The Day Dreamer

2010-06-16T15:22:00.002+05:30

I love dogs, and here are some of the dogs that I would really love to have : Australian Shephard, Beagle, American Eskimo Dog, Another American Eskimo Dog, Airedale Terrier and Beared Collie

Microsoft CRM Case Study

2007-10-09T03:19:00.000+05:30

Evolution

2007-10-04T10:21:00.003+05:30

Video Game Live

2007-10-04T10:21:00.001+05:30

Mortgage Police

2007-10-04T10:12:00.001+05:30

Mortgage Servicing Pie

2007-10-04T10:11:00.000+05:30

Old Glory Insurance

2007-10-04T10:04:00.003+05:30

Auto Insurance

2007-10-04T10:04:00.001+05:30

Top Ten Women in Gaming

2007-10-04T09:58:00.001+05:30

World of Offline gaming

2007-10-04T09:57:00.000+05:30

Drug Addiction

2007-10-04T09:48:00.001+05:30

Drug Addiction (Smoking)

2007-10-04T09:47:00.000+05:30

Digg Reality

2007-10-04T09:36:00.001+05:30

kevin rose on digg

2007-10-04T09:34:00.000+05:30

IPR seminar at IITK

2007-09-28T12:05:00.000+05:30

IME Department and SIDBI at IIT Kanpur organised a seminar on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on September 25 ’07. The topic of the seminar was “Managing IP Portfolio in large Organizations & IP practices in US”. The seminar was presented by Marty Shivley, Director, Worldwide Intellectual Property Operations for Microsoft Corporation. Other speakers included Jim Patterson, US Patent Attorney and Mukundan Seshadari, CEO Blue-File IP Services.

Marty Shivley explained how IPR creates revenue for an organisation from which a part again goes in funding R&D for development of IP. He shared his experiences of various IP operations in Microsoft and the way in which the company tackled various IPR issues. He narrated his briefings regarding IP with Bill Gates and the seriousness with which the Microsoft chairman listened to these briefings. “He would often go in the minute details as he has a very good understanding of these issues”, Shivley added.

via pagalguy

Facebook to protect kids

2007-09-28T11:57:00.000+05:30

Facebook, the much hyped social networking site, must reply to the state attorneys general in a few weeks about the fact that facebook should be doing more to protect kids from sexual predators on the internet.

The attorney general says that if facebook doesn't respond they will start looking for legal options. He expects them to reply within a month. Though he seems to be happy with the first talks arranged. he also added that they had started with the same because they found that there were atleast three know sex offenders on the Facebook

Inspired by Karl Moore

2007-09-28T11:47:00.000+05:30

Karl Roove, is a famous entrepreneur and best-selling author, and he has recently started this great blog dedicated towards inspiring people to do better in life. In the last few months I have become an avid reader of the same, and so decided that I had to let everybody know.

Karl's blog is mostly about inspiring stories and anecdotes that he encounters, but sometimes there are also other features which are as interesting. For example, I think there is a regular post every monday called the random act of kindness, and on friday, there is a friday factoid.

So if you like to stay charged, I would suggest you head over to the blog atleast once a day, and make it a habit. There is a lot of world changing material there, which just might help you too.

You can also access Karl Moore here.

Naukri plans educational site

2007-09-28T11:42:00.000+05:30

Naukri.com, a website owned by Info edge, a publicly listed company, has recently declared that they are working on a education related website. Though no further details were given. But it is heard that they are going to move towards education networking, whatever that means. Sanjeev Bhikhchandani, CEO of Naukri.com said in an interview that

In another 12 months, we plan to launch a new website for the education space. Like all our other sites, we would only facilitate the networking between people interested in any kind educational exchange platform.

Naukri.com has also recently conducted some job fairs quite successfully. The first two were held in Ahmedabad and Pune.

Naukri.com moves to RHE

2007-09-28T11:38:00.000+05:30

Naukri.com is the leading online job portal in India.

Vibhore Sharma, senior VP, with naukri.com says

Once the challenges centered around business growth and building up the website to handle the scale of visitors, a reliable and robust technology platform became imperative. The key was also to ensure that the TCO for any technology option chosen was realized. At the same time, we were focused about innovating and rolling out new products and services to a large base of users.

The growth of Naukri.com has been phenomenal, and recently they have moved to Web 2.0 technologies. Though they are a little late, but what the heck, they are getting there. The company has also recently moved to red had enterprise edition.

Mr Sharma added,

The greatest challenge for any organization is to roll out new products and services in the shortest possible time frames. With the right platform, the development time gets shorter, turnaround times are quicker, and companies can work on innovations much faster. To us, Red Hat offered a solution which was reliable, scalable, and cost-effective - 3 critical attributes for the kind of business challenges that we were looking to address.

They use the Intel Xeon servers

The Naukri Makeover

2007-09-28T11:25:00.000+05:30

Naukri.com, India's leading job portal, has recently got a makeover. They have introduced UI changes for the job seeker section. They claim that the new site, will help people get more value from the website, with relevant information being visible easily.

It is heard that they have improved the search and the organization of data on their servers and are moving towards better interaction with their users. News search filters called 'clusters' allows user to search different options.

The uploading resumes part has also been improved and it is quite fast now.

Resizing a partition in Windows Vista

2007-09-27T19:47:00.000+05:30

In the earlier version of Windows, we need to tools like Partion Magic to partition and reformat our existing partitions without disturbing the data or reinstalling the drives. However, Windows Vista has the ability to do all that without any external software. Now that is something cool. Let's see how can we put it to use.

To resize you Windows Vista partition, go to the Start Menu, Right click on 'Computer' and click 'Manage'.

Keep pressing continue if you get any dialog boxes.

Now in the left page, click on 'Storage Category' and then on 'Disk Management'

Finally, right click the partitions you would like to modify, and edit them just like you did with Partition Magic.

Sony plans cheaper PS 3

2007-09-27T19:35:00.000+05:30

It has been heard that Sony has started talking to Taiwanese manufacturer FoxConn and asked them to make a lower-spec Sony PS3. This is being done to bring down the price to the Sony PS3 to match that of the X-Box 360. More news would be available after the Tokyo game show is held this year.

Both of the products hit the market earlier this year and have been trying to eat into each others market share.

Rumors flying around say that the price in the US for the 40GB Sony PS3 will be around $399, this could see a UK price of around £200 but as there us more tax etc in the UK it is more likely to be around £300.

Police think MIT student has strapped on a bomb

2007-09-27T19:30:00.000+05:30

Now this is funny :

19 year old MIT student Star Simpson was at Logan International Airport wearing a device on her chest that included lights and wires, she approached an airport employee with something that seemed like putty in her hands and walked away after being asked what it was.

Then as Star Simpson left the airport terminal she found herself surrounded by police holding machine guns, they thought that she had a bomb strapped to her body.

Apparently she had approached the airport employee to inquire about an incoming flight from Oakland.

After police seized her they learned that the device was harmless and just a piece of art that Star Simpson wore to stand out on career day, and that’s just what happened.

Although the police were concerned, they just followed protocol’s put in place and it’s a good job they did not have to use deadly force.

Imagine if she did not raise her hands when asked, the putty was apparently just some play dough.

She has since been charged with possessing a hoax device; bail was set at $750 cash and will have to return to court on October 29th.

Furniture from home

2007-09-27T19:15:00.000+05:30

Bying furniture, can be both, a pain and a pleasure. A pain because finding the best deals available in the market for your budget, is something that requires a lot of time and energy. On the contrary, getting the brand new furniture is definitely quite interesting. This is why I thought I would tell you about this great furniture site that I have found. From Dining Room Furniture to Dining Furniture, and from Formal Dining Room Furniture to counter height dinette, you will find all of it here.

So if you are still running around trying to find the best deals, do take a look at FurnitureFromHome, I can bet that deal you're looking for is already here.

How the Bejing Olympics got its logo?

2007-09-27T19:12:00.001+05:30

via VincentChow

Getting Stumbled

2007-09-27T19:04:00.000+05:30

Here is a great report by the Etienne blog about how to get your blog stumbled. It appears he did a lot of research before he put this up, so do go over there and download you copy. Best of all, it's free.

Link

Microsoft starts video site

2007-09-27T09:57:00.000+05:30

For those of you who are still watching videos on youtube, here is something new, the microsoft videos site. You might say the our dear MS is way behind on this front, but they have made up for it by turning up with a beautifully made site which really runs well.

It's a strange feeling to like what MS seems to be doing. Contrary to the geeky opinion about MS, there are some things I just love about microsoft. One is that if there is any problem, there are people around who can fix it. Like the sound doesn't work on this laptop on linux, but on windows there is just no problem.

Ofcourse I know why that is the case, Intel is a real bad boy when it comes to helping our systems developers in writing the device drivers. But what the heck, I would like sound, I can't really help if they are acting like that. But anyways, I still chose to have Ubuntu in place of the usual MS.

On Slamming the mobile internet

2007-09-27T04:22:00.000+05:30

A lot of people say that the mobile is the next big thing. Everything needs to move to the mobile if it needs to survive, yet, every time I try to surf the internet on my Motorolo E7 mobile phone, I end up saying that we were better off with lynx (lynx is the command line browser in linux).

Here is what is wrong with the mobile dream :

The wireless networks don't exist. I can't surf the internet outside my house with even a laptop, forget the mobile phone
Screens are way too small to really see. Of course my Dad finds it difficult to read the SMS, so we can safely assume he would never use his mobile for surfing. Whereas for the rest of us, I find it disgustingly small to open and read a webpage. I've heard that the iPhone has a cool interfact, but that just what Steve Jobs told them to say. Otherwise it's just another small screen with colors.
Sites are not made for the mobile phone. Ah yes, there is this really strange feeling which comes over you if you more over to the hindustantimes.com or something. Most of the Indian websites still can't handle Firefox, forget the mobile for a thousand million years
We just forgot about advertising. If it is troublesome on the laptop, then they have takent the experience on the mobile up by a notch.

I think I can safely say that if you are waiting for the mobile browsing to begin, you might have to wait 10 years for a decent beginning.

Yahoo Podcasts going down

2007-09-27T03:51:00.001+05:30

Yahoo has finally decided to close the Podcasting Site they had started two years back. Read Write Web says that 'Some would argue that podcasting hasn't caught on like it was expected to, and it's been dominated by existing media giants and beaten as a medium by the rise of video'.

Many other podcasting sites have had similar issues and have closed down recently. Surprisingly, thing have not been too good for podcasting, even though podcast had been voted word of the years in 2005.

I wish farewell to Yahoo Podcasts, maybe its soul rest in peace.

Apple sents notice to iPod Hacker

2007-09-27T01:06:00.000+05:30

Apple, the company with those beautiful products, has sent a notice to a hacker who got inside the iPod and said that he would put up the code on a secure page on his site so that other hackers could have a crack at it.

But is seems that Apple was on it long before this guy made all of this public, because even before it went on the site, apple had contacted the ISP with the take down notice, and the ISP served the guy.

Apple is hell bent about keeping the iPod touch safe from the hackers. Though it is said that still they cant keep everything in check. But ofcourse, it sure has helped them.

However, I still fail to understand that how come Apple is allowed to do stuff like this, and Microsoft faces crap for the same... Just how good can your PR be?

The Apple PDA

2007-09-27T00:50:00.000+05:30

Steve Jobs, the apple guy, says that he is proud of all Apple products, not only the ones that they shipped, but also those that they did not ship.

The point of discussion being the Apple PDA, which was supposed to come out three years earlier but hasn't been shipped yet. But AppleInsider says, that they are already working on it, and we should expect it to come out sometime in the future. Though no dates have been specified yet.

It is said that since the company was having problems coming out with the iphone at the expected date, they were forced to shift engineers to leave the PDA project and move to the iphone. The iphone proved to be quite a sensation when it came out, and lets hope that the pda or iPda does as well.

Calculation Issue in Excel 2007

2007-09-27T00:39:00.000+05:30

Even the big guys don't get it right all of the time. So it is quite difficult to expect it from the small guys. Anyways, here is a new MS issue which is heard to have been solved recently.

What had happened was that in Excel 2007, all calculation using the number 65,535 turned out to be wrong. For example if you did any of these =5.1*12850; =10.2*6425; =20.4*3212.5 the answer came out to be 100000 rather than 65,536. Funny little bug you might say, but imagine the crap you would be under if you found out this you paid extra tax because of some calculation mistake by the software. Real life issues can really be quite difficult to handle.

But it has been heard that the issue is about to be resolved. David Gainer has stated on the Microsoft Excel Blog that they are testing the fix for the same, and the patch would be out real soon.

So the next time you sit down to write your software, make sure you've spent more time testing it, because MS can say that it would be fixed soon, not all of us can always be as lucky.

Shravan Kumar

2007-08-30T22:56:00.000+05:30

Digg is my partner

2007-07-26T12:39:00.000+05:30

This guy really likes that fact that Digg is their partner.

(Psst. We got it the first time mate)

Digg should not help Digg

2007-07-26T12:28:00.000+05:30

There is discussion on at Centernetworks (linked below), that since Google does not favor Google, Digg should not be allowed to favor Digg.

And how does Digg favor Digg? Because any story published by Kevin Rose will go to the front page on Digg. Is that fair play??

Of course. If you made too much money on the first startup, and you used that money on your second startup, would that be fair? Of course it will be.

Digg has a choice to do whatever it wants. It can push all it pownce links to the top of the digg front page, it can start using Microsoft ads on it's network and promise that Microsoft won't put up any dancing monkeys.

Now this is the kind of stuff that should get digged.. though I am sure even Kevin Rose himself won't be able to do that.

Link

Dancing monkeys synonymous with Microsoft??

2007-07-26T12:21:00.000+05:30

New York Times writes in

Adelson also said that Digg considered other potential partners besides Microsoft: “We looked at all the leading players, Google, Yahoo, you know who they are, and then we chose Microsoft,” he said.

Even though Microsoft will sell graphical ads, Digg’s founder Kevin Rose promised in a blog post to keep the site uncluttered, meaning “no dancing monkey ads.”

I fail to understand that why does Kevin Rose, think Microsoft, now the advertising partner of Digg.com is synonymous with Dancing monkeys.

Link

Microsoft buys lots of ads on Digg

2007-07-26T12:12:00.000+05:30

Now we see it happening all over again. Digg the overhyped social news site has just got a sh** load of advertising from Microsoft.

Even I can guess what is going to happen next. Their revenues will cross the a $100 million and they will start asking for a couple of billion for an acquisition.

Maybe Microsoft will buy them too, and all of them will go to hell together.

Digg - The Blog

Dorm room chit chat does not make a contract : Judge tells ConnectU

2007-07-26T12:11:00.000+05:30

I can't believe this is what the Judge told the Winklevoss brothers. The buggers must be feeling like they are back in dorm, and getting fu**** for breaking the protocol.

Anyways, deep down I would love to see the Judge tell Mark Zuckerberg to hand over Facebook to the brothers. Assuming that the brothers believe that it is a reasonable request to be made in court, I would like to ask them, if they too would be interested in coming out with an IPO in case they get hold of facebook?

Facebook Revenue

2007-07-26T11:58:00.001+05:30

Valleywag has the coolest revenue graph of Facebook. This man is the brightest when it comes to showing the light to humanity.

Once again he has saved mankind by bringing it all into the light.

(PS. Sorry for not putting the image on my server. Nobody ever comes to this blog, so you won't feel anything. Ever)

Facebook ruling delayed

2007-07-26T11:54:00.001+05:30

A judge has delayed the the ruling on the Facebook case until August 8th.

Twins and co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss waiting almost three years before suing Facebook. Now they want the government to hand over Facebook to them along with the revenues. Not the brightest of moves I might say, but ofcourse it's worth a try.

Even if they settle outside, the brothers just might get their share of the pie.

Facebook issued a statement that , "We continue to disagree with the allegations that Mark Zuckerberg stole any ideas or code to build Facebook. We intend to honor the judge's request not to comment further in the media and will continue to vigorously defend this case in court."

I doubt the brothers will get anywhere, but atleast they'll get their name in the papers

Social and Professional Worlds on Facebook

2007-07-26T11:50:00.000+05:30

These days facebook has come to dominate the way people interact with the internet. Almost 26 million people logon to Facebook to chat with other people. As a result, a number of business people have also started migrating to Facebook, and have left LinkedIn as a result.

Here is a great insight on the unofficial facebook blog

Facebook users to differentiate between social contacts and professional contacts and separate your profile based on that. I fully support this motion but I doubt Facebook will do this anytime soon. If they did, it would officially be the end of LinkedIn. There is also another slightly uncomfortable aspect of this new influx of users that Megan touches on in her article. As the older crowd meshes with the younger crowd, new definitions of social interaction are rapidly being defined.

Link

Facebook gets Youtube CFO

2007-07-26T11:40:00.000+05:30

The hottest social networking site Facebook has hired former Youtube CFO Gideon Yu. He has replaced Micheal Sheridan.

The guardian says

Yu, who replaces Michael Sheridan, was the CFO of YouTube last September just before Google snapped it up for $1.65bn.

Of course this goes against the grain of Henry Blodget's theory, commenting on an interview given to The Deal.com by Peter Thiel, a Facebook investor and director.

He reckons Facebook is putting a pricetag on itself of $7bn to $10bn.

Link

The Next Mayor

2007-06-04T18:56:00.001+05:30

American Psycho Business Card Scene

2007-06-01T18:38:00.000+05:30

A Business Meeting...

2007-06-01T18:14:00.000+05:30

Fight of the concords

2007-06-01T18:05:00.000+05:30

Movie Party Entrepreneurship

2007-06-01T14:33:00.000+05:30

Entrepreneurs from Tibet

2007-06-01T13:45:00.000+05:30

Many tibetians sells a lot of stuff to tourists everywhere around the world, including New York.

Social Entrepreneurship

2007-06-01T02:31:00.000+05:30

Talks on social entrepreneurship at the Thammasat MBA class on Entrepreneurship & Creativity by S.Dev Appanah and Sunit Shrestha

Silicon Valley and Entrepreneurship

2007-05-27T09:39:00.000+05:30

VC's and Entrepreneurs talk about The unique Silicon Valley's "Genome":
- Why in America and not in Europe & Japan?
- Europe - different mentality
- Europe - Germany and tax laws
- The Japan "Sony" tale - great example of Japan's different work culture

Participants: Jonathan Medved (Israel Seed Partners, Vringo), Joe Schoendorf (Accel Partners), Mary Alexander (Quova), Daniel Gatti (Big Bangwidth), Kim Odhner (Orient Networks)

Bug : The movie

2007-05-27T08:53:00.000+05:30

This is a sponsored post.

The bug movie is coming. There are these two terrific posters which have the been released. It took me quite some time to find out what this one really meant. I always thought it was a bug, everyday when I saw this poster from the bus stop. But it took sometime to figure out that there is Ashley Judd inside the bug. I don't know why, but it looks scary. After all, it is from the director of the The Exorcist. The tag line is scary itself, first they find the drone, then they find the queen. And it seems to scare the shit out of me.

After having escaped her abusive ex-husband, Ashley Judd, a waitress moves into a run down motel and her friend introduces her to a war veteran, who is a paranoid drifter, and they start a tentative romance. But things are not always as they look. She starts getting nightmares, as the bugs start to approach.

And the posters seem to accentuate that effect. The picture of Ashley Judd staring out of the poster haunts the living hell out of everybody who looks at it. I guess she is the queen, but I don't really know what the bugs would go ahead and do to her. I guess I will have to watch the movie to find out.

Innovation

2007-05-27T08:49:00.000+05:30

Randy Komisar on iinnovate part 2: Teaching Entrepreneurship

Motivational Software

2007-05-27T08:41:00.000+05:30

So you've always wanted to achieve that goal, but somehow there were always so and so problem which always came in your way. Was it family or health or education? Every time when you were looking to open your wings and fly a little you were brought down by the realities of life, and you keep wondering how did they ever do it.

You won't ever have to do that again, because of this magical piece of software, which tells you how to change your habits, and achieve any goal that you really, desperately want to achieve. This motivation software helps quit smoking, it also helps you reduce stress, get rid of any addition and do anything you want to. It has almost changed my life.

And the best part is that it's FREE. You can donwload your copy of this motivation software for absolutely no cost. So go ahead and try it out.

Is it for you?

2007-05-27T08:20:00.000+05:30

Entrepreneurship - Is it for you?

Guy Kawasaki on Entrepreneurship

2007-05-25T11:04:00.000+05:30

Guy Kawasaki talks about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. Taken from the forthcoming independent documentary: In Search of the Valley.

Business Plans 101

2007-05-25T10:43:00.000+05:30

Brown University Entrepreneurship Program 2004 - Business Plans 101

Technology Management Program

2007-05-25T10:23:00.000+05:30

Technology Management Program: Democracy & Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship Award

2007-05-25T09:51:00.001+05:30

International Forum Social Entrepreneurship Award: Honoring Muhammad Yunus

London

2007-05-25T09:35:00.000+05:30

200 years back, London was the most advanced city on the face of this earth. People from all across Europe moved to and from London. Even in those days, most of the travelers found London quite costly to stay in, and since those days finding cheap hotels in London has been a difficult task.

Come the 21st century, the internet has changed the world many times over. If now you decide to go to London and find yourself a cheap hotel in london, it is as easy as going online and searching on the internet to find a couple of places which suit your needs. So that the day you land in London, you don't have to go looking. You can just go and sit in the your room which has already been confirmed.

But finding a hotel which suits your needs is not as simple as you would expect. As expected, a number of hoteliers lie about their services. So you can't always find an aunt or a friend who has stayed in the hotel before. So to find out if it was any good, you need user reviews on the website. Because very simply there has to be somebody's aunt of friend, who has stayed there. This is the golden rule of finding cheap hotels London, that you don't book a place until and unless you get a review from somebody neutral.

Bill Drayton speaks at Google

2007-05-25T09:34:00.001+05:30

"Social Entrepreneurship" - Ashoka's Bill Drayton speaks at Google

Entreing into Entrepreneurship

2007-05-25T09:21:00.000+05:30

Here are some interesting ideas about how to plunge into entrpreneurship. Link

Entrepreneurship in Qatar

2007-05-25T02:45:00.000+05:30

Tepper School of Science and Technology has started a training course in Qatar for entrepreneurs. The program aims to convert research and education into business success.

The Executive Entrepreneurship Certificate Program is run by Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and its Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship. The center, recognized as one of the best in the world, has taught thousands of people to create new businesses, including the founder of iGate Corporation, a global IT company with nearly $400 million market capitalization. For the first time, the program is available to executives in the Middle East.

“Entrepreneurial spirit and know-how are essential for building a dynamic knowledge economy,” said Eulian Roberts, QSTP’s chief executive. “We have identified one of the best entrepreneurship programs from around the world to establish its activities in Doha. Carnegie Mellon’s course provides exactly the right set of skills and will be tailored to the unique Middle Eastern business environment. We warmly encourage individuals and executives in Qatar and around the region to come and share the passion of creating new technology business.”

Read the whole article here.

Bankrupt Entrepreneurs

2007-05-24T18:41:00.000+05:30

Bob Lawless talks about Entrepreneurs amongst the Bankrupt

One concept of entrepreneurial studies might be that it defines a group of scholars with cross-disciplinary interests in what might loosely be called "emerging businesses." Under this concept, entrepreneurial studies is a label that helps a set of scholars identify papers, conferences, and other opportunities for scholarly exchange. Thus, entrepreneurial studies can be seen as a flag around which a group of scholars have rallied. This loose social organization facilitates the accumulation of knowledge because these scholars otherwise would have stayed within their own intellectual silos, and the information that each knew would not have been shared with the larger scholarly community. That is a useful role for entrepreneurial studies.

Read the whole article here.

Exotic Locations

2007-05-24T06:05:00.000+05:30

Johannesburg, also knows as eGoli is the largest city in South Africa. The city with a large gold and diamond trade, and the busiest airport in the continent, is next on my list of places to visit. All international travellers to Africa, happen to travel to Johannesburg weather they like it or not. Recent additions include history museums, such as the Apartheid Museum and the Hector Pieterson Museum. An amusement park called Gold Reef City. The Johannesburg Zoo and a few art museums like the Johannesburg Art Gallery. The Market Theatre complex, the Mandela Museum, The Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site, The Sterkfontein fossil site are just a few of the attractions. You need to get your flights to Johannesburg, if you want to check all of that out for yourself.

Then there is Brazil. The place where City of God was shot. The place of beautiful women and more sandy beaches. You can book your flight to Brazil here. Also if you're looking at Asia, you can book flights to Singapore.

Singapore might be called the best place to do business, it is also one of the most exotic locations you might travel to. It is also a major shipping hub. So if you're interested in any of those just run, and get your tickets today.

Moonlighting

2007-05-24T06:02:00.000+05:30

If you ever had the chance to use your employers's resources to help your own new startup, you were trying your hand at Moonlighting.

GigaOm's Found+Read, an entrepreneurship blog with a funny name, talks about how things can get a little messed up if your employer tries to take you to court for violating it's argreement.

Link

Warm Places to Go to.

2007-05-24T05:46:00.001+05:30

If you haven't been to Australia, you can't call yourself a traveller. And if you haven't, go book your flight to Australia now because the hottest place on earth is waiting for you. Starting from the golden sandy beaches, throughout the continent, to the laid-back outback, there is more than enough for everybody in Australia. For the party animals there is the GoldCoast, which is a party 24x7x365, though take care if you go there. Other than that there is Sydney, and Melbourne and Adelaide, and about seven more cities for you to freak out in. The beaches are absolutely fabulous, starting with the bondi beach in Sydney to the infinite ones across the continent. For the sports freak, there is the Australian Open in Tennis, and the Australian F1 and the Australian Cricket, and Football, and many many others.

If you are looking for sunny beaches and the like, you can also just book flights to Florida. No matter when you go there, florida has enough to keep you entertained. Finally, another great place to be, if looking for warm climates is right in the middle of spain, europe. You can find flights to Tenerife here. Just ask google what all you can do there, and you'd be surprised that there is so much to do and you're still waiting.

Religion and Entrepreneurship

2007-05-24T05:43:00.000+05:30

Entrepreneur.com brings to light a survey, which is being conducted right now about how and why religion is an important or not-so important part of business. In India it is definitely one of the more important ones.

You can take part in the survey here.

Religion isn't going anywhere from this world. In the 21st century, no matter how distant and far away it seems, it is still quite amongst us.

Travelling to the east

2007-05-24T00:43:00.000+05:30

If you are a travelling freak, you can never really forget Japan. The icon of the east, the land of the rising sun, the home of martial arts. Japan reminds us of everything non-American. And if you like watching movies, there are some people from Japan, who you can never forget. One such example is Akira Kurisawa, the legendry movie director, who became a pioneer of Japanese and American films, was a part and parcel of Japan. Besides Japan is about fast trains and beautiful women. The beauty of it all it that is gels so well together, that once you get there, it's really difficult to come out. Even though it seems far, flights to Japan can be quite cheap.

Then there is also Malaysia. Where people play badminton faster than you can blink your eye. There are dragons on the streets, and carnivals around the year. Please book your flights to Malaysia here.

Finally, there is also Bangkok. The largest city and the capital of Thailand. Other than beautiful women there are absolutely fabulous beaches, which extend from one end of the city to the other. It is also a major port on the sea route to Australia, and everything that goes down under does pass through here. So if you are thinking of heading there, this is where you can get your flights to Bangkok.

Price Banson Symposium for Entrepreneurship

2007-05-24T00:42:00.000+05:30

Participants in the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) program will be exploring the entrepreneurial process and the 'art and craft' of teaching and learning entrepreneurship. The program provides an introduction to case-method teaching and live, venture-based teaching methodologies.

The 68 attendees, from 33 institutions in countries around the world including the Pacific Rim, Europe, and Latin America, will be encouraged to identify, plan, and personalize their own entry (or reentry) strategy into academia, and to improve as teachers, entrepreneurs, learners, researchers, and colleagues.

Session topics will include New Venture Creation, Entrepreneurship Curriculum Design, The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action, The Quest for Master Teaching, Alternative Pedagogies, Challenges in the “Clashroom,” and Idea Lab.

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Canada and US

2007-05-24T00:26:00.000+05:30

The only one thing that Canada and the US share is the border line. Otherwise it's almost like two different worlds. If you want to be rich and famous, go to USA, if you want to enjoy go to Canada.

I'm the kinds who love to enjoy, so of course, I'm planning to be off to Canada. Other than the fact that I have a cousin there, I know for sure that the place would really be amazing. At least once, in this lifetime, or the next, I want to go down to Canada, and give them a visit. Being one of the coolest places on earth, it also has it's share of don't eat this crap. But food is good, and the people better. And if like me you're in love with the place, you can get flights to Canada here.

Now if you get bored of Canada, and if you bought my shit about people being nice and all, that is all bull. People are the same everywhere. But anyways, if you're not the one meant to be going to Canada, you can get your flights to USA here, or flights to Caribbean here. If you get to the USA, enjoy the night life, and if you hit the carribbean, enjoy the cricket.

Infosys funds social entrepreneurs

2007-05-24T00:22:00.000+05:30

Himanshu quotes that Infosys is all set to start supporting social entrepreneurs from now on.

The initiative, called InfYi will function as the corporate chapter of the Young India initiative started by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reflecting that charter, all its members below the age of 35 will be Infoscions.

The stress won't be on funding but to provide guidance to the Entrepreneurs. Based on the inputs that a project or idea needs, a senior council member will contribute to it. The projects could be in youth affairs, education, healthcare, economy or any other socially-relevant area. So far, InfYi has received 13 project ideas. Three of these will be shortlisted taken from concept to execution. They will be put through the paces by a team which has worked out how to capitalise on opportunities and survive downturns.

. I wonder if there are any social entrepreneurs who are looking out for it.