Lion vs. Buffalo vs. Crocodile

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Radiology Grand Rounds XII

Radiology Grand Rounds XII are up on Sumer's Radiology Site.

Medical Encyclopedia

I planned to start a web 2.0 medical wiki so that any doctor can edit it and create a world class medical encyclopedia similar to wikipedia. I dropped this plan as I found ganfyd through google.

Ganfyd.org - The free medical knowledge base that anyone can read and any registered medical practitioner may edit. Ganfyd is a collaborative medical reference by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts. The site is based around the wiki format, enabling true sharing of knowledge. Ganfyd is the first of its type and relies on your contributions to make it a truly world-class resource.

How to Succeed in 2007

Business 2.0 has asked 50 of the brightest minds in business how they do what they do - and how you can cash in on their advice in the year ahead.

The Story of Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin is a Russian born American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page.

To know more about him read the following article

The Story of Sergey Brin - How the Moscow-born entrepreneur cofounded and changed the way the world searches

Windows vs Linux

This is a collection of well researched articles featuring Windows vs Linux. You can decide yourself which is better by reading the following articles.

Security Report: Windows vs Linux

2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary

Linux vs. Windows: Which is Most Secure?

Linux Security: A Big Edge Over Windows

The problems with Vista laid bare - What might have been

Why Windows is less secure than Linux

Linux more secure than Windows, national survey shows

Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design

If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP

Why Windows is a security nightmare.

The Structural Failures of Windows

Social Networking in India

Kify Socify is the next generation social networking site where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share videos, share audios, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.

You can checkout my profile at http://in.socify.com/karuturi

Join Socify India now at http://joinindia.socify.com

How to Survive the Worst PC Disasters

Can't get your PC to boot? Or just sent your boss a really embarrassing e-mail? Here's how to recover from these and ten other potential catastrophes.

PC World has put together 12 articles to help you out from these disasters.

1. Your computer won't boot
2. You just told off the CEO in an e-mail and instantly regret it
3. No PCs show on the network
4. Your identity has been stolen!
5. Your Net connection is dead
6. You're being sued by the RIAA/MPAA
7. Your device just got doused with water--or worse
8. You're inundated with pop-ups when you boot your PC (adware/spyware infestation)
9. You deleted a critical file--and have no backup
10. Your hard drive has crashed
11. You forgot your Windows password
12. Your presentation just croaked

Google Hiring Process

Some guys posted their interview experience with Google on Slashdot.

Baby Playing with Cobra

Some frightening stuff! Maybe the snake defanged?

Karuturi Stock Portfolio

This is my present stock holding percentage. I am heavily invested in the IT sector. Experts say, Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket. To put all your eggs in one basket is to risk losing everything all at one time. If you had a certain number of eggs, it would be safest to put those eggs in different baskets and not put them all in one basket. To put all your eggs in one basket would be to risk losing all of your eggs in case you drop that one basket. In short, If you put all your eggs into one basket, you put all your money to one sector. If it fails, you will have no other possibilities left.

I don't agree with this idiom in stock marketing. This old proverb about eggs in one basket applies well in some situations and not in others. Different people at different stages of development will have different views regarding putting all eggs in one basket. In stock market we should Put all Your Eggs in one Basket and Then Watch That Basket!!! If you want to super succeed, you should put all your eggs in one basket.

First I tried the diversification route and invested my money in almost all sectors I can think off. Then I realized that the profits I make in one sector(IT) are being leveled by losses in another sector(FMCG). IT sector is making lot more profits and so I am heavily invested in that sector. The remaining sectors creeped into my portfolio through IPO route, something like recent IPO's like Idea Cellular which are hard to resist. I just watch the IT sector every day in the media by reading the relevant articles from all major media sources. This means I placed thick cushions below my basket and also in between my eggs. So I am watching my single basket where almost all my eggs are located. I can smell the downtrend in the IT sector and so I know when to exit the market to book the profits.

If you know exactly what you are doing, you can create your own rules in the stock market. Only mavericks earn extremes in the stock market.

Be careful with the stock market and don't invest in this unless you are an expert trader. In stock market Timing is Everything. Only the guys who sell or buy at the right time succeed.

I will quote an experience of Issac Newton, the brilliant human being who invented the calculus and the theory of gravity.

And back in the spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton owned shares in the South Sea Company, the hottest stock in England. Sensing that the market was getting out of hand, the great physicist muttered that he “could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.” Newton dumped his South Sea shares, pocketing a 100% profit totaling £7,000. But just months later, swept up in the wild enthusiasm of the market, Newton jumped back in at a much higher price—and lost £20,000 (or more than $3 million in today’s money). For the rest of his life, he forbade anyone to speak the words “South Sea” in his presence. (An excerpt from The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham)

So what's your view? Drop a comment below.

Internet ad revenue up 35% to $17 billion

SFgate reports

Internet advertising revenue, fueled by increases in classified ads, lead generation and display advertising, grew by 35 percent last year to $16.9 billion.

In the fourth quarter alone, $4.8 billion was spent on online advertising, a 33 percent increase over the same quarter a year earlier and the most for any quarter, according to a report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

More advertisers are flocking to Internet and this trend proves that big advertisers are recognizing Internet as another mainstream media to reach their target customers. Internet offers some unique advantages like specific marketing, intent marketing which is not available with the traditional media. More advertisers means a bigger pie to share among the internet publishers.

Open Source Cola

Like Open Source Software here comes a Open Source Cola where everyone can modify their recipe to achieve a better beverage.

While Pepsi and Coca-Cola (and others) closely guard their secrets to making cola beverages, several organizations have released their own recipes. Below is the recipe for homemade "OpenCola," an open-source cola beverage that invites makers to create and modify their recipe to achieve a better beverage. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Domain Name Generator

Are you looking for new domain name? Pissed off as all domains you are trying are taken up?

Then follow these simple steps to grab a .com domain now!

- Go to http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html

- Click "Generate Name" button 10 times

- Copy all the 10 names on the right side and paste them at http://in.website.kify.com/domain.php and select .com in the most popular extensions menu

- Now register any of the available domains you like

I registered a couple of domains as I get them now around $9 and 5 years from now I don't want to buy them in the range of $2000-$3000 from Cyber Squatters. Just look at this week .com sales chat and almost every shit .com is sold above $2000. Thatz the power of a .com!

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India Bloggers List

Amit Agarwal, a Computer Science graduate from IIT Roorkee and also a famous Indian Blogger with Global Audience. He blogs at http://labnol.blogspot.com/. He once revealed in some interview that his income from the blog is the range of 6 figures per month. We can assume that he is only Indian Blogger with that range of advertising income from a single blog.

He also compiled a list of India Bloggers at http://www.labnol.org/india-blogs/indian-bloggers.html. My blog figures in the Blogging, Tech News & Tips category.

Web 2.0 Companies List

Here is an exhaustive list of almost all Web 2.0 companies.

20 Productive Ways to Use Your Free Time

Leo Babauta suggests 20 Productive Ways to Use Your Free Time.

Your Genetic Health

Here comes a company which is helping people to get more information from their genes and get an insight into their ancestry, inherited traits etc., For non-biology students who want to know more about genes can check out the wikipedia.

23andMe is a privately held company developing new ways to help you make sense of your own genetic information.

Even though your body contains trillions of copies of your genome, you've likely never read any of it. Our goal is to connect you to the 23 paired volumes of your own genetic blueprint (plus your mitochondrial DNA), bringing you personal insight into ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. By connecting you to others, we can also help put your genome into the larger context of human commonality and diversity.

Toward this goal, we are building on recent advances in DNA analysis technologies to enable broad, secure, and private access to trustworthy and accurate individual genetic information. Combined with educational and scientific resources with which to interpret and understand it, your genome will soon become personal in a whole new way.

dotcom Boom

The above picture is self explanatory and you can see the world wide wild growth of domain name registrations. In coming years if you don't own a website means, you aren't existing in this world. The .com domain is king and it retained its first place with over 80 million domains registered till now. I entered into the domain name market very late and I am able to grab some domains. I am sure my domain portfolio will be worth much more in the coming years. I suggest young domainers to plunge in to the market now and they are still lot of good domain names left in narrow niches like citynamepubs, citynamehotels etc., Just use your brain and you can be a millionaire in the future. In this month Porn.com is sold for $9 million. Thatz awesome. I suppose many more guys will be inspired from this sale and will be attracted to this new Virtual Real Estate in no more time. There's lot of potential left in the country specific domains like .in, .co.uk & so on. Happy Domaining!

You can register your domain at Kify Domains

Image source : domaintools.com

Disclosure : I own Kify Domains

SnipShot - Crop Images Online

You can crop images online with Snipshot and you need not pull your over loaded PhotoShop.

Intelligent Bird

Here is a Bird that uses Cars as a Nut Cracker

via Gannarapu

Windows Vista sells 40M licenses in 100 days

CNNMoney reports

Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million Windows Vista licenses in the first 100 days that the latest version of the operating system has been available, Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday.

Gates said an accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles had helped make the operating system the fastest selling in history, and that premium editions have accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales.

This is huge. Microsoft CashCow Windows is still alive and Microsoft can milk it for some more time until Linux goes mainstream.

Setting up Apache as a Web server under Linux via GUI

Linux is increasingly becoming a popular alternative to Microsoft Windows for network administrators wanting to provide services for their organization. Learning a new OS like Linux can present some challenges to a long time Windows administrator however. This is the beginning of a series of articles aimed at the IT administrator new to Linux wanting to set up various servers. This first article will describe the steps to setting up an Apache server as a Web server for your organization.

Free Linux Courses

Free Linux Courses by Eric D. Schabell

This course is designed to guide inexperienced users through their first steps into the wonderful (and stable) world of Linux. This process should be as painless as possible and this course covers all the necessary information that a new user needs to start the journey to a place here “reboot” just isn’t the standard solution! This course leads the new user through the history of Linux, through the preparations leading up to an actual installation, the installation of Red Hat and/or SuSE Linux, followed by a tour through the most used commands and the common tools a user needs to understand within the Linux environment. The course continues with a tour of the tandard paths users can follow to find information about their Linux systems. In closing the course will take the student through a kernel compilation and present a short overview of the more well known services used in Linux solutions today.

Internet Usage Statistics

Asia is leading with 35.8% of World's Internet usage.

Yahoo Green

Yahoo is urging users to become more environment friendly and tackle the problem of Global Warming through its website Yahoo Green!

According to Wikipedia

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.

Global average air temperature near the Earth's surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.3 ± 0.32 °F) during the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes, "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations," which leads to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes have probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950, but a cooling effect since 1950.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including sea level rise, and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. There may also be changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, though it is difficult to connect specific events to global warming. Other effects may include changes in agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the exact degree of climate change expected in the future, and how changes will vary from region to region around the globe. There is ongoing political and public debate regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at combating greenhouse gas emissions.

Mixed Media by Rupert Murdoch

Checkout this article by Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corporation, a Global Media Giant. He stresses the importance of change to new media so that they come closer to the newer generations. Just checkout the assets of News Corporation and they are envy of any media company. This guy owns Myspace.com, the most popular social networking site on Internet.

Google wants to be YOUR Internet

Check out this article. The author had made some interesting observations about Google moves.

Some more interesting articles

Google and the Third Age of Computing

Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did

Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart

I wholly agree with this quote, "Google is not your competition, Google is the environment."