The decision to sell Rev2 came as a difficult one seeing it has been a part of my life for the last five or so years, but given my lack of time and neglect for it, it was either a case of watching it die a slow death with the lack of content and missed hosting bills, ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/18/a-last-word/feed/ 6 http://www.rev2.org/2008/10/26/memiary-lessons-of-a-weekend-entrepreneur/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/10/26/memiary-lessons-of-a-weekend-entrepreneur/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:06:38 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=2163 So here’s my problem: I have a bad memory. A really bad one. If you asked me what happened five hours ago, I couldn’t tell you to save my wallet, let alone day, week, month, year. I forget fast, and the pictures I take on occasional trips and my daily tweets are not enough for me to catalog my life. I can feel the ten-year-later Sid hating himself for not preserving the events, moments, and actions which surrounded his life in 2008. The Story Last weekend on a really really rainy Saturday night, I was sipping a cup of hot chocolate and staring at the latest copy of Fast Company magazine. And then I had this idea. But it didn’t just come to me in an instant — it was the result of constant subconcious pondering of the problem I stated in the above paragraph. I really had been thinking about this for months. I just didn’t know it. ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/10/26/memiary-lessons-of-a-weekend-entrepreneur/feed/ 126 http://www.rev2.org/2008/09/10/tapsmack-the-power-of-co-creation/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/09/10/tapsmack-the-power-of-co-creation/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:03:23 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=2077 Full disclosure: TapSmack is joining Rev2 as a new sponsor, but since we haven’t covered them before, we figured even our sponsors needed to hear what we think. My attempt is to be as un-biased as possible, so take it for what it is.

Artist-centric communities have been around for quite some time in Internet space. Years before things like Flickr existed, I remember mindlessly browsing around deviantART and sharing a couple creations of my own. But while these communities encourage creators creating and sharing, something they don’t encourage is collaborating. And as ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/09/10/tapsmack-the-power-of-co-creation/feed/ 8 http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/31/the-entrepreneur-and-the-time-great-artists-ship/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/31/the-entrepreneur-and-the-time-great-artists-ship/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:47:54 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=2048 Following up to the inaugral post of my new focus for Rev2 — the entrepreneur — I received a great suggestion from Gonzalo Arzuago of KillerStartups: the entrepreneur and the deadline/time/launch date. Yes, any entrepreneur who is reading this knows what I am talking about, and if you haven’t worked on your own company yet, chances are that you’ve experienced this problem in at least some form of your life.

The Deal
So, here’s the deal: you have a huge idea — the company, the product, the business. There are some key components ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/31/the-entrepreneur-and-the-time-great-artists-ship/feed/ 33 http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/27/my-new-focus-revolutionizing-entrepreneurs/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/27/my-new-focus-revolutionizing-entrepreneurs/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:11:47 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=2026 A brief change over here at Rev2: While Craig is busy churning out awesome news-reviews-and-what’s-cool posts (which is what Rev2 has always been about), I have decided — instead of procrastinating when I have the time and hunting for inches of spare time when I don’t — to focus my Rev2 energy on writing about something which I am truly, truly passionate about (even so than perhaps than technically in-depth review about cool things) and have a million thoughts to share on, conveniently eliminating the need to hunt for topics, a certain kind of “pressure” that comes with the ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/27/my-new-focus-revolutionizing-entrepreneurs/feed/ 27 http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/15/nowdothis-best-boss-ever/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/15/nowdothis-best-boss-ever/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:01:00 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=1951 Having tried every to-do list, calendar, note-taking, task-managing tool out there, I had almost given up on flashy AJAX tools that were supposed to make you more productivity and accepted that there was no solution to my lack of potential productivity. It’s not that I’m a slacker and don’t do much work, it’s that I hadn’t found a working way to note down the tasks I intend to complete — as they came to me — for the next hour, six, or day, and as a result ended up doing a lot less ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/15/nowdothis-best-boss-ever/feed/ 46 http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/12/disqus-20-launches-revamped-website-wordpress-plugin/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/12/disqus-20-launches-revamped-website-wordpress-plugin/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:05:00 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=1943 Disqus, the webwide comments system I’m proud to say we were one of the first to cover last year, has undoubtedly come afar. They’ve been widely accepted amongst the blogosphere as the comments system which is a must add on, and about 30,000 websites have integrated it (including us).

Today, they’re launching Disqus 2.0, the successor to their previous version. The new version includes, in a nutshell, a revamped website, a much-improved WordPress plugin, and the idea of comment-blogs — that is, having comments from every Disqus commenter/member posted across the Disqus ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/08/12/disqus-20-launches-revamped-website-wordpress-plugin/feed/ 65 http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/31/delicious-20-finally-debuts-long-awaited-rehaul/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/31/delicious-20-finally-debuts-long-awaited-rehaul/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:43:37 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=1894 Delicious today finally unveiled their long awaited “2.0″ rehaul — the one they’ve been talking about for a year — at delicious.com. The new version features a faster interface, better search, and an overall new design, which should make Delicious users pretty giddy, although I’m not sure that’s the case seeing how long they had to wait for it.

Among other things, the new design keeps Delicious’ traditional simple and barebones look, although it does implement new elements such as dropdowns and tabs. Like the old one, it still seems a breeze to ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/31/delicious-20-finally-debuts-long-awaited-rehaul/feed/ 8 http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/28/why-there-wont-be-a-google-killer/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/28/why-there-wont-be-a-google-killer/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:57:49 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=1885 A search engine which has been making waves in the blogosphere for the last day or two is Cuil (pronounced "cool"). You've probably used it twice already, and its random search results (in some cases, the worst ever served by a search engine) do less to serve and more to amaze. ]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/28/why-there-wont-be-a-google-killer/feed/ 20 http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/22/slydial-get-straight-to-the-point/ http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/22/slydial-get-straight-to-the-point/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:39:58 +0000 Sid Yadav http://www.rev2.org/?p=1855 I love nifty voicemail services which make use of the Internet in some day. This one doesn’t really make use of the Internet so much other than for marketing purposes, but it’s still very cool. The name of the service is Slydial and it lets you get directly to someone’s mobile voicemail, skipping the call they might or might not pick up. In short: a direct way to leave a message while saving time and avoiding an awkward phone call.

Here’s how it works: you dial 267-SLYDIAL from any U.S. landline or cell ...]]> http://www.rev2.org/2008/07/22/slydial-get-straight-to-the-point/feed/ 11