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Steve Jobs is an icon in himself and needs no introduction. He was bounced back after some really big setbacks and is one the most admired INNOVATORS in the current world scene. [slideshare id=5402942&w=425&h=355&sc=no] PS : I have no rights over these slides , and I am only sharing this.

Google Plus claims itself champion of privacy. I want to share why it does too little of all what it promises. I am listing here some privacy issues in google Plus and also how facebook handles them so elegantly. 1) Automatic Chat List sync between Gmail and Google Plus There is no way to ensure which circles of mine can see me online and which not. either it is all or none. This is too too insane. I ultimately had to end up deleting those friends from my circles and 1 full circle to whom I didn't wish to appear on-line.  If Google had to copy  Facebook  , they could have at least done so with some elegance. They didn't copy the best features and are happy with copying the wall and Like ( aka +1) Facebook Solution  : Friend List and limit availability to different list . Details with screen shots in  this  post of mine. 2) User can only chose who receives updates. No away to decide who doesn’t   receive it. Only sharing option is which circles you want to share with or all c...

Hello Marc, Good Morning, I want to ask you a couple of questions about your facebook strategies as I couldn't understand why are you so determined to downplay its best features and break the things which are working fine in an ordinate zeal to fix them. Q1. Why the 'f riend list' and selective post visibility by removing friend list is never talked about in privacy settings. ? I have about 15 overlapping friend lists giving me nice privacy controls deciding what to show to whom and it works much better than groups.  The suggested approach of GROUPS just doesn't work . Simple example - I am part of 4 groups and have 15 friend lists. Facebook Groups don’t solve even 1% of my privacy concerns but the facebook freind list solves 95% of them Facebook Groups are  akin to communities which Orkut and such sites had.  For all practical purposes , it is the friend lists which are of best use in granular control of one's privacy. I am assuming none ever told you about the...

Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleRgTBMX88?rel=0]   Disclaimer: I don't own any rights to the content or text above. I am only sharing it  

Google Tech Talks May 14, 2007 ABSTRACT Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That's the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we've constructed about how we got here. This talk, loosely based on the upcoming O'Reilly book (May 2007), will help you to recognize the myths, understand why they're popular (even if you don't believe in them), and how to use the truth to help you innovate today. Speaker: Scott Berkun Credits: Speaker:Scott Berkun [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6gaj6huCp0?rel=0] PS : I don't own any rights to this video or text above. I am only sharing it.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY?rel=0]   PS: All rights of the video and text belong to www.ted.com . I have only shared the video.

Groupon led the frenzy for coupons and deal making seats. At its height it even commanded a valuation of as much as 6 billion $ when Google offered to acquire it.  At a closer analysis we can see that so called business model is really fragile and can come down crumbling like pack of cards . We will not discuss about the issues of Groupon founders selling out just before the scheduled the IPO . We will also not talk about the controversies regarding user data leak from Groupon India acquisation www.sosasta.com. Groupon got a much bigger mess on hand. Why Groupon will be the probably the first casualty of second dot com crash ? 1. Google with massive control over search engines out in the market offering much better revenue share to the merchants. 2. Google paying merchants for paid but unused coupons unlike Groupon. Now if Groupon matches Google it goes deeper in red, if it doesn't it loses merchants. The   BI Report  explains this Google assault in depth. 3. Host of competito...

Nokia has been in the eye of storm for past couple of months or I should say years. For the uber optimists like me we see the Motorolla story repeating all over. Nokia has in past risen from ashes once after the Soviet Union collapse . It is already there in their DNA to bounce back and they have so much to learn from Motorola so I feel they can bounce back for sure What Nokia has been doing to confirm our idea - 1) Killing of brand Ovi in favor of Nokia . Nokia has decided to terminate the use of its brand name Ovi for all managed services under the Nokia umbrella , using only Nokia services. They are increasing the brand recall and doing away with brands which won't get any premium in the event of a split or hiving off of some units of the company. It is in a way good since the experience is quiet tied to handset and soon Nokia might be offering all these services of other Window phones. As a matter of fact Samsung , HTC got no specialized map, LBS service, Music service or ot...

I am an avid social networking user and got on board Google Plus on the first day of Launch through the help of my dear friend Aditya Sharma . This post is my feedback to what I felt about Google Plus. Google is shouting from roofs about better privacy options in Plus but only those who don't  know how to use Facebook Privacy settings can agree to it. Statuary Warning : The post might sound greek to normal users and all those are not Privacy Freaks.   Nice things - 1) User Interface 2) Ability to see updates of only a specific Circle ,  Facebook fanatics will shout Facebook Groups , but they also know their state. I had 20 friends of mine adding me a group ny name of my university and it is too frustrating until I turned off all those Groups. This was one real nice feature I feel Facebook can learn from. 3) Heard a lot about Video chat stuff, not tested it out , still  Hopeful Things I didn't like ( this one is a longer list) 1) No way to import friends from Google contact t...