Monthly Archives: August 2010

Information and Intelligence

What Intelligence do you need as a company? Here are some ways of looking at intelligence you need to gather to stay competitive. Market/Industry Intelligence You need an idea of your marketplace, players in the space. You need to identify

Posted in imorph, Infostreams, Intelligence, research, Resources, Tools

What is Your Wishlist for a Tablet?

What is your wish list for a table? (we have an iPad but I would like the following) A stylus for sketching and writing (my primary thinking tools) A book like design where I can open it up and read

Posted in Gadgets, Tools

Internet Time Line Infographics And Memories

I started using email in 1986. But I was blissfully unaware of Internet till the first browsers appeared. I think we even bought an “Internet in a Box” in mid 90s.  But starting 95 when we sold our company and

Posted in Infographics, Internet, Time

Potential Disruptions Are Easier To Spot Today?

I was reading this fascinating post on Why do we miss disruptive innovations? … experts can’t be relied upon to pick the significance of breakthrough ideas and technologies. We become experts through extensive training in how to see the world

Posted in Disruptions, Ideas, Innovation

Twifficiency and Business Model for Twitter Apps?

Here is a Twitter app I came across recently – Twifficiency. I tried it and here is what I got. Pretty neat. I was happy with my score and even read the little blurb.  Then I suddenly noticed a Google

Posted in Ideas, twitter

InfoStreams Python Alerts Aug 18th 2010

Here are alerts from tracking Python on InfoStreams (took out two entries for job alerts) There are 17 results for your Alert titled: Python lettuce 0.1.11lettuce 0.1.11 Behaviour Driven Development for python pyenchant 1.6.3pyenchant 1.6.3 Python bindings for the Enchant spellchecking

Posted in Infostreams

Your Top 5 Apps?

Once in a while I try to look at what I am doing. A lot of what I am doing depends on the Top 5 Apps I use. Here are my current top 5. Here is how I spend my

Posted in Time, Tools

Why I Blog?

Here is from a  recent tweet of mine. Seth Godin and Tom Peters on why blogging matters to any professional. http://bit.ly/9ZBx4v via @ducttape Here are some reasons why I blog: It is a great thinking tool. I think it has

Posted in Ideas, Learning, Reflections

Enhanced E-books

I don’t really want my fictional characters to sing and dance while I am reading a novel. Having said that, I would love some animations in Science Fiction books. I would love to see some animations in technical books. Imagine

Posted in Ideas, Innovation, Learning, teaching

Building an Innovation Culture

A few thoughts. Educate people on innovation – what it is and what it is not. This education should include the difference between discovery, invention, ideas and innovation If you position innovation as exploration or experimentation, people will feel more

Posted in Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Learning
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