Twitter Introduces support for Retweets
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have this yet will see your retweets prefaced by "RT".
Did you know that a startup powers Gmail’s video chat feature?
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ISRO Bhuvan?
Bhuvan, (Sanskrit: भुवन Hindi: भुवन, lit: Earth), is a satellite mapping tool similar toGoogle Earth and Wikimapia. It was developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It offers resolution up to 10 metres and is considered as a rival to Google Earth and Wikimapia.[1]
A prototype (beta)[2] of this application was launched on 12th August 2009.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuvan
Currently Bhuvan can be viewed in Internet Explorer 6.0 or above, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 or above, Netscape 6.0 or above on Windows platform. Bhuvan Plug-in should be installed after the browser installation
http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/Here are some pictures of ISRO Bhuvan Software and Website.

A brief history of PayPal
A University of Illinois graduate moved to Silicon Valley with a great goal (perhaps inspired by the Illini commencement address) – develop security software for hot-selling handheld devices like the Palm Pilot. He assumed that enterprises were soon going to be using Palms as primary means of communication and sharing documents, and would need security to protect business secrets. "Any minute now, there'll be millions of people begging for security on their handheld devices," he thought. He was wrong – he never found a demand for handheld security software.
He could have kept trying to make his original idea work. Entrepreneurs that do stick to fixed goals are very good at least at one thing – wasting investors' money. An idea for an online grocery startup, Webvan, managed to go through $1 billion before finally pulling the plug.
Illinois Man was different. He shifted to Plan B. Sell his cryptography software. Still no takers. We can skip over Plans C, D, and E, which all failed.
Plan F was a system for securely transferring cash from one Palm Pilot to another. He put a demo on the Internet so people could see how great it would be for Palm Pilots. People liked the web demo and started using it for real transactions, while the demand from Palm users still failed to materialize. eBay users started asking if they could put the web demo in their ads for people to pay them. There was no demand for the product, only for the web demo.
Illinois Man finally realized what might succeed. He forgot about Palm Pilots. Plan G was a system for making secure online payments for sites like eBay. His Plan G company was called PayPal, and his name was Max Levchin. eBay eventually bought PayPal for $1.5 billion. The story is from a new book by John Mullins and Randy Komisar, Getting to Plan B.
Source: http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch/2009/10/set_a_big_goal_give_everything.html
SlideShare Opens Parent Toolbox Channel for Active Parents
SlideShare Opens Parent Toolbox Channel for Active ParentsParents on SlideShare have a new place to go to learn, and share household tools, tips and tricks. The Parent Toolbox Channel, sponsored by Microsoft Office brings you content and community related to home and family.
There are three groups within the Parent Toolbox Channel
- Fun & Games: exciting activities for the whole family to unwind
- Home Organization & Money: worksheets, presentations & forms for a more efficient household
- School & Writing: wayshow to help your kids learn and grow
Blogger Asha Dornfest from Parent Hacks will be curating content. We've also invited other leading parenting bloggers contribute. Expect relevant presentations, documents and even blog posts. You can comment, favorite, subscribe to content or even upload your own.
We're really excited about the Parent Toolbox Channel and we hope you'll love it as much as we do. We can't wait to see all your uploads.
Why Controlled Markets are bad?
Excerpt from: Dr T J Rodger's (Cypress Co-Founder and President & CEO) testimony to the US Senate
Europe's JESSI showered billions on the European semiconductor industry. It also "rationalized" the industry by allocating certain market segments to various companies. Siemens became the DRAM company for Europe--and has since gone out of the business. Philips became the SRAM company for Europe--and has since gone out of that business.
After inadvertently weakening its chip industry, Europe then established 14% import duties on foreign chips--the next logical step of desperate government policy. The import duty had precisely the effect we might expect: It raised the price of components to the European computer industry and virtually wiped it out as well. Today, there is no European chip industry or computer industry to speak of--thanks to the role of government programs like JESSI. European taxpayers gave up part of their income to wipe out two critical industries! We can't afford to emulate such failed experiments.
How to replicate Silicon Valley model
Ideas for Startups!
There's a real difference, because an assertion provokes objections in a way a question doesn't. If you say: I'm going to build a web-based spreadsheet, then critics-- the most dangerous of which are in your own head-- will immediately reply that you'd be competing with Microsoft, that you couldn't give people the kind of UI they expect, that users wouldn't want to have their data on your servers, and so on.
A question doesn't seem so challenging. It becomes: let's try making a web-based spreadsheet and see how far we get. And everyone knows that if you tried this you'd be able to make something useful. Maybe what you'd end up with wouldn't even be a spreadsheet. Maybe it would be some kind of new spreasheet-like collaboration tool that doesn't even have a name yet. You wouldn't have thought of something like that except by implementing your way toward it.
Treating a startup idea as a question changes what you're looking for. If an idea is a blueprint, it has to be right. But if it's a question, it can be wrong, so long as it's wrong in a way that leads to more ideas.
One valuable way for an idea to be wrong is to be only a partial solution. When someone's working on a problem that seems too big, I always ask: is there some way to bite off some subset of the problem, then gradually expand from there? That will generally work unless you get trapped on a local maximum, like 1980s-style AI, or C.
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