Experience-Is-King
‘Yahoo Pipes’: A brilliant vision but not a blockbuster! What’s the lesson!
Termed as one of the brightest ideas in search customization, Yahoo Pipes, was launched sometime back in late ‘07. Indeed the promise was arresting. A novel and exponentially powerful mechanism to customize, aggregate, process the information on the web and possibly create a channel of communication or media that has all the cumulative powers [...]
Web Innovation 2007 conference in Bangalore
Planning to visit this conference in Bangalore. It sounds interesting and may be first of it’s kind in India.
WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business [...]
SOA What about the Users!!: Issues in Enterprize Data Management
As architects of the enterprise data management suites spend a lot of energy talking about concepts and frameworks such as SOA, EDA, MDA, and SCA. In times of increasing complexity and with a desire to get projects completed on time and within budget, sometimes the most important part of any architecture is forgotten - the [...]
Capitalism at the Grass roots: A new business ecosystem emerging?
The “Emerging Market - ala India” story has been around for some time. But the truth is that it is not only restricted to India. Lot of amazing stories are being unfolded in Bolivia, Egypt and Cambodia alike. But may be… just may be..there is a little difference as to how the story of India [...]
Prototyping User Experiences!
I was attending a CHI-ICSID joint workshop on ‘Human factors through Human Experiences’ in CHI 2004, Vienna. The workshop was moderated by Joy Mountford of Macintosh fame and Leo Frisberg. We had a thoroughly enriching experience attending that workshop as we pondered upon many interesting confluences of user centered design methods and requirements gathering of [...]