Vishal Sharma announced a carnival event for Aussie startups [http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/02/why-this-startups-carnival.html] a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the registration is closed by the time I’m writing about it, but more information about the event (including the participating startups and sponsors) is…
Would it be fair to say that more wealth makes us less spiritual. The “Wealth and Religiosity” graph [http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200803/secular-graph.gif] seems to depict so. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of religion; secular theology has gathered a more specific…
Chris Anderson has written a great article on the future of business [http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all] — moving to freeconomics, a freemium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_business_model] business model. A must read! > The rise of “freeconomics” is being…
Mark Twain once said “it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end.” He sure had something more to convey than what the casual eye might gather. I often wonder why do we all fancy success? I don’…
He was the creator [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1761] of Yahoo Store, the first web-based application. Paul Graham [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham], who now runs YCombinator – a seed funding for tech startups, released [http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html] the Arc programming language [http:…
After a poised loss against Australia, this is what the skipper of the Indian cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni had to say [http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2008/feb/01dhoni.htm]: > “The crowd was noisy but I don’t think the boys were distracted by it. In smaller towns,…
A presentation from HTC Starting, a web-based business seminar, highlights the top trends in 2008 [http://www.slideshare.net/startuphouston/2008-web-based-trends?src=embed] for web-based startups. With the iPhone (and similar smartphones) in the wide, the mobile space looks quite bright.…
Brad [http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/], who practices Zen Buddhism and writes about it as well, has a very interesting experience [http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/boring.html] to share: > People long for big thrills. Peak experiences. Some people come to Zen expecting that Enlightenment will be the Ultimate Peak…