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What’s in store for Windows 7
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One good definition
links for 2008-05-28
links for 2008-05-27
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Interesting Saas service for board management
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Gotta stop paying for cable somehow
links for 2008-05-24
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Cool photoshop tutorial
A good analysis on India’s innovation gap
Mark Fidelman recently published an article at Seeking Alpha that does a pretty thorough job in analyzing one of India’s biggest challenges, the innovation gap.
India produces some of the brightest minds in technology, science and medicine yet has not demonstrated any truly large scale and breakthrough innovations in those fields. The giant India corporations of Reliance, Tata (TTM), Wipro (WIT), and Infosys (INFY) have huge revenues but produce very little innovative intellectual property [IIP]. Yet, India has critical “Country Development” issues that can only be addressed through the immediate and creative application of technology, which in turn requires massive technology innovations in a variety of fields.
It’s a lengthy piece, but worth reading.
UPDATE: In keeping with the general theme, Ramesh Menon recently published another worthwhile article - this one on the talent crunch in India. You can read that here. Linked via Atanu Dey’s post which also brings up a lot of valid points.
links for 2008-05-23
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All the wiki apps in one place
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Website for a highly rated book.
Aligning to the right market
Om Malik just linked to an excellent post by Dare Obasanjo in which Dare takes a second look at the market for web 2.0 companies and reminds them that there are substantial differences between the early adopters and the real market that those companies are aiming for. As I’ve said in the past, I think Twitter is a classic example of a technology that may not make the leap across the chasm.
links for 2008-05-20
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Why does this not surprise me?
HP-EDS is the most interesting story of the last month
In a month when all the buzz about the on again, off again (and apparently on again) Ballmer-Yang waltz dominated the news, the HP-EDS deal may quietly emerge as the most significant technology consolidation we’ve seen in quite a while. Om Malik postulates that the real play here is not aimed at IBM, rather it is about establishing a dominant position on the cloud, just as utility computing reemerges as the ‘next big thing’. While I haven’t looked at the details of this proposed merger, I think the ‘cloud’ angle - as presented by Om - makes a lot of sense. I’ve link to Om’s post above; it is worth reading.
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