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MySmartPrice: Mobile Phone Price in India A useful price comparison portal, currently limited to mobiles, books & cameras tags: mobile india shopping pricing comparison Bollywood Remakes Quite a long list of Bollywood movies & their “inspiration”. Not every movie listed is such a big ripoff though tags: bollywood remakes inspiration movies hollywood What’s a Degree Worth? Report Has Answers, by Major – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Over their careers, full-time, full-year workers whose highest degree is a bachelor’s make 74 percent more, on average, than those whose highest attainment is a high-school diploma, the authors found. When those with more than a bachelor’s degree are included, the premium for higher education rises to 84 percent.” tags: education economics Warren Buffett on castles and moats – (37signals) Revisiting the competitive advan... (more)

Interesting links for the week (weekly)

How to Add a Snooze Button to Gmail, No Extensions Required Making use of Google Apps Script functionality in Google Docs to snooze mails in Gmail tags: gmail hack script Psychological Self-Help – new – Table of Contents Quite a lot of reading material tags: psychology self-help health book The Cult That Is Destroying America – NYTimes.com The case against centrism from Paul Krugman tags: politics opinion usa economics Innovative Audio – Receiver Shootout A comparison of the sound quality between a couple of vintage a/v receivers from 1978-80 to a modern one. The vintage ones sti... (more)

Social Networks for Rural India

New Media Journal on Ulitzer A few weeks back, I participated in the net.works case study competition of IIMA’s Confluence along with 3 of my classmates in SJMSOM, IIT Bombay. As a part of the competition, we were asked to prepare a report on what a social network with 500 million users in India would look like. To this end, we conducted a survey to understand the expectations of users from a social network. We also researched the new developments and requirements for such a huge user base. One of the things that is evident is that to reach a user base of 500 million as the cas... (more)

links for 2010-03-22

How US Government Spies Use Facebook (Updated) So how much of it does actually happen? (tags: facebook privacy security media government us socialmedia) Average Price for iPhone Apps Keeps Falling I still prefer my apps to be free (tags: iphone apps apple pricing store) Open Source is Not a Democracy | ITworld 'The discussion started innocuously enough, within Bug #532633 in light-themes (Ubuntu) on Launchpad, where the order of the window controls within the Light theme were requested to be re-arranged to be on the upper right side of any given window. Light, it seemed, now plac... (more)

links for 2010-04-02

Not quite what I ordered « Enemies of Reason Something to think about when you read the headlines. The proverbial pinch of salt to go with them… (tags: news communication statistics headlines) Barack Obama Looking at Awesome Things – a set on Flickr An interesting bunch of photoshopped pics featuring Obama (tags: obama funny photography flickr photoshop pictures images) Juan Pablo Bravo: New! 100 Pixar Character A nice graphic showing off the sizes of different characters from the Pixar movies (both long & short) (tags: pixar cartoons characters visualization pictures) What brand... (more)