Monthly Archives: May 2006

Evolution of Feed Readers?

Two independent sources of information, interconnected triggered this post. The first one was from Emily Chang's eHub, one of the greatest sources of applications of read-write web (think web 2.0, if you want). It is called SocialMail. Check out the

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Blogs – Breadth, Depth and T-Shaped

I think there are different ways of looking at blogs. I look at the ones I subscribe to into these: Breadth Blogs Depth Blogs T-shaped Blogs Breadth Blogs Breadth blogs cover a wide variety of topics. A good example is

Posted in People

Effective Bloggers are Learners, Thinkers, Explorers and Dreamers

This entry from Pro-Blogger, got me started on this post. I do not have a lot of blogging experience. I have been seriously blogging only for the last 5 months (some sporadic blogging before that). Most of the traits I

Posted in Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, People

Innovating Product Extensions using Contests

What happens when you want some Innovative extensions for your product? It is easy. Create a contest, offer some great incentives (like money and fame). Two of the most popular shows on TV, "The American Idol" and "The American Inventor"

Posted in Ideas, Innovation

Collaborator

You can track my slow progress through The Ten Faces of Innovation by my posts. A couple of  description of Collaborator, I like, in this book. The Collaborator is the rare person who truly values the team over the individual.

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Posted in Innovation, Inspiration, Reflections

Outlook As An Idealog

I tried different ways to keep track of ideas. I experiment with a few tools. I started with a simple Word document. I used a simple template and entered the idea. It had five fields: – A name – A

Posted in Ideas, Tools

Chief Innovation Catalyst?

I just read Chief Innovation Officer. I think it is cool to have a position like that. Or even a role of CTO office. I would rather invent a new title – Chief Innovation Catalyst or something similar. His/Her job

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AJAX and XML Trends

Google Trends is a cool tool. It has several limitations (a subject for another blog post) but you can get some interesting information with a few simple queries. I wanted to find how heavily XML is used by various programming

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Recruit T-Shaped People

Who are they? Inquisitive people willing to try new things. I heard the term from a friend of mine (a Prof in IIT, Delhi, India) last May. I read about it this morning in "The Ten Faces Of Innovation". I

Posted in Innovation, Inspiration, People

Google Web Toolkit – AJAX With a Difference

Google introduced Google Web Toolkit  for building AJAX applications using Java. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications easy. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language

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