ThinkChange India with a great summary on the status of social entrepreneurship in India.

Horses for Sources picks up and enhances my argument for ditching the term ‘outsourcing’.  Maybe 2009 is the year to do it?

Don’t know why they didn’t just write the list down in text, but here is a video list of the top 25 Indian web companies.  I agree with about half of the choices…

Aamir Khan is still the only mainstream Indian filmmaker consistenly pushing things forward.  Here’s a look at the success he’s had marketing his latest film, Ghajini, online.

(full disclosure: hp is a client)

So, HP proved that Apple isn’t the only one who can sell computers based on more than price.  Can Dell do the same?

The Economic Times reports that remittances to India have decreased by 25 to 30% already.

I want to apologize for the lack of recent updates to the Monsoon blog.  Ankush and I have implemented and begun posting to personal sites.  Now that they’re set up and running, there will hopefully be more time to post here.

Here is Sramana Mitra’s list of the top 10 Outsourcing stocks.  I’m surprised that her top 2 picks are American, but you can’t really argue with the logic.

Use the best web tools.  Have an easy, well-defined process in place.  Triple-check your emails to make sure that you are communicating concisely and clearly.

And, when all of that inevitably doesn’t work the way you thought it would, stay up late, wake up early, and talk with your team.  Video has made this easier than ever; eye contact demands focus.

via Abhi at Sepia Mutiny

These days,  we often compete for projects against US-based companies whose prices are lower. Our clients are surprised and initially assume that when they show us our competitor’s prices, we’ll lower ours.

Instead, we assert that if experience and quality are taken into account, our prices are still 50% or less than a US-based team can offer (disclaimer: since we do project management and design in the US, we are a hybrid, not simply an offshore team, which means that our prices are generally higher than companies based only in India).

Before they understand the real difference, many people jump to the wrong conclusion.  IT outsourcing is dead in India.   It’s not cheaper to develop in India anymore.

Wrong.  It’s still cheaper to develop in India.  In fact, it’s now cheaper at several different levels of quality, which is an advance that helps everyone.

As many of our clients have come to understand, the disparity is not always about price.  It is now often about quality.

You can’t compare apples to mangoes.