Finally www.mixercast.com formerly www.nanocast.com has been launched after almost an year of near stealth.
More on this later.

It is truly built on a foundation of technology built by innovative players who came before us. The central idea is as simple as "Remix the web" just as you remix your music. There are dreams of world domination, of erasing war and poverty and increasing the empowerment by several levels for Rich media publishing on Internet. You need Flash Player 8 or above to try out mixercast though.
Flash Player 9 for Linux can be downloaded from Adobe.

Full-Disclosure: I work at Nanocast Labs, however the views expressed on this post and this blog are my own.

Contrast the cost of acquisition for comparable number of mobile phone subscribers acquired by Vodafone and Reliance.

When Reliance first launched their CDMA phones into the indian market they offered them for near free(Rs. 500 about USD 12) and gained a substantial market share in no time. They probably lost say about Rs. 4000(about USD 100) to acquire a customer. Reasonable cost of direct customer acquisition compared to Vodafone's almost 1000 USD per subscriber for Hutch to gain a foothold into the market created as a direct result of Reliance audacious entry into the telephony in India.

Rather Vodafone could have acquired the smallest player in each circle(or bought a unified license directly from government) and offered USD 300(Rs. 4000) free talktime/free Internet with every free phone(or something similar) and gotten into the market a substantially lower price.

But what do I know ;-)