Movement and Revolution

Movement: Its temporary. It goes certain distance and stops.
Revolution: Keeps coming back again and again. Never stops.

One should always start a revolution, not a movement.

N.A.V.E.E.D

What Michael Dell says about Internet

"Every business should have a Web site, but keeping it up to date and making it better to use than the phone is a challenge. What I see coming is increased use of recorded and live video as bandwidth increases. But to get people to look at your Web site at all, you need to promote it in every aspect of your communications, from business cards and the boxes your products are shipped in to advertising. Your whole business should be built around having a Web site because that's where your best customers--and your toughest competition--will be.

"You can also enhance partnerships with suppliers and track inventory using the Net. And employees should be encouraged to monitor the industry for competition, opportunities, news and best practices."

- Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Inc.

WWW and web browsers

Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN to provide a way to organize information among the reaserchers. He also invented the first web browser which was called WorldWideWeb (note there is no space in between) and later changed its name to Nexus. Interestingly, Nexus had WYSIWYG capabilities and it was supposed to be a platform to read as well as edit information. But some how the next generation of web browsers shifted to read-only mode.
Now we have websites like wikipedia and digg which have both read and write capabilities, which was one of the fundamental purposes of creating the world wide web and the browser.
This link takes you to a wikipedia webpage which shows a list of web browsers organized into categories.
Do add any valid web browser you think is missing and most importantly, do organize the browsers according to a category called "WYSIWYG". For example, Nexus had WYSIWYG features. Because the whole purpose of creating the web was not just to publish content from the server side but to also edit/add content from the client side.

Scientist or Engineer?

A scientist builds in order to learn. An engineer learns in order to build.

Online business vs Offline business

Online, small businesses fail to act on the fundamental reality of how people use the Web. No one "passes by." They search for "information, information, information."

Offline, it's all about "location, location, location." Put your business where people crowd by... and you're all set. Get your cash register ready!

Happy birthday to me

Today is my birthday.

Opinion poll about eBay

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What is your opinion about eBay? (Multiple options allowed)
	Its a really cool and useful service
	Not reliable
	Cant find people who are selling stuff in the same city as mine
	The website is poorly designed and hard to search for anything
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Information Revolution according to Peter Drucker

Click here to read what the inventor of management, Peter Drucker says about Information Revolution and what lies ahead.

Google desperate to attract AdWords buyers.

Google is doing ad campaigns to sell its AdWords. This means Google is getting defensive.

Best technique to uninstall Linux

If you have only Linux (any distro) installed on your computer, the following procedure will totally wipe off Linux from your hard drive and also all the data on it.

Step 1: Boot Linux.

Step 2: Open the Terminal.

Step 3: If you are not logged in as root, log in as root.

Step 4: Type this command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

Step 5: Hit Enter.

Step 6: Restart your computer.

When you restart your computer you will see that there is no OS on your hard drive. So before doing this be sure you have your other OS cd with you so that you can install that.

Google AdWords : In Depth

How Google AdWords algorithm works: here

XQuery based native XML databases

Deciding when an XQuery-based native XML database is better than an SQL database: Link

A plethora of information about Native XML Databases can be found at www.rpbourret.com

Of all the available NXDs Berkeley DB XML seems to be the better choice.

Berkeley DB XML is a library, and as such is linked into your application just as any other library would be, it does not incur the overhead of client/server communication. You interact with Berkeley DB XML using one of the supported language APIs. The primary one is C++, as the product is written in C++. Java, Python, Perl, PHP, and TCL are all supported API languages.

14,159,265

Why Google offered exactly 14,159,265 shares for sale?
Because (pi - 3) * 100,000,000 = 14,159,265.
Read full story here.

IPOs of super successful technology companies

Company name	Year of IPO	$ per share
Apple	Dec 12, 1980	22
Microsoft	March 13, 1986	21
Oracle	March 12, 1986	15
Sun Microsystems	March 4, 1986	16
Dell	June 22, 1988	8.50
Yahoo!	April 1996	Click here
Amazon.com	May 15, 1997	18
eBay	September 24, 1998	Click here
Google	August 18, 2004	85

10 rules for web startups

Click here to see the 10 rules for web startups.

Google AdSense "click fraud"

Google executive calls click fraud the biggest threat to the Internet economy, urges quick action.
"I think something has to be done about this really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model," Google Chief Financial Officer George Reyes said.

I always wondered if the pay-per-click model of revenue is for real. Its pretty funny to see that a giant Internet company like Google relies on just "ads" for revenue, though the beauty of Google's ad revenue is that it creates ads specific to key word search.
I also doubt it if advertisers really increase their sales by using Google's AdWords program given the rampant click fraud.

Google threatens

Wired has an interesting article on why almost all tech companies need to be threatened by Google. The following is an excerpt from the that article relating to Google's foray into online classifieds.

CLASSIFIEDS
When secrecy-obsessed Google let news of "Google Base" slip, it looked like an aggressive entrée into online classifieds. The test service can search ads like used-car and personals listings, which would mesh with Google Local and might even kick-start Orkut, Google's social network.

Who's threatened: craigslist, eBay, Monster, Tribe.net

Signs of panic: Within hours of the Base bombshell, eBay's market value dropped by almost $2 billion. And even before that, the classified sites were nervous. CareerBuilder and others fretted about letting Google host their feeds.

Reality check: This may be an extension of Froogle rather than a stand-alone product. But it could expand to everything from travel to eBay-like offerings.

The Web - What it can and can't

Amazon, eBay, rediff and almost all e-commerce companies are built on the idea that people will buy goods "through the Internet". This is absurd, because the web can't deliver goods or anything tangible. The web can only deliver information.

Claude Shannon is known as the father of information theory. He defined information as the reduction of uncertainity.

Google Base launched

Google Base has finally been launched. I'm not impressed by the way it works. I was expecting something much better from Google.