Why would you help others ?

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Is this thread about itself? :D

Small big innovation towards plastic degradation?

TheRecord.com - CanadaWorld - WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

Sounds simplistic, but I'm sure a lot of "wow" stuff gets overlooked for similar reasons. While there is some cynicism, am staying positive on this till there is definitive negative news. If true, this guy should get the biggest VC funding to start his company around this idea - this will do us all a huge favour - way more important than anything else we've "invented" in the last couple of decades.

Product Management

Coffee With Sean Johnson - Product Manager, IBM Content Discovery Group » Coffee With Sundar

Tweener, eh ?

Its a good interview that describes the role in a very brief space. Of course, there are challenges galore especially in a startup, where there's so many "good ideas", "must dos" and often very little to go by wrt validating X vs Y need.

Mobile Search Revenues

Mobile Search Advertising To Grow From $445 Million This Year To $2 Billion By 2013: Report - washingtonpost.com

Does anyone have India specific numbers? Rumours, grapevine? Totals, big spends?

The whole privacy debate

Search Insider » Blog Archive » Mobile, Local, Social, Invisible

Its true that the concept of fiber/privacy isn't always well-internalized, and given the utility of the service, people may tolerate more than seems likely. On the other hand, a few instances of abuse getting publicity will turn that argument on its head pretty quick.

Entrepreneurship along a different dimension ?

open free world: Roy's Experiments with Life

Its anyhow about exploring, creating value, starting something new, daring to think different, bring value to an existing space and work hard, for immense amounts of satisfaction. No 10x scale, yes, but not everything needs to - ?

There's all kinds of biz.

Quit your job! - (37signals)

A very nice point made in the article above about the whole "startup" thingy. Its not just the billion dollar dreams, VC funding, eyeballs, termsheets, IPOs that make entrepreneurs and define what they do. Its the following-your-heart on a lark, not necessarily being bogged down with growth and targets but the desire to achieve something that is either creative, or redefines either you or what you do. I'm not saying the growth and dollars should not be part of this, just that they're non-essential ingredients for some forms of entrepreneurship.

BrewHaHa, The Rainwater Club, BumsOnTheSaddle are a few that come to mind, and heart :)

Social Networking that works

Adventure - ExpressIndia.Com

I've been at Team-BHP for a while now. This kind of networking is actually useful, and has a real world equivalent too. The community has grown rapidly over the last couple of years, and even more importantly, the exchange on this forum is actually very useful, and even has real world economic significance. Its quite tightly managed, with slang, hollow bravado, trolling, unnecessary threads being thwarted early, and there's a strong emphasis on safety (seatbelts, ABS, good tyres), and driving safely. The network of cities/trusted vendors/workshops, routes/destinations and other great advice that one has access to on this forum have made it the best automotive destination in the country.

The best part ? Its not even a startup :)

More Ubuntu Mainstreaming

ckunte.com | The joy of using Ubuntu

Also read somewhere today that a lot of the expansion in the desktop market - especially in the developing world - is non-Windows. There's hope! :)

Start the fire 2.0

Internet is Everything: Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

Very very amusing. Scary. True ? Keep your fingers crossed.