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Interesting insight, that. Friend of mine forwarded the following link a little while ago:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/29/497861.aspx

Interesting new initiative:

http://www.stopbadware.org

Sorry about the late notice, but we’re running our pilot streaming event on WadiLive! right now. Here are the details:

Winter Quarterly Panel Series: Offshoring 101 for Startups and Individuals

When: Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00PM

Venue: SAP, 3410 Hillview Drive, Palo Alto, Ca. 94304

Host: Safwan Shah – CEO, Infonox

 

 

 

 

In this panel discussion we bring together an experienced executives to examine how companies and individuals can take advantage of offshoring phenomenon in our flat world. Today companies routinely use offshore services for various disciplines, including engineering, marketing, sales, and support. The panel will address several key issues including:

• Pros, cons, and unknowns of using offshore services
• What functions can and cannot be offshored?
• Reasons other than “labor arbitrage” to offshore
• What to look for when selecting outsourced service providers

The second aspect we will highlight in this panel is how individuals who work in areas where skills are prone to be outsourced can take advantage of the offshoring phenomenon. Strategies that folks have used in this regard include moving over to offshore hubs like Pakistan, India, China and Philippines to set up their own service companies or staying local and partnering with established offshore service providers to provide their expertise which is needed onshore!

Panelists

• Faraz Syed - CEO, Mobilecomplete

• Zulki Khan - CEO, NexLogic

• Phani Nagarjuna - CEO, Nuevorar

• Ashar Aziz – CEO, FireEye

• Rehan Jalil – CEO, Wichorus

• Shazia Makhdumi – CEO, Colorfulstories

Safwan Shah

Safwan Shah the President and CEO of Infonox. His professional career includes positions with BioServe Space Technologies, a NASA center for commercial development of space and senior management/engineering positions in various Silicon Valley companies. In 1999, he co-founded Infonox, a SaaS/enterprise software company in the financial services segment. Infonox is the market and technology leader with several Fortune 25 customers. Safwan has published several scientific papers and is a contributor towards several awarded patents. Safwan also co-founded Chowk (chowk.com) in 1997 and continues to sponsor its evolution into an alternate media source for South Asians. Safwan obtained his Masters and Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder.

There’s been quite some discussion about the Wikipedia, triggered by the recent report from a Caltech grad student analysing the anonymous edits to the encyclopedia. See for example:

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6949153.stm

A few points from a recovering Wikipedaholic:

The whole situation does not “prove” that that Wikipedia is useless or open to manipulation (at least not as easily as most press reports are implying). Note the following para:

“The text, deleted in November 2005, was quickly restored by another Wikipedia contributor, who advised the anonymous editor, “Please stop removing content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism.”

Secondly, journalists are doing such a hack-job of this. The para I quoted above seems to imply that this was something unusual and the message from the editor was spontaneous–it’s not; the message is now an everyday–or several times every second (and I am not exaggerating)–occurrence. The report on the BBC’s site was even worse.

What all this does do is help us see what unethical behaviour folks are up to–Diebold, and everyone else.

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Is there an all encompassing platform out there, something that one can interact with friends and family with? Or even do your work on?

What are the various platforms out there? Are these platforms interoperable? Can one send an email from say your Yahoo! Mail and at the same time add a poll to YahooGroups, a Calendar event in Google Calendar, and create a Facebook and evite.com event. How about setting up your Outlook or Eudora calendar?

Some of this can be done, but it is not very seamless and obvious.

Facebook is a great platform, however has some serious drawbacks which prevent it from becoming the the ultimate platform. The main reason being user registration is required? What if someone doesn’t want to register to the Facebook platform, but wants to RSVP for say an event?

The ultimate communication tool for me is something that I can use whenever and wherever to communicate with anyone I please. Regardless of what platform the other person is registered/subscribed to. Be it Facebook, MySpace, Yahoogroups, Googlegroups, Yahoo Mail, GMAIL, Gawaab.com, Naseeb.com, Google Docs, Yahoo Calendar, Google Calendar, evite.com, MSN groups,Yahoo and Google maps, PPT, Google Presentations, etc.

All a user should need is a dummy hand held terminal and be able to connect to the WWW.

The question I have been asking and wondering about is what is the next communication platform? What will it look and feel like? Will it be a mashup of the existing platforms, or a totally brand new creation?

Just saw the following on a product page on the Sony site:

Sony Recommends Windows Vista® Home Premium

Given the status of Vista and all available user feedback, that would mean that Sony doesn’t have my best interests at heart, now wouldn’t it?

And I certainly don’t mean to pick on Sony; a lot of other manufacturers are, no doubt, doing the same. And this is not meant as a condemnation; more as a “caveat emptor”–as long as the buyer’s understanding of the basis of the recommendation is right, that’s not an evil thing to say…I think.

About friggin’ time, I say!! Been mumbling about the need for this to friends for a while now…

Google buys maker of PowerPoint rival

Matt Marshall - VentureBeat.com
Google has just acquired Zenter, which makes software aimed to be a Web-based PowerPoint-killer. Zenter built the application in just a few months, and the company was one of the more dynamic Y Combinator-backed companies from this past winter. View Full Story