Babu Have you ever considered aidndg more videos to your blog posts to keep the readers more entertained? I mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I'm more of a visual learner,I found that to be more helpful well let me know how it turns out! I love what you guys are always up too. Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the great works guys I've added you guys to my blogroll. This is a great article thanks for sharing this informative information.. I will visit your blog regularly for some latest post.

Miguel This is the perfect blog for annoye who wants to know about this topic. You know so much its almost hard to argue with you (not that I really would want HaHa). You definitely put a new spin on a subject thats been written about for years. Great stuff, just great!

Najwa glad to see someone witring about how great hostels were how about a profile on the independents in the USA? We are a lot more fun than HI, more unique looking and not dry!

Doug Srikrishna, Lets not flatter ovulesres. There is no such thing as a product which only our company is building. It has never been the case, and if it ever appeared so before, it was cause the world wasn't connect as much.I'll tell you a case of a product which didn't have a competitor: Gilette razors. The use and throw things that we men use on a regular basis now. It started off in the 80s and it has taken it 20 years to become mainstream. Trust me, if its something solidly lifechanging, it takes its own time to seep into the fabric of the society.

Carolyn Dear Vijay,One of your strongest posts yet! Thanks for sepntipg back and holding up a mirror for all. Will try to cover fresh ground as other commentators have covered a fair bit.[a] first agree with your core premise trawling blogs and talking to 20 something entrepreneurs and new (to India) VCs one gets the sense of instant noodles and little of Build[ing] to Last [b] HOWEVER, much of the discussion here and in other blogs at times appears to indicate that other than the Web (2.x) there is nothing happening in the Indian startup scenario to provide some contrast[b1] any semiconductor, pharma or embedded system startup needs easily 12-18 months just to get a product out the door and three years to know if they are going ot be around and that's for the good ones; Sasken, OpenSilicon, earlier Arcus, Impulsesoft, FutureSoft, Emuzed are all examples of this; as are Reddy's, TTK Health or Ranbaxy[b2] there is a slew of educational (classrooms or books) and manufacturing startups, talking to whom it will be clear that there are no instant noodles and the three/five year rule applies[b3] it has been fashionable, right from the time Al Gore invented the Internet to talk of Internet time but the basics of building team, product, marketing and supporting customers and building a brand has not gotten any faster, even if your RoR app is up in five days!My sense is that even in Proto.in or other entrepreneurial forums it is critical for us to step back and view the entrepreneurial scene in the bigger context and not solely frame it in Infosys/Wipro, Google/Microsoft or Twitter/Web2.0 sound bites.Reminds me of periodic discussions in the Valley of how shortsighted VCs are; however over 30 years any number of VCs have shown their perseverance to put in $80-100M into each semi startup to still see only 1 in 10 survive and thrive. Part of the problem I suspect is to do with youth of the audience and the boundaries we put on our discussions! Keep em coming.

Murat (Paperback) National Geographic has been my favourite magnaize publishers since childhood. I decided to buy this book based on my heavy travelling. It was quite useful and informative, however, I believe there was some misunderstanding towards the expectations of this book. I was expecting more travel-portable ideas, hence, details on; hotels, transportation, must-visit cities & locations and the nightlife. The book is more like a mini-encylopedia on close to every country, giving summaries on each country, again very informative but just lacking exciting & innovative Ideas'.

Supalak You may have not intended to do so, but I think you have mgeaand to express the state of mind that a lot of people are in. The sense of wanting to help, but not knowing how or where, is something a lot of us are going through.

Rolfi Being developed and being clfesiaisd as a first-world country means the same thing. I think you need to get some facts straight about the country. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if you support PETA. This is a roundabout argument. I've stated my point and will not waste any more time on this. Your argument is the same thing over and over again, it gets so boring.Grow up and take your childish, attention-seeking antics elsewhere.

Xiime because of their third world meatnlity and policies Y?bcs we r not advocates of free world n human rights champions like the first world US n other european countries like France UK??Let me give u a breakdown, mass weapon selling to oppressive states, encouragement of genocides, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, guantanamo bay, etc. Need I say more? Don't b double standard.at least we DUN KILL ppl here!UR obsessed wth msia n s'pore, I dun know y. saw same posting ard utube videos

Karen Do your research brofee opening your foolish mouth, you will learn there is more criteria than YOUR interpretation of being developed that must be met brofee any place is classified as first world. You will also learn there are varying definitions and indicators. It is good you will stop your senseless arguing.The barbaric police state of Singapore, and certainly Malaysia, have never gained International legitimacy nor respect because of their third world mentality and policies.

Elin Hay una gran diversidad en la polbacion del Caribe hispano, con personas de origen europeo o indigena, y un numero importante de negros y mulatos. Le presencia de varias culturas en el Caribe se refleja en la lengua, la comida, la musica y las practicas religioso-paganas de algunos miembros de su polbacion.

Fahim Well, actually I live in some isndlas near Iceland, but I visit Iceland quite often.. long story. Iceland is beautiful and interesting, but winters are quite rough sometimes :) I like cold weather though, just not like stormy and freezing at the same time. I wonder if Hawaii is too hot to visit for me ;) I wonder what the temperatures in December are? Btw, theres a total moon eclipse there on December 21, a nice reason to go see it ;)

Ayumi My friends are in YTB and have been with YTB for over 5 years and do not gain funds by sninigg people up. They have gained their proceeds by people using their engine for travel. They have signed people, but they have done most of the work and they love it. Thank you for your comment.

Carol I would also point out that the Standard Model of QED as described by moedrn gauge theories and illustrated by Feynman diagrams implies both speeds faster than C and travel backward in time. Admittedly, no experimental observations have been made of either phenomenon as far as I know: but the fact that the Standard Model agrees with observation so well is strong evidence that neither time nor C are rules that apply so rigidly at the quantum scale.