What on earth is Web 2.0?

If you google “define: web 2.0″, this is what you get from wikipedia….
“Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing [...]

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What’s important besides money?

From the economist:

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Building a Community

In his blog “How to change the World” Guy Kawasaki lists 8 points to note in the art of building a community..
1. Create something worth building a community around.
2. Identify and recruit evangelists:
3. Assign at least one person the task of building a community.
4. Give people something concrete to chew on. Communities can’t just sit [...]

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Revenue Per Employee in the Indian IT Industry

 
The Indian IT industry has a simple revenue model: People x Rate = Revenue. As models go, its nothing to write home about, but it has served us well over the years. The big problem with the model, however, is that revenue growth is linear with respect to employee count. In other words if you [...]

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Does Long Tail Distribution Fuel Terrorism

There is a popular theory that the internet, and information technology in general will substantially lower the transaction costs of selling hard to find products and services and increase the collective share of niche markets, information and viewpoints. Chris Anderson in his wildly popular book, “The Long Tail” calls these niche products and services the [...]

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Talent Communities

The talent shortage, customer demand for complex solutions and the size limits of Indian IT services firms will increase transaction costs to the point where the most efficient business model will be an organization that uses talent networks to deliver IT services. This was echoed in John Hagel’s call to action in his speech at [...]

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