IBM India employee strength is mind numbing..Out of the IBM - Total base at the end of 2006 - 355,766 people, India has 52,000 people ( up from 36,000 one year earlier, three years earlier, IBM had just 9,000 people ) 15% of one of the biggest companies in the world is in India…Wow!! with this kind of talent, when will there be a superb product from India ?

From eStatsIndia.com,Indian e-commerce market - b2c and b2b combined - is about Rs 4,100 crore( 1 billion usd). Let’s compare with the global ecommerce market.Online shopping accounted for 3% of total retail sales in 2006, nearly double the share from 2002. E-commerce sales totaled $108 billion in 2006 with an expected 20% increase for 2007. E-commerce sales are forecasted to climb at a double digit pace for the remainder of the decade, accounting for 4.

Lot of firms are trying to crack the video advertising puzzle ..to become the next google in video advertising..Firms that have making soe noise are ScanScout PodZinger Corp Blinkx Brightcove Inc. Lots more to come I guess..It will be interesting to see which firm would finally crack the video ad puzzle

My friend is up to writing a blog which will make you think on something each day.There are a lot of nice questions which you can think about. Link : http://www.drdoubt.com/

There have been a lot of sites in the recent past where user generated video content and the videos have spread virally among the net community. Revver, a pioneer the usage of still frame ad at the end of video pays the content creator based on the clicks - adsense model Metacafe pays creators $100 when their video has been viewed 20,000 times, and $5 for every 1,000 additional views.