http://goteti.net prajnanam brahma Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:14:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en >хотелско обзавеждане were happy-go-lucky middle-class software engineers, having finally arrived in life with a job in a good top-tier IT company. Their loyalty was regularly rewarded with stock options. Their wives' fathers found them 'stable' enough on Shaadi.com to give their daughters in marriage. Their banks declared unbounded love for ... http://goteti.net/2009/01/poor-satyam-employees/ As large institutional players entered the Indian retail business, many debated the death of small kirana stores (as mom and pop shops in India are called). Many financial newspapers like the Economist flip-floped with articles once predicting the demise of the small shop owner, and once discussing whether big retail can ... http://goteti.net/2009/01/indian-retail-lacks-innovation-or-so-i-think/ It's 'obvious' for companies to be established with a set of growth goals. You plan for X growth in 'Year 1' and 2X growth in 'Year 2' and so on. Local establishments aim to be regionally known, regional ones aim to go national, and national aim to go global. In ... http://goteti.net/2008/10/is-no-growth-a-bad-idea/ Blogs come in many avatars.  And, for someone following people's writings through blogs, sifting through the various types of content can be quite exhausting.  But, thanks to new social utilities like Twitter and Facebook, I guess we are witnessing a culling in the blogsphere. I guess this is a good ... http://goteti.net/2008/10/better-blogs-thanks-to-twitter-and-facebook/ How advanced is the 'West' be compared to the 'East'! Half a century maybe. Going by the fact that way back in 1965, the Gemini 4 mission enabled United States conduct it's first ever spacewalk! And, only 43 years later did the Chinese manage to send their men to space! ... http://goteti.net/2008/09/a-company-does-a-country-thing/ Just read reports that India's Reliance Entertainment has pumped in $500 million in equity towards a 1.3 Billion investment that would help Hollywood's Dreamworks establish itself as an independent studio! According to Reuters the deal with Reliance allows the studio co-founded by director Steven Spielberg to leave Paramount Pictures. Apparently Spielberg ... http://goteti.net/2008/09/mumbai-to-hollywoods-rescue/ “I am essentially racing for free. No salary. No bonus. Nothing on the line.… This one’s on the house. And you know what? At the end of the day, I don’t need money.… Not only will I be fine, my kids will be fine, my grandkids will be fine.â€? Now, that ... http://goteti.net/2008/09/30s-the-new-20s/ Browser wars have never been so dramatic in a long time. Every big player seems to have an ace up it's sleeve, and nothing's surprising anymore. Four years back, the media was talking about 'a new browser from the makers of Mozilla, called Firefox'. Back then, the Mozilla Foundation funded ... http://goteti.net/2008/09/is-firefox-the-red-herring/ This is a follow-up to my blog posting on 08/03/2008. I wonder if folks at Rediff.com work with fraudulent courier services, or if they are incapable of tracking their deliveries. In fact, when I first realised they claimed to have delivered my books, I also left them feedback 'Where are my ... http://goteti.net/2008/04/where-are-my-books/ It's been three weeks to date. On January 21st, I decided to shop online, at Rediff.com. I've never shopped online in India till date, and I wanted to know if it works that way it is meant to be. I was warmly surprised to see that the site not only shipped ... http://goteti.net/2008/02/rediff-and-the-myth-of-online-shopping-in-india/