May 24, 2007
scrum: don’t take IT personal

Electricity Hobbles India
Look up at the tops of buildings, and on any given day, you are likely to find three, four or six smokestacks poking out of each, blowing gray-black plumes into the clouds. If the smokestacks are being used, it means the power is off and the building — whether bright new mall, condominium or office — is probably being powered by diesel-fed generators.
Bring on the Web 2.0 Bust
It’s no longer about beautiful products and genius developers. It’s about the money and the status, and hot PR chicks and marketing departments.
Paris Patel
The owner of Park Avenue Peerage, who wrote with such authority about the New York social scene, was no insider. In fact, he was an 18-year-old Indian American college student—from Illinois.
Muslim-Americans
The USA’s estimated 2.4 million Muslims hold more moderate political views than Muslims elsewhere in the world and are mostly middle class and willing to adopt the American way of life, according to one of the most comprehensive surveys of this segment of the nation’s population.
India, 10 Years Later
In the two weeks I spent in traffic, cars would constantly come within inches of each other, but never a harsh word. If you tried in the US some of the maneuvers routinely done in Mumbai traffic, you would be lynched by an angry mob of motorists that would feel their space and rights were violated. Not in India.
Outsourcing Gets Personal
So what’s PPO? It consists of those services that are offshored by individual entrepreneurs who are trying to bootstrap their new organisation as efficiently as possible. With technology advances and the growth of the Net, small offices, home businesses and freelancers can utilise PPO services and generate business.

