• 10:04 Oh no! One more day of that show in Mysore flooding the twitter stream. #
• 14:43 Ubuntu 9.1 rocks. Bye Bye Windows for now #
• 19:28 Picked up the third title of Steig Larson’s Millenium crime novels. A good weekend of reading beckons #
• 19:54 Billy Joel – Pianoman playing at Toto’s as I sip my rum and coke and think of what I might have been. No, I am fine the way I am. #
• 23:35 This #Gandu hashtag is awesome. Why didn’t I see or discover this earlier? me a dunce #

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• 13:02 I love hummus, bacon, want to be rich and insance. In short I am agnostic twitpic.com/ogg2s #
• 13:11 What about Tauism of Ch Devi Lal? key filter do you say Gurgaon or Gurgawan? RT @vishal_c: @anannyadeb @sumants should have been Taoism #
• 13:58 Can my new avatar pay my taxes? RT @karthiks: RT @RavikiranRao: The war-cry of the Tibetan revolution: "No taxation without reincarnation" #
• 16:23 Listening to Tchaikovsky while making banking manuals. A really good anaesthetic #
• 16:32 Songbird on shuffle mode – so from Tchaikovsy we move to Vivaldi #

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• 15:26 Why do I get this feeling that productivity in offices today is very low. Am sure #tedindia is a mere coincidence. #
• 22:47 While the match had its moments, somehow I was never too sure that India would win. There was that lurking fear throughout. #

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• 11:26 anybody trying out Twitter Lists? #
• 11:32 Adding people onto lists is quite painful even for my modest list of followers #
• 22:52 Twitter lists do not have an RSS feed. I can’t add to my GReader list. I have to open different tabs for each list. Not so friendly #
• 09:42 RT @rameshsrivats: Australian injuries – 2 knees, 2 hamstrings, 1 elbow, 1 side, 2 fingers 1 back. They are nearly 1 complete player short. #

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• 14:20 Ranadeb Bose starts the Ranji season with a big spell taking 4 wickets. Kartik Bose will be proud and smiling about it. #
• 18:03 5 wkt haul for Ranadeb Bose, tagged right fast medium by Cricinfo. As #KartikBose said many years ago, "jore bowling koro". So he did. #
• 18:04 More relevant and significant news, Zaheer Khan bowls for Mumbai, 14 overs picking up 3 wickets. #

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• 10:00 RT @i_become: Taking on from @ecophilo on MBA specialisation, I-blog suggests that "what interests you" is critical bit.ly/TW13z #
• 10:24 My fav writer alltime RT @nilanjanaroy: "Ppl who hv hd v unhappy childhoods r v good at inventing themselves," Le Carre bit.ly/EK0GN #
• 10:28 exploring the science and technology of collaboration icio.us/kf3mxy #
• 16:49 Bhutan has the highest growth in GDP. All achieved in the pursuit of Gross National Happiness. They are happy bit.ly/3pa5GF #
• 20:44 This is a very different Ponting. Confident, proactive, in the face and shall we say dangerous. Indecision, biting nails, etc all gone. #
• 21:15 Though asking rate is just abt 5+ po, it looks as if Aus are winning. Batting is completely under wraps by tight bowling and fielding. #

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• 18:23 If they were alive, they would look like this icio.us/ouzfhg #
• 20:19 Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.1 – the download meter says "about 5 hours". #
• 20:25 Give migrant workers sex toys is solution suggested by a Chinese official. Will help them tackle loneliness bit.ly/4bG2z4 #
• 22:48 Um, isn’t that what terrorists do anyway? – Terrorists want to sabotage peace process: Pak bit.ly/YjN7V #

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• 10:35 RT @i_become: Using Career Blogs – a useful post for professionals to showcase themselves : from the i-blog bit.ly/1M5QDE #
• 10:53 RT @s4sukhdeep: How can I? I am SIKH @nriazuddin: Lets also not forget that today is 25th Anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s Martyrdom #
• 11:15 Communities of mobile phone users – people with a voice to express. Even if they don’t have a PC, TV or know English wp.me/phdLM-9f #

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Tomi T Ahonen, author of “Communities Dominate Brands” writes in this blog post:

To put it in context, there are 480 million newspapers printed daily; 800 million automobiles registered on the planet; 1.1 billion personal computers including all desktops, laptops, notebooks and netbooks; 1.2 billion fixed landine phones; 1.4 billion internet users; 1.5 billion TV sets; 1.7 billion unique holders of a credit card of any type; and 2.1 billion unique holders of a banking account of any kind. But 4 billion mobile phone subscriptions.

That is at one level astounding but then there is visual confirmation that this is true. Even in India, without checking the numbers, there must be more mobile phone users than TV households, newspaper readers, computer users, internet subscribers, etc.

Tomi says that the first 4 billion were the classic “early adopters”. But the next 4 billion will be different. To quote

So here is the big news. The next 4 Billion will not be like you and me. They will not be wealthy enough to own a PC and have a broadband connection and read blogs or do any Twittering on a PC. Over 95% of the next 4 billion will be in the Developing World, and while there will be of course an emerging middle class who may aspire to own a netbook, those tend to be wealthy enough to already have a subscription today. Those next four billion will be either those who do not have any connection today, at all, or else are second and third subscriptions to those who already have one today. Either way, the behavior of those new subscribers is distinctly different from what the mobile industry has grown accustomed to in the past decades.

Countries in Asia and Africa led by India and China will soon dominate the cellular waves. They will decide the services, the prices, the content, the usage – in short, they will define the market. This is a the new community of consumers, of citizens who have the means to give voice to their lives.

We saw mobile phones in use during all the recent elections in India.

If one looks at some of the advertisements of the mobile phone companies like Airtel and Tata DoCoMo on Indian television, already there is this clear highlighting of their mobile subscriber base.  Airtel has SRK talking about “Akele kuch bhi nahin…” and then the plug about 110 million people. DoCoMo has this “Friendship Express” theme.

One needs to watch this carefully.

• 14:06 I have been off twitter for so long that my first message is a self-question "What am I doing"? Answer: Writing a twitter status message #
• 14:08 It’s the Big Finger for David Shepherd. He ain’t no more. bit.ly/3oZARO #
• 18:55 The Guardian calls it the "birth of tourism". Classic photographs from the 19th Century that sparked excitement bit.ly/4zLpG #
• 20:23 RT @GuyKawasaki: How to get your career blog noticed om.ly/WGAg #

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