Clay Shirky in one of his essays about “Situated Software” says : “We’ve been killing conversations about software with “That won’t scale” for so long we’ve forgotten that scaling problems aren’t inherently fatal. The N-squared problem is only a problem if N is large, and in social situations, N is usually not large. A reading group works better with 5 members than 15; a seminar works better with 15 than 25, much less 50, and so on.

Now this is interesting. There have been quite an number of instances where blog authors have given away books, writtern blogs exclusively of books which are due to be released(Long tail, Clue train, freakonomics, Google search etc)..But Tom Evslin takes a totally different approach where books and blog experience are combined in to one. Hackoff.com: Blooks are online books distributed on blogs. There are only a couple of them in existence so we are making up the rules as we go along.

Jake Steinfeld, has written his new book . So what ? Lot of Entrepreneurs write books. But this one is slightly different.He is starting a biz plan contest( the details of which are in the book/his website) where he is going to select one plan out of all the plans submitted and FUND 250USD and , here is the interesting element -.He is not going to take any ownership stake for the funding.

Nanotech patents that have been issued has grown from a measly 45 in 1999 & 180 in 2001 TO 2500 in 2004.One of the reasons for the rise is that a number of folks are attaching nano to a lot of processes and applying for patents. To clarify the patent definition, US PTO announced it had created a new classification for nanotechnology patents. US PTO announced it had created a new classification for nanotechnology patents.

Most of us do come across the statement that ideas are dime a dozen and all it takes is the execution of the idea . A good/bad idea can be turned in to a good outcome, if the execution is taken care of. Yes I do buy the argument considering that a lot of people talk more, act less. However, I also feel that ideas as touted by the media are not all that pervasive amongst folks.