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Randy Pausch’s ‘Last Lecture’ – truly inspirational

Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and suffering with Pancreatic cancer. Below is a presentation he gave as if it were his ‘last lecture’. In this lecture, he talks about achieving his childhood dreams. I also liked his talk on time management.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo]

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Business Education Finance India Life Productivity Science Social Technology

Web’s top blogs @ alltop.com

Alltop, all the top stories
Alltop.com is a refined collection of some of the best blogs on the web categorised under different sections like life, gossip, startups, programming, travel, India, China, etc. (82 categories at the time of writing).

If it adds any credibility, one of person behind Alltop is Guy Kawasaki, that was a good enough reason for me to look at it.

Alltop.com

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Business Finance India

NBC Universal gets part of NDTV for $150 mln

NBC universal paid $150 million (Rs 640 crore approx.) for an indirect stake of 26% in the Indian media giant New Delhi Television (NDTV).

India’s NDTV says NBC Universal buys shares in subsidiary for $150 mln

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Innovation Nature Science Technology

Harnessing ocean wave energy

Wave dragon “is a pioneering large scale ocean energy solution for bulk electricity generation.” “The Wave Dragon overtopping device elevates ocean waves to a reservoir above sea level where water is let out through a number of turbines and in this way transformed into electricity.”
Watch the promotional video below.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-EPR8Ss6M]

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Business Life Productivity Social

Does power really corrupt?

An interesting article about perception and performance. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, a study suggests that people at the bottom of the workplace totem pole don’t end up there for lack of ability, but rather that being low and powerless in a hierarchy leads to more mistakes.”

Does power corrupt? Absolutely not

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Innovation Productivity Technology

Blogging made easy with ScribeFire

An amazing tool for bloggers that makes use of client APIs to publish/edit blog entries for popular blogging systems. Firefox only.

ScribeFire

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Business Education Finance Technology

Why is MS after Yahoo and Facebook?

Who is more evil – Google or Facebook? Or, maybe you don’t care, but there is an ongoing battle for user data and user attention on the web 🙂

Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

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Business Finance India Technology

India’s hottest startups

“To zero in on the most happening young ventures, Business Today spoke to venture capitalists, executives, and industry watchers. From a long list of names, we finally picked 10 that stood out for the uniqueness of their businesses or rapid growth. Finally, we also bring you an update on our last year’s list of hottest start-ups.” – BusinessToday (via Hacker News)

India’s hottest startups

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Art Education History Innovation Productivity Technology Travel

Google maps mashup by Google

Google mashup with photos and wikipedia entries!

Google mashup

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Education Life Meta Social

Settle for less in love

A single-woman’s and also a single-mother’s perspective of life. Interesting user comments follow, for example: There is always “better.” Ask instead, what’s “enough?”

Settle for less in love