Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers

Kenneth Chang has written a wonderful story on how Phoenix Lander team is using Twitter.

Dave posted about this development yesterday on Tuesday. Followers take off has been rapid.
I am glad this news demonstrates how new technology is helping NASA connect with younger audience. NASA looks cool and Twitter looks useful to the [...]

Implicit Web, Interface for Telling and Atomization of Conversations - Recipe for OMG

Trying to understand evolving signals around silent web. Web which we users leave behind when we share our profile data, friends information and information related to transactional experience.  I think something significant is just around the corner. These signals are coming up in memes such as Implicit Web, Atomization of conversations, Interface for telling and [...]

Anywhere-To-Anywhere Social Network?

Thinking about emerging anywhere-to-anywhere social network at MessageDance blog.

How long we stick to a specific terminology to define what’s existing and what’s emergent is a challenge. Take the case of Social Networks. This term is as specific as your neighborhood and as vague as your religious affiliations. Actionable definition of social network is better [...]

The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing[?]

When I first read this article I thought - Wow India has build a $30 billion dollar IT/ITES industry without doing anykind of “THINKING”. That’s pretty impressive.
Headline is too strong I think. This article, written by one of my favorite blogger Sramana Mitra, is apparently too high-level. Looks like some editor did a hack [...]

Who knows why Google is worried about Microsoft/Yahoo transaction?

Big companies are complex beasts. Their business motivations are usually hidden. In the case of Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid for Yahoo, motivations are harder to understand. Microsoft and Google both have a history of not answering (and not listening) to stock market reactions. These two companies can plan long term. Microsoft move has to be [...]

Microsoft/Yahoo deal is all about Email

Now the Techmeme dust has settled. Time is right for serious discussion to start, on how Microsoft and Yahoo transaction impacts future technology trends. Tim Oreilly, in another brilliant post, is making a great point that Microsoft needs to redefine competition by owning the competitive agenda itself. In order to mount a successful [...]

How to participate in emerging cloud computing architecture?

Cloud computing is all about shared responsibility! API based development model is declarative syntax of cooperative spirit. You share services, you share the burden of keeping alive underlying user experience as well.
Twitter ecosystem is a best example of that model and if you want to see the future of software development then just follow [...]