Yesterday about 20 of us met at a Subway restaurant to what is termed a “Nerd Dinner”. It started with an event page created on Facebook to which I got an invite. I happened to be around that area conducting…
Yesterday about 20 of us met at a Subway restaurant to what is termed a “Nerd Dinner”. It started with an event page created on Facebook to which I got an invite. I happened to be around that area conducting…
What is technology intelligence? Do you have it? Do you need it? Why? I wrote down a few observations and thoughts. Technology Intelligence is the ability to look at developments in technology and use them as enablers. You can map…
Every organization needs to keep track of information about a set of entities. For a business, these may be customers, partners or competitors. It may also be items related to the marketplace, industry sector(s) and related industries. Here is a…
I use Twitter more than anything else nowadays. More than any other social media – facebook, linkedin, Google Reader, Wikis, Social bookmarks or even podcasts. I use all these, but the links actually seem to generate from the tweets I…
Semantic Media Wiki is an extension to the Media Wiki, a wiki engine used by Wikipedia and lots of other public wikis. I have been watching Semantic Media Wiki for a while but never really spent time thinking of how…
I have been giving this talk for a while and have been adding to the slides. I just found out that there is whole book on where good ideas come from. I just got the book and before I read…
I started thinking about it as a connection graph. While a social graph builds social connections and influence, a connection graph is both more generic and more specific. Here are some examples. I am connected to over 400+ friends on…
Once in a while I look at the top 20 search terms on my blog. I need to correlate it with the most read posts. This combo tells me a lot about what I need to focus on in future…
What if startups were your target market? Pros: They are easy to find (if you provide the proper resources for them to use) They are easy to approach They share a lot of common problems (at an abstract level) Cons:…
Just too good of an information fragment to pass up! A Fermi estimate usually seeks to measure a quantity that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to actually measure. “Piano tuners in Chicago” may have fallen into that category…
