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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Asynchronous is the new instant
I start this post with the Wikipedia definition of chat to give a backdrop – “Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or text-based group chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat”. Yesterday my mind was filled with thoughts about how this whole thing called “online chat” has evolved over years. …
Weekly digest of week 35 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
We no longer look for products or services, products and services will find us
If you are still in doubt whether social media will change they way we communicate and do business, please check out this brilliant presentation, with stunning figures. Interesting quotes: we no longer look for news, news finds us. In the future we will no longer look for products or services, products and services will find us. And we’re already entering this new era of social economics. Some examples? I’ve stopped using Microsoft Word all together …
Weekly digest of week 34 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
Oracle is still buying the Sun…
Oracle’s aquisition of Sun is taking more time then expected by at least Oracle. Time for un update of what’s going on around the biggest deal in Technology for 2009…
The curse of the knowledge
I have to give credit to the Internet and a few other things for all the knowledge that I have today. But some things have made me think more, especially when you read and see a lot of things around, is when you start realizing more. Recently, I came across Scott Anthony’s article How Knowledge Can Hurt Innovation on Harvard Business Publishing, in which he refers to the Chip and Dan Heath’s 2007 book Made …
Weekly digest of week 33 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
Weekly digest of week 32 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
Is search going to die one day?
Search has become an increasingly important part of our lives, especially on the web. Imagine the world of internet without search. Imagine a website without search. How difficult things can get. But the way things are going, I see this coming to an end, some day. Well may be not a total dead-end, but almost there! I had shared some views around this on my personal blog sometime last year in my blog titled Social …
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