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The new caste system

 
Last week, I was excited to send a gazillion amount of invites to my email contacts asking them to join me on twitter."Did you develop a new product called twitter" was the question I encounter in a phone conversation in response to my "join me on twitter email". I was shocked into silence. Especially since the person asking me this Q was a MCA and working in Oracle products in the USA, and not an ...
 

Not all on top..

 
This morning I was reading Stan Schroeder’s take on Kawasaki’s Alltop. I have to fully agree with Stan’s observation that candywrapping an existing concept will not make it a new concept. He compared Kawasaki’s alltop to popurls. alltop-screenshot1.0 Screenshot of the ALLTOP site Alltop is a RSS aggregator. Okay because Guy Kawasaki is behind this, i shall deem the site a visit. ...
 

Oh Man will these silly groups stop this once for all…

 
 

Superstition and the Telugu New Year

 
Ugadi Telugu New Year has arrived with a bang. Happy New Year folks. Its officially today, a.k.a. March 19th, but thanks to the furore it may be tomorrow. Being a GOPI [Goda Meeda Pilli- (Cat on the Wall)], I am posting this article late on March 19th to please both the factions. I do not know complicated astrology, but most people consider a new moon in astrology as a good beginning. The ...
 

MP3 Brouhaha - The Saga continues

 
Microsoft taken for 1.5 Billion....... "Like hundreds of other companies large and small, we believe that we properly licensed MP3 technology from its industry recognized licensor -- Fraunhofer," Burt continued. "The damages award seems particularly outrageous when you consider we paid Fraunhofer only $16 million to license this technology." -from MacNN Kevin Maney has talked about this to some extent in his article . It seems Karlheinz Brandenburg was an employee of Bell Labs way ...