Posted on May 28th, 2009 by Robin Thomas
The world doesn’t need another search engine, it needs a decision engine Well thats microsofts new search engine Bing’s USP from the tech preview. Yet another attempt by microsoft to foray into Google homeground…. Microsoft seems to have taken a huge gamble on the philosophy change from search engines that just provide information (organic)/promote information(adverts) [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2009 by Robin Thomas
Recently colleges across India have seen a spurt in cases of ragging in India. I found a very sincere case study and initiative on ragging here. Deriving from my observations about students who rag from my college days I’ve attempted to draw out the socio-economic profile of such a person. There is a clear distinction [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2009 by Robin Thomas
What follows is a trend I have noticed from the years of watching the IT crowd in India and their way of work. If you take the vast world of the ‘collaborative internet’ gifted by web 2.0 and analyze the participation/ contribution of the Indian IT crowd we see that they are inherently ‘problem driven’ [...]
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