Lesson #1: Be careful to ask what you want. You may get it.

What this means is that do not ask too little either of yourself or the others around you. What you ask is what you get. When I look back at the time when I joined Wipro, I was 21.

If you ask me whether I thought that Wipro would grow so by someday, the honest answer is that I did not. But neither did I think it would not. We constantly stretched ourselves to higher and higher targets. Sometimes, it seemed possible, sometimes fanciful and sometimes plain sane. But we never stopped raising limits. And we got a lot more than what we bargained for.

— Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro

I was at the Lowes @ Boston Commons last night (to see Namesake).

Random story:

Deval Patrick (Governor of Massachusetts) walked in about 10 minutes before the movie was about to start, with his usual security entourage. The theater was pretty full by then.

Deval and his wife Diane managed to get two seats in the second row, extreme left. Probably the two worst seats in the theatre. So much so for being the Governor! There was an annoying photographer with them, who took a picture about every 8 seconds of the couple for about 10 minutes straight. She left as soon as the movie started. Phew!

ps. Namesake = great great movie
pss. Sorry for the terrible pic. That is the best my T-Mobile Dash can do without a flash!

Yes, Technorati is still very much the most visited blog search engine.

Earlier this week Technorati self reported Q1 numbers – they grew page views by 150% and unique visitors 141%. The bigger question however — how does this growth compare to the #2 player in this space – Google Blog Search?

As you can see, according to Compete data, Technorati grew monthly unique visitors 91% and pageviews 138% in Q1. During the same time period, Google grew unique visitors by only 39% and pageviews by 47%. In both absolute and relative terms, Technorati is dominating Google.

In terms of where we our Attention is going, it’s the same story, Technorati is growing at a significantly faster rate compared to Google.

Bottom-line:

Lets be honest, Technorati is a valuable property. Technorati was one of the original blog fire starters and has successfully established itself as the largest and most authoritative public blog search service. It’s not so much a question of whether Technorati can compete against Google, but whether Google can compete against Technorati. For instance, we have seen a number of recent enhancements at Technorati, including a noticeable improvement in reliability, but we can’t remember the last new Google feature.

Perhaps Google should pull another YouTube, and buy Technorati before someone else does. Just a thought.

My niece ~

Compete.com Attention Metric (Sneak Peak)

(via dcancel’s Photos)

Compete.com Velocity Metric (Sneak Peak)

(via dcancel’s Photos)