Category Archives: technology

Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall

Posted on May 15, 2007 by

Great opinion piece by Tom Grubisich at Washinton Post. It talks about the lack of transparency with user generated content. These days we want “transparency” in all institutions, even private ones. There’s one massive exception — the Internet. It is, … Continue reading →

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Benefits of Forgetting

Posted on May 10, 2007 by

Interesting and scholarly study from Kennedy School of Government’s Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, titled “Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing”. In the study, the author points to change in our default societal behavior, from forgetting unimportant … Continue reading →

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Tech Support – Medieval style

Posted on May 5, 2007 by

This is a hilarious video (via Tim O’Reily’s blog)…Now, not only is this video funny, but it also brought back memories of how it used to feel trying to explain computers to my Dad…Watch and learn to never underestimate the … Continue reading →

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Human Herd

Posted on April 15, 2007 by

Fascinating article in the NYT today (I am again quoting NYT…It seems they have really gotten their act together of late in the high-tech/network world space). The article talks about the theory of “Cumulative Advantage” or the “rich get richer” … Continue reading →

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Compete.com: first Attention based metric

Posted on April 8, 2007 by

You are all probably familiar with my previous posts (New audience metric, AttentionTrust) about the need for better metric to measure the engagement level of users at a particular web-site. The issue with the current metric of page-views can be … Continue reading →

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How to build a $50M online company?

Posted on March 18, 2007 by

Updated revision is also available at RWW Interesting post over the weekend by Dan Mitchell at the NYT. He took the cue from Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed, who pointed out a few weeks ago the scale a business has to … Continue reading →

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Digital Love

Posted on March 13, 2007 by

Recently, I heard this fascinating youth radio program about how MySpace is changing the way kids interact/hook up with each other. It also discusses how kids deal with like commercial characters like Jack (of Jack in the box), who have … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Vs Open Source Community

Posted on March 11, 2007 by

There was a great piece on CNet news.com about Higgins project waiting Microsoft’s approval for creating a Windows CardSpace’s open-source equivalent: Higgins awaits Microsoft’s blessing An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting … Continue reading →

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Blogging in India – Part Deux

Posted on January 10, 2007 by

After all the adventure setting up the network in Mysore, we moved on to Pilani – a small town in Rajasthan, where I grew up – to spend the last leg of our India trip. Needless to say, after the … Continue reading →

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Blogging in India

Posted on December 22, 2006 by

I am in India for a couple of weeks visiting family and wrapping up some business. Before coming here I was excited about the prospect of working in India, as most of the family we are staying with, now have … Continue reading →

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