Month: November 2009
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Microsoft has thrown the gauntlet!
If you thought that the search engine wars were settled, with Yahoo! laying down arms, you couldn’t be farther from the truth. Rupert Murdoch reignited the battle saying that he could de-index the WSJ and other content providers from Google. Now Microsoft (MS) has gone a step ahead and offered New Corp money to provide…
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Sometimes, slow is good!
What is common to Dravid, Riquelme, and Sergio Leone? A sense of perfect timing. If you watch Dravid bat you would realize that he plays the ball like he has all the time in the world. Let alone his defensive ones, even his scoring shots are played with elegance that are on a different plane…
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Google Case Law, and why it doesn’t matter…
Whenever Google launches a product there is a huge brouhaha over in the blogosphere (There. I used the stupid word.) and people go nuts about how it is going to be the next big thing. I am not the clean one and am as much to blame as any one else for being a fanboy.…
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Coke Studio
For the past couple of days, I have been totally hooked on to the performances on Coke Studio, and the concept itself. Go check it out. One that I really like is Titliyaan by Strings. दिल था खिलौना, चलो टूट गया क्या कहें कोई साथी था, जिसे चाहा था वोही लूट गया, क्या कहें
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We are like that only…
I sometimes wonder if we will ever be able to get rid of “free riders“. At least on two occasions here at ISB, a team member has shirked responsibility and contributed nothing to an assignment. Nada. Then someone in the group suggests reporting the incident to the ASA, and somehow we decide against it. Once…