Monthly Archives: August 2007

Clustered Buzz for Feedity

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Within the past 2 months, we have had three new commercial partners who are now using Feedity for their data integration processes. Modesty aside, I always feel that a good service becomes even better once its time-tested and is commercially viable for reinvestment in its technology infrastructure.

With Feedity doing good so far, me and my small team, will solidfy Feedity’s service architecture to make it even better, by migrating the Feedity core application to a clustered environment. A new clustered hosting platform will mainly handle service-level routing, load-balancing and resource allocation among the commercial-customers nodes and the public-access nodes. This will result in smoother service delivery and optimum performance. I’ll post an update on this in the coming days.

Here’s some new buzz on the blogosphere about Feedity (also see past testimonials):

Feeds from any Web – Network World, by Mark Gibbs

Incredibly clever and very effective. … This service is actually more complex “under the hood” than it might appear and should provide and excellent platform for many mashups.

Finally! RSS feeds for any website!, by Josh Fraser

Thankfully Feedity has come to my rescue.

Hassle Free RSS Generation @ AFeedIsBorn

And so far it seems to be a good tool for creating webfeeds – for any webpage.

Thanks to all the Feedity users and supporters!

Micro funding is gaining momentum

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Lately there’s been a surge in the number of Internet startup’s and entrepreneurs willing to experiment more vividly with their ideas. Everyday I read about startup’s, meet like-minded entrepreneurs, and focus on my own startup. Over the period of time I’ve learnt that for a startup to hold promise and succeed, it must foremost address three issues. Continue reading →

The Water Wars

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The politics of the state, and the state of politics – both mirror each other in today’s world. Politically-driven wars have been fought for oil (the black gold, as they call it). However, many skeptics believe that the next wave of socially-driven wars will be fought over Earth’s most precious resource — water.

“When the well runs dry, we will know the worth of Water”, reads the tag-line of Shekhar Kapur‘s (Golden Globes Best Director nominee for Elizabeth) upcoming film “Paani” (Water). The film aims to present a vision of a future fast approaching us: when water, the most valued resource in the world, becomes a political and economic weapon wielded by those who have it against those who don’t.

What intrigued me more to jot this tale of water wars, was a well-researched blog post by Vikram Sood, about the importance of Tibet (to China). Tibetans have long been fighting their own silent war, the Free Tibet Campaign, against the occupation of Tibet by China. But why is Tibet, an isolated spiritual land, so important to China?

A lake in Tibet

One of the reasons behind this conflict, is the abundance of a vital natural resource in Tibet, the one we call – water. With China’s economic ring booming, but, amidst declining rainfall, continuous years of drought, and a stark reduction in water flow in their main rivers, China’s interest lies in harnessing Tibet’s water bodies. And with such “water wars” emerging between two of the fastest growing economies (China and India, keeping in mind that river Brahmaputra flows through Tibet), it makes sense for the politically-inclined and socially-bound to start building for the future.

Update: The “blue revolution” seems to be catching up.

[photo courtesy of Erica]