Energy Dependence

T Boone Pickens on our energy dependence and a way out it

Startup Matrix

Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA/Miami, Feb 2009)

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Dilbert

Will work for free

Open Social Development

Kevin Mark from Google on Open Social Development

Jon Stewart on Economic Stimulus

Cover of Market Forces

There is a fundamental disagreement between the democrats and republicans on how to tackle the current economic melt down. For most part democrats believe in the Keneysian interventionist approach for solving the problem. The Republicans also believe in the same approach but disagree on the government intervention. They believe that the market forces should be able to solve the problem on its own while government acting as a fair referee. Some of the republican governors are willing to forgo the federal stimulus money. In this video Jon Stewart shows that they are still getting some money from the package.

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Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - GOP Govs at Odds

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Joke of the Day

The republican governor are trying to appear conservative and fiscally responsible.

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MIT Geek Attempt to Appear Cool

MIT is a premier institution for Science and Technology education. An area that primarily evokes the images of classic nerds and geeks. The video below tries to dispel this myth. It is an attempt to show that MIT education incorporates other aspects of education including
humanities and athletics.



These attempts of the image make over are worthwhile but inadequate. Even the way the video was made shows that MIT is primarily an environment for science and Engineering education. Other subjects appear to be bolted on to the already a curriculum that is heavily oriented towards Engineering subjects. It is great education and teaches students how to plan and engineer systems. However, the students who learn how to engineer the humans mostly do better then the student who learn how to plan the Engineering systems.

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Web Browser Performance

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A presentation at Google by John Resig of Mozilla foundation. He compares the performance of several Javascript engines that come with different browsers. The talk is extremely informative.

It does a good job of explaining the future of web browsers and takes an optimistic look on the improvement in the performance of the Javascript Engines.



Also the Slides of the presentation

Performance Improvements in Browsers

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Google Activities in 2008 and Future Application 2009

Matt Cutts on the State of Index talk and talk slides.



Talks's slides

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Complete Animated History of Internet

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Internet is a network of connected computer networks. It is based upon TCP/IP based protocols that support many applications such as email, Worldwide web and Chat etc. These open protocols allow development of applications that are cross platform and cross national boundaries.

Here is a short video that provides a brief history on how such a pervasive computer network came into existence.

Dubai Real Estate Downfall

The Economic melt down is affecting all regions of the world. Prosperous small countries like Dubai who were building there fortune on Real Estate, Finance and Tourism are also feeling a downward drift.

A short video from Dubai

Apple Laptop with no Keyboard

Here is play by Onion on the futuristic look at Apple's offerings. A bit of a stretch but worth looking at:


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Why We Stay

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Christopher Titus - Why We Stay

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Social Media for Public Relations

Art of Listening 2.0

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All About Google

All about Google

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The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need

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Dr. Schor is a professor of Sociology who has been studying consumption habits of American. She is an author of many books to describe this particular phenomenon.

She talks about the over work and the shifting expectation of the Consumers. In the recent years we have been working longer hours with less leisure time. At the same time the demand for luxury has increased causing the situation of over spent American.



More Information is available at Her Web site Center for New American Dream

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Web Interface Design

Designing Web Interfaces Book - O'Reilly Webcast

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Slumdog Millionaire

Dev Patel, the lead actor of Slumdog Millionaire on the NBC Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He talks about how much he likes Will Smith.