I always thought that most members of Long Tail really want to be part of the Head and will take any opportunity to move to the Head. A news story in NYT today shows this happening at YouTube. The most popular YouTubers, who have generated millions of visits and tens of thousands of subscribers, say they [...]
A recent study found that most (77%) MBA graduates are unemplyable. This study gives similar results to what Naryana Murthy said about engineers and what Kiran Karnik stated about Computer Science graduates. Premier skills-testing agency MeritTrac has just concluded, after testing 790 B-school graduates in six cities on seven key parameters, that 77 per [...]
Is it possible to select next mega star company? Well Business 2.0 has given a list of 25 such companies that you can see HERE on CNN site. It is interesting to see how people project current trends to find next mega star, and usually the mega star emerges from an area that is not [...]
NYT has a story that talks about detecting even degraded quality of video and audio in the clips posted illegally at different sites on the web. The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips. The technology could address what the entertainment [...]
Many people feel that with new media making video and telepresence easy, people will move away from face-to-face meetings. As demonstrated by the meeting of YouTube bloggers (see report from News.com here) that does not seem to be the case: The good news for those who fear that technology is eroding personal interaction is that [...]