Indian e-Retailing / e-Commerce Headed for Explosive Growth
Wishing You a Fabulous 2012. Year has begin with a SaaS Cloud Application for which everything else is sacrificed. Do or Die. Here is a quick update on the e-commerce / e-retailing market in India with projections from various sources. Business research suggests that the most attractive space in Indian Internet is e-retailing, owing to low penetration (it comprises less than 0.5% of India’s total retail as against 8%+ in the US / 4% in China). According to various data points, India’s e-retail market is projected to be over USD12bn in the next 5 years from the current USD 600mn (2011) implying a 80% CAGR. This would still imply less than 2% of overall retail sales and 3.5% of per capita income.
It is well known fact that Travel / Reservations is single largest chunk of Indian Read more
LokSabha Website Security Compromised – Serving Malware / Badware like Indian Politicians
It is no surprise that dozens of Indian Government Website security has been compromised for months / years, but who cares ? Oho! I did and approached the NIC Office near Bangalore GPO like an eminent citizen only to realize the Massive Red Tapism from top to bottom in the Hierarchy. That was the time when A. Raja was Minister for IT & Comm.
The Loksabha website that hosts questionnaire is serving malware / badware just like how most of our Politicians are serving the country 
Here is a Screenshot Read more
Security Warning – Why Never Share / Use your E-Mail Passwords Elsewhere ? MyMakan Shutsdown Exposes + Entire User Database
This Article has been in the Draft for quite sometime because the Webmasters of MyMakaan.com took long time to take the mortal remains of their website offline. Thought I’ll push it out. Their used to be a site MyMakaan.com operating in the Real Estate Classifieds category. The Site was very poorly Developed & Deployed, I should say. Searching for something made me land here and I was able to download most of the source code as well as Database of Users thrown wide open on the Internet. Too Bad!!!
- Mortal Remains of Perl Code of MyMakaan is here.
- Here is a sample list of Users and their Passwords [ I hope I am not doing any blunder here to be able to identify the user as Google once did exposing AOL Queries]
- Number of Users who had “mymakaan” as their password is 4938 of which Read more
Is IndiaGetOnline Google’s Starting Point for SME & MarketPlace Apps ? SaaS Opportunities for Entrepreneurs
Google backed IndiaGetOnline is a Platform for SMEs to establish their Web Identity – Domain, Company e-mail id, Website, Google Apps [ Online Documents, Spreadsheets, etc]. Google has partnered with Hostgator for Hosting Solutions and ICICI Bank / FISME to probably get SME database and channel to reach potential customers.
Much has been written across the Web on how this service compares with others in the Industry etc. However, Google’s motive is not just expanding its Online Advertising Platform but to get SMEs in India addicted to Google Apps and its Partners Offerings in the Long Term.
Google’s Long Term Goals
Google is fighting Microsoft Office with Google Apps Suite Read more
Think the FaceBook Way – Platform of the Decade
As the Valley innovates stronger platforms with fabulous business models have emerged and this time it is all about Social Connectivity in the context of Facebook or similar platform, but for now lets assume Facebook. I am a reasonably good analyst in placing bets in the IT & Telecom sector with good hit ratio of 90% over the past decade 
Four years ago, I wrote Facebook is the new WWW and today you all know which is the most popular Website / Service on the Internet. I will be writing series of posts on how Facebook has influenced half a billion and is preparing to get another billion [800 mn from ChIndia] on to the the platform within the next few years [by 2015].
Seeing the trends in handheld devices [ Mobile + Tablet & variants etc] I can’t Read more
Barkha Dutt – Nira Radia Tapes Power Broking between Congress – DMK
This is not really related to Telecom / Broadband, However, Barkha Dutt, the Editor in Chief who acted like a Holy Goddess against one of the blogger C. Kunte when he wrote an Article Titles Shoddy Journalism and made him apologize.
What do you have to say about these tapes Ms Barkha Dutt ?
Tape – 1 Read more
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