Remember the days when your mom would be all upset because the maid didn’t show up! Well, my fellow desis those days are over, we have babajob.com for reliable maids, chauffeurs, cooks!

Alright, this is still in the future for anywhere except Bangalore and even Bengaluru (this is the last time I am using this spelling) has limited listings and no referral comments from other users, but its a start!

You may ask, ‘Ramesh, using internet? He can’t even write his own name’. This is where you and me come in; baba’s of the house and yes the baby’s too! We create the profiles for them, and we get Rs. 200 for doing that if they are employed through babajob.com. As if we needed an incentive to help Ramesh or Vinod or Lalji whom we have seen growing up! For posting a job or to get the contact information of the person seeking job you pay Rs. 500, small one time cost if you can find a reliable cook, who speaks the language you do and cooks delicious vegetarian food in desi ghee.

Babajob.com is not only about finding maids, its essentially a job website for anyone who might need help finding a job but has no means or knowledge to be connected to the modern world of internet. What surprises me is it took an American to see the need of such a website. I really hope this startup survives the test of time as we are getting connected more and more!

Podcast of the interview with the co-founder Sean Blagsvedt..

While some follow football, some follow cricket and some Rachel Ray, I like to follow web startups, just because some of these applications are cool, anything creative gives me a kick like a bloody mary! These startups are created by 20 somethings, one by a 6th grader - {{{ bells }}} - another start of bubble!! No, I don’t think so, not so much volatile as last time because VCs have learnt from their mistakes but you never know… here is a video that got famous (over million views) last December before it was taken down because of a copyright infringement - it is now back online without the law breaking unsharable photograph (according to the photographer and her lawyer) used before!

When was the last time you picked a print subscription? Maybe this question will not be as big at the moment so let me rephrase it. When was the last time you remember there was a day when you didn’t pick anything in print, as compared to a day without internet?

If I were to answer the question, I pick a magazine every morning while going through the morning raaga - its only because I haven’t figured out a way to carry my laptop inside without creating any sort of hygienic/sanitary mental discomforts. I know friends, who prefer their blackberries and iphones to a printed version of Wired and the only reason why I have even considered buying one of the wifi enable phones is for the same reason.
Magazines like Business2.0 - ironically reporting about the companies/applications that would soon overthrow them were the first ones smart enough to shut down their print versions. Reminds me of Starwars and other scifi channel shows - remember how clean their rooms look without the clutter of paper. I wonder how long will it be before we are all wearing tight silver jump suits with V stripes in front, hairdo is our fashion statement - *shake it off* - I prefer the jeans and t-shirt wearing culture!

For me internet is the new religion, I am one of the missionaries spreading it - converting a 72year old lady to ‘Internetism’ was my first accomplishment. Social networks are our new churches/temples/mosques - a meeting place for people with like minds (or just too much time in hand), blogs are our newspapers, video sharing sites offer on-demand entertainment. wifi networks are our new roads without bumps, molesters are terrorists, hackers are the jihadis! We have everything - there are people who believe in it and then there are some Nobel laureates who think internet makes us dumb (will send us to hell) - whatever the case maybe - its definitely the fastest growing religion and if you are connected you are already a part of it.