Cuil - Google killer

You have $33 million in investment
You have former top google employees
You have a great marketing publicity blitz...
What do you get...?

You get "cuil.com" A search engine touted as the google killer.


What you don't get is ..

Localized search results
Image search results
No advertisement..
A stable production site..

So how exactly will this compete with Google ?

The web has grown, so must search. But you don't fix something that ain't broken, not by investing 33 mills. Whether is a lesson learnt the hard way or just starting troubles for a great idea. Time will tell....

The Last Lecture

I know most of you have heard, listened, read, viewed about the "Last lecture, Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, learned a few months ago that the cards he was dealt with included an uncureable pancreatic cancer with a survival time frame of 6months.

Randy's presentation, a lot about "Achieving your childhood Dreams", Its inspiring and one of the best videos i have ever watched.

Randy Pausch died this morning at age 47. He bought a mac ( a deathbed conversion) and blogged as often he could. Here is the link for the blog he wrote.,..

http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html


Here is the complete video of his “last lecture”:

In a time crunch...read on...

Have you ever worked in a project where you think that there is not enough time to do things and deadlines are creeping up.
This is way to solve the problem...

What happens when requirements are done in a hurry?

a) quality of the reqs suck
b) too much rework...
c) crap leaves the door
d) the users do not get what they want..

How to solve this problem ?
a) negotiate scope early on....
b) if you cannot change date, change the scope
c) produce less but produce quality
d) identify regular checkpoints
e) open up early in the project to prevent blame game..