November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Reflections of my career
Recently I chanced upon TNW’s article on Apple revamping their iPad shopping cart article on Twitter. I was reading it with interest for about 10 minutes when it hit me that I have been so involved in looking after my newborn (about 10 weeks old now) that I kinda of forgotten about my professional work.
Here’s a recap of what I had done & learnt for the past 3 years:
i) Getting...
June 2011
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“It’s all self-motivated learners who are willing to even pay, and not doing it...”
– What all learning should be about
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May 2011
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“No single task has my undivided attention. A study by the University of...”
– Jemima Kiss: How I kicked my digital habit | Technology | The Observer (via mediafuturist)
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Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than... →
emergentfutures:
Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years...
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Morgan Missen: Where are all the women in tech? On... →
mrgn:
Tracy Chou, Software Engineer at Quora
Caroline McCarthy, CNET writer turned Googler
Aubrey Sabala, Consumer Marketing at Facebook
Melissa Miranda, Co-Founder of Journly
Lauren Leto, Co-Founder, Texts From Last Night and Bnter
Melody McCloskey, Founder of…
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“Nokia’s failure to capitalize on the smartphone boom has cost the Finnish...”
– From Nokia to Cut 7,000 jobs in cost-cutting move:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/technology/28iht-nokia27.html?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto
April 2011
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Beating The Apple →
parislemon:
Kottke on one of Apple’s potential weaknesses:
Someone should figure out how to leverage Facebook’s social graph to make the phone/app/gaming/music/video experience significantly better than on the iPhone/iPad and then partner exclusively with Facebook to make it happen.
That someone will be Facebook themselves.
He also notes:
the Apple products & services that Apple...
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“Apps are RIM’s Achilles heel and will remain so, and they need to motivate...”
– http://gigaom.com/mobile/playbook/
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“Advertising innovations such as branded games, sponsored items, communities, and...”
– Social games could grow five-fold to $5B market by 2015 | VentureBeat (via mediafuturist)
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Kindle With Ads — Deal Or Crappy Deal? →
parislemon:
Are the ads going to be shown within the books themselves? Or just on the menu pages? If it’s the latter, good deal. If it’s the former, it’s an awful deal — definitely not worth it.
Update: Jason has the details:
But fear not, skeptical bibliophiles: Amazon says that the ads will only show up on the Kindle’s home screen and screensavers, and they won’t show up when you’re...
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March 2011
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“an older company can thrive if it:
- Successfully reboots and redefines itself...”
– By Om Malik (Gigaom) http://gigaom.com/author/om/
I had a similar revelation (last week) regarding reinvention and business strategy. Venturing in the unknown is risky, exciting and not without plenty of downs….
“One thing most business owners don’t consider,” writes Rohit...”
– Via http://www.marketingprofs.com/short-articles/2248/how-to-fire-a-bad-customer
- Reminds me of a conversation I had with a colleague.
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Weekly WATTPAD:
newsweek:
b5media:
This is what’s up!…Vintage Hanes ads
Yes! We have seen these, and they are possibly our favorite vintage ads of all time.
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Judge rejects Google Books settlement →
Read the article on the ASA, it does seem that Google wants to acquire all copyright-free e-books, and leaving competitors in the dust. Hopefully they will edit the settlement (opt-in instead of opt-out) and convince more naysayers to agree begrudging with Google that “yes, doing this will benefit everyone”.
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Why I have switched to tumblr
Read the Mashable’s article on “The Pros and Cons of Tumblr for Small Business” and I like that tumblr is like a “Social Hub”. Being on wordpress for a year (or lesser), I find wordpress is powerful and it can prevent me from actually writing because I was distracted with themes, plugins, etc.
So here I am on tumblr (after creating the account eons ago) and I hope to...
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“Where the NYT failed was not with it’s revenue model or technology, but with by...”
– Dominic Litten (via soupsoup)