Archive for February, 2008

Human Capital management challenges in the IT industry

There’s an interesting article in Express Computer – a leading IT weekly in India on the importance of managing human capital and the different approaches and best practices – specially as it pertains to the Information Technology industry in India. Human Capital is perhaps the most important asset that developing economies have and no one [...]

MySpace Developer Platform, What about Open Social?

MySpace announced their Developer platform for third party developers. Off course this made me wonder what was the deal with Open Social . OpenSocial was supposed to be the glue between third party developers and different Social network platform, which includes MySpace. So out of curiosity did some digging on MySpace developer platform. So here [...]

New “Blow” energy drink looks like cocaine

Parents, don’t let your kids grow up to be “Blow’ drinkers. There’s this new energy drink available on the net that looks and handles like a brick of cocaine and it’s called “Blow,” slang for cocaine. It is white powder that comes in a vial and you pour it into your favorite drink and get [...]

Giant ( Microsoft) awakened by Google, Bids for Yahoo

Well the giant finally woke up or rather was awakened by Google. I have said this many a times in my earlier articles, that Google is giving sleepless nights to Microsoft. So the acquisition bid comes as no surprise to me. Wow! this is one hell of a deal. Very tempting, will yahoo embrace it [...]

Finally, Iam back from India!

Phew, it was a very hectic trip for me. In the mean while, I couldn’t do justice to my Blog. I feel sad. So folk’s, apologies for this lame excuse of mine. I’m back and stay tuned for some interesting articles ahead. Look’s like a possible recession is looming around. I’m sure this shall not [...]