‘Social Translucence’ in Our Everyday Web ‘Places’

Today ‘Social Networks’ are a way of life. We see it in every possible web based service or application that we use. Sometimes we even wonder if all these ’sociability’ actually serve their purpose in our respective information environments. So is ‘Social Networking’ only a business model for advertising revenue? There is more to the [...]

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gPhone or Android: The Philosophy Says It All!

Recent buzz about the gPhone being designed by the ADG (Ammunition Design Group) of San Fransisco may or may not have been confirmed by the honchos of the company, but what is almost certain is Google’s unmistakable ambition to enter the mobile web space in a big way…

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I Am The Story I Tell…And I’ll Sell it For Free!

The dispositions of the new generation of customers, empowered and connected through technologies and information, who some like to call ‘the Prosumers’, is yet to be a full blown ‘phenomenon’ but the signs of a new era in social consumption, production and co-creation are loud and clear. With the ubiquity of information access, and the [...]

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McDoland’s Vs. Facebook, Am I Lovin’ It?

If you are wondering what is the McDonald’s connection with web applications, let me clarify that this is not about the offerings. I intend to discuss the kinds of experiences a brand, either emerging or long established, promise to offer to the customer or the [...]

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‘Yahoo Pipes’: A brilliant vision but not a blockbuster! What’s the lesson!

Termed as one of the brightest ideas in search customization, Yahoo Pipes, was launched sometime back in late ‘07. Indeed the promise was arresting. A novel and exponentially powerful mechanism to customize, aggregate, process the information on the web and possibly create a channel of communication or media that has all the cumulative powers [...]

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Web Innovation 2007 conference in Bangalore

Planning to visit this conference in Bangalore. It sounds interesting and may be first of it’s kind in India.
WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business [...]

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SOA What about the Users!!: Issues in Enterprize Data Management

As architects of the enterprise data management suites spend a lot of energy talking about concepts and frameworks such as SOA, EDA, MDA, and SCA. In times of increasing complexity and with a desire to get projects completed on time and within budget, sometimes the most important part of any architecture is forgotten – the [...]

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New business models need new kinds of customer experience

“As happened with the web, the business models come later.”
the classic example of Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma. When HTML came out everybody said “Hey this is so crude, you can’t build rich interfaces like you can on a PC – it’ll never work”. Well it did something that people wanted, it kind of grew more [...]

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Social applications on Web 3.0: It’s not just the smart web also ‘leveraged participation’!!!

I recently came across this quote: “Dial tone is a fabulous metaphor for one of the key principles of Web 2.0, which I’ve called “the architecture of participation,” but which might also simply be described as the design of systems that leverage customer self-service…” – Chris Shiflett
It means something very simple yet very fundamental about [...]

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