Google has 1,800 open positions, or 27% of its current headcount (vs. 800, or 23% last year); and nearly 51% are for overseas operations. The focus is still on R&D with int’l 45% of int’l openings are in engineering, ops and R&D. Interesting.... more »

"There’s no reason for the video to be fake. The world record is under 12 seconds. With some training and practice, just about anyone can beat a minute.".. more »

really good... a tv18 venture.... .. more »

Finally, it is official. Google is buying YouTube. Does this mean Google Video was a failure? Anyway, now Google becomes the no. 1 player in the user generated video front & can concentrate on its video advertisement to monetize this untapped market. .. more »

A strange post on the official Google Blog over the weekend resulted in a startling admission by Google that their blog had been hacked: .. more »

High crude prices may be fattening profits at oil companies around the world, but in India state-controlled refiners and retailers are losing money hand over fist. In the fiscal year that ended in March 2006, those companies lost a combined $8.6 billion. And Merrill Lynch (Charts) estimates they will lose another $12 billion to $20 billion this .. more »

Theist and materialist ponder the place of humanity in the universe. .. more »

Online fanclub for the Malayalam movie actress Meera Jasmine. Complete with news, wallpapers and photogallery. .. more »

MalluForum is malayalis own family forum. Online community portal for malayalees. Discuss about malayalam movies, music, sports, news, current affairs and politics. .. more »

More about Surya Namaskara and how to perform Surya Namaskara with illustrations using images. "There are twelve positions in Surya Namaskara. Twenty-five such Namaskaras form one Avriti (frequency). Surya Namaskara must be performed preferably in an open and airy place. Perform Surya Namaskara slowly without exerting too much or panting and .. more »

Information about C. Radhakrishnan, Malayalam (South Indian, Kerala) novelist, author. Some of his famous novels include 'Munpe parakkuna pakshikal' and 'karal pilarum kalam' First time I am finding a malayalam novelist online!! .. more »

MapReduce is a programming tool developed by Google, in which parallel computations over large (> 1 terabyte) data sets are performed. The terminology of "Map" and "Reduce", and their general idea, is borrowed from functional programming languages use of the constructs map and reduce in functional programming and features of array programming .. more »

Interesting quiz. I scored 6/10. Try that out.... more »

How much U.S. currency (cold cash) is in circulation around the world? Who decides how much to print? With the government continually borrowing money, shouldn't lenders be broke by now? Where do they get the money to keep lending out, especially when they know that none of it will ever be paid back?.. more »

In the world of Time Management there are things said to us that we accept as truth and we act accordingly. The problem is sometimes they are not truths. They are lies and as we believe them, they waste our time... more »