(via werblog) * 13M+ users registered * 1M+ simultaneous users reached for the first time a couple of weeks ago * 2,384,686,217 minutes served, as I type this – i.e almost 2.4 billion minutes. Just to put things in perspective: Vonage has 170,000 customers and passed the billion minutes mark sometime in 2004 * 295,000 [...]
Archive for November, 2004
Skype Statistics
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The Blogging Revolution
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2004 | 8 Comments »
Every day, millions of online diarists, or “bloggers,” share their opinions with a global audience. Drawing upon the content of the international media and the World Wide Web, they weave together an elaborate network with agenda-setting power on issues ranging from human rights in China to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. What began as a [...]
What is Culture of an Organization
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2004 | 3 Comments »
How do you define culture of an Organization ? A combination of deep, tacit, assumptions and espoused values that define day to day bahavior . Remember its not the rules that are the guidelines but the actual behavior that matters.
Technology Decisions that Impacted History
Posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2004 | 10 Comments »
This is a story of little known Admiral Zheng He and more well known Christopher Columbus. China’s greatest adventurer, the 15th century admiral, Zheng He, a Muslim, a eunuch, a warrior and china’s best know naval admiral. Zheng He vastly outdid his approximate contemporaries, the Western naval heroes who helped define the global Age of [...]
Freedom from the License Raj
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2004 | 8 Comments »
Mittal’s empire, which started from nothing in the 1970s, will now produce over 50 million tonnes of steel. The Tata group was the richest by far in India when Lakshmi’s father, M L Mittal, was still a scrap dealer. But the Mittals had skills and gumption, and that mattered far more. Lakshmi Mittal took over [...]