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What Comes to Your Mind When You Hear ‘Social Service’?

Many months ago, I got an opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on ‘Creating Social Awareness among students’. The participants were teachers from various schools in Trivandrum city. Except for one, all teachers were vociferous about how they create social awareness among their students. I guess the silent teacher was a victim of an unplanned … Read full story »

Organization Model in Indian IT Service Companies

Guest post by Indu
I currently work for a large Indian IT services company which follows a ‘role based organization model‘ for human resource management. The term now used in the industry is ‘talent management‘ since that sounds more executive.
I was happy to participate in a recent HR (Human Resources) Department survey on the topic.  I … Read full story »

Google Talk Client versus Gmail Chat Web Interface

Guest post by Abhishek Mandloi, gtricks.com
It has been three years since Google Talk beta was released. And even now it still in beta, as usual! If you are wondering what Google Talk team was doing all this time, check out Google Talk Labs Edition. The Lab Edition of Google Talk has features like emoticons and … Read full story »

Bling Bottled Water

Guest post by Peter Pawan EJ from Kochi, Kerala.
How much would you pay for water? No, I am not talking about a hypothetical situation where you are stuck in the Nevada desert dehydrated and wasted when you happen to encounter someone offering you a bottle of water that could save your life for a … Read full story »

Log in, Log in, Log in… ahh! Only 10 More to Go!

Guest post by Peter Pawan EJ from Kochi, Kerala.
How much time do spend every time you get online, just to sign in to all the web services that you use? Back in the days of yore when I was so bankrupt (and stupid) to connect my system to the internet through a GPRS connection via … Read full story »

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