The Toronto Globe and Main is reporting that it was the Clinton campaign and not Obama’s which contacted the Canadian diplomats assuring them that her NAFTA stance was more of a political posturing. It will be interesting to see how the ignorant US media plays this out!

The news agency quoted that source as saying that Mr. Brodie said that someone from Ms. Clinton’s campaign called and was “telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt.”

Harvard Business School puts together a helpful set of articles from its archives to help you shape up your start up business. You can find answers to the following questions:

- Should I keep control of my company?
- How do I turn potential into profit?
- How can a resource-challenged start-up grow?
- What legal mistakes should I watch out for in starting a new company?

A court in Dubai has sentenced 38 Indian construction workers to six months in prison, and deportation after that, for their part in the workers protest which demanded for higher wages and better living condition. Since the workers have been in prison for over four months, they are expected to be released and deported on March 18th.

“Some Indian workers are paid as little as $160 a month for a six or seven-day week,” she says, “whereas the average national is paid seven times as much.”

Photo By: oinkylicious

Forms, an excellent new feature added to Google Docs. Using Google Docs Spreadsheet, you can create a form which can either be mailed out to anyone or put on a web page. The responses are captured in the spreadsheet. There is even an iGoogle gadget to keep tabs of your forms.

Here is an example form: You can view the results here

A neat little application for searching flickr images based on each word in a phrase. If you are not satisfied with the initial selection, then Phrasr allows you to pick an image of your choice to go with the word. If you like what you have created, share it with everyone in the archives, by publishing it.

Looks like the Clinton camp is getting desperate, now that being nice is not working for them against Obama, they have removed the facade, and gone negative. While one side uplifts the American voter and brings them together, the other side thinks the American voter is naive enough to fall for an old picture trick! But, if it does come down to a picture, I wonder which one scares the Amercian voter more? After all it’s a fear tactic.

In other news, Clinton supporter stabs Obama supporter.

If you rather listen than read blogs while multi-tasking, BlogBard is the service you have been looking for. BlogBard’s reader with voice will provide audio versions of blog posts. It currently supports Google reader and Bloglines. If you don’t use these services, you can simply enter the url of the blog, and BlogBard will provide the audio post. For blog publishers, there is even a embeddable widget.

“One day, while struggling with my homework assignment , and listening to CNN news on TV, I wished if someone could do the same for my favourite blogs. We were spending a lot of time reading blogs and were looking for a solution that would let us multitask while still letting us keep in touch with our favorite blogs. We created Blogbard LLC to enable blog aficionados like us to multitask. “

Photo Time Capsule, a new cool feature from Photojojo, which will once a week email you photos from a year ago from your Flickr account. Read more about the Time Capsule service. See email sample.

“Every couple weeks, the Time Capsule looks at your Flickr account for photos you took a year ago. It picks the ones that are most interesting — the ones that got viewed the most, favorited the most, and commented on the most — and sends them to you in email.”