The industry is buzzing about a tablet like device Apple may introduce. So I thought a bit about what I need from a tablet. One note of warning. My tastes are a bit geeky. That is reflected a lot in this list. If you are an author or musician, you may want an entirely different […]
I was jotting down ideas on the various aspects of Information that a business has to deal with. Not all of them are relevant to all businesses. However, as I was thinking about Information, I was amazed by the number of attributes and activities related to information. Here is a list. Gathering – Identifying the […]
We launched our first Twitter app – CheckPage. It is currently in Beta. Hopefully this will be the beginning of several nifty tools for finding, tracking, filtering, extracting and sharing Information. CheckPage is a Twitter based tool for tracking a web page, detecting changes and sending you a notification through. It can be used for […]
It is nice to see this initiative from Harvard to embrace Foursquare, a social tool: “Harvard is more than classrooms and buildings. It is an interconnected community of people, ideas, and experiences, and we are actively pursuing ways to enhance those connections,” said Perry Hewitt, director of digital communications and communications services for Harvard Public […]
Just a few days ago, I was asking my Twitter friends about the challenges they face with managing information. One of the problems that came up was about the credibility of information. As we depend more and more on information distributed over the web, authenticity and credibility become more and more important.I was glad to […]
From Cisco Announces Video Conference for Home The gradual emergence of Internet-enabled TVs, wider broadband availability and multimedia PCs has corporate tongues wagging. An estimated 45 million TVs will be Net-enabled by 2014, says ABI Research. By 2010, there will be 32 million U.S. households with the necessary broadband connection to support a high-quality home […]
This is how I did in a few steps: 1. Extracted the titles from the list of registered users’ profiles 2. Edited the titles to remove certain keywords (for example Director, Manager, VP) 3. Copied the text and pasted it in Wordle tool using the Create option 4. Randomized the display till I found the […]
Internet of Things (IOT) is one of the emerging technology trends. Some indications of useful applications of IOT are given by the Hydra project team. With Hydra, all manner of devices such as electricity meters, TV sets, refrigerators, stereos as well as heating and lighting systems, can be networked without having to know what goes […]