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 a workshop. So I decided to drop in and check it out. It was a […]
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 a new technology development to something you do in your organization. This may be a […]
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 simple mind map of a few things I can think about. This is just 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 read. Twitter is my quick environmental scanner. Twitter stream brings me nuggets of news, opinions, […]
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 we can use it. Today I spent a couple of hours reading the introduction to […]
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 it, I wanted to get this post out so that I can compare with what […]
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 Facebook. Yet I interact with only a small subset socially and even a smaller subset […]
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 posts. innovation process multiple intelligence(s) dorai (and dorai thodla) programming language trends python intelligence synesthesic […]
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: Most of them are likely to have little or no money They don’t have much […]
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 several decades ago, but as Wolfram|Alpha can now demonstrate, things have changed I got pretty […]