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.

This is similar to Dodgeball which was acquired by google..18 member company in bay area.. Is there no scope for such service in India ? clipped from www.loopt.comloopt is a mobile service that connects you to the people, places, and events around you. It's a closed network meant to be used with friends you see and speak to on a day-to-day basis. Many times a day, your friends are nearby and free to hang out without you knowing it.

A nice hack developed to automatically dial your favorite/favorites in reality shows. This software seems to have been downloaded quite a number of times..Time will tell whether it is close to its prediction clipped from www.dialidol.comPrior to week 10 of season 5 the MOE was just decided on. Starting with week 10 of season 5 MOE follows this calculation which is the actual calculation for MOE = 2.58 * sqr(((p)*(1-p))/n) where p = each Idols DialIdol score (percent) and n = the actual score for each Idol.

Another stat and argument which is PRO - Fairplay DRM clipped from online.wsj.comFor all of the success of iTunes, its downloads represent just 3% of the total songs on an average iPod. Some of the rest are songs ported over from CD players, but most are DRM-free downloads. So why is the music industry straight-jacketing its most popular distribution channel with an onerous anti-piracy requirement?