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Spooky Wall Street Games


Ambani Factor

“Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly”
- Dhirubhai Ambani

My culture is better than your agriculture

I don’t know this fellow but considering the amount of comment and interest his post has generated I am getting tempted to add my own 2 cents to the debate.
I love the economics of 2 cent based intellectual debates. You just have to throw something out there - if it sticks good, if it [...]

No Horn Allowed

Bangalore
Originally uploaded by Brij.

This is as per WP(C) No. 72 of 1998 (Supreme Court Of India).


Picture in a haystack

That’s why startup world is exciting. First we had flickr who changed many things with the introduction of tags and tag-based folksonomy. Now we have another exciting startup - Riya, which claims to have solved the face recognition problem. This is one problem all the average digital camera users must have complained about [...]

Infothela

Can health education really solve the problems related to affordable healthcare ? Infothela, project started by IIT Kanpur computer science department, attempts to find that out in a very unique way.

Primary education - fix this first !

Rajesh points to the education system crisis as it exists in the primary sector in India. Though much is written about the vast pool of engineering graduates but  picture at the primary level is embarassing and shameful !
According to Rajesh :
375 million. That is the number of Indians in the 6-19 age group. As
they grow [...]

Newspaper for what ?

Today I bought a newspaper - physical one ! Sunday Edition of Mercury News.

Motivation was not the news, I wanted to study it’s form factor and to verify that there is still value from the ad prints. Very much like a trip to zoo to visualize how the dinosaurs once lived and how [...]

Tip Jar - A type of open source business model

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Tip Jar - A type of open source business model, originally uploaded by Brij.
Oldest business model, works best when the service offered matches the emotional needs of the donor.