Alley insider published its list of what it thinks are some of the most happening companies in the Valley. Techcrunch covered it here.

Though the SAI admits that it is just mojo currency, it does make some for some fun conversation like Eric suggested on his TC article.

The WSJ did a great piece on Suzlon, the leading producer of Wind Energy in India, and its parvenu founder Tulsi.

The article here.

Michael Parekh, who happens to be from the hometown of Tulsi covered it here. The whole story of its birth sounds rather interesting from a ‘Find a need, fill a need’ perspective.

Thanks to Suzlon, India is now the 4th largest producer of Wind Power in the world even though it started only fairly recently. Our polity deserves some praise for its pro-wind policies as well. However, as is mostly the case, we have still got some distance as mentioned on this potential production stats page here.

Take the case of Andhra Pradesh - we produced 121 MW of wind power in 2007 when our estimated potential is around 8275 MW.

It looks like sky is the limit for Suzlon. They are even bagging orders from China to generate power for them.

Suzlon stock anyone?

My dad and I talked and dreamt about a Shirdi Sai Baba Devotional Album for some long time until our Sai Album finally came out in December 2007.

I was partly angry and partly frustrated that we could not do it sooner and that it took us so long to get it right. All my anger & emotions just flew out the window when I heard the song ‘Dhyaname’ at our recording studios in Hyderabad though! Our dream of a Shirdi Sai Baba devotional Album is now real ! It was just an amazing feeling and I am really thankful that I have had the wonderful opportunity of working with someone as talented as my dad’s younger brother, Sri Krishna, an upcoming music composer who scored the soundtrack for Athili Sathibabu LKG. He is slated to work on a second movie with EVV, a famous Tollywood director known for his tongue-in-cheek comedies. I hope he grows to be a successful music director and makes many more such wonderful Shirdi Sai Baba devotional Albums.

We finally named our Shirdi Sai Baba Devotional Album - ‘Antha Sai’, after a lot of back and forth. The devotional album was like my own baby, and I had to get the name right! ..May be, A little neglected in terms of marketing and promotions but every bit loved and cherished. I personally appreciated the way they mixed ‘Dhyaname’ (Track #4) in this Album. Another piece of good work was the racy track was ‘Mahadeva’. Hemachandra really brought out the best of this song and sang his heart out here.

I hope we get a chance to do a few more good albums to help promote the rich talent pool of singers originating from Telugu Nadu, while we earn a good name as a music production house.

Most of you know about the release of our Sai Album that won rare reviews all over the US Internet and is now gearing towards an even bigger release in India !

I am both proud and happy to be part of the team that successfully delivered such a high quality product in such a short span of time and is now receiving offers and requests to do a few more of the same.

To add to our bundle of Joy, our efforts to get ‘Antha Sai Album’ up on iTunes are also successful and now you can digitally download us at one of 14 locations across the Internet. An entire list of online stores where our product is available may be found at:

http://www.shabdalayam.com/sai.

We have provided direct links to all these online stores on our website to make it easier for you to get our Album in the format and store of your choice and convenience.

Thanks to all the crew, Music director SriKrishna and most of all, our coveted audience for appreciating our work. Thanks for giving it such a good review !

To all our Telugu and Kannada readers, Happy Ugadi/Yugadi today !

We hope and pray that this year brings for both You & us more knowledge, wealth and resources to share with and care for our loved ones (in our case, it is you again!).

Once more, at WoW, We hope to make this an entertaining and informative Year for you through this portal.

–Uday & Archana Jarajapu

Here is a funny video displayed at CES 2008 celebrating Bill Gates’ last day at work and his work aftermath.

I must say it would be really interesting to see how the likes of Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs or, to stretch a little further, the Google boys - Larry and Sergin would follow that up

Zachary Scheidt of the China Stock Blog wrote an interesting article on how evaluating virtual currencies with respect to real ones creates a few interesting problems to solve.

He takes the example of GA, a buzzing new Virtual world teeming with Chinese gamers, to make his point on whether evaluating virtual currencies is as simple as it looks.

I like what he says here ..

what happens when the currency is virtual, such as in a role playing game with “virtual” goods and services and no physical “real world” transactions taking place. Do the laws of supply and demand still apply?

I believe they still do - only as long as there is value in “saving” the virtual currency in its indigenous shape, however. In other words, if there is a bank out there that pays people interest, no matter how small, for saving their virtual dollars (yemen or sprutzi or bucks or whatever u want to call it), I think there will be a residual value associated with the currency.

The bank may, in turn, double as a marketplace for gamers to trade virtual goods and virtual currencies from one game to another for a ’small’ transaction fee. This will make it a viable revenue model for the bank to sustain on. Also, it can offer ‘virtual loans’ to gamers to be repaid over a fixed time span (real ofcourse ).

The Aha moment arrives, ofcourse, when a gamer walks to the closest food court of grocery store and swipes his thumb to pay for his food from his virtual bank account. Now, THAT would turn more than a few eyeballs.