The revolution of getting up close and personal on Internet

Call it what you want. A personal media revolution, a culture of participation, Web 2.0, or just a different kind of dot com boom. The era of explosive growth in the influence of user-generated Internet content, such as blogs, video-file sharing, social networking, picture sharing, art sharing, or Wikipedia is in the spotlight. With...

Investors, who can pick the right stocks at the beginning of the year, stand to make good gains in the months ahead. But it is not just the right stocks that matter; they have to be picked at the right time. After all, Warren Buffett dropped a billion dollars in 2005 because his bet about the falling US dollar was wrongly timed. That is the pitfall we have attempted to avoid while...

Only collective and proactive consumers can change the poor service quality of electricity companies, argues Nikit Abhyankar

June 12, 2006: A public hearing on Reliance Energy’s proposal to hike electricity tariffs for Mumbai consumers is on. The proposal was made public a month earlier. Number of people objecting to the proposal: six.    

October 3, 2006: Maharashtra Electricity...