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robertheaton.com
After 4 months of funemployment, 25 job applications and 6 weeks of constant interviewing, I’m now an engineer at Stripe.
Thomas Ptacek from Matasano has written some interesting thoughts in the “Engineer Crunch” HN thread.
Shared by Mukund Mohan
pando.com
In early March, 2007, as Google was expanding fast and furiously, one of its employees from the “Google.com Engineering” made a career-ending mistake: She cold-contacted an Apple engineer by email, violating the secret and illegal non-solicitation compact that her boss, Eric Schmidt, had agreed with Apple’s Steve Jobs.
What happened next is just one of many specific examples of how people’s lives were impacted by the Techtopus wage-theft cartel that was taken down by the Department of Justice antitrust division, and is currently being litigated in a landmark class action lawsuit.
Shared by Amit Ranjan
martinfowler.com
The term "Microservice Architecture" has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services.
These frustrations have led to the microservice architectural style: building applications as suites of services.
Shared by Mukund Mohan
exploreb2b.com
This blog presents a few guidelines to hire a crack sales team.
When one interacts with the founders of technology / Internet start-ups during networking events, one topic that never ceases to generate interest is about "what should one's sales strategy be and how to hire a crack sales team".
Shared by Dhruv Shenoy
economictimes.indiatimes.com
In the last two years, several startups have sprung up in the coastal city boosting its reputation as an eclectic hotbed for technology products, medical devices and social media solutions.
The new entrants — both young and experienced — are following the lead set by online portal Bharat Matrimony and enterprise software-maker Zoho Corp in creating a new image for Chennai long viewed as an old-economy hub specialising in manufacturing.
Shared by Vijay Anand
femgineer.com
You probably have an idea in your head right now for an amazing software product!
You built it, but then shelved it before shipping because it just wasn't perfect, or right after because it seemed like no one was interested!
Shared by Vijay Anand
www.jeffbullas.com
As digital media continues to integrate into our lives, business executives, freelancers and professionals from all walks have started to use social media to engage in content marketing.
Contacts, followers and connections in social networks help you spread what you have to say.
Shared by Dhruv Shenoy
growthhackers.com
Kyle Wild, CEO of Keen.io, makes a case why 'Product is the ultimate growth hack'.
He draws a line between user acquisition and activation, and user retention and referral.
Shared by Vijay Anand
pando.com
According to Internet Advertising Bureau estimates, the article says, 36 percent of all online ad traffic is fake.
With the article very willing to remind us that the market for online ads is expected to cross $50 billion this year, the clear insinuation – which isn’t stated explicitly, but is never disputed – is that online advertisers are being collectively defrauded of $18 billion.
Shared by Vijay Anand
Buy Refurbished Gadgets Search results for: 'apple'
buy.reglobe.in
Started in 2009, ReGlobe has been at the forefront of End-of-Life product management and has worked with some of the leading electronics brands in the country.
During the course of our journey, we realized a very interesting fact: end-of- life is highly circumstantial and ‘one man’s waste could very well be another’s resource’, of-course if the product has not reached a complete non-usable and non-refurbishable condition.
Shared by Arpit Agarwal
www.simple-talk.com
The choice to use a Windows Server operating system follows a similar pattern to choosing Hyper-V and Windows Azure as my platform.
There are various other choices I've made for my system, such as SQL Server as a Relational Database Management (which I'll describe in another article) that dictate Windows as the operating system.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
comingsoon.pracly.com
I am the founder of Beard Design, which works with start-ups and entrepreneurs on Branding and Design Projects.
In a short span of 2 years, we have gained a reputation of creating exceptional user interfaces which differentiates it in a crowded marketplace.
Shared by Vijay Anand
wfs.com
World Financial Symposiums is excited to announce that the Growth and Exit Strategies for Software and IT Companies conference will be held in Palo Alto on March 26 at Perkins Coie LLP.
Nat Burgess serves as Conference Chair for World Financial Symposiums, and is President of Corum Group.
Shared by Avinash Raghava
14 must try breakfast places in Bangalore | Nomad HQ
blog.nomadhq.in
Bangalore is know for its breakfast traditions and often you will hear bangaloreans fight who serves the softest idlis, cripy dosas or the yummiest chutneys – so let whats your favorite place for ‘thindi’?
MTR was founded as a restaurant by Parampalli Yajnanarayana Maiya and his brothers in the year 1924.
Shared by Mukund Mohan
www.thedelhiwalla.com
The Delhi walla‘s pretension in writing makes me want to lodge a bullet in his balls – Blogger Nimpipi, the woodchuck chucks
I fancied having a South Delhi (read Jor Bagh) soul trapped in an East Delhi flat.
Shared by Amit Ranjan
developers.google.com
GDG Chennai is happy to collaborate with FSFTN(fsftn.org) and ILUGC(ilugc.in) and Arduino enthusiasts in celebrating A worldwide event bringing together Arduino people and projects and Share the experience!
Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s first 10 years.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
Tall Claims
dorai.me
When I read that, I cringe a bit and promptly delete the email.
I don’t understand why people claim to be world leading something.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
How Walmart uses Data Visualization to convert Real-time Social conversations into Inventory?
blog.fusioncharts.com
Each week, more than 245 million customers visit their 10,900 stores and 10 websites worldwide.
With sales of approximately $466 billion in fiscal year 2013 and employing 2.2 million associates, Walmart is clearly a name to reckon with in the retail arena.
Shared by Sanket Nadhani
insighto.com
Online medium is indeed the new way for a company to research its customers – external or internal.
In a market where knowledge is King, online survey becomes that intelligent, agile messenger.
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mashable.com
Centuries have passed and we're still slapping the thoughts of famous philosophers on posters for college dorm rooms.
How could these words of wisdom possibly hold up in the TL;DR Internet era?
Shared by Amit Ranjan
www.slideshare.net
Three sides of the Triangle: Varying perspectives of working on a startup from an employee, investor, and founder.
Audience was a mix of students, tech enthusiasts, and young entrepreneurs.
Shared by Aakrit Vaish
www.inc.com
“Employee engagement” is, admittedly, a catchall term, not to mention an endlessly marketable consulting concept.
But earlier this year, when Gallup released its annual report on employee engagement, it included a simple tool that may help you quickly determine where your work force stands.
Shared by Dhruv Shenoy
googledevelopers.blogspot.com
Editors note: Tune in to Google Cloud Platform Live for more information about our announcements.
And join us during our 27-city Google Cloud Platform Roadshow which kicks off in Paris on April 7.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
worrydream.com
From the closing panel at the 1995 Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium, featuring Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson, and Tim Berners-Lee.
Alan Kay: At PARC, one of the goals was to do NLS as a distributed system.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
www.itworld.com
March 21, 2014, 4:47 PM — Companies and recruiters are clamoring for top IT talent, and HiringSolved has the list of exactly what they’re looking for.
Functioning like a search engine for recruiters, the site allows companies to find tech pros by mining social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, Quora, Tumblr and more to compile a full picture of potential hires: skill sets, contact information, geographic location, etc.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
www.fusioncharts.com
Cut to the 21st century and good design seems to have become more critical than ever.
Higher competition coupled with evolving needs of the customer have made design a strategic differentiator for software products.
Shared by Sanket Nadhani
thenextweb.com
Android phones are not known for their beauty.
There have been bright spots here and there, like the Burtonesque original Droid, the Nexus S and, more recently, the HTC One X….
Shared by Arpit Agarwal
docs.google.com
We are pleased to announce the launch of IID(India Internet Day) Innovative Showcase - an initiative to showcase some of the best Internet startups.
We invite you to be a part of #IndiaInternetDay, the best forum to network and connect with established players, innovators, stakeholders and entrepreneurs.
Shared by Arpit Agarwal
online.wsj.com
Several big advertisers—including L'Oréal, General Motors Co. GM 0.00% General Motors Co. U.S.: NYSE
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www.business2community.com
Aberdeen Research has discovered that 65% of best-of-class marketers work to integrate their communications, compared with just 51% of their peers as a whole.
Without consistent, clear messaging in your content marketing, your company will struggle to win the hearts of prospects or turn your customers into a tribe.
Shared by Peter Yorke
www.cezary.co
I’ve applied them when doing high-level strategy work for billion-dollar brands, soup-to-nuts marketing for my own startup, Wanderfly, and rapid-fire product launches at tech incubator QLabs.
Marketing Fundamentals Canvas for Cezary & Co, my consulting firm
Shared by Dorai Thodla
www.theguardian.com
The latest crowdfunding project hoping to get children interested in computer programming has surpassed its $25,000 goal within two days of launching.
ScratchJr is an "introductory programming language" inspired by the Scratch language developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but designed to be more accessible for 5-7 year-old children.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
www.nature.com
More than a billion people lack electricity, but now microgrids are powering up rural areas.
A combined wind, solar and diesel project brings power to the people of Sine Moussa Abdou, Senegal.
Shared by Mukund Mohan
pn.ispirt.in
Second 10 of the 50 Finalists: #InTech50 Most Innovative Products from India | ProductNation
InTech50, a joint initiative by iSPIRT and Terrene Global Leadership Network, that recognizes most promising software products by India’s entrepreneurs, is pleased to confirm the Second set of 10 selected products from over 200 nominations.
Shared by Manjunath M Gowda
focusinfotech.com
Bitnami co-founder, Erica Brescia, spoke with DreamFactory CEO, Bill Appleton, about DreamFactory, an open source REST API for mobile enterprise application developers.
While emerging technologies such as social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) continue to dominate the business landscape, CIOs in India see lack of talent as the biggest challenge in the industry, according to a new Dell-CAI report.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
www.leggetter.co.uk
Before I go into the predictions: if you’re interested in realtime technologies then you may be interested in the Realtime APIs panel that I’m putting together with Kin Lane as part of the API Strategy Conference 2014 in Amsterdam.
Getting data sooner could even be seen as a premium service!
Shared by Mukund Mohan
techcrunch.com
Over the past few weeks, IBM India has fired at least half a dozen top- to mid-level executives, as well as several others accused of fraud.
The fraud led to a portion of the over $2 billion outsourcing contract, with Bharti Airtel being subcontracted to a company founded by former IBM-ers.
Shared by Amit Ranjan
www.financialexpress.com
To prepare a more holistic action plan on the NSEL crisis, the high level Arvind Mayaram panel sough...
P. Chidambaram says he was only giving way to youngsters to revive Congress and "rejuvenate" it.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
odc.datameet.org
Bangalore Open Data Camp it is an annual unconference that aims to provide a space to discuss the challenges and experiences of using data in India with the aim of promoting an open data culture in government and the private sector.
Since this is a year of Loka Sabha Election we want to explore the angle of open data and the electoral process.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
Agentless Enterprise Mobility – How to leverage Google apps to do MDMs across mobile platforms and for FREE?
i7nw.com
Enterprises using Google Apps for Business can use Google Apps Mobile Management feature without paying any additional cost.
Google Apps Mobile Management lets administrators enforce device policies over their mobile fleet using their Google Admin console, without the need for an on-premise device management server.
Shared by Manjunath M Gowda
Memsahib’s Diary: Shanghai and Mumbai — A tale of two cities
www.niticentral.com
I am 99 per cent sure that I have started another, earlier diary entry with the words, “I know comparisons are odious, but…” or something along those lines, so please bear with me as I start my musings today with the exact same thought.
I know comparisons are odious, but…
Shared by Amit Pande
www.gregreda.com
Before you begin the analysis, know the questions you're trying to answer and what you're trying to accomplish - don't fall into an analytical rabbit hole.
Additionally, you should know some basic things about your potential data - what data sources are available to answer the questions?
Shared by Dorai Thodla
knowience.com
Case study: How a recruitment firm fine tuned talent attraction strategy for its client
Problem / Opportunity
Shared by Dhruv Shenoy
blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Analysing the Modi effect by The Underage Optimist : Chetan Bhagat's blog-The Times Of India
Few politicians are as fascinating as Narendra Modi.
Shared by Bala Parthasarathy
articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
NEW DELHI: Almost two years in the making, the Rs 5,000 crore India Inclusive Innovation Fund, a venture capital fund promoted by the government, finally had its launch on Monday.
Yet, in its remaining journey from launch to operations, there are three big challenges the fund -- which aims to promote businesses that target the bottom of the pyramid and have a social hue -- faces: how to attract non-government capital, how to draw fund managers from the private sector while paying below-market salaries, and how to negotiate the pitfalls of transitioning to a new government.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
Competing to be the busiest
www.washingtonpost.com
This article is adapted from her book “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time.”
One man says he works 72 hours a week because everyone else at his office does; he’s thinking about cutting back on sleep so he can be more productive.
Shared by Mukund Mohan
www.beet.tv
“If you treat your campaign an episode, you learn what your cons did in one campaign, and apply that in the next campaign.”
Speaking to Beet.TV at the big Mobile World Congress convention, Venkatesh says these episodes build in to a privacy-compliant “consumer experience profile”.
Shared by Preetham V V
www.macstories.net
As first noted by developer Olga Osadcha, Apple is testing a related search suggestion feature on the App Store, which started rolling out earlier today for iPhone users on iOS 7.
The new suggestion bar doesn’t alter the way search results are displayed – Apple is still using a cards layout on the iPhone – and, for now, the feature doesn’t appear to be available on the App Store for iPad and desktop computers.
Shared by Aakrit Vaish
www.business2community.com
Maybe you’re the company owner, CMO, VP of Marketing or a member of the marketing staff who is assigned to handle the content.
A little discussed aspect of content marketing that bogs down the process considerably is content logjam, where you find your business overloaded with a massive backlog of articles.
Shared by Peter Yorke
www.theatlantic.com
The Sony World Photography Awards have announced the winners of their Open, Youth, and National Award competitions today.
The winners were selected from over 70,000 entries submitted by photo enthusiasts and amateurs from across the world.
Shared by Siddharth Mangharam
www.linkedin.com
Arianna Huffington
Reading Arianna Huffington's new book Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder made me think about how we glorify being busy and the toll that this path takes on our lives.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
www.huffingtonpost.com
When Erica Domesek's Prince Charming didn't leave behind a glass slipper, she decided to resort to social media to track him down.
While flying on an American Airlines flight on March 15 from Dallas to Calgary, Canada, Domesek, the founder of the DIY lifestyle brand, "P.S. - I Made This," hit it off with the man sitting next to her, Yahoo reported.
Shared by Amit Ranjan
www.linkedin.com
When I was doing my residency and fellowship in various Boston hospitals our main attention was on sickness.
The health industry is essentially a sickness industry.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
techcrunch.com
But it doesn’t have to: Gbatteries, which is in the current batch of Y Combinator companies, has come up with a new technology called BatteryOS that provides better performance without battery-life degradation.
The first example of this technology is BatteryBox, a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery pack that carries enough power — 50 Whr — to run a MacBook Air for 12 hours, a MacBook Pro for six hours, or to charge eight iPhones.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
twitter.com
Delhi.
12MBPS,AC,fridge,coffeemaker,printer, boards.
Shared by Mukund Mohan
www.youtube.com
Tara-Nicholle Nelson talks about realizing the full potential of an idea through collaborating with other people.
Tara-Nicholle Nelson is the Founder/CEO of RETHINK Multimedia and the VP of Marketing at MyFitnessPal and in this conversation with CreativeLive co-founder Chase Jarvis she discusses the experience of leaving behind a go-it-alone attitude to attract success and build at scale.
Shared by Amit Pande
boingboing.net
Christopher Kosek writes, "'The Default Trigger' is a 52 page, free (with a pay what you want version available) digital graphic novel about student loan debt, the shadowy figures lurking in the background who watch over our struggles and their insidious conspiracy to keep this cycle going.
It's written and illustrated by me, Christopher Kosek.
Shared by Amit Pande
www.theguardian.com
Live The Guardian's award-winning picture team rounds up the most eye-catching images
If you're watching (or re-watching) The Wire, Deadwood, Breaking Bad or Mad Men, Brett Martin's book is for you
Shared by Dorai Thodla
www.brainpickings.org
“Children help us to mediate between the ideal and the real,” MoMA curator Juliet Kinchin wrote in her fantastic design history of childhood.
Largely responsible for this singular capacity are children’s remarkably metaphor-ready minds which transform toys into triggers for imaginative play, imbuing those seemingly simple plastic artifacts and synthetic-furred beings with life and meaning — a hallmark of childhood that cuts across cultural differences, geographies, and socioeconomic status.
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www.hindustantimes.com
When 18-year-old Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil was crowned Miss World in 1998, the tears streaming down her cheeks appeared to be the overwhelming joy of a young woman fulfilling a childhood dream.
Her ordeal inspired other Israeli women to break their own silence and in the process, she became a national symbol who helped destigmatize rape in the country.
Shared by Bala Parthasarathy
mauveweb.co.uk
Pyweek 18 was announced last week, to run from the 11th May to 18th May 2014, midnight to midnight (UTC).
Pyweek is a bi-annual games programming contest in which teams or individuals compete to develop a game, in Python, from scratch, in exactly one week, on a theme that is selected by vote and announced at the moment the contest starts.
Shared by Dorai Thodla
zendeskalternative.com
They have toured the world, headlining major festivals and sharing the stage with legendary acts like Sweater Head, DynoPlax, and The Banana Nuts.
Now, Zendesk Alternative has begun a new chapter in their storied career.
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advertisingweek.eu
Historic St. Paul's Cathedral hosts the inaugural Opening Gala -- The VIP Event of The Week.
A benefit for Creative Pioneers and the UK Historic Advertising Trust, presented in partnership with Yahoo!
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Random Deepak Chopra Quote Generator
www.wisdomofchopra.com
It has been said by some that the thoughts and tweets of Deepak Chopra are indistinguishable from a set of profound sounding words put together in a random order, particularly the tweets tagged with "#cosmisconciousness".
This site aims to test that claim!
Shared by Siddharth Mangharam
www.economist.com
“IT’S hard out here for a pimp,” complains the Three 6 Mafia, a rap group.
A new study by the Urban Institute, a think-tank, casts doubt on this assertion.
Shared by Amit Pande
en.wikipedia.org
Pramod Muthalik (born 1963) is the chief of the Rashtriya Hindu Sena, the parent organization of the Sri Ram Sena.
Muthalik quit the Sena in 2006 after the party revived its demand for the merger of the Marathi speaking areas like Belgaum with Maharashtra.
Shared by Bala Parthasarathy
www.3quarksdaily.com
The editors of 3QD put in hundreds of hours of effort each month into finding the daily links and poem, putting out the Monday Magazine, administering the Quark Prizes, arranging the DAG-3QD Peace and Justice Symposia, and doing the massive amount of behind-the-scenes work which goes into running the site.
One of the goals of anthropology is to understand the way that humans interact to form groups.
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www.youtube.com
The lead singers of this song are Neeraj Shridhar & Harshdeep Kaur.
Make some more noise for our Desi Boyz !
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www.slideshare.net
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN DEVELOPERS & CUSTOMERS, Deena Varshavskaya, Founder and CEO, Wanelo
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ow.ly
Tweet a comment: (Note: This will post to your Twitter account as a reply to )
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www.youtube.com
Introducing Verve - the Enterprise Social Platform for Customer-centric Innovation
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