Why isnt there an amazon type recommendation based book service in India ? Why should I as a reader be satisfied with firstandsecond.com , fabmall.com? When China with all the similarities that are talked of with India can have an Amazon type…why not in India ? One of the biggest reasons is LANGUAGE. India with english speaking population really does not need a localized amazon..but wait a minute..There is a gap definitely in the delivery times of a book.

Smart Mobs, Wisdom of Crowds, Tipping point,. Blink are some of the books which address this social systems..But if one has to create a system, one needs to have much more knowledge about the whole stuff..Little clueless here. clipped from alexkrupp.typepad.comDuring the first dotcom bubble, we had lots of startups run by MBAs that were getting trounced by the competition run by hackers. Today, the dotcoms run by guys who only hack are going to be trounced by the startups that also understand social systems.

Flickr Id has immense use in web apps. If one needs to have a gallery that has to be displayed on the website, embedding Flickr slide using Flickr Id is the easiest way . Use idGettr - Find your Flickr ID to find your Flickr user or group id. I am developing a website for an NGO in Bangalore. Displaying their past events using flickr was immensely useful to me. No longer one needs to copy all the images in public/images folder and create gallery layouts in your webpages.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3962105514239495106&hl=enOne of the common themes of the session was the absence of marketing in the success of the ventures talked. The viral marketing fabric has changed from email to IM to Google...What is the next mode of viral marketing as Max Levchin from Slide bets that any company which would provide that would be the next big thing. Out of all the people who spoke, James Hong points were the best in my opinion.

I was out to Mangalore to get my sister enrolled in one of the PG dental colleges. It was a pretty long journey and I picked up a couple of books for this journey , one being Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini . I thought this book would be a good filler amongst the non-fiction that I usually read. In the hindsight, it was not a filler at all. Once I started reading it , I could not put it down.