Do What Matters

It could be possible in future. Today TV channels reported this news story based on the research report published in nature magazine. Harvard scientists saw a dramatic reversal of ageing process in mice and they believe it can work on humans too. Read the full story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans

A must read article by David F Carr for anyone who manages talent the knowledge worker. http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/trends/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227501111 In this article, David Carr has highlighted the need for the retention strategies of the top talents in the organization. He provides some nice practical tips for hiring managers. Happy reading...

Web 2.0 summit is as you know the yearly event organized by O'Reilly Media where the big shots and owners of the network economy gather to share and sell their vision to the public. Recently I noticed the cool map they have created on their website based on the theme Point of control. The map shows the current territory of web's biggest players with additional tabs Acquisition mode. When you choose Acquisition mode the interactive feature of the map lets you choose the company and its potential acquisition target. You can vote on the target of your choice and also add comments. Sharing of comments will verify your twitter account. I think its a cool application nothing less than web2.0. Give it a try..

This was the subject of discussion in a gathering last Thanksgiving night. Facebook was recently "over" estimated by a private equity research firm to have market value of $41 billion, more than eBay ($39.1 billion) one of the largest e- retailers in the United States and much more than Yahoo which is valued at $21 billion. What I am trying to understand is that the current market value is based on it's revenue and future revenue predictions or just a shot on its popularity and web traffic. I must confess that I haven't got chance to read the book The Facebook effect yet even after many strong recommendations from my friends, but I have kindle now and I will be travelling soon. So this book should be the way to ease the pain of  long security lines and evasive TSA scanning radiation. Facebook's 2010 revenue is totally a speculation, but 2009 revenue was about $500 million which were reported coming from these sources: Self-service ads, which appear on the right...

TED spreads the ideas worth spreading. One of my mentors at work told me about this website. You can find talks, discussions, lectures and other extremely valuable instructions at this website. TED open translation project  bring TED talks to 79 different languages. You select Hindi and the website shows all the talks available in Hindi language. Most importantly you can select talks by categories such as Technology, Business or Science. Here is one wonderful talk by Conrad Wolfram on Teaching kids Math using computers.