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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Idea Ads and e-paper

Recently Idea mobile came up with very good ad. Thats is one of the best ads i have seen, may be only for a techie like me.


But there companies like squareup who realized some  of these, they make use of mobile phones to pay bills by acting like a credit card reader, squareup is started by Twitter co-founder.
Actually he designed a small magnetic card reader which can plugged into audio port. This convert magnetic reader data into audio signals and send into the mobile for further processing.


There is another company mophie which also did something like this, good thing is that card reader seems like more robust.

If these technologies are used in the proper way we have avoid bills from restaurant, bus tickets etc which are valid only for short duration. Squareup provides a central repository to save the bills, which can be retrieved when we want.

When we enter a restaurant menu should be available in the mobile through some Wi-Fi gateway, once we select the items we can use credit card to make the payment.

Friday, January 22, 2010

startup like this

Starting a new company, standing on your own, a dream for dreamers. What you really want to start a new company, a great idea?, gifted programmers?, VC funding? and a marketing guru?.
Only the lucky ones will get all these things in one place.
Let us see what 37signals, a web2.0  product company is doing.

Jason is the Co-founder and President is of 37 signals. Jason implemented what he said in the video, so he and his co-workers published a book about their company, and the book is freely available on the web, you can read it here GettingReal. PDF is available here.