Was reading an article written about incentives by Steven Levitt( Freakonomics fame) . He says a lot of people enter very risky and sometimes even dangerous professions because they believe in making the same / equivalent money which the previous generation has made. Cockaine drug dealing profession is such a dangerous profession that foot soldiers have an annual death rate of 7% ( 0.5% is the annual death rate of people who fight Iraq war ).

Today I was riding down the elevator when an advertisement flashed across the mini screen . It said " the bloggers in china have surpassed 20 million mark" . There is a cambrian explosion of businesses waiting to happen in China…

Games bring the best amongst us. It shows our IQ, EQ , if used properly is the right mode for recruiting. Google time and again uses this techinique for recruiting.This time for content writers in India

Via WSJ.com : One popular use of social-networking site Facebook.com is to flirt with other members. As it happens, Facebook Inc., the start-up company behind the Web site, has been doing some serious flirting of its own. People familiar with the matter say the company has held separate acquisition talks with Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Viacom Inc. over the past year. Now, say some of these people, the start-up is in serious discussions – again – to sell itself to Yahoo for an amount that could approach $1 billion.

Bubble Motion , an innovative use of a technology..I just love the way something is put to use which is probably,in the hindsight looks as a bloody obvious need in the market. The service is launched in Pune. ’ll be interesting to see if the result is same as Malaysian market.