Interesting online tool to convert audio, video and other file formats

http://www.online-convert.com/

Very interesting technology that allows you to create movies from text

http://www.xtranormal.com/

Interesting concept that stretches capitalism and corporate risk hedging

http://www.deadpeasants.biz/

Interesting competitor reaction

Very interesting competitor reaction (in this case multinationals) responding to a low-cost innovator whose solution/model works from an economic standpoint only if current margins and market prices are sustained.
http://www.nextbillion.net/blog/government-sanitary-napkin-scheme-threatens-bop-innovator
Really pushes multinationals to think of economies of scale and playing the volume game with government subsidy!

Converting Plastic into Gasoline

Another VC idea waiting to be commercialized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8&feature=player_embedded

Driving the need for accountability and new standards in Marketing...check out www.theMASB.org

Volvo – The Safest Car in the World*
* New US government report shows that fewer people die in a Volvo than in any other car brand in America
Look at the chain of events:
1. You have to buy the car (do people buy less volvos than other cars?– prob yes)
2. You have to drive it (do people who buy volvos drive less and hence have less frequent accidents —- need assessment)
3. You have to crash it (do people who drive volvos crash less?)
4. You have to go to the hospital/be treated and then die (do areas in the US where people drive/crash volvos have better trauma treatment? Do people die less frequently after crashes in volvos?)
5. Do these number translate to worldwide numbers?
All the above have to to be established prior to determining the validity of the statement

Will archaeology turn anthropology on its head?

Some very valid questions on the evolution of distinct races on earth
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHfEwIYxwaI

Can Science and Philosophy provide a unified understanding to the history of mankind?

Is Zecharia Sitchin right or wrong? Are we really aliens on Earth

Either way its a good story line that makes a good Hollywood movie and deserves further investigation

A compelling argument makes us wonder if we are aliens on this blue planet we call earth? Maybe dinosaurs were the original inhabitants on planet earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp0DAwy0-xM

Here are some arguments on why Sitchin is wrong... http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/

Suspended Animation is finally within our grasp

Suspended animation is finally within our grasp (http://www.suspendedinc.com/). Makes time travel of a different kind a reality ...we should be able to exit (suspend) in 2012AD and come back to life(animate) in 2075AD

Very interesting talk by Mark Roth @ TED http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_suspended_animation.html

0% cal, 0% fat, 0% protein, 0% carbs and still 400 times sweeter than sugar

Looks like weight watchers, diabetics and humankind missed commercializing this discovery for centuries. Wonder how & why venture capitalists missed capitalizing on this for so long.

Finally Skoopz (http://www.herbalremedies.com/hisofstevdis.html) brings commercialized Stevia toWalmart shelves since its discovery in 1887 (http://www.herbalremedies.com/hisofstevdis.html)

Decent online statistics book for beginners

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/

More....Interesting Data Visualizations from Flowing Data

http://projects.flowingdata.com/

Like this animated visualization of Store Expansion @ Walmart / Sams
http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

An Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Very interesting tool to find and opt out of cookies

http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Stock picks IBM, APPLE, ATT

Think Netezza+SPSS+ManyEyes/Cognos along with IBMs capabilities in super computing and storage solutions makes me now see a lot of synergy to position IBM as a full service player in the cloud computing / future of analytics space.

Also separately I forsee a trend in the future of Television.... if the iPhone can grow big enough to be iPad and revolutionize the portable computing industry,  can it grow as big as a iTV and revolutionize television from a analog to digital industry and offer more than television programming thanks to the ton of apps.

If you subscribe to the same prophecy - think its worth investing in IBM, APPLE and ATT (and other service providers with optical fiber networks) stock for the long term. ;-)

Key Stats - Indian Economy as a Powerhouse

http://toostep.com/insight/i-am-india-watch-it-to-believe-it

Interesting chart on global markets...

Future of Parking

The future of parking is a now a reality...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x82lHVPkeF0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

When can retailers deliver groceries to my refrigerator??

Future of Data visualization

IBM has been steadily acquiring firms to be a player in the analytics space..SPSS and recently Netezza. Anyone know if IBM has a cohesive strategy around all these acquisitions? Here is what has been brewing in IBM research for quite sometime now http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations . Finally there is tool out there that visualizes data with ease and consolidates some of the widgets. What is interesting about the tool is its free to the public....for your viewing pleasure... http://vimeo.com/14777910 ...the future is here and now! Definitely enhances human experience with analytics especially dashboards!!