Archive for July, 2008



Good Morning Bay Area!

Today’s the first official day of our iLead trip to the Bay Area. We’ve woken up to a rather cloudy morning but we trust the summer sky that the day will be filled with sunshine and not rain :). We’ll be at the Stanford Oval at the top of Palm Drive in about an hour’s [...]

UC Berkeley

The University of California at Berkeley is the oldest of the ten UC affiliated campuses. The University was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College.
Among famous and distinguished alumni of UC Berkeley include:
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer
Gordon Moore, co-founder of [...]

Reddit - The company with one of the cutest icons

Reddit is a social news website whereby users can post links to content that is located on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the Reddit home page.
Reddit was founded by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, graduates from the University [...]

Tesla Motors Unveils New Showroom and we’re Going There!

Hey everyone,
ILead delegates are in town and we’re really excited about how Tesla had a launch party for their new showroom just on the day we landed!

Check out Techcrunch.com for more info about this new shiny show room!
We JUST can’t wait to check out the Tesla Roadster!
But tomorrow morning. It’s Stanford first!

We’re in the Bay Area!

Hi everyone! The iLead contingent is in the Bay Area!!! We just touched down a couple of hours ago. The weather’s really nice out here. It’s a cloudless day and it feels very “summer”, as if everyone’s out of town. That’s good! Less traffic jams.

Stanford - The Crucible of Entrepreneurship

Stanford University is located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto. It’s emblem is a tree, unoficially known as the “Stanford Tree”.
Stanford was founded by the Governor of California Lelend Stanford and his wife. It is named in honor of their only child Leland Stanford, Jr., who [...]

electronic? ecommerce? emarketing? what does the e in eBay stand for?

eBay Inc.
eBay was born over Labor Day weekend in 1995, when Pierre Omidyar, a computer programmer, wrote the code for an auction website that he ran from his home computer. Today, his website has evolved to become eBay, the largest online marketplace in the world.
eBay provides an open trading platform where the market determines the [...]

Take a step forward from Social Networking - its GEO-Social Networking time!

Ever wanted to locate your friends and loved ones with pin-point accuracy and see what they are doing right now, just like how M tracks down James Bond in the movies? Well, at least, half of this fantasy could come true. While obtaining a live satellite infrared video feed is still way beyond reach for [...]