Adventnet CEO Sridhar on Cloud Computing

Image via WikipediaAdventNet CEO Sridhar explains CloudComputing. How it works on the Fox news. They have a business productivity suite ZOHO that competes with Google Docs.

ZOHO writer recently introduced mathematical equations through Latex code embedding in their ZOHO writer documents. This makes ZOHO writer very useful as a writing tool for Science/Mathematics/Engineering related documents.


Another interesting thing that stands out in his video is his hiring practices. They develop their own talent pool by hiring promising job applicants instead of looking for graduates from name brand schools. This should provide them opportunity to use untapped talent pool and at the same time solving the ever present problem of "Not enough good engineers".

Open Social Open for Business

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GSP East 2008: Open Social: Open For Business
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This is a slideshare presentation from the Google Open social evangelists Chanezon. It goes over the details and the acceptance of "Open social" as platform for application development by the major Social Networks such as MySpace, HI5 etc..

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Google is involved with many efforts to make the social web more real, more useful, and more open. This session will cover the latest release of OpenSocial & recent implementations on popular social platforms like MySpace, hi5, aol and imeem.


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Joe Kraus of Google on Emerging Social Web

Image by davemc500hats via FlickJoe Kraus from Google talks about emerging trends in social networking and how the web is becoming more social.

He talks about how the process of information discovery is becoming social. Also, the nature of social sharing of information will see more applications like Friendfeed where information is shared among friends in a non intrusive manner.

He is suggesting that the whole web will become social web with major social web site acting as hubs and mentions the Google's Friendconnect as a facilitator of the this process. He did mention openID, OpenAuth and Open social initiatives backed and supported by Google.


He made a nice case for all the Google supported initiatives and products without making a too much overt pitch about them.

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Viral Marketing for Social Network

Image by ~no bullshit~ via FlickrThis presentation describes the reach of Social Networks such as Myspace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo ,Orkut and Friendster globally. How they have become the most visited web sites in a short period of three years. Their potential for marketing purposes.

It goes into details on how the social networking application utilize the viral growth that can also be used for marketing products.

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Strategic Business Analysis of Google

Image via WikipediaGoogle is an amazing company. They have become the no.1 most visited web site on the web beating Yahoo for the top spot with a web page that is mostly blank and showing a text area for search.

Their market share in search has reached close to 69 percent beating convincingly all other competitors.

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Recently, they have been firing on all the fronts. They are at the forefront of cloud computing. They have Google docs as a fastest growing application and they are very active in the area of social networking software with their work in the area of "Open Social".

They have been open and close in providing information about their operations. They have been very secretive or reluctant in providing information about the working of their giant data centers or the algorithm that ranks the web pages. Other then that they have been very open and have supported open source software development in a big way.


I guess having Hal Varian, author of "Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy" as economists has something to do with this. Their strategy of close/open is creating a positive feed back loop that makes them grow at a faster pace without spending significant efforts for marketing themselves. The viral marketing has worked for them very well even Seth Godin has acknowledged this viral nature of their growth.

Also, they strongly believe in "eating their own dog food". I mean most of the applications they are supporting are also internally used within the company. You will see a big presence of Google channel on Youtube to release the product information. You will see them using sites.google.com for promoting their initiatives. You will see them using Google docs for document creation and distribution.

All of this establishes a positive feed back loop that other competitors simply can not copy because they are still using the traditional approach of management from the old Industrial era or they have made some minor adjustments to accommodate the knowledge workers.

These slides provide a distinct view of Google winning strategy.

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Seth Godin at Google

Image via Wikipedia"All Marketers are Liars" - Seth Godin speaks at Google

Seth Godin is the author of six bestsellers, including Permission Marketing, an Amazon Top 100 bestseller for a year and a Fortune Best Busi...all » Seth Godin is the author of six bestsellers, including Permission Marketing, an Amazon Top 100 bestseller for a year and a Fortune Best Business Book. His newest book, All Marketers are Liars , has already made the Amazon Top 100 and has inspired its own blog. Seth is also a renowned speaker, and was recently chosen as one of "21 Speakers for the Next Century" by Successful Meetings Magazine and is consistently rated among the best speakers by the audiences he addresses. Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, an interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998. He holds an MBA from Stanford, is a contributing editor to Fast Company magazine, and was called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" by Business Week.

This video is part of the Authors@Google series.


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48 min - Feb 28, 2006
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Source: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294

Open Social Presentation

Image via WikipediaKevin Marks (Google), Chris Schalk (Google), Lou Moore (Hi5) and Patrick Chanezon's presentation "OpenSocial" at the Graphing Social Patterns West 2008 conference

The presentation provides the details of the companies that are supporting open social api for application development. The prominent social networks that are supporting opensocial applications are Google, Ning, HI5, Plaxo, Myspace and many others.

Open Social standard is an open standard for developing applications for social networks.

Nvidia Tegra Chip

The Video shows how small and low in power consumption is the Nvidia graphics processor. They can play HD video with less power consumption when compared with the processor with Intel.

The Nonverbal Advantage by Carol Kinsey Goman

Image by scubapup via FlickrThe Nonverbal Advantage by Carol Kinsey Goman |Book Brief

In “The Nonverbal Advantage”, Carol Kinsey Goman shows how nonverbal communication can build trust and credibility with customers, colleagues and clients – since 93 percent of the messages you send have nothing to do with what you actually say. Learn what mirroring is, when to use a business or a social gaze, and why it’s best to walk up to men and women from different angles.

Speaker: Carol Kinsey Goman, President of Kinsey Consulting & Author

Length: 05:45

Danah Boyd on MyFriends, MySpace

Image by Getty Images via DaylifeAn ethnographic study of use of social networks


Additional References

• Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life"


• "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" (with Nicole Ellison)


• http://www.danah.org

Her talk can help in making decisions about the use of social networking environment for teaching and learning.

It is tempting to utilize the well known virtual social spaces created by MySpace and Facebook for teaching and learning. However, such attempts may turn out difficult due to the perception of virtual social spaces as a place to socialize not a place for work.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Best Browser

Walter Mossberg columnist for Wall Street Journal's personal technology section describes the features of upcoming web browser Firefox 3.0.

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Twitter: CEO Jack Dorsey Explains Twitter Service

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey provides a compelling overview of the service and his own inspiration

Jack Dorsey Presents Twitter from biz stone on Vimeo.
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First Man on the Moon: NASA, Neil Armstrong

The highest achievement of Astronautics and Aeronautical Engineering completely supported by Government through NASA.

How Mobile Technology Ends Poverty

Why does poverty still exist despite decades of development aid? In this talk, Iqbal Quadir explains why "aid does damages: because it empowers authorities instead of people," and advocates a new approach to development from below, "by the people for the people." His own experience as a child in Bangladesh and later a banker in New York brought him to realize that "connectivity is productivity" -- and that a simple cell phone has enormous power. Now his telecom company, GrameenPhone, offers service to most of rural Bangladesh, creating new opportunities by connecting villages to the world.