- Pinterest's biggest problem: Is a tool for reckless copyright infringement, Few users post any original stuff
Basically Del.icio.us with only images, Pinterest's biggest problem is that it is a tool for reckless copyright infringement, Few users post any original stuff, and among these creative users, most are big retailers. Pi…
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- How fights between big companies (like Google vs. Microsoft) are useful for the rest of us: Helps bring more private information public
When Microsoft wrote on its blog about Motorola (now owned by Google) overcharging Microsoft for use of its video-related patents, we came to know that Microsoft was planning to use 50 of Motorola's patents, that patent …
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- How Google isn't that usable anymore: New mantra is 'copy everything, don't be simple'
As Google becomes more and more like a content provider, moving away from its origin as an elegant, efficient and effing fast indexer, Google may be losing its reputation of providing a fast and simple service. How can G…
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- iPhone financials: Apple's margin on each iPhone sold is around 55%
Apple sells an iPhone for around $650. A report says Apple's cost of Goods sold (COGS) is $293. Of this COGS, the bill of materials (e.g. touchscreen cost) for an iPhone is $200. That means Apple spends around $90 on man…
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- The Insta-author trend: Make short ebooks on the latest media sensation and make a killing
Latest media sensations such as basketball's latest star Jeremy Lin are inspiring content creators to churn up 15,000-word ebooks and putting them up for sale for Kindle and other devices, as quickly as they can. The ri…
Topic: Media, Ebook, Trend | Read more
- Dead war correspondent Marie Colvin believed paywalls were bad for war reporting
War correspondent Marie Colvin, before she died in Syrian city of Homs, wrote that paywalls were a hinderance in making useful reports from conflict area available to a wider audience across the world, restricting useful…
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- What we read, is our biography
Leon Wieseltier writes in The New republic that “Many books are read but some books are lived, so that words and ideas lose their ethereality and become experiences”.
“One’s books are one’s biography”
Next: Read …
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- The Real Promise of the Youth of India (is Inside You)
Youth is a promise. Youth is a promise to our parents, our society and us. However, generations after generations of humanity have witnessed this promise turn to despair and hopelessness.
Our parents and grandparents…
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- How not to talk like a machine in business situations
Here is a list of overused business buzzwords used by users on LinkedIn, the social networking site for working professionals.
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- Six Important Financial statements Everyone should maintain
Personal finance expert Subramaniam lists six essential financial statements that we all can easily and must make. These are:
1. Goals statement: tells you your written financial goals, the path, and the time that it wi…
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- 10 Things Journalists Should never do
The most important thing that ever modern journalist must do is not to take anything for granted in this era of constantly changing news business. As such, re-skilling and re-affirmation of key beliefs are important. Re-…
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- Ratan Tata is like the Aamir Khan of Indian Business
Aamir Khan is a sincere man. Ratan Tata is a sincere man. Both are sincere businessmen. But shrewd businessmen. Both use the power of image to push their respective businesses. One uses his image power to push mediocre f…
Topic: Politics and Government, India | Read more
- What do we learn from the world’s best presentations?
SlideShare, the presentations site, organizes 'World’s Best Presentation contest' annually. The winners of the 2010 edition have been announced.
The Top 3 presentations were:
1. Smoke – The Convenient Truth
2. YOU …
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- What do we learn from the Gawker Password hack? Have non-lazy passwords
If you look at the list of top 25 most popular/common passwords chosen by users of Gawker.com, you will understand what I meant by having non-lazy passwords. From the the top 25:
No. of times password
2516 …
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- We need at least Rs. 4 crores to retire (and how to make it)
Note: This advice was meant for Indians but I think with few minor tweaks, namely, adjusted for stock market returns in the local market, this priceless piece of financial wisdom is almost universally applicable. Financi…
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- Be remarkable #126: Get companies to respond to your complaints
Here's how you can write the perfect complaint letter to a company. The main idea is to be concise and breezy. State the problem, what you want and that is all there is to it. Lifehacker has posted a template for the per…
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- "Do not Track" is the new "Do not call"
It would not be hyperbole to suggest that "Do not track" is going to be the next big thing in the privacy wars that is fought between consumers and governments on one side and the likes of Google, Facebook, Foursquare an…
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- Two simple but highly effective ways to use Facebook: reducing all the privacy risks
Danah Boyd writes about two smart, young people who manage their Facebook presence smartly:
1. Super log off: One young person deactivates her Facebook account every time she logs off.
Deactivation does not delete y…
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- A quick list of useful work cycles
Choose from these work cycles or make one of your own:
1. The ideal time-box: For every hour of work, take a 5-10 minute break.
2. The healthy time-box: For every 55 minutes of work at the workstation, stretch your b…
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- How to be remarkable # 125: Don't be passionate
Be passionate. That is the first thing they teach you in the proverbial entrepreneurial school. That is also the first thing they teach in the carrer guides. That is also the first thing that tricks many people.
Becau…
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