Doing good for humanity

After ending his role at Microsoft in summer of 2008, Bill Gates will continue as world’s most powerful philanthropist. Time magazine writes this:

Gates isn’t just focused on specific diseases and educational deficits. To him, that’s thinking small. Like the high school password stealer he once was, the cocky Harvard kid, Gates wants to rewrite the rules of the whole system. He’s all for capitalism — it has treated him well — but he gets that it’s not going to take care of everybody. The financial incentives to take care of the disadvantaged just aren’t there. So capitalism itself needs to be re-engineered. In his Harvard speech he introduces an idea he calls creative capitalism.

Read full article Bill Gates goes back to school and wish him best of luck, he is likely to need it.

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Web 2.0 directory

So where can you find all the Web 2.0 websites? Unless your daily read includes sites like TechCrunch, VentureBeat, 9rules, you may find it cumbersome to find the exciting new web services.

Solution is a Web 2.0 directory. The following two are pretty good:

  • Web2.0list – typical directory with explanations
  • Go2Web20 – offers a catalog like view

Be forewarned, browsing through these could be a big time consumer.

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Web trends by Hitwise

Hitwise tracks web trends for online marketing use, it is a great resource for web advertisers. Here are some interesting trends for this month:

Interesting if you are curious, and useful if you advertise online.

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