Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-)

Quote of the Day

anand — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:47:11 +0000

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
- Ford Motor Company

Saw it on the email signature of a colleague in Cisco. I could not agree more.

We are all public figures..;-)

anand — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:07:30 +0000

When everyone has a blog, a MySpace page or Facebook entry, everyone is a publisher. When everyone has a cellphone with a camera in it, everyone is a paparazzo. When everyone can upload video on YouTube, everyone is filmmaker. When everyone is a publisher, paparazzo or filmmaker, everyone else is a public figure. We’re all public figures now. The blogosphere has made the global discussion so much richer — and each of us so much more transparent. The implications of all this are the subject of a new book by Dov Seidman, founder and C.E.O. of LRN, a business ethics company. His book is simply called “How.” Because Seidman’s simple thesis is that in this transparent world “how” you live your life and “how” you conduct your business matters more than ever, because so many people can now see into what you do and tell so many other people about it on their own without any editor. To win now, he argues, you have to turn these new conditions to your advantage.
- Thomas Friedman, "The Whole World is Watching"

Can't say I am surprised with this observation.

I dig Digg

anand — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:22:55 +0000

Alexa has just been updated, and Digg.com finally broke through the top 500 websites in the world and currently sits at 491! According to Alexa, the top 500 websites in the world account for 45% of the total net website traffic.
- Alexa

If you thought Slashdot is great (and it is), try out Digg. You have no idea what you are missing

IT Career

anand — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:15:48 +0000

Where are you headed in your technology career? If Shakespeare is correct in his renowned soliloquy on the seven phases of life in As You Like It, you stand to lose your sense of taste, your eyesight, and your teeth. Life moves quickly for the technologist: one day, you're a reticent rookie whose broken code generates core dumps; the next, you are the center of attention and the slickest talker in the design review session. But ultimately, you fade into old age and fall apart like some antiquated IT system: a curious relic with no value and in need of maintenance...The prospects aren't good in the long run. Shakespeare's comical, mocking tone is a wake-up call to stay young and vital, retain your position as soldier or justice, and keep your teeth. Granted, in every career, and in life itself, obsolescence is inevitable. But technology careers progress far too fast, and the eventual derailment needn't happen so soon. Oblivion is avoidable (or, more realistically, can be deferred); if you are in the seventh phase, you got there because you lost your edge. The reason technologists fade so quickly is that they stop practicing their craft. They stop writing source code, they stop modeling systems in detail, they miss the paradigm shifts and use dated jargon, they brag about the old days, and (I have observed) they break their ties with the young development community. They fly at 30,000 feet, as you will hear them say often, alongside executive stakeholders.
- "Avoiding Oblivion in Your Tech Career"

An article that I will strongly encourage everyone in IT profession to read and learn from.

The extra-large, ultra-small revolution..

anand — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:20:13 +0000

But something curious is happening to television: It's simultaneously growing gigantic and minuscule, stretching across living room walls at the same time it slips into pockets. People can brag about their 60-inch plasma screens and their palm-size nanocasters in the same breath.
- TV: The extra-large, ultra-small medium

After a really long time, I am once again excited about Home Entertainment. Not so much for the content per se. This time it's about the following:

Content finally is becoming device and location agnostic in our homes.
how we consume the content is also changing - as extra-large whoppers or ultra-small capsules - and every shades in between.
Content is finally revolving around our lifestyle and not the other way around. If I want to watch TV, I can watch them when I want and where I want, not to mention slice-n-dice a (recorded) show thereby enabling me to keep or share just the relevant portion of an exciting or useful content.

Call it "Digital Life", "Connected Home" or "Digital Home", Consumer Electronics has had quite a face-lift in the last few years. And this new "everything connected to everything else" and "content goes with you where you go" lifestyle is going to show up in your life sooner than you think, if not already there.

Content - TV, Music, Radio (AM/FM/Satellite), Photos, Home Movies - will soon be set free (as in freedom and not as in free beer) and our lives will be much better off, I think.

Quote of the day

anand — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:03:08 +0000

Information is no longer a scarce resource - attention is.
- "Meet the Life Hackers"

Software is OUT

anand — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:51:58 +0000

Software is no longer the glamour hot topic it was...And it seems that long term, the two big issues are going to be biotech and things that reduces the use of natural resources. Those would be the big areas in the future.
- Bob Epstein, "Investors see green in clean tech"