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… is this (at the very start of building a new product): Assume your product’s already been built. Now think about how you’re going to get adoption and usage among your audience. Too often you get so caught up in … Continue reading →

The tech staff and I just exchanged email about the updated list of browsers that MyToday and Phone.cc should support. Reading back, I noticed that for PC web, we essentially supported Firefox, Chrome and IE. We explicitly excluded Safari and … Continue reading →

From a friend who recently purchased the iPad 2 (no previous iOS devices): When I considered purchasing the iPad, I was reading too little. Almost nothing in paper form (with good reason too). And nothing online, cos at work it … Continue reading →

I like dense walking cities like New York because they allow for serendipity. In Los Angeles serendipity is hard; you’re essentially teleporting from one place to another (slowly) in your car. There’s no deviation from the path, no unplanned, found … Continue reading →

Tim Bray of Google, about Google+: Circles are, mathematically speaking, sets, and I think set arithmetic would come in real handy: “Post this to the intersection of my Photogeeks circle and my Vancouver circle”. I can think of lots of … Continue reading →

TRAI’s new guidelines, as reported by Medianama yesterday: … where a consumer dials a specified telephone number or short code or a telephone number providing interactive session for subscribing to a Value Added Service, the service provider shall obtain confirmation … Continue reading →

While the monstrosity is gone, we had a chance to take a gander last week: I wrote the following the next morning: Well we had to see it. It’s there. And reports of how it didn’t miss the BWSL by … Continue reading →

Pleasantly surprised it’s still around. Addictive. Youhavebeenwarned. Spent many a post-lunch hour at IBM 2004-05 playing GTG followed by fantastically productive afternoons.

On BBC Entertainment (program schedule). Rageh Omaar attempts to document the ‘lives of ordinary Iranians’ (yawn?) but does a very good job. The documentary is 5 years old, but very watchable. If you follow Iran’s domestic and foreign politics, this … Continue reading →

Forbes on the Angry Birds story. And it’s one heck of a tale. From It took Rovio nearly eight years and 51 tries to lay this golden egg. to As FORBES went to press Rovio had just hired the former … Continue reading →