Check out this article about Google India in Fortune
Google Goes to India
Money quote – “Those who work at Google speak of a halo effect. Landing a job at Google is said to increase marriage prospects in a culture where title and income are critical to the practice of arranged matchmaking.”
It is the end of the year 2007. We use computers for everything, including listening to music and watching movies. Why then, are we still stuck in the last decade trying to price all digital content like we were still buying physical media? Why do we have to buy the same content multiple times for playing it on different devices? Why does it cost more to make a ringtone out of a song than to actually buy the complete song?
I think the record companies as well as the movie industry …
I have come to believe that you’re a smart shopper if the stock price of the company whose products you consistently buy keeps on going up.
Since my move to Apple products, and since the time I bought AAPL stock, it has gone up roughly about 10%. I own a Mac, an iPhone, Airport Extreme and Express, couple iPods, and some Apple software. It is the best operating system I have ever used, and I find Objective C so much better than anything else I have seen, it is amazing. Java …
Just read about this…City of Durham has enacted ‘Stage III Moderate Mandatory Conservation of the City of Durham’s Water Conservation Ordinance’ effective today. While the goal remains to reduce water consumption by about 30% in light of the current drought conditions, the thing that surprised me for a bit was the following restriction:
‘Do not serve water in a restaurant or similar establishment except upon request’
Talk about a drought!
I just realized that I have completely transitioned myself out of using any sort of free email service (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.). One of the lures of free email used to be the cost associated with getting our own domain, along with hosting services, but thanks to mass consumer adoption and services like Google Apps for Domains, that no longer holds true.
If I am scared of spam, I just create a temporary email address on my domain; if I am scared of running out of storage, well, Google provides 2 GB!
Apart …