Ten HTML5 Drafts Updated 29 March 2012 The HTML Working Group has published ten updated working drafts. Two documents that hold special interest in the light of WikiData project are HTML+RDFa 1.1 and HTML Microdata. Both are ways of marking up HTML so that you can easily extract semantic data and relationships. HTML+RDFa 1.1 HTML Microdata So how… [Read more…]
March 28, 2012
Yesterday, I met a long time customer(using our product for over 7 years and renewing every year) in NY. It was an amazing experience. Even though, we had only about 40 minutes, we covered a lot in that time. We figured out not only how she can leverage our products more but also how we… [Read more…]
March 26, 2012
I came across this infographic today - Wikipedia – Redefining Research Some observations and ideas for projects: “In comparison to College Level Text Books – Wikipedia is 98% accurate”. It will be interesting to see whether Wikipedia’s coverage is as extensive as a recommended book for a specific course? Wikibooks may be designed to meet these… [Read more…]
March 24, 2012
The Intersection Event Is Where Innovation And Social Change Meet That philosophy is this: Some of the greatest inventions the world has seen were developed incrementally as one person built on another’s ideas, sometimes transcending decades or even centuries between them. What makes for a real innovation is that someone takes a previous idea and… [Read more…]
March 16, 2012
What do engineering colleges have in common with simulation of world bodies like G20 and UN? I got my answer at Hindustan Young Leaders Conference (hycl) conducted at KCG Tech. Not sure how it came about, but it is such a brilliant idea. Bringing a groups of young people to discuss world affairs, using models… [Read more…]
March 14, 2012
I do several $50 (US $ or equivalent Indian currency) experiments. Mostly it is asking some student to do a small task, build a prototype, learn something and testing to see how fast they learned. In every experiment, I start with one or more hypotheses and get some data that goes towards verifying these hypotheses.… [Read more…]
March 14, 2012
Every viable organizational unit requires basic knowledge processes. Each organizational unit is continuously analyzing, digesting, integrating, collaborating, developing, applying, and re-using its knowledge, much of which is ingested from its external environment (which could be outside of, or within, the same organization). A result of this continuous knowledge process is a dynamically evolving knowledge base… [Read more…]
March 14, 2012
I was at a meeting yesterday. The discussion centered around helping entrepreneurs. There were several good ideas that came up. It is amazing to see the differences of perceptions between several participants. Some are prescriptive and some are very sure that if you do X certainly you will get result Y. Some of them are… [Read more…]
March 6, 2012
At the cross section of bio-mimicry, robotics and logistics – harnessing swarm intelligence At the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML in Dortmund, Germany, researchers are working to harness swarm intelligence as a means of improving the flow of materials and goods in the warehouse environment. In a research hall 1000 square meters… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
In the past two days, I came across two stories. They are stories of innovation but they also point to a common pattern. I find this encouraging. Is this a trend? We don’t know yet. Tide Pods are palm-size, liquid detergent-filled tablets that are designed to be tossed in the washer to take the measuring… [Read more…]
March 31, 2012
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