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Information Convergence: The Greatest Rip Off
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My rants about this and that. Thursday, October 22, 2009. The Greatest Rip Off. The white envelopes from the credit card companies usually sit on my desk for a while before they eventually go to the shredder after a quick review. So on a recent afternoon, I sat back to open up all those envelopes to quickly glance through the letters, hoping as usual not to find anything in there, so that I could send them to the shredder. The recent letter started with the usual ominous words. On the other hand, you can...
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Information Convergence: A modern day Edison - William Kamkwamba
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My rants about this and that. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. A modern day Edison - William Kamkwamba. As I read the story of William Kamkwamba. And eventually built a windmill that generated electricity for his home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). An entrepreneur working on new technologies at the intersection of the web and mobile. View my complete profile. I follow their rants. Bulls and Bears - An outsider's perspective. How to change the world. My Other Blog "An Outsider's Perspective".
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Information Convergence: April 2009
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My rants about this and that. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. A quick update post on doing my part to combat global warming and deforestation. Last year I had planted 80 saplings of various trees and had written about it here. I had planted about half the saplings in the yard and the other half in a special holding area I had created for them. Friday, April 17, 2009. Great Scot: From Obscurity to Celebrity. In February of this year, I was at Soccomm. A conference organized by Jeff Pulver. If you have not heard ...
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Information Convergence: July 2009
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My rants about this and that. Thursday, July 9, 2009. The kid who should be CEO of GM. Who Killed the Electric Car? The 2006 documentary that took us through the story of the creation, limited commercialization. And subsequent destruction of the battery operated electric vehicle in the US, ( specifically. The GM EV1). When I saw that documentary only recently, I was really saddened. During the years 1999 and 2003 I worked for a company called Verplex. People can go and build an electric car, but the big-...
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Information Convergence: Google Wave - The Tsunami of Twaddle? Only time will tell
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My rants about this and that. Friday, October 2, 2009. Google Wave - The Tsunami of Twaddle? Only time will tell. The web has been abuzz with the controlled beta release of the new Google Wave. Google answer to "How would email be designed today". Well the first time I saw, Vic Gundotra present the live demo a few months ago at "Google IO 2009", he said that they were unveiling a "personal communication and collaboration" tool. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Against the God...
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Information Convergence: March 2009
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My rants about this and that. Friday, March 20, 2009. Why I oppose the AIG bonus tax bill. We are all aware of the tremendous amount of tax payer dollars being used to prop up AIG. Its in the news everyday. Everyone I know, me included is outraged at the bonuses. Having cleared that up, I want to now bring your attention to the issue of Congress trying to pass an AIG bonus tax bill. The Alternative Minimum Tax (. AMT) was introduced by the Tax Reform Act of 1969. This is single reason why I oppose the AI...
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Information Convergence: Can the EDA industry truly leverage Social Media?
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My rants about this and that. Monday, August 3, 2009. Can the EDA industry truly leverage Social Media? I just got back from the 46 th. Design Automation Conference ( DAC. One of the leading EDA companies had created "Conversation Central" at DAC. This was an area where they had some invited speakers and sessions to educate SM newbies and discuss SM techniques. I had met and networked with karen. Adoption of SM techniques. Other than to use it as a platform for press releases (PR). This is in stark c...
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Information Convergence: February 2009
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My rants about this and that. Friday, February 20, 2009. Competition of the future and the American education system. I talked about the documentary "2 Million Minutes", which hopefully will give them some more food for thought about the discussions we had. I just found this other data point today and it was quite revealing in terms of some of the metrics. I hope you view this as well. Friday, February 6, 2009. What is Social Communications and how to leverage it? Being held in New York City, on Feb 10th...
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Information Convergence: Can Shai Agassi's Battery Centric plan make the world a "Better Place"
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My rants about this and that. Monday, June 8, 2009. Can Shai Agassi's Battery Centric plan make the world a "Better Place". Added 6/16. Shai Answered questions posed by Business week which were asked by BW readers. Here are his answers. Watch his answer to my Question (starting at 4:00 min mark) about how we will generate large amounts of clean energy. How would you run a whole country without oil. Was the question Shai. Agassi posed when opening his TED talk. According to an IEEE. Installations, convert...
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Information Convergence: May 2009
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My rants about this and that. Tuesday, May 5, 2009. The Amazon Kindle for textbooks - Its About time. One Kindle to replace them all (text books). I would most certainly buy a device, though I would prefer to wait for the second generation. I would like the kinks in the first generation product to be identified by the students and for amazon to fix them. This is not the only device, Sony has its own e-Reader. Here is a comparison of the e-reader and the regular kindle. Some of the pros an...Subscribe to:...
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