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Business2.0 is a leading magazine for the latest in Business news in the US and as well as internationally. It has come up with a list called “Who matters now?” and invites the readers to vote for them. There are 101 people in the list including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Google brothers. The list also has 3 Indians in it. Here is the information about all three of them and the link where you could vote for them.

Vinod Khosla (click here to vote)

“Venture capitalist, Khosla Ventures
Age: 52
One of the founders of Sun Microsystems, Khosla is making a name for himself in the campaign to fight global warming. He’s become a big promoter of using ethanol as a fuel substitute and is active on the legislative front too. He’s also making what, in the cutthroat world of venture capitalists, might be seen as the ultimate sacrifice: He’s donating his profits as a general partner of his VC fund to environmental and microfinance initiatives. “

Indra Nooyi (click here to vote)

“CEO, PepsiCo (PEP)
Age: 51
When PepsiCo tapped Nooyi as CEO last year, the $35 billion snack and beverage giant became the biggest U.S. company run by a woman — and a foreign-born one at that. Nooyi, a 13-year Pepsi veteran and its former CFO, helped forge the $14 billion acquisition of Quaker Oats and its Gatorade unit in 2001 and positioned Pepsi for rapid growth in China, the Middle East, and her native India”

Ram Shriram (click here to vote)

“Founder, Sherpalo Ventures
Age: 50
He worked at Netscape, sold a company to Amazon.com, and helped back Google. Shriram now uses his wealth of both cash and experience to fund the brightest and best startups (Frontline Wireless and StumbleUpon, to name a few). As a “mentor capitalist,” he tries not to spread himself too thin, taking on a few new projects each year — which means his picks are always worth watching.”

Information is sourced from Business 2.0 magazine. Here is the link to the full article.

Many of you might have heard about the WWDC 2007 (World Wide Developer Conference) and might have followed the announcements from Apple. If not here is a full story from engadget.com. One of the major announcement today was that developers could write amazing Web 2.0 and AJAX apps for iPhone. Here are the exact words from Steve Jobs

“We have been trying to come up with a solution to expand the capabilities of the iPhone so developers can write great apps for it, but keep the iPhone secure. And we’ve come up with a very. Sweet. Solution. Let me tell you about it. An innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices… it’s all based on the fact that we have the full Safari engine in the iPhone

And so you can write amazing Web 2.0 and AJAX apps that look and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone, and these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. They can make a call, check email, look up a location on Gmaps… don’t worry about distribution, just put ‘em on an internet server. They’re easy to update, just update it on your server. They’re secure, and they run securely sandboxed on the iPhone. And guess what, there’s no SDK you need! You’ve got everything you need if you can write modern web apps…”

 I have seen many articles and blog posts talking big time about this announcement. But this is what I think, Apple is just saying that iPhone has a full version of safari web browser so if one writes a Web Application it will be accessed through Safari web browser inside the iPhone. Did anyone seriously think that the web browser inside the iPhone would not be able to browse the web? Mr. Jobs you are really sleek.

And Jobs went on to say “…And guess what, there’s no SDK you need!…” alright this is not a major thing, you write web apps and access through safari. Oh Man, but many think this as a major announcement.

And did anyone think of the availability of the network. The web apps won’t work if there is no network. And moreover they really eat up your pocket. I’m going to play Devil’s Advocate here and say for the sake of argument that iPhone supports WiFi (which I believe it does) and if that’s the case it won’t be much expensive.

To me, Job’s says that iPhone is closed and the only way to write apps is to use the web browser functionality. This is very similar to saying that you cannot write third party applications / programs in Windows and the only way to do that is to write web applications. And yes web applications do not need SDK (so no Windows SDK). How ridiculous is that. Overall to me iPhone is a closed device. What do you guys think?