Amazon just opened a beta of their aStore for Amazon affiliates. The aStore allows Amazon Affiliates to create a custom store listing Amazon products for free using a simple wizard like interface. There are no fees and the affiliate will get paid the same fees as the standard Amazon Affiliate program.
This is what my store looks like after 10 minutes.
Here’s a great post on Amit Ranjan’s personal blog about how large technology and outsourcing companies in India are turning the cream of the crop engineers into just more cogs in their wheels.
I worked at a very large Wall Street firm for a few years and then I’ve worked at small companies (small in terms of the number of people). The best part of working at a small company, by far, is seeing the results of your labor on a daily basis and how it directly affects the business. Good luck seeing how busting your hump on a daily basis benefits Infosys.
There are, however, significant drawbacks to working for a small company.
The benefits of working for a small company are:
For more, in depth, details, jump over to Amit’s blog below.
Ques- What warning sign is written on the boundary walls of the TCS office in Madras?
Ans - ‘Beware Trespassers- If you are not careful, you will be recruited’
technorati tags:Business, Small Companies, Large Companies, Recruiting, Hiring, Job Searches
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This is a pretty good article about managing your batteries. After the recent Dell and Apple over heating problems and recalls, the issues of how to manage your batteries is more in the spotlight. The article gives advice on power management, quick recharging tools, and prolonging the life of your battery.
Lithium-ion batteries are particularly sensitive to heat. To avoid the danger of a fire, they should not be stored in places that get direct sunlight, like a car’s interior. Many manufacturers specify a temperature range for operation. In addition, the connectors should be kept away from metals that could cause a short circuit.
Regardless of type, there are a number of ways to increase the life of a rechargeable battery. According to Brian Kimberlin, director of consumer batteries for the Panasonic Battery Corporation of America, one of the best strategies to prolong battery life is to use them. Otherwise, “they will lose their capacity to hold a charge,” he said.
Tips on battery life, reviving the dead | CNET News.com
technorati tags:Batteries, Apple, Dell, Battery Management
I came across this great post today. Unfortunately, if you don’t speak Hindi, you won’t get it. However, if you speak Hindi and you’re a fan of the 1970’s Bollywood film, Sholay, watch this clip. It’s hilarious!
It’s almost anti-climactic to hear of another job board or social networking site. So what? There’s nothing exciting or interesting about another job board launching.
I do, however, think that many (but not all) of these job boards will add significant value to the people looking to hire specific niche talent as well as those looking for jobs in a very specific industry.
The TechCrunch network’s CrunchBoard (CrunchBoard, yet another job board) is by its very nature going to be useful and successful. Anyone who is remotely interested in Web 2.0 and Internet entrepreneurship has heard of TechCrunch and Mike Arrington. Now with TechCrunch launching additional international sites like TechCrunch UK, I’m sure that there will be more and more international users of CrunchBoard.
BuildV1 is another site that I recently heard about. It’s supposed to be a social networking and job board site for entrepreneurs. Great idea (I wish I had thought about it and used it to launch a similar site based on The Manusya Project)! However, as it looks like a very early release of the site, there’s not much of a social networkign aspect to it. At least, not one that I could see. I’m all for more niche job boards cropping up and providing great hires and great jobs for specific verticals.
Update 08/26/2006: Om Malik from GigaOM has joined the job board craze with GigaOM Jobs. I haven’t looked at it yet but GigaOM is charging the same as TechCrunch.
Tom Galloway at Google talks about Star Trek’s influence on modern technology and heavy influence on us geeks. Google is hosting a booth at the 5th annual Official Star Trek Convention (celebrating 40 years of Star Trek). They’ll be recruiting cadets for “Google Academy” as well as showing off some of their Star Trek inspired technologies.
Official Google Blog: Stardate 0817.06
I just came across the Business Plan Archive while reading a post on VentureWoods. The Business Plan Archive is a research organization that’s loking to preserve business plans and other business documents from the Web 1.0 era. Very interesting site with lots of very valuable information. Take a look.
In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in the history of technology and entrepreneurship.
technorati tags:Research, Web 1.0, Internet, Business, Business Plans, Archives, Library of Congress, University of Maryland
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I’ve been using the TVMini HD on my MacBook for a few weeks and I love it. Even with the included antenna, I’ve been able to easily pick up broadbast HD signals without a problem. At $249 from the Apple Store, it’s a good buy. If you can plug it into a desktop with enough hard drive space, you can record plenty of shows and give your Tivo a rest.
TVMini HD puts you back in the driving seat: you can watch, pause, rewind, skip forward and even record live TV. TVMini HD uses state of the art technology allowing you to enjoy the outstanding quality of HDTV on your Mac.
Happy Independence Day to all Indians across the globe! At times like this, with all the chaos and problems in the world, we can appreciate how India achieved Independence without spilling a drop of blood. If only we could give the world another Mahatama Gandhi…
I just spent 15 minutes on the phone with Lenovo trying to get information on their ThinkPads preloaded with SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I am very surprised at Lenovo’s half-hearted attempt at preloading Linux on ThinkPads. As I mentioned in this post, Lenovo and Novell announced the preloading of SuSE Linux on the ThinkPad T60p. A T60p with the following specs is available for $3099.00 by calling Lenovo (it is not available for purchase from the website, you must call to get any information or place an order).
Oh yes, I must mention that the same exact configuration with Windows XP Home Edition costs $2289.00. Why Lenovo and Novell have to charge $810.00 more for the same exact laptop running SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is mind boggling. Why would anyone in their right mind buy this ThinkPad even if it running Linux? For those of you out there who have a T60p and would like to install SuSE, you could try running openSuSE ( Novell recently renamed the open source distribution ) and download the Lenovo software for SuSE here. It might not work because apparently Lenovo and Novell updated the SLED Kernel for the ThinkPad and I’m not sure if openSuSE contains the kernel enhancements. I am very interested to hear from any of you that try it out. I’m also curious if the software will run on other ThinkPads running SuSE so please let me know.
I still love ThinkPads ( See Apple MacBook vs. IBM ThinkPad - Part 3 ) but, by charging a ransom for a Linux ThinkPad, Lenovo isn’t gaining any friends in the community.
Lenovo - Notebooks - ThinkPad T Series mobile workstations
technorati tags:ThinkPad, MacBook, T60p, Novell, Lenovo, SUSE, Laptop
