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Tenacity!

shashi @ October 24, 2008 # 2 Comments

The morning on the other day, was not very cloudy. I didn’t think it would rain either as it was quite cool and there was a soothing breeze even at around 10 in the morning. As usual I drove to our client’s site alone. After an uneventful morning session, when I came out of the [...]

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Redundancy and the Internet

shashi @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet

In an interview with the Portfolio magazine, Nassim Nicholas Taleb says
Do you realize that we don’t understand globalization? Globalization increases Extremistan. That’s one problem with this Tom Friedman guy—he [the bestselling author of The World Is Flat, which argues the advantages of globalization in the internet age] didn’t seem to understand the very simple dynamics [...]

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Microsoft’s failed buyout bid for Yahoo! - Some musings

shashi @ May 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Was Microsoft really interested in buying Yahoo! ?
Did Jerry Yang do the right thing by rebuffing Ballmer ?
Will the Yahoo! investors remain quiet even after losing out on the deal ?
Does Microsoft realise they could/can never integrate Yahoo into their own ?

Would the merger have been a good thing for Zimbra users ?
Did Microsoft lose [...]

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