Mahmood Rattansi

Dubai, UAE

Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005

Mahmood Rattansi at 12:31 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2006

Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005

The Best Of 2005

Mahmood Rattansi at 12:26 pm on Sunday, January 8, 2006

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/05_51/B39640551best.htm

Best Leaders
In corner offices, design shops, ad agencies — these executives were ahead of the pack

Best Ideas
A clutch of concepts — from the whimsical to the life-altering — that came to the fore and could shape the future

Best Products
Golf balls that don’t go missing, a computer pooch you needn’t pick up after, whole-grain white bread: 2005 brought a flurry of innovative surprises

SELF-ANNIHILATING SENTENCES

Mahmood Rattansi at 5:18 pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Saul Gorn’s Compendium of Rarely Used Cliches…an excellent read

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/sgml/gorn-article.html

How to make wealth

Mahmood Rattansi at 12:38 pm on Monday, January 2, 2006

Long but interesting article from Paul Graham…well worth reading:
 
If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That’s been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word “startup” dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very similar to the venture-backed trading voyages of the Middle Ages.
 

 

100 things we didn’t know this time last year

Mahmood Rattansi at 10:40 am on Monday, January 2, 2006

Each week the Magazine picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week. Here’s an end of year
almanac.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm