I don’t know if its just me or all you guys feel the same way about emails. On an average I receive around 50-70 emails. Here is mockup thread (and believe me entire world is copied on this email) Due to blah blah blah, the XML message mentioned below did not go through successfully. We [...]
Thoughts
Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense”
Truely a work of genius, as Pattie Maes mentions. Hats off to Pranav Mistry.
After all it’s Noise, isn’t it?
Whenever any great invention happens, the inventor along with the pros of the product might also think about the problems his/her investion might bring upon the society. There are so many such examples. Well, great that nuclear energy got invented, but it gave us Hiroshima & Nagasaki. There are cars, but now we are fighting [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt – Future of Technology, Information
Eric Schmidt and his views on future of technology, information and the role Google will play. It’s an old video (2008) but I just loved it. One interesting point which Eric made was on “News”. He says well say a village gets the broadband (internet) for the first time, everyone is excited etc etc; they [...]
What Google Chrome and Microsoft IE can learn from Firefox!
Alright I am not going to write a comparison report on these three browsers. Just something I noticed today and jumped out of joy. Now this is what I call innovation and user experience. In Firefox I typed in Seth Godin. It directly took me to sethgodin.typepad.com (mind you I don’t have a bookmark for [...]
Infosys Bulletin Board – A great place to share
One thing which is truely part of every Infosys employee is the INFOSYS BULLETIN BOARD (or BB as it is called). During my stay with Infosys, Bangalore, I did not visit the Bulletin Board often, but heard quite many things and discussions on the same. Be it technology, social talks, queries, buy/ sell — it [...]
Idea for Starbucks – Save the Change
Came across this site at Salesforce – http://mystarbucksidea.force.com I guess the ailing coffee giant is trying to use some collective intelligence. Not a bad idea. I also added one of mine. Check it out! http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/ideaView?id=087500000005HzzAAE Feel free to comment too.
No Innovation around Escalators?
“The national energy use of escalators is estimated at 2.6 billion kilowatt hours per year, equivalent to powering 375,000 houses; its cost is roughly $260 million.”
Meetup + Ning = Meeting
I thought of starting a category which focuses on mashups of Web 2.0 applications. So instead of pulling social data from x number of places and arranging it on a new application, I think there is high time these entrepreneurs and VCs think of joining hands. Now one can talk about several pros and cons [...]
Ideas around Twitter based applications
Okay, 2008-09 is Twitter year. It’s a whole new world out there with its own language containing words like tweets, @, RT etc. However my guess is Twitter started to capture and share “What are you doing?”, and is thus is becoming a complete Internet Drain. I was following a friend and he is talking [...]
Social Policing 2
In my last post I wrote about how there should be some kind of monitoring service. One of my friends critiqued me that this is against the whole concept of freedom of expression blah blah blah. I disagreed. The service is meant only for Enterprises and companies susceptible to get pulled into court because either employee [...]
Social Policing
Sometime back I came across this article in Economist. Here is a paragraph from it. “On October 31st Virgin fired 13 of its cabin crew who had posted derogatory comments about its safety standards and some of its passengers on a Facebook forum. Among other things, crew members joked that some Virgin planes were infested [...]
Role of Social Media and Internet for the Society and Environment
Height of the internet-age would be registering the user name of an unborn child and creating his social profile. There are hundreds of applications, thousands of enterpreneurs and young talent and resulting in millions of users of the world wide web. Applications connecting people — yeah, the so called Social Networking phenomenon has impacted everything from selling car to [...]
