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During the recent 2007 Wharton Economic Summit, Knowledge@Wharton recorded nine podcasts with speakers and panelists at the event, whose theme was "Next Moves in a Global Economy." The interviews are with:Jeffrey R. Lurie, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles Football ClubShellye L. Archambeau, CEO of MetricStreamRamkrishan (Remi) Hinduja, chairman of HTMT Global Solutions, …
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8th Start-Up@Singapore Grand Finals Award Ceremony9:30am - 1:00pm, 30th May 2007DBS Auditorium,6, Shenton WayGuest-of-Honour :Mr. Teo Ser LuckParliamentary SecretaryMinistry of Community Development,Youth and Sports[Register Here]
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I have just finished the book The Patton Mind - The Professional Development of an extraordinary Leader by Roger H. Nye. By any measure, Patton was an indefatiguable reader who never seemed to have stopped reading at any point in his life, even in the midst of wars.Several key ideas come to mind after :Annote books with ideas/views/commentsSummarise and distill key …
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A collection of some of my favorite quotes from the famous Omaha Investor. I like to think about them as a way of peeking into how he sees things:"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." (To his son Howard)"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you should look for three …
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Just caught this on Slashdot - NYSE is undergoing system migration to Unix and Linux.I would suppose this marks a major leap in the use of open source software, and the decision by NYSE definitely has not been a simple one to make. Given the complexity and importance of the Stock Exchange systems, the risk/benefits analysis must have beenBut it would seem that the major …
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Wow .... I didn't know that, but according to the article the figures are :Australian Government: 17% stake in Telstra: $9.6 billion Australia Post: $5 billion Medibank Private: $1 billion Australian Submarine Corp: $200 million Total: $15.8 billion VSSingapore Government: Optus: $10 billion Alinta energy assets: $4.3 billion Victorian electricity transmission monopoly: $2 …
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Been playing around with BookJetty lately and think its a great way to keep organised on your reading list, especially if you are a voraiously reader like me. No more having to tell your friends "Yeah, I just read a book on [insert intersting subject] the other day which I think you would be keen on but I can't for the life of me remember its title ... "So, I've gone and …
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Just read this over at LifeHack.org.Basically, the thing you can do to achieve Creative Genius-hood are to :Keep a Notebook and Pencil on hand at all times (Ideas like fleeting renegades which are hard to catch.)Ask Questions.Be a Voracious Reader (Can't agree with this more, especially to read beyond the bounds of your normal scope as different disciplines offer totally …
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Just managed to get my hands on this book and it sure is a good read whether your run an organisation or are just a part of a organisation. this book covers lessons that apply to both leaders as well as frontline staff in all types of organisations.I didn't even know that there was a book linking maneuver warfare and business when I did this previous post of mine. But this …
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Check out Guy Kawasaki's Interview with Steve Wozniak here.Really great to-and-fro interview where you get a nice touch of Woz as well as Guy's sense of humor.Video from a Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley event.Thanks to www.zbiz.tv for hosting this![via : The Unofficial Apple Weblog ]
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The French Parliment just announced it decision to drop Windows in favor of the Linux Open Source system. According to this CNET report, PCs in the French deputes' offices will move over to running the Open Source Productivity Software on the Linux OS as this move will bring about increased savings and customisability.This trend towards open source is not new and a number of …
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Splendid creativity in advertising from Électricité de France (EDF), a power company providing electricity to France and UK to drum up awareness about how the little things can help conser …
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Whenever piracy is mentioned these days, people often tend to place it in a context of occuring either in the Music, Film or Software industries. This is the uncontrovertible extent of which these industries have championed their cause for a more comprehensive Intellectual Property Protections which they claim helps to substain the incentive for further creativity in their …
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This is the first time I've been asked to help do a quick review on a web startup so here goes :Pageflakes is essentially an Ajax-based startpage that allows you to customize which flakes (what they call widgets) you want to see when you open your browser. Essentially, this here below is what can be created to act as your startpage. I've managed to just drag and drop a couple …
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Well, just found this site where there are more videos on how cool stuff are made from the National Association of Manufacturers blog.
Amongst the videos they have are:
How Silly Putty is Made
How Trumpets are Made
How the USS George H. W. Bush was Made
How Ice Cream is Made
How the Honda Cog Commercial was Made
How Baseball Bats are Made
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So, the Christmas shopping season is upon us again, a time for all good folk out there to go shopping for their loved ones. toy shopping in particular.So much so that toy companies have been perfecting the art of marketing their wares agressively and here, USA Today lists the 6 strategies marketers use to get kids to want stuff bad :Wish ListsRepetitive TV AdsBig Screen …
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After the dotcom crash, there have been only few great powerhouses of online ad distributors left. In the ring are the big boys, Google, Yahoo and eBay, all whom have well established themselves in the online media / advertising market and boy are they eyeing the traditional media market now.Google is casting its net to offer print ads to its advertisers, Yahoo announced a …
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Just happened upon a list complied by the China Internet Industry Survey Report listing the “Web 2.0 100 of China Internet Industry”.Though not closely familiar with all the names on the l …
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Has Yahoo gotten a tad too big and bueracratic for its own good? Yahoo SVP Brad Garlinghouse seems to think so and in a recent internal memo sent out to senior staff, spells out the danger …
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Well, if you're one of thoses curious nuts like who likes to see how stuff are made, you're in for a treat cos here's a whole list of videos on exactly that:How Bubblegum is MadeHow Steel Safes are MadeHow Toothpicks are MadeHow Mail Processing is DoneHow Kayaks are MadeHow Jeans are MadeHow Holograms are MadeHow Helicopters are Madeand many more over at DailyMotion[props to …
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