Getting to Bangalore, India is a long trip (19-20 hours) from Dallas, Texas. If you live east of Colorado it is likely that you will head east to reach Bangalore. You can expect to pay between $1,600 and $2,000 for a coach ticket. I highly recommend upgrading to business class (it is worth it). But [...]

Want to start building an online community, but don’t want to build the community application? We want to give you an application we built (it is looking for a community). One of our developers built a simple social mobile-camera phone application call Gahbunga last year. The idea was to allow users to snap photos of [...]

BarCamp Bangalore is well underway.  I have attended three sessions SCRUM (by Pete), Pinko Marketing (by Tara) and Eclipse (by Anshu).  Check out headshots of the attendees here.  Check out the overall flickr stream here. (Brian, don’t worry I got you a shirt)

Got together with some of the BarCamp organizers last night for a pre-barcamp dinner.  The event looks to be promising and there is evidence that the people here really ‘get’ the ‘spirt of barcamp.’  If you have been trying to reach me, don’t worry, but my phone is not working here.  I will be on [...]

France has offered illegal immigrants $2,400 and $600 per child to leave the country since September.  It isn’t working.  Fewer than 200 people have taken the French government up on the offer.  The country only has 400,000 illegals, compared with more than 11,000,000 here in the U.S.  [via]

Fred Wilson makes a good point on immigration. He argues that we live in a flat world. That our kids will compete for good jobs with people from China, India, Isreal, Russia, Brazil and every other corner of the globe. He is right. We cannot lock the doors to keep our country great. We need [...]

Dawn Foster, who writes Open Source Culture, wrote an interesting post titled, “Hippies, Open Source and Web 2.0.”  She commented on the interview Brian and I did with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur.  She talks about how open source has influenced the current web 2.0 culture.  Good read, check it out.

It is Thursday morning here in Bangalore, the sounds of horns, birds and whistles fill the air.  I arrived around midnight last night so the roads were dark and deserted.  I am staying at the Oberoi here in Bangalore. When I arrived at the airport I was asking a young Swede how much I should [...]

Norwest Venture Partners is leading the path for many U.S. investors to India’s door.  Instead of investing in companies doing business in India, Norwest is increasingly focusing on doing deals directly with entrepreneurs in India.  This focus is backed up by their tenth fund ($650MM).  Norwest partners have been travelling to India at least six [...]

According to Bridge Ratings by 2010 radio’s penetration will drop from 94% today to 85%.  Three percent of of listeners attributed their reduced radio use to podcast listening.  [via]