Estimation skills are very important for any person. What I mean by estimation skills is the basic numbercrunching ability. In the recent months, I have realized (thanks to my work I am involved), that few people take care to understand, develop and use the estimation skills. To make it more concrete, if one were to estimate the time and effort for an IT Project, how does one do it ? There are various standard models available and one of them is cocomo.

Guy Kawasaki : Blogging and social media are forms of evangelism. The goal of a lot of online marketing is to get bloggers and networks talking about a product. The best way to do this remains creating a great product. Ninety percent of evangelism is finding or creating a great product. It’s very hard to evangelize crap.

One of the most popular learning techniques for reading books and understanding the content is the MindMaps Technique. Developed and Popularized by Tony and Barrry Buzan, it urges the reader to use right and left brains for note-taking / note-making. In umpteen situations, we take notes / make notes and in all such instances, the mindmap offers a technique to understand, retain, recall and communicate effectively. For example , if one was about to read a book, the Mind Map technique urges the reader to go through the following steps

Transaction Scale Profit talks about the importance of big transactions which result because of big relationships. **Value Chain Position Profit :**If one observes the user experience from the product / service and traces back the value added by each player in the making of the product , it is clear that there is generally a lumpy distribution of profit at one place, an enormous concentration of profit and power at a few points.

Today I used Skype after almost an year. I was just amazed at the price rates and various discounts being offered to select destinations. 0.017 Euros per minute to New york equates to 91 paisa per minute, which is much cheaper than calling any location in India. The voice quality is also pretty good , all in all fully justifying the valuation that eBay put on Skype