Mumbai Local Train timetable on phone

    http://www.mumbai77.com/mumbailocal/index.html

Mumbai Local is a Automated, Up to date, User friendly, and Menu based Non-GPRS(Standby Installable) Mobile Local Train Timetable for Mumbai People in Affordable price, for all its Western, Central and Harbour Trains Up and Down Routes. Very needful and easy utility now on your finger tips to know the next up coming local train time from the station you are standing. No more Old style booklet and hunt for new updates as its centralized and easy.

• Special Markings <More Info> on specific timings which shows details like (E.g: This train will not stop at X, Y, Z Stations (OR) Ladies Special Trains) for travelers convinence.
  
• Separate Time Setting Available for your mobile to adjust the timings as per your requirements.
  
• Railway Helplines Listed inside and Lots More...

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India generates least spam mails among BRIC nations

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet_/India_generates_least_spam_mails_among_BRIC_nations/articleshow/3348008.cms

India has emerged as the country generating the least amount of spam
mails among BRIC nations and this volume is a fifth of that
originating from the US.

Also see the pic is from the mumbai bar camp  :)
http://brandnoise.typepad.com/brand_noise/2008/08/spam-not-from-i.html

Tips to improve blog performance

http://www.packtpub.com/article/google-analytics-search-engine-optimization

If you've ever wondered how people find your website or how to generate more traffic, then this article tells you more about your visitors. Knowing where they come from, what posts they like, how long they stay, and other site metrics are all valuable information to have as a blogger. You would expect to pay for such a deep look into the underbelly of your blog, but Google wants to give it to you for free.

Newsgator

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Facebook for the enterprise
Improve Portal Adoption
Enable Internal Communities
Establish External Communities
Facilitate Social Networking
Improve Corporate Communications

More Spreadsheets

Another one http://www.metricscenter.org

Spredsheets gallore

http://www.exinfm.com/free_spreadsheets.html

1. Capital Budgeting Analysis (xls) - Basic program for doing capital budgeting analysis with inclusion of opportunity costs, working capital requirements, etc. - Aswath Damodaran
2. Rating Calculation (xls) - Estimates a rating and cost of debt based on the coverage of debt by an organization - Aswath Damodaran
3. LBO Valuation (xls) - Analyzes the value of equity in a leverage buyout (LBO) - Aswath Damodaran
4. Synergy (xls) - Estimates the value of synergy in a merger and acquisition - Aswath Damodaran
5. Valuation Models (xls) - Rough calculation for choosing the correct valuation model - Aswath Damodaran
6. ..... and many more...
   

Startup Watch: UhuRoo

http://www.uhuroo.com/Home/product.htm

Uhuroo is the fastest and easiest way for teams to connect, share, collaborate, and stay on the same page.

Uhuroo provides everything a team needs to share information, manage collaborations, and ensure that all their information and conversations remain secure and available.

Uhuroo enables all this and still manages to keep things blindingly simple.

User Generated Innovation ...

Excerpts from an interview with Eric A. von Hippel - Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management

It's a teaser in a way: "Democratizing Innovation."

Now, we have hundreds of thousands of different blogs that people follow, and little political-interest groups and different publications, and mass media is losing its appeal. And mass parties are losing their appeal. And mass publications are losing their appeal. So, we're going back to sort of the fragmented world,

... tools for high-quality innovation are getting so cheap and so ubiquitous that individuals can innovate for themselves at a steadily higher quality and at a steadily decreasing cost. Because of the Internet, it is also true that people can innovate collaboratively at a steadily lower cost.

... traditional assumptions about innovation and the best ways to innovate are upended. The basic idea is that it is the manufacturer's job to accurately understand your needs, and then make the perfect product for you. In fact, this is still the standard model of the innovation process taught in business schools today

Starting about 2000, user innovation related to the Internet, blogs, and open-source software began to become very visible. As a result, many people began to think, "Oh gosh, maybe the manufacturer-centered innovation model isn't the only way to go. Maybe innovation is really user-centered, and 'user-developed content' really does matter!"

Well, maybe you should start promoting compromise positions. For example, in clinical chemistry analyzers, some users are specifically authorized to modify the software. To avoid liability issues but also encourage innovation by users they say, "Well, these users can fiddle, but those can't." GE does the same thing with its MRIs. GE gives cheap MRI machines to people who they think are lead users who will evolve the software in valuable ways. And they lock down the systems of others to avoid liability.

the advice that I give my clients who have a lot of these Web 2.0 technologies is don't pick the right one for your users; give them an envelope to operate in, let them go try whatever they want and let them fail, and the best ones will emerge out of the broth.

Exactly. And notice what happens, because not only are the users innovating, but they're collaboratively filtering out the best ones. It may turn out manufacturers will learn to rely on users for innovation prototyping, and on the collaborative filtering efforts of user communities for a good piece of their marketing research.

User innovation doesn't necessarily reduce the amount of failures - it just takes them off your budgets.

Full Text: http://www.gartner.com/research/fellows/asset_172822_1176.jsp?WT.mc_id=News0808BI