Jun 12, 2008

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Jun 11, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: Even with gas at four bucks a gallon, Yahya Fahimuddin enjoys filling his car. It's a contest, a chance to see how many miles he can squeeze from every tank. He's getting about 45 mpg these days and says you can, too.He's a hypermiler, one of a growing number of people going to often extreme lengths to get 40, 50, even 60 m (Read More)

Jun 06, 2008

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Apr 24, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: A ‘Wikipedia of Hope’By Nicholas D. KristofLast year I found an interesting website, DonorsChoose.org, which lets donors browse among education-related funding requests and support them directly with small contributions. It’s a little like Kiva.org, which I wrote about last year after I visited two Afghans to whom I had mad (Read More)

Apr 24, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: Eskimo Woe: A tale of despair, isolation, global warming, urban deprivation and chilly willies. (Read More)

Apr 24, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: Present Like Steve Jobs Apple CEO Steve Jobs is well known for his electrifying presentations. Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses the various techniques Jobs uses to captivate and inspire his audience — techniques that can easily be applied to your next presentation. (Read More)

Apr 22, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: Checkout the insanely blatant, "in your face" yet cool e-cards at someecards.com. (Read More)

Apr 15, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: As always I am trying to look for answers in out of context places and astonished to find some amazing ones. In this situation I reviewed episodes of Kitchen Nightmares with Chef Gordon Ramsay and got lessons in Organizational Change Management, team dynamics, leadership etc. Very cool!!. (Read More)

Apr 10, 2008

ATA Latest News Gartner: Multicore, clouds, social nets top disruptive listITworld.com, MA - Apr 8, 2008The analysts are to present their conclusions during a session on Tuesday at Gartner's Symposium ITxpo in Las Vegas. Multicore processors are providing new ... (Read More)

Apr 15, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: I was trying to dig deeper into my primary research on Education related Web Startups/Knowledge Management Web Startups and thought the best place to look for the latest, brightest, stupidest ones was by jumping to TechCrunch or GigaOM. TechCrunch's search was almost on the dot(they use Swiki) while GigaOm's was way off the (Read More)

Apr 15, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: A cool video podcast by Jeremy Baines of Howard/Baines the dudes behind "Alert Thingy" the FriendFeed desktop app. I bumped into this when I was led to their site via TechCrunch's post on 'Alert Thingy". (Read More)

Apr 15, 2008

Submitted by Akshay: Alistair Croll from GigaOm.com contemplates how unlikely our children’s Internet will look. Asks the question"How might the Internet as we know it die?" and Answers it with 10 intersting ones. (Read More)

Apr 14, 2008

TechCrunch Investors are betting big on video streaming provider Move Networks. The Utah-based company just announced that it raised $46 million in a C round of venture financing. The round was led by Benchmark Capital, and also included Cisco, Comcast Interactive Media, Televisa, Steamboat Ventures and Hummer Winblad Venture Partner (Read More)

Apr 14, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: Top 30 Online Current Events & Global News Destinations, ranked by Sessions per Person Brand or channel; sessions per person; unique audience (000)drudgereport.com – 19.1; 3,474Fox News Digital Network – 8.0; 11,364AOL News – 7.8; 23,330Daily Kos – 7.7; 979Yahoo! News – 7.7; 32,556CNN Digital Network – 7.4; 37,180MSNBC Digi (Read More)

Apr 14, 2008

VentureBeat The heat is getting worse for venture capitalists.Venture Capitalists were already upset by The Funded, a site which lets entrepreneurs rate venture capital firms. Entrepreneurs have left nasty remarks on the the site about firms. This distressed venture firms so much that at least a few have threatened lawsuits to try to m (Read More)

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