World Expo 2010 - Begins in Shanghai #1

World Expo 2010 - Begins in Shanghai with a Theme - Better City Better life.

Some Stat

189 countries are participating and the event is held for 184 days.

70 Million visitors expected. and 200,000 on day one.

Urban Best Practices area is one of key pavilion themes. 55 Cities across the world participating..

Things which are looking promising based on first glance.

1. Odsense, Denmark -Bicycle as a transport for city life.
2. Taipei, Taiwan - Wireless City
3. Sao Paulo, Brazil - a City with out outdoor ads!
4. Pondicherry, India - Heritage preservation a way for better city
5. Vancouver, Canada - Urban Sanctuary through wooden structures

more to come for Better City Better Life!

Top 3 Techno Biz writers

Following are my top 3 pick of Techno Biz writers.

1. Nicholas Carr (My pick in his writings: Big Switch - He talks about IT transforming to Cloud computing and also, compares with electricity evolution in a similar way)

2. Chris Anderson (Both his book Long Tail and Free are good read to understand the Internet based biz trends...)

3. Tim O'Reilly (Defined the now famous Web 2.0 and now, he is defining the Internet Operating System)

what are your views and picks?

Survey : Mobile Operating System

New Breed of Indian Global Companies

1 Shree Renuka Sugars - From Belgaum to Brazil wanted to lead the Sugar space...(Murkumbi IIM-A is called as the Lakshmi Mittal for Sugar!)

2 Bharti Enterprise - From Allahabad to Africa wanted to lead the Mobile space in the emerging economies

3 Fortis Heathcare - aspiring to be a global health care player (first of it's kind as per Malvinder!)
Watch this new breed of Indian Global Companies..