In the book, 25 ways to win with people, author John says : Forget about:Searching for ways to make yourself look good.Instead, search for ways to make others look good. Ask:What positive, encouraging thing can I say to eachperson I will see today? Do it:Give everyone you meet the Triple-A Treatment—attention, affirmation, and appreciation. Remember:Within the first thirty seconds of a conversation,say something encouraging.

When the software industry was beginning to explode, there was a need of design language so that designers and programming community can talk to each other. UML was the answer and many companies reaped gold in coming up with tools to support UML. These are the times when Nano is the buzz word and its no surprise to see a tool for specifying designs in the Nano World. I guess this is just the beginning of tool deluge that will hit the market in the years to come.

Mike Treder , the director of CRN says that Nanotechnology is on a upward curve and it might not be obvious to a lot of people, at this point of time. Why ? The problem is human perspective, what Ray Kurzweil calls the “Intuitive Linear View.” When we see something that looks like a straight line, we naturally assume that it is. Although change occurs around us every day, unless we look closely we may not notice it.

Came across a nice way to classify bloggers : If one has to broadly classify bloggers, then there are 2 categories . First category are Linkers who link to an article and either comment on it or help generate buzz on it. Second category are the thinkers, who write an essay / thoughts and as such do not refer to any external link perse. And obviously there are bloggers who adopt both patterns .

What are banks meant for : Intermediaries between Lenders and Borrowers. Why should internet, the supposed platform for killing all intermediaries spare banks…atleast that’s what a group of people from London think so. Zopa , a new service promises exactly this : Bank - Your idea of hell: a place where you’re told which rate you can invest or borrow at and how long you can invest or borrow for and then offered, in a sad mockery of the word ‘choice’, a meagre number of off-the-shelf solutions which either suit you or don’t.