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Book Review: "Blink" by Malcom Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell This is Malcolm Gladwell‘s second book after “The Tipping Point.” In The Tipping Point, Gladwell writes…
Have Telepresence, Will Work-From-Home
Working from home using Telepresence can be greener than you’d imagine! From Dilbert.com Feb, 22, 2009.
A Wii-like Robot Controller Using Lego Mindstorms Sensors
I found this cool video demonstrating how to build a Wii-like remote control using Mindstorms NXT sensors. This project uses the compass and acceleration sensors…
Did Research Fundings Influence Economic Policies?
In my post Irrational Economics, I quoted some surprising observations from an article in The Atlantic titled “Dismal scientists: how the crash is reshaping economics.”…
The Crisis Of Credit Visualized
A video is worth a thousand words. Here is what I just found — a great visualization that shows what led to the financial fiasco:
The Reality Of Virtual Reality
Do you remember your very first experience with virtual reality? Was it the flight simulator that you played on your PC? Or that car racing…
Irrational Economics
Ever since I stumbled upon the book Predictably Irrational, I have been fascinated by the field of behavioral economics. I have looked for other books…
Trapping Mavens With The Web
In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell coins the term “maven trap.” Mavens are experts in a particular field who are always trying to…
All That Twitters Is Not Gold
In my earlier post, I wrote about some interesting ways in which people are using Twitter. But it appears like a lot many people are…
Why Would You Want To Twitter?
It’s been a couple of days since I signed up on Twitter and started playing with it, figuring out why it’s becoming such a craze….
Sharing Links With Google Reader
When I set up my Google Reader, I did not quite realize how much of a productivity tool it is. There are many blogs and…
Happy 1234567890 Day
In case you are wondering what on earth that is, check these out: http://www.1234567890day.com/ http://coolepochcountdown.com/ http://kottke.org/09/02/1234567890-day http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/02/unix-time-1234567890-day/
Cloud Computing At The Speed Of The Network
The recently published Technical Report on Cloud Computing from UC Berkeley lists 10 obstacles/opportunities related to cloud computing, of which “Data Transfer Bottleneck” ranks #4. As I…
What You See Is What You "Think" You Get
In his book “Blink,” Malcolm Gladwell writes about “Sensation Transference.” He describes what a beer manufacturer realized when they tried to figure out why their…
Cloud- and Heterogenous Computing Will Stretch Network Performance
As I was browsing through my Google Reader, an article in Network Performance Daily caught my eye. It talks about Gartner’s list of the “10…
Twitter Angels Help You Find A Job
I read about Twitter recently and was wondering how it works. I signed up yesterday and have been exploring how people are using it. From…
What You Create Is What You Love
In his book, “Predictably Irrational,” Dan Ariely describes what he calls the IKEA effect. This concept has been selected as one of Harvard Business Reviews’…
Book Review: "Outliers" – by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell This book, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest, focuses on something completely different from his earlier ones, “The Tipping Point,” and “Blink.”…
Singularity: A New University In The Silicon Valley
Nasa, Google and many technology leaders will lauch a new university in the Silicon Valley this summer “with the goal of preparing the next generation of…
Are FPGAs Ready To Tip ASICs?
This is a question that has been asked many times. A recent statement by Moshe Gavrielov, president and CEO of programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc., that…
