Archive for July, 2007

Scribble Anywhere : Whiteboards on Appliances

Saturday, July 7, 2007 11:32 No Comments

Quite an interesting innovation and very promising for all of us. Whiteboards right on the refrigerator.  No more stick-its and post-its on the regrigerator. Go head scribble your thoughts on the refrigerator itself. When GE launched “Imagination at Work” as its new slogan to replace “We Bring Good Things To Life”, the most eye-catching part [...]

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Don’t let complexity stop you. Be Activists. – Bill Gates

Thursday, July 5, 2007 23:30 No Comments

Excerpt from Bill Gates commencement speech at Harvard: Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. [...]

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Going all Google

Wednesday, July 4, 2007 16:14 2 Comments

Frustrated with multiple web silo services (about 20 different websites I regularly use and ofcourse I hate to manage 20 different logins and bookmarks), I have started moving to ‘All Google’ services. With a single sign-on, I can access most services and the most interesting benefit is an excellent integration between different services. And, I really [...]

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It happened in India – Kishore Biyani

Wednesday, July 4, 2007 12:49 18 Comments

Its quite unusual to see a book like this in India.  In US, if some one is successful in one venture, then their second venture is to sell that (so called) success formula. He/she spends the rest of their lives in selling that success through books, seminars, merchandise.. any thing that can be sold. I [...]

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs & Educational Attainment : A Deeper Look

Wednesday, July 4, 2007 11:21 2 Comments

A recent report by  Kauffman Foundation infers that there is a strong correlation between educational attainment and entrepreneurship. A report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that tracked the educational backgrounds of immigrant entrepreneurs who were key founders of technology and engineering companies from 1995 to 2005 shows a strong correlation between educational attainment (particularly in [...]

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