How much is $4 billion worth in 10 years?

January 29, 1999: Yahoo to Buy GeoCities for $3.9 Billion

October 26, 2009: GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today

If they had drank beer worth $3.9 Billion, imagine how much they would have got by selling the empty cans!? :)

~Sri

Bill Gates - 1986 Interview

MS was 160 people then and Bill Gates says:

"And even though there’ll be more and more machines, our present thinking is that we won’t have to increase the size of our development groups, because we’ll simply be making programs that sell in larger quantities. We can get a very large amount of software revenue and still keep the company not dramatically larger than what we have today. That means we can know everybody and talk and share tools and maintain a high level of quality."

http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/

~Sri

emails.....to read or not to read....

Of the many things i want to change in me, this is among the top of the list.

Checking emails only once or twice an hour! I have made several attempts. Going to do it again after reading this post now!

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001302.html

~Sri

Creating PDF....

http://www.cutepdf.com/

Its added as a "printer", so anything you can print, can be created as a PDF file. Works pretty well.

~Sri

Sync google docs with your desktop....

Of all the web startups you see on the net, once in a while you come across one which solves some real problem of real people! Syncplicity is one.

Since I have been using Google docs I found it hard to believe that Google does not sync it with a folder in desktop. Documents being online is great and I love gDocs for lot of its nice features, but not having a copy on the desktop is a serious handicap.

Syncplicity solves this problem. More importantly, very easily too and in a couple of clicks.

Unfortunately, it just syncs docs but not XLS yet. But I am sure/hope it will supported soon.

~Sri

Seth Godin on why marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department

From: http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/07/seth-godins-talk-from-business-of-software-2008.html

David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.