November 2005 - Posts
Parikrama - an Indian rock band will be performing a rock song at the Launch Tour 2005 of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2006 in India - Dec 9 2005. SuperHero is a song about the life of a programmer. (No the song is not in an Indian Language but in English)
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Sandhya Ganapathy my Morgan Stanley friend (still finishing up homework at Tepper ) mailed in with this link to blogging by HBS The article doesn't give much insight than what we already know and blog about anyways: "A blog is an incredibly effective
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Ever since the XBOX360 was released there have been some stray user-feedback on it crashing. But an informal poll by "TeamXBox" (user-public-forum not a MS-Team really) brought these results as of Sunday 11AM PST. 15% said it was defective so far in about
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Another Geek-fantasy crushed! Here is the first presentation given by Brin/Page at Stanford to pitch the Google concept. And yes - they used Powerpoint :) Thx to Ralphmalph for the Digg.
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andrew4d recent wrote "Google is at it again .... Well... looks like a way to steal your bandwith eh?" when "Digging" Google-compute at Digg.com No I do not use the Google Toolbar - MSN Toolbar works just fine - thank you verymuch - but when I looked
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well those were not the words of IBM but of computerkid who linked me to this video-ad of IBM . Have a look ...
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Some of the fun to be had in Marketing a product internationally is to embrace the diversity and the local cultural intricacies. Its even more fun if something universal is localized. PulpFiction for instance is one my all-time favourite movies..... And
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Digg.com asked this question "Enthusiasm for the new Xbox fades heavily upon reports of all sorts of problem, including the problem of buying them. The most botched release ever?" and even gave some links to other articles through Cnet where some boxes
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I am always amazed at the new changes in India each time I go home. But these robots I am talking about have been there for atleast a decade, and when I saw this article - it was one of those Bada-Bing remeniscent moments :) This specific robot is from
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"Write your resume in the holidays (NOW) And post them on the week of Superbowl" - wise words those -( and therefore not from me :) ) Heather Hamilton , our inhouse recruiting rockstar who went on a posting rampage yesterday - said that a year ago - and
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The History of Animation certainly starts with the concept of persistence of vision - easily showcased by flipbooks. In a really cute showcase of Geekdom wanting to go retro - this software takes your movie files and generates flipbooks that you can print
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Sassan Saedi (has taken to classifying his conversations with me as on the blog-record and off-it) just bought the new video iPOD and spent a whole day raving about the UI and ranting about the documentation :) .... Since he already figured out how to
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"Google is clearly gathering information about us but refuse to tell us why. There's something fishy going on." starts the article on Diggdot.us citing the original article here. The 9 Facts according to this resource are: * Google's immortal cookie places
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Screambody is a portable space of screaming. When a user needs to scream but is in anynumber of situations where it is just not permitted, ScreamBody silences the user’s screams so they may feel free to vocalize without fear of environmental retaliation,
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Shannon Huffman - the hyperactive Tuck grad (03) is organizing a Tuck talk with her profs coming over to Seattle. Authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble for an evening of holiday spirits, hor d'oevres and great conversation as we celebrate the publication
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http://xbox.clambert.org/ is an XBOX 360 Inventory Finder - to help find how many XBox360s are available in your neighborhood. Enough said - go get your 360 - TODAY!
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WSJ announced today that Tivo (amid climbing shares) announced that they will allow their video recorders to download any TV shows to their IPods. Just opened a new can of usage patterns and I am sure sales!
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As sweet and nice that Nancy Apthrop, the Exec-Admin to Norm Judah (our CTO in the Worldwide Enterprise Services group at Microsoft reporting to Rick Devenuti) is - the Darkside of the force had gripped her strong late last Friday - during our office
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Videogame consoles sell at a loss. There is no secret there. The "loss-leader" Gillette model rings true in the videogame console industry as well. Losses in the initial sale and margins accrue through the life of the console through cartridges or "Live"
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Microsoft Codename Max is uber-cool, very rock-on and quite download-heavy. "It is not like any other product. That's because it's not a product—it's your opportunity to try an exciting new user experience from Microsoft. " is the blurb on their webpage
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Business 2.0 just exclaimed "The Google Boys are teaming up with Craig Venter (of human genome mapping fame) to use Google's vast computing power to help unlock some of the myseries of biology, and maybe one day help you search through your genes." Reasons
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A good friend of mine is a strong believer in Match.Com . Among other things - she is a also a believer in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Denver Broncos. (And by the time she reads this post - I am sure she also believes she can kick my butt for
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Ivan Joseph - talked to 5 Tepper MBAs selected for 2nd Rnd interviews today and answered some of their questions about the Microsoft recruiting process and other qns the students had. Some of the questions he wanted to the share the answers are on his
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The Apple Mac aint coool - but the entire ecosystem around it is - and most of the users seem to be artists - which makes for uber coolness. Anyways here's a really neat laser etched powerbook with all the details of the process - the before and the after.
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Sassan Saedi my Iranian colleague from Kellogg who looks for bargains in pretty much everything (though he is yet to get any from our cafeteria) has been toying with buying a portable, mini, robust and handy harddisk for donkey months now. A couple of
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I remember an article I read years ago on Wired about Apple being a religion! "Umberto Eco, the Italian semiologist, once famously compared Macs and PCs to the two main branches of the Christian faith: Catholics and Protestants. The Mac is Catholic, he
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Just days after RickDe confirmed his new found commitment to continuing blogging - Ray Ozzie have confimed his new blog site - thanx to this article at Infoworld . My initial reaction was a little different what I had when I read RickDe's blog or even
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$250 is the retail price for the Nano and thanx to Froogle and some other websearches I found a great deal at Micheles2Go/Seconds2Go4You.com which had the Nano for 200$ only . Here is what happened * Bought and paid for the Nano on Oct 9th 2005. * I get
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There are tons of CIO-directed surveys. And then there are the CIO-directed ad campaigns. Not to mention the CIO-directed marketing messages and sales events. Ofcourse all these come with them great incentives - they have to - who would spend "forced
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Rick Devenuti has a blog - not many know it - but - yes he does. So does my General Manager (Hardeep Walia) In today's All-Hands conference call for Microsoft Enterprise Services he brought up the issue of blogging all by himself. I was given the chance
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Last week, Boston.com Business had an article about MBA pay jumps this year in double digits - 11% in Harvard to $174K means, $149K avg in Stanford up nearly 10% and about $150K in Tuck up 15%. Needless to say - you'd have to be superman to get that kind
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The last time I saw shoes with lights on them - it was on my cousin's shoes when he was about 6... about a decade or more ago. He probably is going resent me more for making this information public :) But Business 2.0 recently blogged this and BrightFeet
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Everyone has heard of the Microsoft Give Campaign and the last info I heard for our October Giving Campaign said we as a firm have raised just over $60M with 66% of our employees participating - about $8M increase over employee giving at this time last
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Ivan Joseph ( Chicago GSB MBA ) - the same ping-pong guy who put his job underfire 1 wk after joining our team by defeating HardeepW our General Manager at the Ping Pong Tournament in Rnd 1 ( Massacre would be a better word I hear - but hey English is
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There is a class action lawsuit filed against Apple according to this article that says Customers across the world have reported a flaw in the Nano screen . The lawsuit is the result of UK resident Ben Jennings’s complaint - which is typical (according
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The Business 2.0 Blog just blogged about a terrabyte Apple IPOD Strategy and threw in a great architecture to boot on the "crystal ball" view. Quoting the blog - Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster just sent out a note, with his predictions for Apple's
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Maybe ppl already knew about WOMMA but there is an association for word-of-mouth marketing out there. And it has an interesting support cast of advisors with profs from some good schools (I was going to see TOP schools - but did not find anyone from Tepper
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I had a few folks from my Marketing team talk to me about "What is RSS?" Looking for some good articles to give them a read - rather than start explaining it - I found Rick Bruner in his blog recently wrote about RSS for Marketing and Communication and
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Coming from Chennai, south india where if you picked any 5 ppl on the road - about 3 of them would be engineers and about 4 of them would know how to code in C/C++ - this post on Chris Sell's blog entry this morning brought in a chuckle from me. Okie
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Monica and John Robinson (my classmates from Tepper 03) at Carnegie Mellon University have been instrumental in the work behind getting our alma mater voted into SBSA yesterday. I get a free drink each time I put John's name on my blog (well thats what
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This presentation by Dick Hardt - Founder/CEO, Sxip Identity was floating around through internal forwards as being "cool". I will admit it is different, rad - but I was not as impressed as most of the ppl who forwarded this to me - were. WHY? It was
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Thanks to my Tepper classmate - John Robinson volunteering me to be the webmaster of the Seattle Business School Alliance - I am on their board now! So the SBSA has their Happy Hr today - minutes after - Tepper's Bid to be included on the SBSA roster
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Garr Reynold's in his blog had a piece today about Steve Jobs, BillG and Zen style of presentation . The Article does a great job of listing out design parameters - and compares the contrasting styles with a high level of criticism. Having seen some BillG
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On a series of interviews, articles and guest-posts that I will have many members on our contribute for the Recruiting Comm Blog - I managed to talk one of our new team-members to say a few words thta she can share with everyone out there. Shannon Huffman,
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In 3 hrs I should be at a wierd concert that features Bryan Adams sharing stage with Def Leppard at Everett about 30 mins North of Seattle. It is not exactly cool to say that I like these bands - but at one point they were phenomenal and it almost seemed
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If I had a buck for everytime I heard that question being posed to me when I told someone I was living in Seattle - I'd be a millionaire with a house by the lake. Instead I am in a small condo by Bellevue with a view to a treetrunk. I am sure all Seattleites
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A million myths exist about Microsoft Culture. Like all myths - some are true and some are false. Yes we have unlimited free soda across campus (it sounds a lot cooler if you are in college - it doesnt anymore) - and No we do NOT work 15 hr days (well
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The next best thing to giving out XBOX Live licenses or XBox 360s (since we dont give out Nanos here) is gift certificates to Lattes at our Cafeteria. Well to ppl who think I am joking - try working on spreadsheets without caffeine and you know what I
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Having spent a good deal of the last 2 wks seiving through cover letters and resumes for applications from Student at Bschools I have realised two things: a) Students have no clue about who is the customer and who is the buyer in the early parts of the
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I was wondering - given the amount of planning going on in multi-team projects if there was a Swim-Lane Template/generator in MS Project. I know there are ways to show GANTTs and Dependencies with a time line - but a SwimLane process Flow would take the
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Analytical Decision Making, Great effervesence of Technology leverage, Passion for Technopreneurship and Strong Team Collaboration to get results: There are a my top differentiation points for the Tepper School of Business @ CMU and I was there during
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