RFID in retailing is one of the reasons for it being pushed in to mainstream. Players like Walmart and big retail chains are influencing the adoption of technology to a large extent. The widespread adoption will depend on Cost of tags , coming down from 20 cents to less than 5 cents Establishment of Standards - Class 2 tags Avoiding the Slap and ship approach and concentrating on Data Synch with the internal systems.

Upcoming.org , a firm on the lines of del.icio.us . The concept epitomizes a collaborative event calendar. It can also be a good alternative to meetup.com. Would be interesting to watch the progress of the site.

A concept map for the entrepreneurial skills

Stuntdubl: SEO Strategy to make a site popular - a 2 year road map Buy a new (better be extremely brandable) domain. Build between 10 - 100 pages of good unique content Get one high quality on theme link to the site after site is built Site gets spidered Spend a few days each month getting about a dozen links

Via Clay Shirky: Can someone make money by blogs? Clay Shirky in his article says that blogs essentially destroys the intrinsic and extrinsic values of Print Publishing. Intrinsic - It takes real work to publish anything in print, and more work to store, ship, and sell it. Because the up-front costs are large, and because each additional copy generates some additional cost, the number of potential publishers is limited to organizations prepared to support these costs.