- Google GDrive: Competition for Amazon S3
Google is getting more serious about cloud computing by the day and has just announced that the GDrive online file storage system.
GDrive will give 1GB free storage to users. It will charge $.25/G/year for more spac…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Google, Cloud-computing | Read more
- How you can help Haitian Quake survivors
Did you know that Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphereNow it is hit by an earthquake that may have killed thousands. The coutry has had a rather sad recent history of recent earthquakes that have killed…
Topic: Disasters, | Read more
- A Chronology of 14 Major Sex Scandals Involving Indian Politicians
First, a quick look at what the Indian Politician really wants: The Mid Day Newspaper writes about Indian Politicians and their sex habits
In the past five years, at least 10 politicians from Uttar Pradesh alone have be…
Topic: Scams, Scandal, Sex-scandal | Read more
- A roundup of the aftermath of attempted hijacking of Flight 253
The best headline for the attempted hijack story comes from Gawker, which runs, Would be terrorist only succeeds in burning balls making air travel exponentially worse. This explains the whole story and what happened to …
Topic: Terrorism, Al-qaida, Bravery, Air travel | Read more
- 9 Problems with Using Kindle in the Classroom
A Princeton Univesity Professor is not satisfied with the Kindle. Undergraduate students for a course on "Civil Society and Public Policy" are using Kindle DX, with 15 e-books for the course preloaded on the device under…
Topic: Actually Useful Technology Buyers Guide, Ebook, Kindle, Review | Read more
- Three Idiots: More Idiot than Rang De Basanti
Aamir Khan continues to sell his brand of soft-patriotism/self-development/what have you to a generation that doesn't have the time for the real thing. There is nothing to like in Three idiots.
Idiot note#1: The pro…
Topic: Films, Aamir khan, Review, Dumbyouth | Read more
- The Christmas Tweet of the Year?
Not everyone is taken in by the marketers' dream of a white, shopping heaven. It is a wonder how the most advanced country in the world can be sold on myths and chocolate factories. And they wonder at India's religions.
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Topic: Say That Again, Twitter, Christmasexcess | Read more
- Our Google and Microsoft Government
First, Microsoft established its bases in governments around the world, bribing them to use its bloated and expensive office and server applications. Now, in the online cloud computing age, you got Google cornering alm…
Topic: Big Business, Googleevil, Microsoftevil | Read more
- Decade from Hell: A Review of Indian Television in 2000-2009
One watched TV these ten years as if one was already in hell for one's innumerable sins, watching TV when one was allowed to, forcing unbelievably loud sensations to seep inside one's frying brains, believing the crude a…
Topic: Television, Bestofdecade | Read more
- Dumb ideas of 2009 #4: The demographic dividend
Perhaps the dumbest idea of the decade. Everyone is selling you the 'Youth power' mantra, but before you pass out in the rabid nationalist delirium, time to get off the train at the halt of 'WTF'. Some 35 years back, th…
Topic: Politics and Government, 2009, Google, Demographic dividend | Read more
- Dumb ideas of 2009 #3: No one is searching for how to make India better, boss
According to the big search book of Google Sir, we Indians want know 1. how to kiss (still too much sexual repression, bhaijee?), 2. how to hack (empty mind is a dangerous mind), 3. how to meditate (the pressures of ge…
Topic: 2009, Google | Read more
- Dumb Ideas of 2009 #2: Nilekeni's Unique ID Project
Take a technologically ignorant Cabinet of Ministers, an entrepreneur who made big on selling code monkey services and an army of bureacrats eager to make money from the IT spending gravy gravy train ( One has not read a…
Topic: 2009, UniqueIDproject | Read more
- Dumb Ideas of 2009 #1: MBAs Nahin Sudherenge
As if the rising costs of foodstuff was not enough for all of us. Having been burned bad by the lucrative Investment Banking and Consulting industries, almost every other of our glorified textbook clerks, aka MBAs now wa…
Topic: Say That Again, 2009, Mba | Read more
- Are resumes relevant?
How do you convey your education, experience and skills to prospective employersThere are two schools of thoughts. The traditional way is to list out your key specs, share it on online resume websites, take a print out a…
Topic: Resume, Career | Read more
- Will Facebook and Twitter ever make some real money?
Like Facebook before it, Twitter has done deals with cash-rich heavyweights, which has given some hopes that the company is actually profitable. How realistic is that thinkingWhen you put the revenue into perspective and…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Twitter, Facebook, Advertising | Read more
- Which websites command the biggest ad rates?
While most blogs and websites thrash around wildly for advertising income, what with Google adsense not being the savior of online publishing as was claimed to be, excpt for the spammers, there are some lucky corners on …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Advertising | Read more
- The Success Manual: 125+ Ways to be Remarkable in Work and Life
Learn 125+ Simple Things to Succeed in Work and Life
Forget Dense and Repetitive Business and Self development books and Blog Posts. We've Cut Out the Fluff and Given a You Simple but Powerful Collection of Wisdom t…
Topic: Books and Literature, About, Buy the book, Business, Education | Read more
- How to write effective online news headlines like the BBC
Usability expert Jacon Nielsen recently went through the BBC news website and finds that the top 6 news headlines together are only 38 words long:
* Italy buries first quake victims
* Romania blamed over Moldova ri…
Topic: Media, Onlinejournalismhandbook, Howto | Read more
- How Twitter is Trivializing Politics
As if politiciams were not trivlaizing things before, the New York Times writes about the habit of politicians of posting inanities and smart-ass slogans via Twitter.
The last thing Washington needs right now is poli…
Topic: Politics and Government, Twitter | Read more
- Can anyone explain to me how sensible is the delimitation of constituencies?
Other than knowing nothing about who will vote for whom in these confusing, deliberately issue-less elections, the other thing that confuses most Indians, including this writer is this thing called 'Delimitation of const…
Topic: Indiaelections2009 | Read more
