Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch talks about pursuing your dreams. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. I swear it is worth watching this 1 hour 16 mins video !

index, analyse, covert the clicks

Well documented video, Just browse through the webinar.

walking direction from Newyork 35th st to 32nd street !

vehicle map directions often do not offer appropriate directions for pedestrians. try out google walking maps (BETA/GAMMA) for the walking directions. I have not tried the accuracy yet... watch out the disclaimer message :)

Use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas.

mobileMANIA - how india adapts telecom technology?

Just read an interesting article at ibnlive about how telecom penetration helps rickshaw pullers+ communters+ eco system.

A group of engineering graduates here has set up a concept called 'Ecocab call centre' to overcome the routine transportation problem.It has made the popular mode of local transportation—cycle rickshaw—just a phone call away.

Find more at
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/now-cycle-rickshaws-are-just-a-phone-call-away/69095-11.html

Future of Privacy !!!

Though it looks funny, seriously raises some concerns about our online privacy. God and google are watching you!

looking for a SEO firm, READ this first !

Google has given some of the interesting facts about SEO. May be it is worth a look.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35291

SEO is an acronym for "search engine optimization" or "search engine optimizer." Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision. Make sure to research the potential advantages as well as the damage that an irresponsible SEO can do to your site. Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services for website owners, including:

• Reviewing and providing recommendations on your site content or structure
• Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
• Content development
• Managing online business development campaigns
• Keyword research
• SEO training

Keep in mind that the Google search results page often includes paid advertising and free organic search results. It costs nothing to appear in our organic search results, and advertising with Google won't improve your ranking. Free resources such as Webmaster Tools, the official Webmaster Central blog, and our discussion group can provide you with a great deal of information about how to optimize your site for organic search. Many of these free sources, as well as information on paid search, can be found on Google Webmaster Central.

Before beginning your search for an SEO, it's a great idea to become an educated consumer and get familiar with how search engines work. We recommend starting here:

• Google Webmaster Guidelines
• Google 101: How Google crawls, indexes and serves the web.

How Obama conquered the digital nation

Having seen all the digital publicity campaign for US election and fund raising , I used to wonder what kinda companies would be involved in web 2.0 political campaign. Business week reveals the truth about company behind obama's digital campaign success.Blue State helped create the Web machine that brought in the bucks and built the buzz for Obama. Here goes the gaga about blue state digital.

...Democratic nominee has a secret weapon. It's a small, obscure firm called Blue State Digital, a market research-New Media hybrid that has played an instrumental role in fostering Obamamania. The campaign declined to discuss Blue State, but the firm says its handiwork and technology can be seen in the more than $200 million Obama has raised online, the 2 million phone calls made on the candidate's behalf, and in barackobama.com's social network of 850,000 users, who have organized 50,000 campaign events.
More on
http://www.bluestatedigital.com/pages/about/
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_27/b4091000977488.htm?link_position=link6