But, this post is about how facebook wants to show twitter some love. I have no problem with companies getting inspired but this is for those MSFT haters that picked up any every little thing that they did that appeared like APPL or Netscape was capable of doing. how does this sound .. ‘everybody is doing it .. why can’t i’ . How do big companies- yeah i am calling FB big relative to twitter – make it harder for new innovators a) make things free – using OPM (other ppls money) b) make technology closed (itunes – palm pre for example) wasnt msft abused/accused for doing this? c) copy their technology – make it your feature.

Short lived are the innovations when success finds them and threatens someone else’s turf.

here are some screen shots : Source

how about this there are already communities as per the author of the original article that has a hate group in facebook for this.

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This first one is a narrative on life of a developer dilbertish! – Hug a developer today

This next one is rather long for the content but funny to see what MSFT has on their mind when it comes who powers the company.

have fun!

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Tr.im. After a number of attempts to sell the service, no companies in the Twitter space stepped forward to purchase and operate it in its existing form. Says the company, “There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening — users won’t pay for it — and we just can’t justify further development since Twitter has all but annointed bit.ly the market winner.”

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Every time I ask a room of executives to list the top five moments their career took a leap forward — not just a step, but a leap — failure is always on the list. For some it was the loss of a job. For others it was a project gone bad. And for others still it was the failure of a larger system, like an economic downturn, that required them to step up.

Yet most of us spend a tremendous effort trying to avoid even the possibility of failure.

If you believe that your talents are inborn or fixed, then you will try to avoid failure at all costs because failure is proof of your limitation. People with a fixed mindset like to solve the same problems over and over again. It reinforces their sense of competence.

Children with fixed mindsets would rather redo an easy jigsaw puzzle than try a harder one. Students with fixed mindsets would rather not learn new languages. CEOs with fixed mindsets will surround themselves with people who agree with them. They feel smart when they get it right.

But if you believe your talent grows with persistence and effort, then you seek failure as an opportunity to improve. People with a growth mindset feel smart when they’re learning, not when they’re flawless.

If you have a growth mindset, then you use your failures to improve. If you have a fixed mindset, you may never fail, but neither do you learn or grow.

A growth mindset is the secret to maximizing potential.

Want to increase your own performance? Set high goals where you have a 50-70% chance of success. According to Psychologist and Harvard researcher the late David McClelland, that’s the sweet spot for high achievers. Then, when you fail half the time, figure out what you should do differently and try again. That’s practice. And according to recent studies, 10,000 hours of that kind of practice will make you an expert in anything. No matter where you start.

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A team of Neurosurgeons led by Dr NK Venkataramana, chief neurosurgeon and vice-chairman, BGS Global Hospitals, carried out the complex surgery on Madhu Mallika who sustained the severe brain injury in an accident last year.

“The patient was suffering from altered sensorium, severe cognitive dysfunction and lack of movement in limbs. Following the surgery, she has now regained full consciousness, memory, communication abilities and purposive movements in limbs,” Venkataramana told reporters here.

The patient was admitted in an unconscious state with severe injury and on first examination doctors gave her only 20 percent chances for survival, he claimed.

“It was perplexing that the woman did not show any improvement despite all available treatment in the last one year and ultimately the possibility of stemcell therapy was considered after discussions with her family and it proved successful,” the chief neurosurgeon said.

“This is an eye opener that there is a possibility of reactivating brain cells following injury with very gratifying clinical results. To our knowledge such attempts were made only in China. This is the first attempt in the country and India is the second country in the world to use such therapy,” he said.

Bureau Report

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“why did those losses happen?”

The problem for GM was that when the sales slowed down, they had trouble cutting costs because most of their costs were fixed.

In other words, a lot of their costs did not go down as their sales went down. In most manufacturing companies, when sales go down, some of the bigger costs go down as well (if you aren’t selling as much of your product, then you cut back on manufacturing through layoffs, through reductions in material purchases, and so on). GM has tremendous fixed costs related to their union contract. Closing a plant, for example, did not necessarily mean the workers lost their jobs. Company pensions and legacy health care costs were fixed as well. So when sales went down, many costs stayed fairly constant. And that led to losses.

As the losses mounted and the economy struggled, these losses became so significant that GM could not survive as a viable business. In spite of billions of dollars of government support, the only solution for GM is to declare bankruptcy and try to lower those fixed costs through a court process.

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