Map mashups brought lots of interesting applications and have made location as one of the most important ‘attribute’ in many applications, particularly on the mobile phones. I see potential for a similar ‘revolution’ in timelines. We want to see all…
Personal Analytics
Analytics has emerged as a powerful tool to make important decisions in many areas most notably in enterprise decision making. Marketing to strategy to credit risk assessment and fraud analyis, analytics is being used for minimizing risk in decision analysis…
Solution: Consolidation of experiences and making them actionable
A really good trend is that many companies are developing systems that take experience of one kind and allow people to create, store, share, and revisit experience of that kind. They also provide some search and analytical funstionality. Given a…
Need: Consolidation of experiences and making them actionable
Paradoxically, the tremendous progress in mobile and internet technology has given rise to numerous sources of information and experiences but has also resulted in large volume of unmanageable data. Currently, our life information and experiences are distributed and isolated in…
Innovations in India
NYT has an article by Vikas Bajaj on Innovations in India — or lack thereof — and the reasons behind it. In fact what is written here about India is true for many countries as very correctly stated there: India…