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My last post for the day… please start Flocking. Meaning, please start using this really cool new browser that goes by the name “Flock”.

The tagline for the browser is “The Social Web Browser” and its got a whole bunch of features that will be of great help if you are the kind who uses quite a bit of so called web 2.0 features available on sites.

I haven’t used all the available features, but it looks promising, and yes, it is definitely fast.

Flock is powered by the Mozilla engine, and is currently in Beta 2. Yep, still in beta so be careful while using it, although it hasn’t crashed once in the last couple of months I have been using it.

Snapshot of features in Flock 2 Beta can be found here.

I heard even Stumbleupon works with it now, although I haven’t installed the extension yet.

Came across this page put up by Mr. Thayer Watkins from the economics department of San Jose State University. He seems to have lost track of Indian economics after 1999. Has excellent things to say about the Indian economic conditions during those sad old years when it was not an open market.

For all those in dire need of some quick reference in English. a direct PDF link to William Strunk’s 1918 classic ‘The Elements of Style’.

It’s a very handy reference, and a quick read at 50 pages.

You can also use the free online version at Bartleby.

Rupert Murdoch’s adventure in Asia began way back in 1991 with Satellite Television Asian Region (STAR).

This paper titled “Taming the Dragon and the Elephant: Murdoch’s media in Asia” by Daya Kishan Thussu gives a brief lowdown on Murdoch’s history in Asia, especially India.

First five pages are mostly historical facts tracing Murdoch’s entry into India and other developments; then it delves into Murdochisation, Foxification, media imperialism, et al.

The grand old daddy of media has set his eyes on fresh territory. Rupert Murdoch plans to expand News Corp’s presence in India. He has announced plans to launch six regional TV channels within the next 12months at investments totaling $100 million.

More details available in this FT news item.

This page presents a huge list of resources on Iraq, mostly related to the war on Iraq… I have not clicked on any of the links… but it looks like a good set of links… should be of help whenever I feel interested on the subject.

It’s a bit old though, last updated on 07/14/04 according to the site.

Bill Gates wants more “creativity” in capitalism. That’s what he says in this excellent column in TIME (It’s in the TIME… has to be excellent right?

Didn’t have the patience to read through the whole thing but some stuff just caught my attention…

“Industries like software and pharmaceuticals, for example, have very low production costs…” Ah, so they were always right about that…umm…thanks anyways for confirming

“More than 30 years ago, Paul Allen and I started Microsoft because we wanted to be part of a movement to put a computer on every desk and in every home.” OMG, and I like a fool always thought it was all about the money!

And, of course, there is the cliched reference to C.K. Prahalad’s book ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’

Don’t know how creative capitalism has to get, but Mr. Gates could bring in a lot more creativity into his writing.

Stumbled across this page while searching for stuff on Lawrence Hilibrand of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) fame (infamy might be more appropriate)

The page lists a whole bunch of hedge fund managers… the original post is dated August 26, 2005… not sure if it has been updated after that but the info is useful.

I must have been asleep for too long… how else could I have ignored all the articles about a possible post-Olympic downturn in Asia that had come up since last year! I was completely unaware of the development till I made this post!

Here’s an article about the topic in Forbes, posted a few days after Alan Greenspan commented on the issue.