Google Brings Out Desktop Notifications For Gmail

by | posted: January 27, 2011
There’s a reason I use gtalk and not the integrated talk in gmail – notifications. I can’t constantly keep on checking my browser to see if I have received a new mail or if someone has...
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India’s 4th Technology Wave

by | posted: December 9, 2010
Vivek Wadhwa has written a very interesting article in the BusinessWeek about the Fourth Technology Wave in India. He describes Indian IT’s 20 year journey from “nothing to a $73 billion industry”....
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Today Is Final Day For Nominations At HeadStart

by | posted: December 7, 2008
Headstart is an event to showcase innovation. It focuses on getting the entire innovation ecosystem together: entrepreneurs, technologists, customers, investors and media. It was held in bangalore last...
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The Power of Viral Marketing – Why Marketing By Word of Mouth is Good for Your Business

by | posted: May 26, 2008
On Saturday evening I had gone for my music rehearsals (yes, we’re recording – hopefully I can use the Internet to leverage my music), when a personal experience manifested itself in the form of a...
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Insights from the NDTV New Media Congress About The Future of the Internet and New Media in India

by | posted: May 13, 2008
The NDTV New Media Congress was held a couple of days back and to sum it up – it highlighted how New Media Space has dramatically altered the way people communicate along with the developments and...
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More about Innovation and Product Related Technologies

by | posted: April 29, 2008
In the last post we discussed ephemeralization – doing more with less and its importance with respect to product related technologies. We sort of also saw how that applies to certain web products...
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Few Principles for Innovating with Product Related Technologies

by | posted: April 24, 2008
A couple of months back I did an entire series on Innovation of Products. This is in a similar vein; it is more of a continuation rather.     Today im going to try and look at the key principles of...
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Innovation in Services: The Biggest Challenge

by | posted: February 28, 2008
I wrote an entire series on Technological Innovation and Leadership a few weeks back (which I plan to continue now) but it struck me that most of what I was saying is restricted only to the products...
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Shifts in the Internet: Rajesh Jain Speaks @ Proto.in

by | posted: January 21, 2008
Reference web to incremental web – people are contributing a lot more to the web. They do not only use it as a source of reference. W3 to N3 – www to now, new, near. Text to Rich Media Search...
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Managing Web Innovation: Product & Design

by | posted: January 21, 2008
At the recently concluded Proto.in Summit, Chintan Mehta from Yahoo! shed some light on the above mentioned topic.     Mistakes that Innovators make:   1) They miss the product vision and user...
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India – The Technology Leader

by | posted: January 21, 2008
The assumption is that India CAN be a technology leader.   Historically, India in the last 10 years has been an innovator.     Take the iPhone as an example. At the launch of the iPhone, Steve Jobs...
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Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 7th of a Many Part Series)

by | posted: December 22, 2007
Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 7th of a Many Part Series)         The previous post dealt with:       1)      Customization   2)     ...
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Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 6th of a Many Part Series)

by | posted: December 19, 2007
  In my previous post I wrote about ‘Freedom of Choice’, ‘Cost Miniaturization’, and ‘Help’ and how they are the essential generic benefits that manifest in the form of:     1)   ...
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Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 5th of a Many Part Series)

by | posted: December 18, 2007
In the previous 2 parts we briefly touched upon branding innovation and how that is essential to the longevity and revenue capitalization capability of an innovation. We also touched upon the dangers...
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Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 3rd of a Many Part Series)

by | posted: December 15, 2007
Yesterday we dealt with the idea of a Value Proposition and went deeper into the idea of ‘generic benefits’ that consumers experience (something that was floated in Part 1).     Today I am going...
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Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 2nd of a Many Part Series)

by | posted: December 14, 2007
In yesterday’s article I wrote about innovation, generic benefits, and the nature of technology with respect to innovation.       Today I am going to try and stretch that concept a little bit...
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