US Supreme Court ruling on File sharing

http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?ID=221
The court has ruled that file sharing services are liable for copyright infringement , would be interesting to see how the ruling affects the so called slow-down of CD/DVD sales...

Pitfalls of the Fixed Price Model

A recent post on the Dizwell Blog
directed me to the site of Pythian , where i came across this white paper on the flaws of the FP model by Steve Pickard
I could'nt agree more with the findings detailed in the paper , especially( #3 )the one on Increased Risk , it is the whole "business model" of a FP vendor captured perfectly..

Steve Jobs at Stanford

Rashmi Bansal's recent post on her blog
provided me the link Steve Job's recent speech at Stanford Univ. This is really inspiring stuff.Worth reading.

Blue Notes Radio

I hit the Blue Notes Radio using the Stumbleupon plugin of firefox and now am hooked to the station
Check it out yourself : http://www.bluenote.com/radio.asp

ETL on unstructured data

Informatica is going to bundle Itemfield technologies with their Power Center platform
http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1030259

Wonder when i will get to test-drive this stuff , support for unstructured data adds a whole new dimension to Power Center platform....