This is mostly notes I jotted down after listening to the Jon Udell’s Interview with Art Rhyno. First of all, I think the concept of Interview with Innovator’s itself is a great idea. I plan to listen to more. A few ideas worth noting from the interview: The concept of Social Search and Discovery Desktop […]
I switched to a new laptop a few weeks ago. It came with Vista. My first instinct was to reformat the hard disk and put back Windows XP. But I changed my mind and decided to try it. I have not decided whether I like it or not. I am going to live with it […]
I went to Google calendar to plan the week. On the top right hand corner, I noticed a little a link New Features. And there it is – a list of new features of Google calendar. I don’t recall when I last used the calendar, but it is nice to know that something new is […]
Some times you start somewhere and end up in unexpected places on the Web. This one of those little journeys. A few clicks of the mouse. A few minutes of reading. I really like Hackety Hack. It is time someone picked a simple model to encourage people to try out little snippets of code and […]
When Google came on the scene, they raised the bar on search. Search went from something I occasionally use to something I use most of the time. I did not know that I had the need to search so much. However, I am yearning for a better search engine. That is good for both Google […]
Some times I use a tool for a while before it appears in this list. StumbleUpon I stumbled upon, StumbleUpon a while ago, while tracking the visitors to my blog. It is one of those compelling applications that you have to have. It is sitting in my Firefox Toolbar, right now. StumbleUpon made news this […]
I have been playing with Netvibes for a while. Today I made it my home page. It is cool. You can build your portal page by dragging and dropping widgets and setting a few parameters. My home page contains some tech news feeds, a few RSS feeds, my del.icio.us bookmarks and some cool widgets like […]
Eric Von Hippel likes to share his work on Innovation. In this interview, he explains why. I’m trying to diffuse my work and ideas, much the way MIT does with OpenCourseWare. Society is already paying me for my work via my research funding. So what does the author do? Takes the two books he has […]
Here are some cool tools, I tried this week. I went searching for some and others came to me through friends and Google alerts. FoxMarks A way to synchronize your Firefox bookmarks on a server. Was very useful to me when I moved to a new laptop last week. Works pretty well for the simple […]
This is one of the most valuable resources for bloggers I have seen, in a while. For some one to take the pains to assemble such a big list and carefully categorize them and list them on a blog, is, simply astounding. But then, this is what blogging is all about – sharing. I’ve put […]