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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Can Television Revolution in India be the Solution to Mass Market Affordable Computing!

In a country that has a very strong media culture, millions of people with their own views, burgeoning TV reality show audiences, it is hardly surprising that the television industry is going through a major digital revolution and opening up exciting design spaces for a truly ubiquitous, interactive and popular medium. It may not [...]

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Unbundling for innovation: An Essay by Phil Agre, UCLA

A few years back I came across a very interesting article by Phil Agre , Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. I liked that article so much that I kept in my mail box for about 6 years until I discovered it a few days ago.
He talked about a very interesting anti establishment approach [...]

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Is ‘Piracy in the Developing World’ taking a leaf out of U.S. history?

Despite many regulatory and institutional crackdown, Intellectual Properties often do not hold fort in the mass markets of the developing world. Products that have been designed with millions of dollars and countless man-hours of investments, get completely broken apart and fed into huge thriving ‘technology flea markets’ of the developing worlds like India and China. [...]

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At What Cost Pervasive?: IBM Systems Journal Article by D. C. Dryer

With the advent of pervasive systems, computers are becoming a larger part of our social lives than ever before. Depending on the design of these systems, they may either promote or inhibit social relationships. We consider four kinds of social relationships: a relationship with the system, system-mediated collaborative relationships, relationships with a community, and interpersonal [...]

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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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Prototyping User Experiences!

I was attending a CHI-ICSID joint workshop on ‘Human factors through Human Experiences’ in CHI 2004, Vienna. The workshop was moderated by Joy Mountford of Macintosh fame and Leo Frisberg. We had a thoroughly enriching experience attending that workshop as we pondered upon many interesting confluences of user centered design methods and requirements gathering of [...]

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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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