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Proto.in Summer Edition: Internet and Web2.0
The first to be called on stage was Pramati Software as they experienced setup glitches, BriteSoft took the stage. To quote from their website: BriteWorks The BriteWorks platform enables users to create enterprise applications in a fraction of the time … Continue reading
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Virtual Goods, Real Money
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau Susan Wu, Charles River Venture initiated a Virtual Goods Conference. 3PointD has a very comprehensive coverage of the event. I see Jeff Barr twittering about finding new cloths … Continue reading
Maurice Levy, Publicis @ WEF Davos07: We will be Carbon Neutral before 2010!
Maurice Lévy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Publicis Groupe was interviewed by Adam Reuters as part of Second Life/ Real Life coverage of the World Economic Froum annual meet. There was much talk about digital advertizing dominated by google. Adam … Continue reading
Tracking things, information and people in Second Life: Wishful Thinking
I’m exploring and learning Second Life. Things that attract me toward SL are: 1)My area of interest being physical paper file tracking, I want to present some of the paper file location tracking information on to a online collabration tool. … Continue reading
New Home for Riya: Some Ideas; Pictures by Pictures How To
Here I my 2 cents on how to go about it. As mentioned by Munjal, Picture being worth a thousand words, a single text input box does not suffice. Especially if search is USP. My idea is simple: Search Pictures by Pictures – just the way you search text by text. My pragmatics goes like this: Google is a text serach engine, so a text input box works wonderfully well. Extending it to a picture search engine, picture must be the starting point for Riya search. In other words, Riya’s home page must facilitate users in entering picture(s) and their attributes. And then let the Riya engine do the magic. Continue reading
Posted in humour, Idea Factory, riya.com, social networking, Startup, Web 2.0
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Flutter:Of Snowballs and Pearls
Mordern science is obsessed with naming theories, concepts, mountain peeks units after pioneers. There is more to naming than just a easy handle. Here is my go at the origin of Snowballs( bearing in mind the Indian adage that it … Continue reading
Posted in Idea Factory, Joy of Innovation, social networking, Web 2.0, Weblogs
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Creating Passionate Users; Q:A-list howto?; A:Natural, Well Balanced
Kathy Sierra is asking why her blog made it to the A-list. This is the wonder of blogging, bloggers and all thing co-creation:The amature getting really good at it thingy. Like you play a game naturally and suddenly you find … Continue reading
Posted in attention, humour, social networking, Weblogs
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