Folks,
I have moved my blog to a new address - http://www.raghucs.com
I have *not* moved all the posts from here but only moved the ones which had a reasonable number of hits.
From now onwards I will not be making any further postings here.
-Raghu
I am in the process of moving my blog here onto my domain and am busy working out where to host it to, to use wordpress or stick with blogspot etc.
Amidst all this I have not been able to make my regular quota of postings on my blog. Please bear with me for another week.
Thanks
I think that there are 5 important stages that a blogger passes through as he establishes and drives his blog up the popularity curve,
Stage 1 - Starting the 'S' curve
Almost every average blogger who starts blogging starts here. Key characteristics at this stage,
I was reading Dion's blog today at the end of his posting I read his request for comment which read "Web 2.0 is about participation! Visitors are strongly encouraged to leave comments...".
The key point that stuck me was Web 2.0 is all about communication, interaction and collective wisdom. On my blog however, although on an average I get about 100+ visitors which is good news for me, but my readers hardly leave any comments for me which is not :-(
I honestly urge you to leave comments on my blog (anonymously at least) which will go a long way in,
Any blog that you visit on technology is talking about the extremely powerful Web 2.0 concepts such as harnessing the collective intelligence, focusing on end users/customers as co-creators, and turning the applications into platforms.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog that I track for write ups on this topic today had a posting titled "Product Development 2.0" and there were some interesting points that were discussed there.
For a young company which is launching itself into developing a product many of ideas / items listed in the note are probably ones which would not make a lot of sense.
I categorize the points that are listed into 3 broad areas and try to address why young companies might 'resist' or take longer the need to make the transition if they have to survive,
Today I read about a manifesto titled “How to be Creative” on Guy's blog and was very impressed at not only the specific manifesto but also with the idea. So I went to ChangeThis and read up a few more manifesto's.
So what is ChangeThis - read on how they introduce themselves just read their manifesto here.
I went through the following 5 manifestos before writing out this post
I have been using mind maps towards tracking my several activity threads for the last few months. I must say that it has been a great enriching experience and I have benefited a lot in by this effort. Some clear benefits that I have realized are,
Well CES is winding down and was reading today at GigaOM a posting titled "Top 5 trends at CES" which are, Content Everywhere, Mobile TV, Location Aware, High Def, Storage Jump
When I read the posting to me it appeared that there were just one word which stood out - "CONTENT".
Well what is so unexpected about it after all a event usually makes an attempt to address the top of mind issue at that point in time, in the process further contributes to the trend itself.
I dont think anybody today argue's if or not content is king - further with user generated content catching up in all forms of content focus on content only will increase. So what are the top issues that one would face in the coming year (s) around this word CONTENT
1. Create, Store and Share Content both offline and online
2. Experience Content at each place in the most convenient way - Location aware content, Mobile TV, High Definition devices
So as is expected this area is mostly evolving and products released this year in these areas would go some way in hastening this movement. Read some of the CES press releases here
I came across this brilliant compilation of visualization methods that exist in a highly innovative periodic table arrangement. You can have a look here “A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.”
I have not yet gone through the table completely myself, but just looking at a couple of cells on the periodic table I am in highly impressed at the thinking behind the arrangement and the innovative approach.
In case you are interested to read a little bit more about how the creators of this artifact Ralph Lengler & Martin J. Eppler worked on this, you can have a look at their short paper titled "Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management"
Was reading an interesting item today titled "How To Market Your Blog in 2007" at ProBlogger.net and it occurred to me that I have not reviewed my blog in Dec 2006. I did a quick review and here is a summary,
