your Google presence. Search on your name like "Surya Prakash Jayanti". 2. Your Twitter Followers. 90% of your followers are authentic. Remaining 10% will be spam. 2000 followers will qualify you for e...

Does  Antilia need introduction ? Well, as you know this is the new home of Mr. Mukesh Ambani in  Altamount Road,  Mumbai, India (Google out for Zip code). The $27 Billion richest person  constructing a house worth $1 Billion over several years. Some facts... 27 Floors in the sky 6 levels car parking 3 helipads on the roof  9 elevators,  SPA 50 seat theater Grand ball room BMW Service center (Rumor) 100's of servants and staff expected to work inside. Around 20 Million people live in Mumbai, roughly 62% of population live in slums... Around 15% exports in India are from Ambani group. House warming party on Nov 28th with 200 guests (I didn't get the invite) An article published on this house in NYTimes on 29th OCT 2010 edition. Last but not least.....A family of 5 people going to live in it... I don't know he brought proud to India or he is clearly showing up the difference between rich and poor in India. Whatever i...

As you all know Twitter is microblogging and real time information system. I just looked at the video of new twitter avatar, its looking cool guys. You need NOT go to separate link to watch video or to see pictures. Here are some fascinating facts about Twitter. 16% of new users are starting on mobile. There are on average 370,000 new sign ups a day overall. 90% of the information on Twitter is public. 90 million tweets a day About 25% of tweets contain links New rollout is launching worldwide. But it will be an incremental roll out before everyone gets. 160 Million Users currently All the best for the new Twitter.com. I am eagerly waiting to see the updated twitter look. By the way am I going to miss "Fail Whale" / "Blue Whale" ? Love you Twitter... Disclaimer : Twitter can make you loose your job. If you have doubts check with Lalit Modi (ex-IPL chairman) / Shashi Tharoor. Author is not responsible for the side effects :-)

"Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish", told by Steve Jobs in a graduation ceremony. Indians and Chinese have the edge over the world because they are not just another fat ass in the world. Excuse my language. They can work their way off. This was the edge for India. Now its loosing its edge slowly. The new generations aren't hard working any more. Now a days generations have enough deviations so that they can not concentrate on success. It was not the case earlier. They can work for hours together for their success. Now they are lazy, they don't want to do the hard work. They are talking about something called life, which equates to less money and more life. On the other hand Chinese generations still fall under the category of stay hungry and work your way off. In the field of Software they have their Average work hours some where between 12-15. In India it is somewhere between 9-10. More and more companies are moving to China as the language barrier is getting closed. ...

Recently I have seen so many acquisitions from Google. It invested nearly $500M in social acquisitions. It bought Slide, Jambool for $200 Milliion and invested around $100 Million in Zynga. Since they are planning to grow is Social and it is the hot market. They started acquiring whatever they can in Social arena. Similar the case with Amazon, they bought Woot. They want to grow in online marketing division so they are doing the acquisitions. I rarely saw any acquisition in Indian IT companies. When some one posed this question to Infosys, they said they are looking for the right fit. I am surprised they haven't got the right fit in last couple of years. There are many concept companies which can add value to their business. At least they can think of consulting or Integration or small product oriented companies. They have huge pile of cash. I don't know if the company top bosses feel it safe to have their company reserves in bank rather than spending on acquisitions. It wi...

Because of people who don't know how to hold an iPhone (their phones are smart, but they are not) properly, Steve Jobs has to cancel his vacation in Hawaii :-) OH BOY !!! Well when the whole world is hyping on his iPhone he was blushing, now they are talking about its antenna he is cursing. Well you know Steve, its part of game. From the beginning apple is famous for its designs and appeal, of course then performance. we can give benefit of doubt to Apple. Some how I feel Apple is over aggressive (we might call it arrogance). This is the kind of jolt I am expecting for Apple. Though I am fan of Microsoft, I respect Apple products. But its hard to bear arrogance, though we have lot of respect for its products. You tried to prove the whole world has that antenna problem is a problem for all. But it is evident and bigger in iPhone 4. Remember your products were given more hype, so obviously they attack more if there is something wrong. Accept the defect and convey politely that ...

This story is about a Triangle love Story of Social Networking, Employee and Employer. As you all can understand from Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, Foursquare etc., employees are in love with Social Networking. Of course, Social Networking is also getting benefits from employee updates. So its two way love. Then where is the problem? The problem is with girls parents always, that is employer in this case. As parents try to control their children, Organization want to have control on employee updates into Social Networking. All big companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple are having the Social Networking policies in place already. Do you know all Hollywood stars contracts have Social networking clause ? yes they are NOT supposed to leak anything about the movie in their social networks. So now these controls are coming to Consulting and offshore based firms. Recently NASSCOM asked Infosys to come up with Social Networking policies. Now Infosys is ready with that weapon, I m...