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  • Gamifying everything

    Interesting notes related to a book that was recently published, and is probably worth adding to my list of books to read: The only difference between the current fad for ludology — the study of games — and any other time in the history of the internet is that now…

  • Global Social CRM meet-up today

    For those of you who follow the social media landscape as it relates to businesses, please join an interesting bunch of folks at today’s Global Social CRM meet-up.  While some of us will take advantage of being at a Cisco Telepresence site, you can join via Justin.tv or via WebEx.…

  • Hello, is this thing on?

    It’s hard hard for me to imagine that, despite all the writing (and tweeting) that I’ve done over the past year, I haven’t updated this blog in nearly a year!  I guess there are many reasons, but instead of dwelling on them, I figured the time was right to get…

  • My India

    I saw this photo collage over at Om Malik’s personal blog and it stopped me in my tracks.  This is the India that I love, the India that I miss when I make the all-to-short trips that have become the norm in the last two decades.  Bhanu Sharma‘s photographic journey…

  • Rethinking target markets

    Image via CrunchBase Mike Speiser, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures, has an interesting post on GigaOm today.  An excerpt: Self-Service Nation: Why Targeting Small Business Is Good Business While the 80-20 rule can be very powerful, the reality is that many of the costs associated with building, supporting, distributing…

  • How Microsoft extends the R&D model in India

    Image by Marc_Smith via Flickr Navi Radjou has an interesting post on how Microsoft approaches it’s global R&D over at the Harvard Business blog, excerpt: Microsoft Reinvents Its Global R&D Model – Navi Radjou – HarvardBusiness.org What impressed me most about TEM is its staff members’ multidisciplinary backgrounds. In addition…

  • Amazon is slowly starting to open up the Kindle

    Image by Getty Images via Daylife A few months back I wrote about the need for Amazon to begin ‘socializing’ the Kindle.  Another item of frustration that I forgot to mention in that post was the inability to pull my notes and highlights from the kindle via the web.  I…

  • Ratan Tata gets it

    For all the buzz that Tata’s release of the Nano received last year,  the long term impact of the company’s new venture may be even greater.  The sprawling Tata empire, loosely held together by Ratan Tata, recently announced a plan to build affordable housing for India’s burgeoning middle class.  Here’s an…

  • Change

    Image via Wikipedia I can’t believe it’s May ’09 already.  You’ve probably noticed that this weblog has been pretty silent over the last three months.  This has to do with several significant changes for us.  Those of you who follow my twitter feed know that I’ve actually been very busy…