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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal would have you believe there is a credit crisis brewing in Indian microfinance — that microfinance institutions are indiscriminately over-lending as they seek to maximize profits. But the article’s assertion was based on a small sample of data that’s not representative of the larger industry. An overload of debt among a few individuals, in one slum, in one city, in one state of India hardly constitutes a bubble. It also misrepresents the nature of microfinance in India today.

Here are just a few of the facts:

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InfoClipz: Cloud computing | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:50:35 +0200

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Schatz am Zürisee - Familie Trüeb Live Open Air St. Gallen 1994

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:49:06 +0200

Ech Han En Schatz Am Sch Ne Z by Familie Trüeb (4255 KB)
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passt doch gerade zum #twitterbier #zurisee…tja, einige der männlichen Stimmen lagen zwar öfter mal etwas schief, aber es hat Spass gemacht….

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Calculating the real costs of cloud computing | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:49:06 +0200

The challenge is how to understand your own requirements and match those up with a cloud computing provider, if indeed using cloud is the right answer. You need to test at many levels — including application development, deployment, database, and operational — before signing on the dotted line. At the end of the day, the cost per hour is only part of the cloud computing cost equation you need to solve.

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[Go 90s!] Things That Make You Go Hm... - C+C Music Factory (ukulele and bass cover)

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:38:57 +0200

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Vergangener Blick in die Zukunft | Dravens Tales from the Crypt

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:11:35 +0200

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Michael Jackson mit 40, von 1985 aus gesehen

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Wenn Unternehmen twittern | TRENDOPFER

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:38:36 +0200

Re: Re: Re:Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FW: Re: FW: Re: Re: Tweet#1

Montag 13:00 Uhr

CC: K., M.

Hallo H., es interessiert hier nicht, was im Internet „normal“ oder „nicht normal“ ist. Wenn eure Abteilung über twitter Nachrichten verbreitet, dann macht sie das im Namen unseres Unternehmens. Das beinhaltet aber auch die korrekte Schreibweise. Bitte haltet euch an die von Herrn M. und K. freigegebene Version (siehe Mail von Montag, 10:05 Uhr).

Im Übrigen wäre es zu begrüßen, wenn ihr einen Kommunikationsplan für die tweets der kommenden 14 Tage erstellen könntet. Dann haben wir mehr Planungssicherheit.

Viele Grüße F.

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Bits or pieces?: Cloud Computing ... Deja Vu

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:01:28 +0200

A number of importance considerations tend to improve the cost/effectiveness picture.

Reduced solution time for engineering and scientific problems.

A capability for an organisation to provide faster service to its customers.

Reduce user capital equipment and facility investments.

Better utilization of computer resources

Extract from Douglas Parkhill, The challenge of the computer utility, 1966.

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1966 Book about Utility Computing

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:59:12 +0200

In his 1966 book The Challenge of the Computer Utility, the Canadian electrical engineer Douglas F. Parkhill predicted that the computer industry would come to resemble a public utility “in which many remotely located users are connected via communication links to a central computing facility.”

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sometimes it takes some time

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Les Paul & Mary Ford Live Part 1 Of 3

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:36:58 +0200

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Go cloud, young man

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:51:17 +0200

We’re just at the beginning of a white-collar shake-out that is going to transform professions and will ultimately reshape our cities as office-based work becomes more mobile and dispersed. It’s going to be a scary, disruptive transformation — more on that below — but resistance is futile.

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