I haven’t posted anything for two weeks. June has also been the slowest month with only XX posts. An explanation is in order. As many of you may have guessed, the real culprit is my new job. It’s been keeping me really busy. The little time that I have been getting to reflect has gone into figuring out Yahoo! And all that good stuff about Yahoo! is not blogable. I think July will be better and I am going to try posting 3 times a week.
asides
I got back from my vacation a few days back but have been busy catching up at work and at home. This weekend I caught up with my blogfeeds so the Linkroll is back. I’’ll back with some blogposts soon.
A visit Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Museum near Dayton, OH was a good place to see the transitions from aircraft inventors to aircraft companies and then to the whole industry.
As I read other blogs, I mark out the blogposts that I really like. You can see these blogposts in the “Linkroll” in the sidebar (it’s just above the Blogroll section). Think of it as a bonus blog that you get with this main blog!
The recent row about the 60% salary increase of Ministers in Singapore government is reminiscent of the furor created by egregious salaries of some US CEOs. In fact, the similarity goes deeper. One way to understand Singapore is to think of it as a mega-corporation with a live-in workplace…
IEEE: High-Tech Professionals Are Struggling With Meetings/Email
Published by March 14th, 2007 1 CommentIEEE study reveals that high-tech professionals spent on an average half a day in meetings and doing email. Another quarter goes in information gathering, usually, using the Internet. That leaves only a quarter of the day for generating some kind of knowledge artifacts. Other data shows that meetings in India are shorter, involve fewer people and are less plagued by multi-tasking.
My linkroll now has 167 posts culled from thousands of blogposts that I have read recently.
Mathematics is set to conquer the world.
Vint Cerf was in town and I had a delightful lunch with him where a small group of us talked about various topics…
Control the framing and control the debate/negotiation/selling/solution. Works all the time!
After reviving traditional weaving and hand block printing in North India, Faith and J.C. Singh, founders of Anokhi, take on the bigger challenge of reviving a city, Jaipur. Read on…
What’s your experience with Gmail Mobile or Flurry on a GPRS network?
IHT has a story about the spread of advertising-supported free business models to computer games, broadband access, newspapers, digital over-the-air television, legal digital music and even mobile content. There is no guarantee that this ad-financed model will work either for the companies or for the consumers.
As I read other blogs, I mark out the blogposts that I really like. You can now see these blogposts in the new section called “Linkroll” in the sidebar (it’s just above the Blogroll section).
Frost and Sullivan says that India is the fastest growing market for electronic products in the world.
A recent book, A Perfect Mess, argues that being very organized takes time and kills any chance of serendipity.
Don’t worry if you haven’t. It’s rather new. MoSoSo, or mobile social software, is software — generally on a mobile phone or on a laptop computer — that facilitates social encounters, or mobile social networking by associating geographical location and time with one’s own social network. Mike Butcher has a nice overview of the space here. He suggests that…
He’s a 15 year old in Chennai (India) who’s creating waves. He had done a fabulous analysis of Scoble’s blog that you must check out here. BTW, don’t forget his edgy About Me section. Here is what some of the folks have to say about him…
Interesting cartoon on fortune at the bottom-of-the-pyramid (courtesy Zinnov)…
Share This
New Year greetings through SMS/text messages are becoming more common. There were some really creative greetings that I received this year. My favorite one was from Gita Dang…
We are going away to Hampi, a World Heritage site, for a short break. I am not taking my laptop so you won’t hear from me till the middle of next week.
Share This
A hilarious “Christmas Parable”…
Joel Spolsky had earlier suggested that that simplicity is not about fewer features but about the right features and “elegance”. This time he writes about elegance…
Tom Peters makes his iconoclastic points in a poetic form. Below are 2 of 14 samples. The whole presentation is available here (thanks Giri for sharing).
They say/acknowledge, “Okay, we need revolution.”
I say “REVOLUTION.”
They say “fast follower.”
I say “battered and bruised leader.”
They say “Conglomerate & Imitate!”
I say “Create & Innovate!”
They say “Market share.”
I say “Market CREATION.”
They […]
Change blindness is real. In a recent experiment, “eight out of fifteen direction-givers failed to notice that the person they were talking to changed in mid conversation! Eight out of fifteen!
