Author: Aditya

Kind of like the Chinese whisper phenomenon

Includes some gems of laws:
Weinberg’s Law of Metrics: “That which gets measured gets fudged.”
The Metric Law of 90s: “The first 90 percent of a development project takes 90 percent of the schedule. The remaining 10 percent of the project takes the other 90 percent of the schedule.”
The Metric Law of Least Resistance: “The more human effort required to calculate a metric, the less often (and less accurately) it will be calculated, until it is abandoned or ignored altogether.”

Bruce F. Webster's personal experience on how well a Cravath system could work, & some possible pitfalls on the road to implementing such a system.

Pretty radical thoughts based on the Cravath System: "Bring lots of new employees in, team them up with mentors, provide real work to do, and give them a choice: either get lots of great experience and get out, or work hard for a higher-up position."

Pretty creative ones, but not always readable.

Stop motion slice painting using an iPad. Pretty cool

The independent claims section is the key (legally enforceable) apparently, while the rest of the document is mostly gloss.

Blog based on the Yes Minister\Prime Minister series characters' communications.

Kinda like portable apps, but with a full fledged OS & cloud based sync service.

Wow! Bullets through water drops.

Not just the hows, but also the whens.

Pretty useful guide explaining the basic parameters to consider in a lens.

Probably jumping the gun & a bit too radical, but an interesting read on the changing times nonetheless. Moreover, a lot of content like video & even P2P does get served through the web.

Very relevant points to consider when doing a survey & even while looking at the results of one. Quite similar to the points raised in the book "How to lie with statistics"

Interesting concept of using mobile devices to connect taxis & passengers. The strange bit is that it's tied to the iPhone platform.

A real wide variety

As always, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Kinda reminds me of "First break all the rules". It also has links to detailed posts on each of the points.

But I have to feed my family, or so the argument goes by the copyright champions.

Based on per capita stats. Interesting classifications.

How do you use your information & is there scope to monetize it?

Chris Anderson's response to Malcolm Gladwell's review of his book "Free" in the New Yorker, in particular to the journalism business model point.
Bottom line is that you still gotta earn enough for your daily bread whatever your business model.

Quite a different take on free by Malcolm Gladwell with a bunch of examples, summed up thus: "The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws."
The thing is free has its costs (however miniscule per unit, can add up to enormous sums) that need to be offset in some way, and this is where your real business model lies. Freemium may not always be the answer – just look at what happened to Ning.

Pretty interesting way to analyse the fit of an innovation with a company's business model. The method goes beyond the basic core competency compatibility and looks at other parameters like geography, customers, channel & product\service. The author also predicts that Google is likely to trump Microsoft in the mobile space due to the better fit of the platform with its business model.

Glucose levels have an impact on one's willpower & it's recommended to start small to improve self control.

Download the original version of VisiCalc for the PC, provided by the inventor himself. The site also includes reference cards and lots of other resources, links & articles

A handy tool that can enables you to access your desktop media on your portable devices including iPhones. Best of all, it's free. Wonder whether it works with proxies.
Airvideo is a similar service for videos, but its free version has some restrictions.

A prototype news search tool from Yahoo! Research Barcelona that currently uses the NYT database & shows trends for the search term (including predictions for the future)
via http://www.technologyreview.in/computing/26113/

A dedicated marketplace for publishing professionals to find critical information and unique databases, find each other, and to do business better electronically

Not good at all. It goes on to show how dissimilar the dynamics of the mobile phone platform is to the PC. The members of the so called OHA seem to have locked up their contributions. So, is this a failure of open-source\free software?
Apple did make some inroads into freeing up the phone from the operator, but that's a different story. Also goes on to show how much better the Indian telecom market is than the US one (for the time being at least).

OpenBuildings is a new community-driven website that lists architecture from across the globe; be it historic, contemporary or conceptual, enabling a more open way to share architectural knowledge. Includes an iPhone app as well.

Interesting way to track your time using lego bricks to make graphs. Who says you need software to do this…

TED seems to be evolving into a global education paltform

That's a really long list of causes & suggestions to fix them, & I bet it's not even exhaustive.

A very handy utility to synchronize folders across different locations including network drives. Includes an option to install in the portable form as well.

Never underestimate the importance of actually meeting & talking to your customers.

Interesting incident of a case when a Woody woodpecker fan got her Walter's mixed up. Also shows the human side of Disney.

Will the iPad transform the netbook\notebook industry the same way the iPhone transformed smartphones? The key may be the fact that the level of openess of the respective platforms before the Apple devices came along.