Really great!!! Hats off to India!!!

An Olympic shooter wins Gold (Only a game) & Government gives him 3 Crores

Another Shooter dies, fighting with terrorists (Saving our country and our live) & government pays his family 5 lakhs.

1. Do not worry about those who have come thru boats...
Our forces can easily defeat them.
WORRY about those who have come thru votes....
Those are our REAL ENEMIES....
2. What a shame and disgrace to every citizen of India that the elite
NSG Force was transported into ordinary BEST buses, whereas our
cricketers are transported into state of the art luxury buses, these
Jawans lay down their lives to protect every Indian and these cricketers
get paid even if they lose a match, we worship these cricketers and
forget the martyrdom of these brave Jawans.
The Jawans should be paid the salaries of the cricketers and the
cricketers should be paid the salaries of the Jawans.
3. An ace shooter shoots and gets gold medal, govt gives 3cr, another
shooter dies while shooting terrorist, govt gives 5 lakh.
WHO DESERVES MORE? Huh.. This is our India....
Really great!!!!!!!!!!! Hats off to India !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Courtesy: Anuj Madan

PM dissects global crisis in China as world listens

Sheela Bhatt in Beijing October 24, 2008 22:19 IST Last Updated: October 24, 2008 22:59 IST Cometh the hour, cometh the man. It was the word-class economist Manmohan Singh who hogged the limelight at the Asia-Europe Summit in Beijing on Friday. Such was the effect of the speech -- the prime minister spoke last at the 45-country session-- that a normally reticent Chinese premier Wen Jiabao complimented Dr Singh in his concluding remarks.    The prime minister essentially listed out three failures behind the economic turbulence: 1. Regulatory and supervisory failure in developed countries 2. Failure in risk management in private financial institutions 3. Failure in market discipline mechanism.  Dr Singh then went on to say, 'These are not my views, but those of the distinguished managing director of IMF (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) with which I agree. We must analyse objectively how and why these failures have occurred  with such ferocity." He said, "The sad truth is that in this age of globalisation we have a global economy of sorts, but it is not supported by a global polity to provide effective governance." The prime minister then elaborated that the global financial structure needs a supervisor and regulator. While top leaders listened, he said, "The resulting crisis of liquidity, accumulation of bad assets, shortage of capital and collapse of confidence threaten to spill over into the real economy by way of reduced demand for exports, reduced access to trade and suppliers' credits superimposed on other crises. "The crisis of food shortages and fuel price hike have strained budgets and balance of payment leading to rising inflation and living costs in many developing countries." In his speech, he said, 'The President of the World Bank has identified at least 30 countries whose balance of payments will experience a severe deterioration in the wake of financial crisis." While speaking on a solution to the crisis, he said, "The immediate task is to de-clog the credit markets the world over. Coordinated global action is essential to restore a measure of confidence in the credit market." He added, "From the stand point of developing countries, international financial institutions, particularly the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development need to put in place exogenous facilities to provide additional assistance more quickly and in large amounts, with less service conditionality and greater flexibility." Dr Singh must have struck a chord with many Asian leaders when he said that globalisation without global financial governance structure can lead to severe problems as has been seen in the recent turmoil. While advising solid steps for stability of the global economy, the prime minister told the august gathering that as a counter cyclical device, increased infrastructure investments in developing countries, if backed by increased resource flows from multinational financial institutions such as the IBRD and the Regional Development Banks, can act as a powerful stabilizer.  The IMF should revisit the potentially powerful instrument of creating liquidity through fresh allocation of Special Drawing Rights in favour of multilateral development financial institutions. While giving a clear direction for the action, Singh said the reform of reconstruction of financial system has to be a collective international effort since borders no longer confine financial institutions or can keep out financial turmoil. Given the growth in cross-border investment, trade and banking in the last three decades, the world must ponder over the need for a global monitoring authority to promote global supervision and cooperation in the increasingly integrated world we live in. While putting his fingers on the problem that created this economic mess, he said, "Massive failure of regulatory and supervisory mechanism has really been the reason for the present turmoil and if there had been a good regulatory mechanism, this would not have happened." Dr Singh said the IMF should revisit the potentially powerful instrument of creating liquidity through fresh allocation of Special Drawing Rights in favour of multilateral development finance institutions. Read the rest here on Rediff News.

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"Investing In A Perfect Storm": VCCircle's Hyderabad Conference Theme

This is the time to pep yourself up and find out what is in store for private equity in the coming months. Down... The stock markets are at a two-year low. The US and European markets have been in a turmoil, and the global economy is feared to moving into a recession. There is a liquidity crunch so much so that even banks are borrowing at exorbitant rates. Companies are looking at cutting costs. Some have begun downsizing. The policymakers world over are on an action drive. There is a concerted move from central banks of all major countries to cut interest rates. The governments have come up with bailouts of billions of dollars to save their financial institutions. The markets are in a flux. In short, the economy has got everyone down in the dumps. ...But Not Out Is it the time to withdraw into the cocoon of despair and do nothing about it? It's not. It's just that you need to respond to the changing market realities appropriately. Fund raising in the current environment has gotten only tough, but not impossible. The deals may have come down, but they are indeed happening. There are funds still sitting with cash and looking for deals in this downmarket. So it's not the time for inaction, but action. It's not the end of the road, but just a sharp turn which you need to navigate carefully. VCCircle is organising its first conference in Hyderabad - Growth Capital Forum: "Investing In A Perfect Storm", which will discuss all this and much more. The conference is presented by India Value Fund, a leading Indian private equity fund with $600 million under management. Co-sponsors include UTI Ventures and TVS Capital, while associate sponsors include Evolvence India Life Sciences Fund, o3 Capital and RCS Group. Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008 Time: 10 AM to 6 PM Location: Taj Krishna, Hyderabad Attendee fee: Rs 4,500 per head. (Early birds can get discount of…. Read the rest on VC Circle

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Credit Suisse Appoints Sai Tampi As Head Of Wealth Management Biz

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PE Firm Och-Ziff Invests Rs 270 Crore In Marvel Realtors

 Rs.150 Crore in Marvel Edge-projects of Pune-based Marvel Realtors.

Yet another real estate investment in Pune. Och-Ziff has invested Rs.120 Crore in Marvel Zephyr and Rs.150 Crore in Marvel Edge- residential and commercial projects of Pune-based Marvel Realtors.
  
Marvel Zephyr, a Rs 600 crore super-luxury…

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http://www.vccircle.com/500/news/pe-firm-och-ziff-invests-rs-270-crore-in-marvel-realtors

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Lets Vote for Guruji for "NDTV Global Indian"

Here is a chance for us to nominate Guruji - His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for NDTV Global
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Virgin Rebirth

He has just said that he would like to buy London's Gatwick Airport when it comes on the market next year, and by the end of October he aims to break the transatlantic monohull sailing record. There is no escaping Sir Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Group, who goes to extraordinary lengths to put himself on the front pages. Not even a near-disastrous abseil down a building in Las Vegas last year could deter him. His brand is not just Virgin—it is also Branson. His ambition is boundless: lately he has been holding meetings on his private Caribbean island with a group of experts, to work out how to save the world from global warming and its people from disease. The name Branson means two things to British people. To most he is the country's best-known businessman, hoist to stardom by his derring-do ballooning stunts and photo-ops with busty blondes, an anti-establishment "cheeky chappy" whose plucky airline has battled the mighty "monopoly" of British Airways (BA) and whose Virgin brand has spawned a business empire. The other, lesser-known Branson is a ruthless, wily entrepreneur who is always trying to get one over his rivals. The former thinks he walks on water; the latter skates on thin ice. Two books published last month sum up these conflicting portraits. "Business Stripped Bare", billed as the "adventures of a global entrepreneur", is Sir Richard's take on how to succeed in business, peppered with self-justifying anecdotes from across his empire, from Virgin Atlantic to Virgin Trains to Virgin Mobile. It is an interesting read, marred by boasting and embellishment. The management lessons range from the homespun to the banal: "find good people and set them free"; "it's attention to details that really defines great business delivery". In fact, Mr Branson's real talents are his winning way with people and his ability to inspire loyalty—both hard to distil into business-book maxims. The new edition of "Branson", by Tom Bower, treads the same ground but takes a very different view. Mr Bower is a former documentary-maker who has carved out a career as a biographer of business figures (he is being sued by disgraced tycoon Conrad Black). Sir Rich ard described Mr Bower's original work, published eight years ago, as "a foul, foul piece of work". Mr Bower retells the story of the "dirty tricks" war with BA in the early 1990s, which ended with Sir Richard winning a libel action against BA's chairman Lord King. This was a side issue (BA's house journal falsely accused Sir Richard of lying). As Mr Bower describes, Virgin was fighting a propaganda war with BA. It revelled in the sympathy it attracted as the alleged victim of dirty tricks, in the process benefiting from plenty of free publicity. Mr Bower delights in detailing Sir Richard's antics—avoiding sales tax in his first record-retail business, for example—and in outlining his group's brushes with insolvency. In March 1992 he managed to extricate himself from losses and debt by selling his music division to EMI for £560m ($983m). In 1998 he raised cash by selling half of Virgin Rail to Stagecoach, a bus group. And in March 2000, weighed down again with losses, notably in music retailing, he freed himself by selling 49% of Virgin Atlantic to Singapore Airlines. He was soon at loggerheads with his..... Read the rest on: http://www.financialexpress.com/news/virgin-rebirth/368317/0

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Nature Matters (or How to save the planet)

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Good selected Articles - for everybody's tastes (V)

Contd from previous post.  (This is a series of Good selected Articles - for everybody's tastes) ____________________________________________________________________ 30) From site of The Indus Entrepreneurs: http://www.tienewdelhi.org/archives.htm 31) A very good intellectuals' Yahoo Group: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TrainersNetwork-OMI/ 32) The Life Strategists http://www.oscarmurphy.com/ 33) All features of google on one page: http://lloydi.com/blog/simplygoogleoriginal.htm 34) http://webdesigner-kochi.blogspot.com/2007/06/inspirational-graphics-from-neil.html 35) Awesome link on how to manage up the boss!!! http://www.bnet.com/2403-13056_23-57170.html 36) Very good link for people choosing Finance... Interview questions in Finance field http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=20354011&tid=2486736199848364988&start=1 _____________________________________________ Thats it for now. Cheerio!!

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Good selected Articles - for everybody's tastes (IV)

Contd from previous post. (This is a series of Good selected Articles - for everybody's tastes) ____________________________________________________________________ 29) Why Your Employees Are NOT Your Greatest Asset? Jill, the new CEO stepped into the small meeting room and prepared herself to address the gathering of managers. She felt quite assured and confident. This was the fifth time she would deliver this speech, in almost as many days. This was just one stop on her two week road tour. The new strategic direction that she was informing managers about was already catching people's attention. She settled herself in, and with a confident smile, greeted the managers as they arrived. These were mostly seasoned managers, but had never heard her speak before. She had done her homework on this group, and felt that this would be an open, candid but friendly meeting...one where the managers and herself could engage in healthy debate. She started off her speech with her usual opening...'people are our greatest asset'. She paused as usual, to let that statement sink in. Just as she was about to continue, a voice from the back of the room chimed in...'I don't agree with that statement!' Bill, a twenty five year veteran manager, was already standing, ready it appeared to take on the CEO. Jill was a little startled. Composing herself, she asked Bill if he would like to elaborate. 'I sure do' said Bill. 'People are not assets. An asset is something the company can acquire, own, manipulate, throw away, give away or sell.' He paused to let his statement sink in. And sink in it did. Jill thanked Bill for his comments, and then turned to the gathering of managers and said 'You know, I've never thought of it that way, but Bill is absolutley right. I, as an employee, would hate to be used in the same way an asset gets used. So let's talk about that...' They talked it through, and by the end of the meeting, came up with the following insights: 1. People are not assets 2. The RELATIONSHIPS we have with people are our greatest assets 3. We BOTH (company and employee) own those relationships. ..50/50 4. We both have an interest in sustaining and leveraging those relationships 5. Those relationships extend to suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders, including the community Jill modified her speech, and continued on her tour. But more than that, Jill modified her way of thinking about and relating to people. On that day, she became a better CEO. _____________________________________________ Series contd in next post

Good selected Articles - for everybody's tastes (III)

Contd from previous post.  (This is a series of Good selected Articles - for everybody's tastes) ____________________________________________________________________ 28) SUCCESS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honour and prizes. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours'. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked. "Why sir, "said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn." The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves. So it is in the other dimensions! Those who choose to be at harmony must help their neighbours and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well. The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. SUCCESS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION. IT IS VERY OFTEN A PARTICIPATIVE AND COLLECTIVE PROCESS. So share the good practices, ideas, new learning's with your family, team members, neighbours _____________________________________________ Series contd in next post

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27) How to Delegate Effectively!!
- by Oscar Murphy Int'l

here are some thoughts on much talked about management tool, called "Delegation" . For competent performers, delegation is a boon, while for shirkers, it is a bane.

Here is a useful article,"How To Delegate Effectively" written by Gregory P. Smith, which takes us thru the art of delegation. I am sure you all will like this light, though powerful, reading.


Effective delegation is an important tool that some managers hesitate to use. This may result from inexperience with delegation particularly for a novice manager, a reluctance to release work one personally enjoys doing, or even an adherence to the old adage, "If you want something done right, do it yourself." Here are eight basic guidelines to help you delegate more effectively:

1. Determine what you will delegate. You decide which task(s) you want to delegate. Keep in mind that delegating is different from simply assigning someone a task that is already a part of the normal job requirements. When you delegate, you give someone else one of your job tasks; but you maintain control and responsibility.

2. Clarify the results you want. Determine the results you consider necessary for successful completion of the task. In general, the employee to whom you delegate uses his or her own methods to accomplish the task. If you expect use of a specific method to accomplish results, relate that to the employee at the beginning.

3. Clearly define the employee's responsibility. You, not the employee, determine the level of responsibility. Be sure the employee understands that level. After you have given the employee the information about the delegated task, ask him to tell you his understanding of both the task and goals. If the employee's answers do not match your expectations, review the matter in detail again.

4. Communicate the employee's authority over the delegated task. Define the scope and degree of authority given to the employee for the delegated task. Explain which decisions he or she may make independently and which require your approval. Be specific. If you tell the employee, "Do whatever it takes," you may end up with an unpleasant surprise if the employee violates company standards. However, a too-limited authority may stop the employee from accomplishing the task. Give the employee the authority necessary to accomplish the task but not so much authority that he or she can create a major disaster before anyone discovers the problem. Also, make clear the budget available and budgetary limitations.

5. Be sure the employee understands his or her authority. Again, have the employee repeat back to you his or her understanding of authority regarding the task. Resolve any misunderstandings at the beginning.

6. Establish a time limit. Time means different thing to different people. If you want the delegated work completed within a certain period, make that clear to the employee. (If you say, "When you get time, work on this," the project may remain untouched for weeks.) Also, if you want portions of the work completed by certain dates, make that clear.

7. Establish a follow-up schedule. Use a series of follow-up meetings to 1) monitor progress and 2) determine need for assistance. Monitoring the progress avoids a discovery two days before the due date that the task is not on schedule. It also can serve as an indication of whether the employee needs assistance. Some employees hesitate to ask questions. They fear the manager will interpret this as a sign of weakness or inadequacy for the job. Follow-up meetings give them the opportunity to ask questions within the context of a meeting designed for that purpose. The frequency of follow-up meetings will vary from project to project and employee to employee.

You may schedule more frequent meetings when delegating to a new employee than when delegating to an experienced and proven employee.

8. Stick to the delegation program; avoid "reverse" delegation. An employee may try to "dump" the delegated task back on the manager. A manager may feel tempted to "take it back" if the employee seems to be struggling with the task. In extreme circumstances, a manager may have no alternative other than to take the task back in order to avoid permanent damage to his or her own performance record. However, this should be only in extreme cases. When you take back a delegated task, the employee loses the opportunity to learn and grow. This can also discourage the employee who desired to do well, but needed more assistance at that point in time. Occasionally an employee may decide to perform poorly in order to avoid additional work; do not encourage this attitude. Stick to your decision and work with employees to see the task to completion.

Summary: Managers delegate work not to just relieve their workload, but to allow the employees they supervise to grow professionally. Effective delegation is a two-way discussion and understanding. Be clear about the delegated task, give employee(s) an opportunity to ask questions, monitor progress and offer assistance as needed. Use effective delegation to benefit both yourself and the person to whom you delegate.

Lucy Doss
Manager - Training Coordination (Singapore)
Oscar Murphy Life Strategists P Ltd
772, 10th Cross, 10th Main, Indira Nagar 2nd Stage
Bangalore - 560038, India

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Good selected Articles - for everybody's tastes

I had compiled these articles on Orkut community of my college.
Here I present them for you (Copy paste from Orkut), Go thru them or atleast the headlines. U may like many of them. Also, u may have read many of the concepts. But still persevere, and go thru rest of them.
I dont have time to create original content. So u have to satisfy urself with this.
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Heylows pupils.
This post is actually the re-collection of my last post "A Good Article for CATters".
Actually, the title became obsolete overtime. so i decided to paste all of it in new post, so as not to mislead ppl.

Here, I have few very interesting articles, meant to cater to CBSites' tastes, including those preparing for CAT etc. It includes comments as well, from the ppl who gave them. The sequence is exact as before.

1) http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1139906.cms

Comment:
by Piyush -
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=5836351217196207573

gr8 article, nimesh babu! pz 'Supply' more such articles. i am "demanding" more


2) Rags to riches
Read this really good article meant for ppl like those at CBS:

http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/27spec.htm

3) Ppl,
u can post good articles for CBSites here. (I mean those relevant to CBS)
Thanks.

4) Another nice article about Wipro's 60 Years of success.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/jul/20sld1.htm

5) Islamic Banking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking

6) Q&A for Interview
http://hrinterviews.blogspot.com/

7) http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/22mc.htm

8) Really moving Story of IIM-A graduate
Do read this:
http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/31spec.htm

Very Inspiring......
And post ur replies as well.

Comment
by Vivek :
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=3432501089015184116

gr8 stuff

9) National Readership Survey Findings:
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=20752962&tid=2491679449508449615

Outdoor Advertising:
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=20752962&tid=2491439266347322703

In Fact, every post on this community is worth reading. Have a look, specially marketing students.

A blog by Marketing genius, Laura Ries:
http://ries.typepad.com/

10) "Vocabulary" community on orkut:
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=4227160

11) hi ppl,
here r some interesting websites...

Truth in Email
Before you forward that email, check it out at TruthOrFiction. com.
http://www.truthorf iction.com/

Three Centuries of Italian Art.
Visit this website to take a look at masterpieces of the Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque and Rococo eras of Italian painting.
http://www.theitali ans.com.au

The Virtual Cave
At the Virtual Cave, you can learn about and explore many different types of caves.
http://www.goodeart hgraphics. com/virtcave/

The Bike Site
A Complete, Illustrated Online Bicycle Repair and Maintenance guide for road bikes, mountain bikes, Bmx bikes , general bicycles, and even for fixing recumbents!
http://www.bikewebs ite.com/index. htm

Trivia
Visit this website, which claims to have the longest domain name, to see lists of the longest, biggest, smallest, most expensive things in the world. There is also a very interesting section on Famous Firsts, Old Wives Tales and Interesting Trivia.
http://thelongestli stofthelongestst uffatthelongestd omainnameatlongl ast.com/

Sole Mates - The Century in Shoes
Visit this website to see the 20th century in shoes. Each decade has some examples of the most popular styles and colors
http://www.centuryi nshoes.com/

Net Lingo
Confused by some of the terms and acronyms you see on the Internet today? Go to this website to look up the meanings.
http://www.netlingo .com/inframes. cfm


12) Karan Billimoria --Cobra Beer

http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/oct/26inter.htm

13) 'A smart user can change price on a website'

http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/oct/31inter1.htm

ANti-men in Ethiopia:
http://realmudgarden.blogspot.com/2006/11/water-money-power.html

14) The Business Case for Active RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Technology)

http://www.sdcexec.com/article.asp?article_id=9207

15) Seeking Money n Meaning in the NGO world.!!

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/special_section.cfm?specialID=1&CFID=2563986&CFTOKEN=20213214

16) Lots of ebooks:

http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=69595&tid=2472442488524183145&start=1

Comment
By Vishal
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=11929535083274646768

NICE
NICE WORK I AM TALKING ABOUT THE EARLIEST ARTICLE

17) Free GMAT Book (Posted Today)

http://ugottodownload.blogspot.com/2006/11/master-gmat-2007-for-complete-prep-for.html

18) Letter From Silicon Valley
India Revisited

http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2006/11/05/india-outsourcing-employment-tech-cz_ec_1106valleyletter.html

19) Consultancy Interview Cracked!!
Really good stuff.
In fact, all the posts on community are amazing.

http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=23124374&tid=2497007141691420843&na=4

Good article to circulate in office

20) Napping Your Way To The Top:
The performance boost of a midday snooze has companies signing on

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_48/b4011101.htm?chan=careers_careers_top+story

21) English Etymology Community

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=167213

22)
www.seaofcampus.com
It provides the facility to college students:

1. To sell used college books / old books online in India to own or other nearest college students free of service charge.

2.To buy used college books / old books online in India from own or other nearest college students free of service charge.

3. Post request for old books / lecture notes in own or other nearest college campus.The request will be resolved by own or other nearest college students.

If you are not a student you can also sell old books online in India to different college students, and buy it from colleges students.

Others sorry for inconvenience.

23) www.bluedot.us

Co-founded in October 2004 by Mohit Srivastava, Blue Dot, Inc., is a Seattle-based company whose mission is to help people stay connected with their friends, wherever they are, whenever they want.
Through a new type of communication described as Social Discovery®, Blue Dot's free Web site allows users to find, save and share interesting Web content with friends and family. The company's technology lets users quickly communicate and share information on a wide range of topics in a way that can be easily incorporated into their daily activities. Blue Dot is led by an experienced group of developers formerly from local technology companies including Microsoft® and Amazon®.

24) Persons who left an indelible mark on the world.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/49273e89-46e3-42f8-846c-76f79f20b8a5/persons-who-left-an-indelible-mark

Really moving...

25) A collection of links on marketing Blogs:

http://www.mattjmcd.com/2007/05/a-new-marketing-blog-carnival-ed-1/

26) "Something abourt marketing Analytics" - a nice article:

http://analyticsbhups.blogspot.com/2007/05/something-about-marketing-analytics.html

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And the winners for this year's IG Noble Awards are...

Last night kicked the scientific award season into full swing; the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Awards were handed out in Harvard's Sanders Theater. Not quite as well-known as their more prestigious namesake, the awards recognize "research that first makes people laugh and then think." The ceremony saw the ever-popular 24/7 lecture series, where leading researchers from around the world discuss the technical details and ramifications of their work in 24 seconds, then explain it in layman's terms in 7 words. This year's 24/7 series included talks from Benoit Mandelbrot, Anna Lysyanskaya, Dany Adams, and the 1976 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, William Lipscomb. Other ongoing traditions include the Ig Nobels being handed out by Nobel laureates, and an eight-year-old girl being kept up past her bedtime whose role is to ensure that acceptance speeches are capped at 60 seconds. In a ceremony with a main theme of redundancy, the ceremony honored the research that "makes people laugh and then think" in a redundantly-themed ceremony. This year, eight fields of research were honored: archeology, biology, chemistry, economics, literature, medicine, nutrition, and peace. Without further suspense, here are the winners in no order of winning order: Peace: plants are people too. The peace award goes to none other than the Swiss. The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, along with the citizens of that great nation, took the prize for passing a law that recognizes that plants have dignity too. Biology: dog-borne fleas are better jumpers than cat-borne fleas. Turns out athletic ability, in fleas at least, depends on where you live. Researchers found that fleas that live on dogs are better high jumpers when compared to fleas that live on cats. Literature: "You Bastard!" The literature prize goes to David Sims for his study on organizational indignation: "You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation Within Organizations." Nutrition: it tastes better if it sounds better. This award goes to a pair of British researchers who confirmed the simple idea that food tastes better if it sounds better. For those who question the practicality of this research, it has already been put to use in the Fat Duck Restaurant, where seafood diners are given iPods loaded with ocean sounds to listen to while they dine. Medicine: placebos that cost more said to work better. While the true effect of placebos continues to be studied, Dan Ariely has demonstrated that expensive fake medicine works better than the cheap crap you get on the corner. (I predict a future Ig Nobel in economics for the exploiter of this one.) Economics: strippers earn more when they are at peak...... Read the rest on:                 http://arstechnica.com

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The Great Indian Nightmare

(A very good article)

George Bernard Shaw once asked an attractive woman seated next to him at a dinner table, "Madam, would you go to bed with me for a thousand pounds?" The woman shook her head. "How about 50,000 pounds?" he continued. The woman, after further thought, coyly replied, "Perhaps." Shaw continued, "How about five pounds?" The woman exclaimed, "Mr Shaw, what do you take me for!" Shaw calmly replied, "We have already established what you are. Now we are merely haggling for the price."

In the great Indian Education Bazaar, everything is up for sale -- government, media, educational institutes, foreign faculty, collaboration with foreign varsities, endorsement of teaching shops by reputed names for credibility, successful candidates in competitive exams posing as alumni. The only issue is the price, and you can haggle over it.

"I threatened one institute with legal recourse if it uses my name in any of its brochures," said a topper, whose name the institute was using to position itself in the market.

Says a parent, "My son joined the BBA course offered by a Delhi-based institute. Mortgaging my house in Bihar, I paid Rs 12 lakhs as fees, only to realise later that it wasn't accredited with the UGC (University Grants Commission). Worried, I admitted my son to the Delhi Open University, too. My son now studies in two institutes without any time for himself, and has gone into a depression and developed suicidal....

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The Times group forges unusual alliances

The Times group forges unusual alliances with companies which serve the interests of everybody - except those of readers and consumers. Sucheta Dalal throws new light on this unique "business strategy"

If you are an investor who depends on India's largest-selling economic newspaper for unbiased news, then you must know and understand the concept of "private treaties" (PT). Since the Times of India (TOI) far outsells every other English newspaper and The Economic Times is by far the market leader in the economic news category, the concept is of universal interest, especially for MoneyLIFE readers. Although PTs sound like agreements between two sovereign nations, they are, in fact, pacts between the Times of India group and approximately 100-odd companies, under which TOI buys shares of small and fast-growing companies. The list is expanding rapidly.

In an article for India-Seminar on 'The changing Indian media scene', TN Ninan, editor of Business Standard, described PTs as "basically the transfer of ...

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UTSAV happening for Delhi for first time

Utsav, the grand event of Art of Living to be participated in by more than 1 Lac people is going to happen in Noida on 20-23 Nov. Its a mega-gala-huge event See its blog: Delhi | UTSAV | Nov 20-23

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The lowest level of Wall Street Food Chain

ON the subway, a stranger in a suit knowingly eyed my Lehman Brothers ID badge in its Bear Stearns holster. With a look of detached curiosity, he expressed his condolences. This is not the way I thought my Wall Street career would begin. During college, I was an intern at Bear Stearns. There, I toiled at the lowest levels of Wall Street, fetching coffee, moving boxes, filing papers. In my final summer at Bear, I was promoted to intern in the marketing department of the asset management division. There, I worked on some hedge funds that invested in stuff called "mortgage-backed securities." Several months later, the hedge funds went down the tubes, dragging Bear Stearns behind them. After I graduated from college, Lehman Brothers hired me to help settle trades in complex derivatives, the very derivatives that led to the company's demise. I helped resolve trading issues involving tens — hundreds — of millions of dollars. And now? Now from my  Read the rest from the given link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/opinion/19baris.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin