Monthly Archives: September 2006

My Favorite Forecasts

Here are my favorites from  PC World’s 100 Fearless Forecasts. Accurate Speech Recognition The Modular PC 50 Terabytes DVDs (cool if they can be updateable too) Flexible Displays Affordable E-Book Reader Some of the forecasts are a little disappointing. I

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I Like the New Google Reader

I like the new Google Reader. I have been using it since yesterday. I am still exploring it a bit. But I think it kind of feels cool. I especially like the ability to add new tags to blog entries.

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Invisible Engines

It is about software and the impact of software platforms on economy and how they create multi-sided markets. Think of software platforms as ring leaders of ecosystems in which a few or many companies can participate to reach users. multi-sided

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Wikiness?

Wikis are rapidly becoming popular. They are also morphing, slowly. If you look at JotSpot, it is not much like the original Wiki from Ward. They are serving a larger community and becoming repositories of useful information. Wikipedia definitely did

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My Top 5 Apps

My friend Jamie Dinkelacker used to say that everyone uses about 3-4 apps most of the time (his actual words were “3.5 apps”). It is not difficult to list a set of apps you use most frequently and figure out

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Don’t Blog, Write On a Wiki Instead

Interesting advice. Need to try it out. Fan mail sounds good. From How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger. Rest easy in the knowledge that it’s perfectly okay and respectable to not have a blog at all. If attention

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PlaySpace

The Institute for Play promotes Play To Learn. A PlaySpace is an area where you can learn by exploring. While we encourage it in the early part of education (PlaySchools), we seem to drop it as a complement to the

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Seven Reasons I use Wikipedia

About a couple of months ago we were discussing about Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britanica. My brother-in-law was wondering why people would use Wikipedia instead of the Encyclopedia Britanica (which is perceived to be more accurate). I can cite my reasons.

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Integration of E-mail with Wikis

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog about using wiki as an email storage. Looks as if this is not such a novel idea, after all. I saw a news item today about a company called Mindtouch that

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Wiki Text Books

Wiki Text Books is a project from Global Text to bring 1000  free text books to the world. Free textbooks for everyone—that’s the goal of the Global Text Project, an initiative spearheaded by Rick Watson, a professor in the University

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