Google staff get on their bikes
Offering both a sense of belonging and a good way to exercise and advertise the company, kind of cool.
I must admit I can never see a British Company doing some thing like this. Check out the story @ http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2040004,00.html
i always liked sabeer, since my university days!
This is a great extract, I found this while searching for blogging tools.
"After all, it is not every often you come across individuals walking away with US $ 400 million and that was a decade ago!
Excerpts from Times of India article:
Exactly 10 years after he sold his stake in Hotmail to Microsoft, Sabeer Bhatia is going back to refresh the email service that made him. Bhatia and Shiraz Kanga, a former employee of Cisco, have teamed up to start a new venture, Blogeverywhere, which could, among other things, also enhance your Hotmail experience. “Hotmail hasn’t changed too much. It more or less remains the same as it was ten years ago,’’ said Bhatia. What has certainly changed is competition. Gmail has added an entire suite of innovations that’s snatched the limelight from the email pioneer. In about a year, Gmail has revolutionised the way people communicate with each other in the online world. Bhatia isn’t planning to take on Gmail. But with Blogeverywhere, he’s hoping to add more than a dash of speed to your Internet experience. Think of his new venture as a lubricant to your sluggish so-called broadband connection. “Adversity is the mother of all innovation,’’ says Bhatia. “When I was surfing Hotmail at my mother’s place in Bangalore the last time I was here, I was shocked to see the snail’s pace at which Hotmail worked in India,’’ he said. Broadband is almost as bad (if not worse) as the narrow band speeds abroad, said Kanga. “So we decided to get together and enhance Hotmail for users in emerging countries like India,’’ says the online junkie, who was here to launch VoiFi, a new service similar to Skype. The only difference being that VoiFi will also allow calls from PCs anywhere in the world to landlines and mobiles in India at Re 1 a minute, which would make it the cheapest option available in the market. Bhatia is currently talking to four telecom service providers to get the service off-the-ground. Meanwhile, Blogeverywhere is slotted to be publicly launched in Delhi next Monday. Bhatia isn’t willing to divulge details. Apart from revving up Hotmail, Blogeverywhere’s application software will help you access blogs and retrieve real site syndication (RSS) feeds faster. Whether his new ventures will help Hotmail regain some of its lost lustre isn’t clear. But Bhatia isn’t unduly bothered. “There are two kinds of people making money online: e-retailers and e-brokers. I choose to be the latter.’’
Wise words for a man who walked away with a cool $400 million from the biggest software firm on this planet."
Good on ya, Sabeer/Shiraz!
people in and around
Looking around places of interest, or on an outing, or meeting new people, I always come across intelligent people however the key is to understand the nature. An Interesting read made me realise that there are 2 types of people in the world.
A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to synergy of other accumulated ideas. Listening is more important than talking, if that was not the case god would have not have given us two ears and only one mouth. People think with there mouth and argue instead of asking questions.
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http://news.com.com/2325-11424_3-0.xml
Anousheh Ansari, Space Explorer
Tech guru sold out for 500 million
This is a class act, would you say!!!!
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/2006/09/08/
7 year old surgeon
This is truly amazing and at one level superhuman. A seven year old boy called Akrit Jaswal has become the youngest person to perform surgery in India.
“A young girl in India badly burned as a toddler, her fingers had fused together and curled into a knotted ball. Her shepherd family could not afford surgery, but they had heard of a remarkable young boy being called the child surgeon. Akrit Jaswal was only seven years old when he operated, successfully, on the eight year old girl to release her fingers.”
http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/akritjaswal.html
good to see young tech firms
"VCs backing `magic' of youth"
How to run companies in a way they see fit? After all it is now there world.
I love web 2.0, good to see it in action, seems like I am missing out not being back in California. Hmm I missed the bubble of 1999 and missed the bust, but now missing web 2.0. 2003 was not much of a year, as the dilemma of recovering from the web burst was all in the air. It has lifted itself again as the valley always fights back.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business
/special_packages/venture_capital_survey/13854234.htm
sterotype
Finally posted my pics up after a lot of contemplation if I should. With photos people often paint an a picture image (literally) of what one is like. I don’t like to be stereotyped i.e. in IT and wear white socks with jack up trousers) you know what I am talking about!
As I live with mostly travellers, I often point out that “don’t judge” and never judge a book by it cover, this is a lesson that I learned whilst being in California, where you do have the trendy of trendy folk in IT….. go cali
Not sure what made me think of this one!!
