Google API Explorer

First of all the UI for this page is neat, that I can select the service first, then the Version, and then the API/Method.

This page contains the list of Google APIs exposed along with the versions. The more cool part is to execute them and see the responses in the same page!

I suppose the list of Service will expand to many Google products.

It would be excellent to have the code.google.com APIs as well listed as here...

in reference to: Google APIs Explorer (view on Google Sidewiki)

Movement of employees in this Financial crunch

Interesting Analysis...

This graph shows where the employees of banks or financial institutions landed when they went bankrupt or acquired.

Should I check the same for Vendio ;)

PS: I wonder is the graph created in this blog is manual (using paint etc) or is this a tool... The waves look cool...

Cheers

in reference to: The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive Where did all the people go from the collapsed financial institutions? « (view on Google Sidewiki)

Google Buzz

Cool... alternative for Twitter or partial Facebook...

Lets see whether it takes over twitter!

I have already enabled it in my GMail.. However not showing up immd :|

in reference to: Gmail Goes Social With Google Buzz - PCWorld (view on Google Sidewiki)

Enable SSH in Windows XP

I desperately wanted to get SSH enabled in Win XP. Searched a while and tried the settings suggested in few pages. But finally the settings suggested in this page worked.

Most of the other sites talked about using a Client in Windows to SSH to a remote machine; and the remote machine is obviously a Unix or Linux flavor.

in reference to: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v17r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.tivoli.tpm.sec.doc_5.1.0.2/security/tsec_sshxppro.html (view on Google Sidewiki)

Excellence

Excellence

My all-time favorite quote is from Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Sometimes, however, to reach new heights we need new habits.

As one of the world’s greatest golfers, Tiger Woods underwent an extensive swing change when he was already ranked number one in the sport. While Tiger struggled through the process, he would emerge as the greatest that ever played. Tiger would go on to a record-setting season, where he would win three consecutive majors, nine PGA Tour events, and set or tie 27 Tour records - and that was just the beginning. Tiger’s decision to modify his swing, at the top of his game, enabled him to be outstanding.

Google Gadgets

Its been a very very very long time, that we dint use or notice this site itself...

I was going thro the new concept in the Internet, which Google is leading, called OpenSocial. But before learning that Knowledge on Google Gadgets is a must... Soooo thought of digging it!!

Something is happening out there-PC.The Fin Min's speech at the ET Corporate Awards

Something is happening out there which I believe none of us here quite comprehends. I see shops open after 9 p.m. in tier III cities. I see traffic jams when I land in Delhi airport after 10 o’clock at night. I see people taking out their families on short rides on a Sunday despite the prices of diesel and petrol.

I see India Inc take out, in the last two years, $10 billion to acquire companies abroad. Something is happening out there which we don’t quite comprehend.

I see tax revenues rising at over 40-50% this year. I see tax behaviour has changed. I see small companies, which were perhaps indulging in small tax evasion, complying with tax laws. I see the number of returns grow by an unprecedented percentage this year. What is happening there is the result of investment that is taking place.

According to figures with me, at the end of July 2006, 3,058 projects were under implementation and the investment in these projects was Rs 9,20,859 crore. These represent only a third of the projects announced by the industry.

If the remaining two-thirds of the projects were to be implemented, it will need an investment of another Rs 20 lakh crore. Fresh investment proposals till the end of July were around Rs 80,000 crore.

Obviously, industry and the services sector are leading the charge and pouring investments in India, the results of which will be visible in the next two to three years. If we were able to deliver over 8% growth over the last 30 months, I am confident that with your support we can deliver a higher growth rate in the next 30 months.

However, it is important that we raise the bar. There are three areas where we need to raise the bar. The first is agriculture. Rice production has stagnated at 85-90 million tonnes a year, wheat at 70 million tonnes a year, pulses at 13-14 million tonnes a year.

The per capita GDP is growing at 6.5-7% a year. People’s food habits have changed. Obviously something has to be done. We need to find new ways of enhancing the growth rate in agriculture: technological breakthroughs, new seeds, contract farming, massive investments in drip and sprinkler irrigation, diversification and a whole lot of things which are required to push up the production of foodgrains and other products associated with agriculture.

I urge India Inc not to be preoccupied with manufacturing and services and to enter in a big way in agriculture — without disturbing the sacred relationship between the tiller and the land.

The second is the energy sector reforms. Crude production has stagnated at 32-33 million tonnes; crude imports have risen from 40 million tonnes eight years ago to 100 million tonnes last year. The consumption of petroleum has gone up in the same period from 94 to 112 million tonnes.

Coal production has stagnated at about 470 million tonnes. While we produce electricity, (we need to produce more), there are difficulties in pricing and distribution. It’s elementary that the economy cannot grow at 8% or more if electricity, coal and crude are growing by rates much lower than 8%.

Obviously growth rate will taper off unless we address these issues. We need to raise the bar in energy sector; we need new and innovative ways to raise crude production, to raise coal production and to solve problems of pricing and distribution of electricity.

Third, and most important, we need to raise the bar on financial sector reforms. In the last few days, we have had extensive discussions and the PM has put his weight behind financial sector reforms. He has emphasised the urgent need to bring about major reforms in pension, insurance and banking.

The McKinsey Quarterly has reported that if we can push through financial sector reforms the growth rate will not be at 8% but close to 9.4%. Look at the opportunities we are missing, look at growth that we are denying to our people, look at the incomes we are denying to people and the wealth we are denying to ourselves.

It is of utmost importance that the financial sector reforms are completed in this fiscal. We need to raise the bar on financial sector reforms too.

These are the best of times and worst of times. It is a good time to look back, pat ourselves and say we delivered 8.05% growth in last 30 months. Yet, what we need is not less reforms but more reforms. We need more reforms to sustain growth by 8-10% for at least two decades to provide a durable solution to problems of poverty, unemployment, poor health and education to the entire population.

Our neighbours in east Asia have done it in the 1970s and ’80s, now it is our turn. What is required is a resolute pressing ahead of reforms. We will, of course, balance equity and growth. I do not know of any country that has achieved equity and empowerment of people without sustaining growth over a medium term. If we achieve growth, I am confident that a democratic system will ensure equity.