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My LinkedIn InMap- a visual depiction of my network

Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Social Media, tagged , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This week, LinkedIn rolled out a new feature called InMaps.   It’s a visual way to show your full Linkedin network and highlight key source concentrations of your network, trace connectors who are bridges to two or more network sources, and see which sources of your Linkedin network may need to be built up. Below is [...]

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Look who’s 10 Years Old- Wikipedia!

Posted in Globalization, Internet, tagged , , , , , on January 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!  Tomorrow, Saturday, January 15, Wikipedia will turn 10 years old.  Earlier this week, founder Jimmy Wales spoke to NPR reflecting on the current state of Wikipedia after its first 10 years.  Take a listen (click on Wikipedia icon below to launch audio)

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100 Things to Watch for in 2011

Posted in Education, Entertainment, Internet, Lifestyle, Pop Culture, Technology, tagged , , , on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

JWT Intelligence has put together a fascinating list of 100 Things to Watch in 2011.   Spanning technology, fashion, pop culture, sports, film, environment, it is a pretty comprehensive list, but slanted towards technology related trends.     Slide 9 in the Slideshare presentation below lists all 100 items and each subsequent slide provides specific commentary on each [...]

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My Blog: 2010 statistical year in review

Posted in Blogging, Internet, tagged , , , on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

WordPress.com (specifically, their stats helper monkeys as they call them) created a nice statistical summary of 2010 for this blog (and in fact for all wordpress blogs– a really nice year end surprise from them– much appreciated).   Below is their analysis and comments.   More of my commentary at the end of the summary. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– [...]

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Reading List from Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers

Posted in Book Review, Economics, India, Internet, Public Policy, Technology, tagged , , on December 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »

In my previous post, I mentioned the recommended book list from Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010.   Here’s a slide show version the book list on Foreign Policy’s site.   For a quick glance at Top 20 books, here’s the full list in one spot with the book description offered by Foreign Policy magazine. [...]

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PC World’s Top 100 Products of 2010

Posted in Consumer Products, Internet, Technology, tagged , , , , on November 30, 2010 | 29 Comments »

Last month, PC World released its Top 100 technology products of 2010. This is a good reference list to see where innovation is occuring, areas for upcoming marketplace disruption, see which companies have the best outlooks,  and to wet the appetite for any technology enthusiasts for their next set of gadget purchases. The top 100 [...]

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Revenue potential per Internet and Mobile platforms

Posted in Internet, Social Media, tagged , , , on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, I attended the Virtual Goods Summit 2010 in San Francisco.   One of the presentations I listened to from Flurry Analytics presented estimates of revenue per visitor (or user) for different sites or platforms.   See below.

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The 31 Most Innovative Startups- World Economic Forum’s 2011 Technology Pioneer winners

Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , on September 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

This week the World Economic Forum, an independent, not-for-profit international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.    Per their website, the Technology Pioneers programme is the World Economic Forum’s way of identifying and integrating those companies – normally in a start-up [...]

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Mobile Applications- 157 fascinating stats about the Past, Present, and the Future

Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Technology, tagged , , , , , on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As I’ve written in this blog a few times, like many, I’ve become an addicted smart phone user.  In this post, I laid out my iPhone App storage usage patterns vs the average usage patterns, and raised some questions about the future growth and characteristics of users of these platforms. Now, I’ve come across some [...]

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How Foursquare and Vuvuzelas explain online vs offline personas

Posted in Internet, Social Media, Sports, tagged , , , on August 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Two recent and unrelated phenomenon are Foursquare and Vuvuzelas.  Foursquare is the preeminent geo-location service, (competing sites include Gowalla, Loopt, and Yelp) where users check in to locations such as restaurants, bars, parks or almost any type of establishment, in essence announcing to their friends on social network and media sites like Facebook and Twitter [...]

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