Sustainable growth for software

I got quite intrigued by the very question,Is software growth going to sustain for a long period? Now,I'm not aware of the subtleties of economical growth but as far as I think the answer is No.IT companies are quite aggressively developing software and after a couple of years I'm not sure if people would need any better software for years to come.



A changethis manifesto The six laws of the new software reads

....., Most home consumers have all the software they will ever need, and most companies out there already have all the basic technologies they
need to successfully compete right now.

The trait of software is,it does not depreciate or wear and tear like a car or a pair of NIKE does,it continues to serve your purpose and there's no need to upgrade it if it's serving your need aptly,unless you encounter a bug.Now when there's no need,there's not going to be any demand and thus no growth.

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Colbert for president?

I am a big fan of this guy,Stephen colbert,I laughed my ass off watching the video of his speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.The first time I read about his presidential bid I thought he was joking but it seems like he is serious(???) and yes he is running for president!

The wikipedia page for the colberts presidential campaign reports that he has even agreed to endorse Garry Kasparov's bid to win the Russian presidency in return for Kasparov's support for his campaign.I'm really intrigued to know if America really wants to vote him to the white house and make him the Man of the Year?

Innovating Business models

Conventional wisdom has always told people not to innovate on their business models,many don't.I really don't know if Radiohead proved the cliché wrong or it's just an exception.



The english Rock band Radiohead had released their new album In Rainbows with a new pay-what-you-want and download MP3 kind of distribution,though this is not a new concept for Music industry where small abstruse artists are already using this, but it's the first time that a big group like Radiohead has dared to pull this off. Though ran a risk of getting paid nothing as users could choose to pay £ 0.00 and download the entire album(like me),the band was BIG enough to take the risk.It was a sure thing(atleast for me) that it's going to be a big hit and the news is as of today Radiohead sold over 1.2 million albums, $8 each.

Biggest SEO mistakes

My articles on marketing placed me in top two for related searches on google and obviously the largest chunk of my blog traffic used to come from Google.



Then I committed two SEO blunders

1.I created a backup for my blog on Wordpress on http://pradsworld.wordpress.com

2.I submitted my feeds to atleast five feed news readers.

Apparently wordpress is more SEO friendly and with my feeds supplied to those news readers there were many duplicates of my posts spread on web,you know Google is duplicate averse and obvious happened,now my articles figure no where in google search results.

This drove me into quandary and I know it's going to be pretty difficult to reverse it all.

Using iphone causes sterility?

This is regarding latest of the lawsuits filed against Apple iphone by The Center for Environmental Health in response to Greenpeace's report that the iPhone earphones contain "phthalates,".


According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald

An information sheet on the Phthalate Information Centre website, produced by the American Chemistry Council, said studies found that high doses of some phthalates, when administered to pregnant rodents shortly before they gave birth, "suppressed levels of testosterone, a male hormone key to sexual development in the male fetuses, and interfered with the development of male reproductive organs".

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Steve jobs has already made bad decisions with his iphone strategy and now the series of lawsuits filed against iphone are only making it a big blunder.

Blogging is such a waste of time !

I seriously think that it is a big waste of time,at least for the 98% of the bloggers,including me. I think blogging is more like buying a new pair of shoes,and buying that new pair of nike is so much fun that you get addicted to the fun and forget running,running takes hard work and diligence and most of the time you eschew it.



Blogging is completely different to doing things,while it might give you a pseudo feeling of actually doing things,I see that most of the blog readers are bloggers themselves,that means people are squandering valuable time around blogs which could be used to actually do things which are worthwhile.

So all that I say to all you bloggers(and to myself)is get your butt off that couch and start running.

Recommended reading:
1.Blogger fantasies by Rajesh setty.
2.Are you blogging like its 1999? by Jon Symons.

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5 easy steps to increase your blog traffic by 10 fold

You can get more than a ten fold increase increase in your blog traffic,just follow these five steps


1.Register with digg,stumbleupon and technorati.

2.Look for the top searches and tags on technorati and top 10 topics on Digg.

3.write a post on any of the top searches.

4.Digg and stumble your post yourself.

5.Now watch your blog traffic increase.

This works like magic for the people blogging for money.

Somebody else will win the lottery today,just not me!

Somebody else will win a lottery today,just not me!
I know that and I need to find another way out.I bought Benjamin Graham's "Intelligent Investor" like a year ago and I never had an urge to read it,I've started reading it and I am quite excited though I'm not sure if Investing will give me enough leverage,I think speculation might give me some.

Earning a million dollar's is quite tough thing to do,at least for me,but I'm quite sure there will be some way I could do it, I need to ferret.I love this quote from paul coelho's The Alchemist

When you pursue your personal legend the universe will conspire with you to make it happen

Is strengthening Rupee a problem for India?

Rupee is strengthening,the vigor is quite obvious in the alarming bells of corporate India and in the words of Mr.P.Chidamabaram,Finance Minister

level of appreciation of the rupee was well beyond comfort levels......
I suppose the central bank will intervene..

he said.

The rupee has gained more than 11 per cent against the dollar this year, and this month strengthened past 40 per dollar for the first time since May 1998 and today its trading for 0.25220US $,but is strengthening rupee a drawback for India?Reserve Bank of India is trying hard to keep the rupee down,but should RBI do that?




Experts at wharton and elsewhere say that though the rise in Rupee is a problem for companies like Wipro and TCS who earn most of their revenues in dollar,it also creates opportunities for Indian firms by making it less expensive for them to acquire overseas assets.

Jeremy seigal says
"My feeling is no, they should not intervene" (here they implies to Indian Governement)

but the RBI has bought around 28.4 billion in dollars between January and May 2007 to bring the inflation down,they shouldn't do it,it's not possible to keep the value of rupee down for a longtime and it's not good for a growing economy,Companies in India should now stop whining about acquiring dollar and possible decrease in outsourcing,but should exploit the advantage of rupee inflation and create more jobs, embrace new business models and concentrate on the high end work with a higher payoff.

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Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen

I've got no words to say about the video,Awesome!.


Essay-Mary Schmich
Music-Baz Luhrmann