Yash’s adventures with life, business and technology
In: Interesting
5 Nov 2008I came across this presentation about how the sub prime crisis was created. It shows how borrowers, mortgage agents, banks, investment banks, rating agencies and governments f**** up! Very interesting. An explanation in very simple terms that everybody can understand. View in full screen to read the text clearly.
If you believe in god and if you are a Christian, then do you think those who do not accept Jesus as their saviour i.e. the people who follow other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism will got to hell? Every religion claims that it is the “ONLY” way to get a ticket to the [...]
In: Interesting|Web 2.0
21 Jan 2008I have launched a new blog – web2watch.com. This is a blog where I will write about new interesting web 2.0 sites/businesses that I come across. Internet is my passion and I LOVE to spend time surfing the web, discovering new interesting sites and seeing at what amazing ideas creative people come up with. There’s [...]
In: Interesting|Uconomix
4 Apr 2007I’ve started a new blog – Logo Tales. It’s a blog about famous corporate and brand logos. LogoTales tells the story of logos. Their history, their meaning, little known facts about the logos and interesting trivia. I’ve been attracted by logos for a time. Whenever I see a logo I try to analyze it and [...]
In: Interesting
30 Dec 2006It is becoming very difficult to get good domain names. Especially .com domain names. Virtually every name that you can think of is booked by some domain squatter who wants to sell it for thousands of dollars! I was looking for a good domain name for our new venture and was getting frustrated checking out [...]
In: Interesting
4 Sep 2006I just saw the ad of Indian Army on Indiatimes.com. This is cool! Army is advertising on the Net to recruit soldiers! I am impressed. Although the banner content is preliminary and the landing site is far from being called professional – its a good start. It’s good to see an institution like army utilising [...]
In: Interesting
16 Aug 2006How many times you have come across a website wanting to read an article or looking for some information and the site forced you to register before you could access that information? Chances are that you have faced this situation at least once. Although such compulsory registration is free, most of the times it is [...]
A few months back I was looking for a software that could let me type in Indian languages like Hindi or Gujarati. I was specifically searching for a program that would let me type phonetically i.e. if I type yash it would display यश in Hindi or યશ in Gujarati. I came across a nice [...]
In: Interesting
21 Jul 2006I have been a member of Orkut for a few days. For those who don’t know about Orkut, it’s a social networking site where people can communicate with their old friends and colleagues. There are other popular social networking sites as well like Linked In which is primarily for business purpose, Rediff Connexions, Friendster etc. [...]
I haven’t seen something like this before! I came across this link – http://darpg-grievance.nic.in/ An online Public Grievance lodging and monitoring system by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances of Government of India! If you have any complaint about the functioning of any of the 20 government departments listed below then you can [...]
This is the blog of Yash Gadhiya. An entrepreneur from Mumbai, India. I write about tech, science, history, cats, movies, politics, atheism, design, programming and myself!