Tweets as SMS is great to hear but the initial enthusiasm will not last long .Tweets are no longer just text, as you spend more time on tweets you tend to check out a few links in the tweets you get. For a non GPRS phone user it will soon be like a group chat/sms and for a GPRS user you get the actual twitter apps on the phone. So tweets on SMS in India will not catch on the fancy of the mass of the 'twitterers'.
Also twitter on SMS by just one service provider is no good thing. I do not understand why service provider is happy claiming the exclusivity, in the contrary it hurts. This exclusivity will alienate the people with other service provider, so the twitter reach by SMS is skewed and hence social network.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
To or Not to SAAS? (Software AS A Service)
There were days when BIG companies only rented out computers and refused sell them.SaaS is different from this as the new age players help, shield, the users from the pain of doing everything themselves and the users are more than happy to use the service as it is one important thing, they need not worry about!
As of now SaaS seems to be working fine, but will this change? We will obviously have to wait & see. But as a small business owner I would answer a few questions before jumping into SAAS boat.
How comfortable I am knowing that all my accounting informtaion is in some place on the internet and available to me only if I pay up?(after all I am responsible to the Feds!)
How sure, that all my business leads are backed up?(Murphys' Law that too when I have no control)
How sure, that my customers' personal information is leak proof?(there can be few bad apples anywhere and I have limited control)
What would be the best time to hear that the SaaS provider is closing and I need to move to another?(we have seen many very big s/w vendors announcing EOS)
How sure, that my services/data is not accessed by my competitor?(almost everything is just a password away)
How can I cut down software expenses temporarily?(of course lean periods are a reality)
I am definitely not questioning the SaaS capabilities,a great fan of web 2.0, but just checking my comfort levels using SaaS. As developing and maintaing all the required software is time consuming and expensive, SaaS is gaining popularity. But if software development is made easy, affordable & robust would you still be using SaaS for your serious business needs?
Even I use SaaS for picture Sharing.
For faster desktop software development use lyteRAD.
As of now SaaS seems to be working fine, but will this change? We will obviously have to wait & see. But as a small business owner I would answer a few questions before jumping into SAAS boat.
How comfortable I am knowing that all my accounting informtaion is in some place on the internet and available to me only if I pay up?(after all I am responsible to the Feds!)
How sure, that all my business leads are backed up?(Murphys' Law that too when I have no control)
How sure, that my customers' personal information is leak proof?(there can be few bad apples anywhere and I have limited control)
What would be the best time to hear that the SaaS provider is closing and I need to move to another?(we have seen many very big s/w vendors announcing EOS)
How sure, that my services/data is not accessed by my competitor?(almost everything is just a password away)
How can I cut down software expenses temporarily?(of course lean periods are a reality)
I am definitely not questioning the SaaS capabilities,a great fan of web 2.0, but just checking my comfort levels using SaaS. As developing and maintaing all the required software is time consuming and expensive, SaaS is gaining popularity. But if software development is made easy, affordable & robust would you still be using SaaS for your serious business needs?
Even I use SaaS for picture Sharing.
For faster desktop software development use lyteRAD.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
What do you use your Mobile phone for?
Ofcourse apart from making calls & playing games.The handset vendors pushing more & more powerful hardware into your hands, what are you using it for? Coming to list of killer Apps on the phones, a browser with GPRS will cover a host of websets that you access on your phone,then comes the office docs/calendar/email integration, oh yeah the IMs(innovative? SMS apps to a
id instead of ph no...) are the hottest software for the PDA from quite some time and there are zillions of variations being added to these as you read. These cannot be a killer apps forever. Andriod may bring a new different breed of software but we will have to wait a while for that. What now? We already have a handset..
Are you ready for lyteMobile..? Presenting the killer app for Mobile - lyteMobile.
Its a free midlet with which you can use build applications that YOU need on your Mobile. You build table and forms to access them within minutes with zero coding. You can add, browse & edit records of a table, send records via SMS. True! You can build & use your own application on your mobile all you need is only the lyteMobile midlet. So what...
Imagine you need an application to track your expenses on your Mobile see a how to make one here. You might want another application to track the hits on your website, yes you can build that in minutes using lyteMobile.You can sync your data on lyteMobile with a desktop application, using lyteRAD.
lyteMobile is free and can be downloaded from here.
It works on all the midlet managers that support file access API(jsr75).lyteMobile midlet needs blanket permissions to read and write into files which many of the midlet managers provide on most of the PDAs. On the phones that do not give blanket permission to midlets there is a series of questions asked while accessing the files which is annoying. Permission questions are good, but there should be a way to skip them when you trust a midlet. J2ME specification currently forces any application vendor to spend a fortune for this(Java Verified Program, trusted midlets, code signing ...).It is this flawed approach of J2ME which is limiting itself.
BTW I am using lyteMobile on windows Mobile smart phone with Esmertecs' jbed midlet manager and works like a dream.
id instead of ph no...) are the hottest software for the PDA from quite some time and there are zillions of variations being added to these as you read. These cannot be a killer apps forever. Andriod may bring a new different breed of software but we will have to wait a while for that. What now? We already have a handset..
Are you ready for lyteMobile..? Presenting the killer app for Mobile - lyteMobile.
Its a free midlet with which you can use build applications that YOU need on your Mobile. You build table and forms to access them within minutes with zero coding. You can add, browse & edit records of a table, send records via SMS. True! You can build & use your own application on your mobile all you need is only the lyteMobile midlet. So what...
Imagine you need an application to track your expenses on your Mobile see a how to make one here. You might want another application to track the hits on your website, yes you can build that in minutes using lyteMobile.You can sync your data on lyteMobile with a desktop application, using lyteRAD.
lyteMobile is free and can be downloaded from here.
It works on all the midlet managers that support file access API(jsr75).lyteMobile midlet needs blanket permissions to read and write into files which many of the midlet managers provide on most of the PDAs. On the phones that do not give blanket permission to midlets there is a series of questions asked while accessing the files which is annoying. Permission questions are good, but there should be a way to skip them when you trust a midlet. J2ME specification currently forces any application vendor to spend a fortune for this(Java Verified Program, trusted midlets, code signing ...).It is this flawed approach of J2ME which is limiting itself.
BTW I am using lyteMobile on windows Mobile smart phone with Esmertecs' jbed midlet manager and works like a dream.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Android the affordable GPS?
How can you track the train positions of the trains of Indian Railways, one of the largest railway network in the world? Fit GPS systems on all of the passenger & freight carrier trains and they transmit the location info to a Satellite..... Enter Android(the new mobile platform) strap each train(put it with the driver) a Android mobile phone with a application which will push the location info periodically via text message/GPRS viola we have almost accurate positioning system at what cost.. literally peanuts. In fact now every vehicle can come with a SIM card and a device running Android.
Why only with Android, it could have been possible with other mobile platforms but the others(platform developers, device manufactures & service providers) chose not give the applications enough power(such as call id) citing security reasons, but Google's' Android turned the tables on to them to open up or die. Forget cell location info the other mobile platforms do not even allow your application write to a file on your mobile it requires your consent(yes or no) before writing/reading to a file/network(more in my next post). All applications are treated equal on Android i.e if there is some info on your mobile then there is an API for your application to access it.
Wait this will not be possible without the support of the mobile service provider, you cannot do much with the cell id(its just a unique number referring to the cell phone mast of the service provider) as its physical location is known only to the service provider.
I am not sure if this info is public(security again). If they do not give out we need a new service provider that can turn the tables.
I would love to see this happen..
Write a sample application on the Android mobile phone(appearing later this year) get into to train and let the loved ones know your location with an SMS!! BSNL (mobile service provider )covers the almost all of complete area of Indian railway track.
Anyhow with Android and its location based services I can already imagine a number of places where it is going to make a big impact.
Why only with Android, it could have been possible with other mobile platforms but the others(platform developers, device manufactures & service providers) chose not give the applications enough power(such as call id) citing security reasons, but Google's' Android turned the tables on to them to open up or die. Forget cell location info the other mobile platforms do not even allow your application write to a file on your mobile it requires your consent(yes or no) before writing/reading to a file/network(more in my next post). All applications are treated equal on Android i.e if there is some info on your mobile then there is an API for your application to access it.
Wait this will not be possible without the support of the mobile service provider, you cannot do much with the cell id(its just a unique number referring to the cell phone mast of the service provider) as its physical location is known only to the service provider.
I am not sure if this info is public(security again). If they do not give out we need a new service provider that can turn the tables.
I would love to see this happen..
Write a sample application on the Android mobile phone(appearing later this year) get into to train and let the loved ones know your location with an SMS!! BSNL (mobile service provider )covers the almost all of complete area of Indian railway track.
Anyhow with Android and its location based services I can already imagine a number of places where it is going to make a big impact.
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