Valley Chai

today’s Times of India (very much like San Jose Mercury News in content and coverage) front page carried a very interesting article about how the reserve bank of india will issue guidelines for payments through a mobile phones. since their e-paper is so pathetic, i have copied and pasted the article below (sorry TOI).
New Delhi: […]

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observing at close quarters, some things are outright amazing about salary packages in india. hopefully other r2i brotheren could get some clues.

IT jobs pay 2x or 3x when compared to non-it companies., regardless of whether the job is a technical job or not.
mid-level managers make at par with the lower-quartile of their pay scales in […]

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gotta love these vid’s.
checkout a bit of glengarry glen ross, and get a glimpse the the sales culture.

from boiler room “A sale is Made on Every Call”

and this, the classic. “Greed is Good”

and a bit of pool hall philosophy on winning and losing between fast eddie and bert gordon after getting beat by minnesota fats […]

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you bet your big pepper, you would from the Poetic Prophet (AKA SEO Rapper).
check out all the gyan you ever wanted in web site design - nicely packaged into an awesome rap. for those that are accent or ebonics challenged, i’ll probably transcribe it one of these days, but for now, check this out for […]

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need a wish to be quickly delivered to your favorite god? ran into this service (haven’t tried it myself). check out this wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcode#India.
In India there are quite a few service providers who provide the Short Code facilities popular amonst them are 58888 (Indiatimes), 56006, 56388 and 59994 which has started a service to […]

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