eThos from Hemant Soreng

The subject did catch your attention, didn’t it. Well, not exactly how it sounds, but two members of this year’s losing team Oxford in the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, lost the race and have won $ 65 million.
As I surfed TV channels in my hotel room in Istanbul on 3rd April 2010, I happened to watch this amazing boat race and heard an even more amazing story.

As the story goes, when studying at Harvard in 2004, Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, Olympian rowers and member of Oxford’s rowing team, along with their partner Divya Narendra (incidentally, is also a rower) sued Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, just six days after the site was launched. The three Harvard seniors,  accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. And it seems just before this year’s boat race the trio had made a cool $ 65 million through an out of court settlement.

Reminds me of the nursery rhyme with my own (corny) twist :

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently to the Bank,
Merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream.

Online advertising growth slows down. Full report from eMarketer

Really good to hear this. Its actually true and its time the medium is given its due esp. w.r.t. increase advertising budgets.

Internet as the most important innovation followed by
2/  computers
3/ mobile phones
4/ email
and more….
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Great news…more action to happen with already 250 mn mobile users

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Now, won’t this be path breaking…

IBM India Research Laboratory is working on a talking website project that aims to enable even the unlettered people to create a website and access information from others for business transactions.

When the service is launched, an individual would be able to call up the registry (agency) to create a site for him. After the website has been created the clients will call up the same registry to perform a search. However, instead of keying it on a computer, they will spell out the requirements and the registry will throw up choices that are closest to the search criterion.

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