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So you’ve got to know that synergy doesn’t actually mean synergy in this book. I can’t do normal synergy. No, in this book, synergy means cartoon foxes. What I’m saying is: this book will be starting off with an exorbitant amount of cartoon foxes.
You don’t usually want to read a programming book from cover to […]

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The biggest celebrities and the most powerful people attend the Davos World Economic Forum… So what better place to campaign for foreign investment?
I was blown away by the “India Everywhere” campaign at Davos 2006. Check these pictures out:
India Everywhere Gallery
Talk about targetted campaigns! The Zurich airport is splashed with messages about how […]

Geoffrey Moore’s new book “Dealing with Darwin” is hot off the press. The presentation at the Stanford ETL talk in May 2004 was titled “Darwin and the Demon”; Darwin corresponded to evolution and the Devil to forces that slowed progress (thats how I remember it). How do you deal with mainstream markets? How do […]

Google got subpoenaed by the government. “Privacy experts” are all over the news. This is the privacy doomsday scenario they had been waiting for. Ok, maybe not a doomsday scenario. But the kind of thing that starts the spiral towards a doomsday scenario. Like in the movies…
Payed, anonymous Internet usage would sell! I guess the […]

Case in point: Gmail
The “More Actions” drop down menu used to have an option called “Move to Trash”. Getting to that option became second nature. Then they changed it and called it “Delete”. Now it a separate button… not on the menu.
Interface changes are interesting… wonder what they do to customers. I’m suprised to find […]

Om just posted about TopTenSources, an aggregator that picks a subject and grabs entries from 10 “editor’s choice” news feeds and replicates them on toptensources.com.
The issue with this is clear: “Should toptensources be allowed to get search engine juice by replicating other people’s content?”
But does TopTenSources itself bring anything to the table? Does it […]

MicroAppli is another company which was, until recently, in the NUS School of Computing Business Incubator. MicroAppli’s tag line:
Bringing the best services to connect millions of people: mobile content at your fingertips.
Interesting. They have partnered with another Singapore based company TagIt which also offers mobile services; their product KoolTag links mobile content to image tags […]

Moment of epiphany. Now read this patiently.
I read this on Tara Hunt’s Blog: Professional? We wan’t amateurs!
If you have read The Red Queen by Matt Ridley (the first few chapters), then you might, as I did, develop a rudimentary understanding of evolution. A summary of a rudimentary understanding is not saying much, but […]

I’m reading The Red Queen by Matt Ridley. For the past several years I’ve wondered about the logical explanations for our behaviour. I came up with some half-baked explanations. This book has reinforced some of them and flipped others 180 degrees. It has also shocked me into some new realizations. Crazy stuff. So here […]