Category Archives: Blog

Informational social influence

Great article on social marketing by Aileen Lee (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) for TechCrunch. In a nutshell, 5 types of influencers: 1. Experts 2. Celebrities 3. Other users 4. Crowd 5. Friends Read article> Like it? Hate it? Share … Continue reading

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Long time no write…

I’ve been tweeting – @schizomouse Since today is Kelvin and my collective birthdays (yes we are born on the same date). I felt compelled to do a mega update, sort of making up for lost blog time. Like it? Hate … Continue reading

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Adobe officially kills Mobile Flash

Adobe kills Mobile Flash with a swift hand, and for the better. Now we do not have to contend with 2 development platforms. But is HTML5 ready for the big time? Google’s Swiffy extension will make conversion easier. However tests … Continue reading

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Siri and Iris

Siri? Seriously. Apple has a knack of packaging something old and imperfect and make it look like God’s gift to human kind. Kudos for that! Iris popped up from nowhere and all of a sudden it is a Android vs … Continue reading

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Google buying Moto, WTF for?

When news broke about Google buying out Motorola, I was stunned. After working with Motorola in Europe for a couple of years, they don’t seem like a company that would fit into Google offices. But on second thoughts and recent … Continue reading

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Location based social network

Back at the end of 2010, ReadWriteWeb posted one of the more influential articles of this year, stating five key trends for 2011. Location-based Social Networks were one of them, this is sort of a validating post. Stats are for … Continue reading

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Building cloud services, the fundamentals

If you are using an Android phone (or more recently an iPhone), you are familiar with worry-free phone backup, restore and apps that let you access your stuff from any device. Mobile access to internet, higher access speeds, multiple devices, … Continue reading

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PayPal & NFC

PayPal recently issued an app that allows NFC enabled phones to pay each other via PayPal. This offers ample learning for them if they eventually decide to move to a full fledge NFC solution – enabling payment clearance through telcos … Continue reading

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The digital ecosystem for a credit card

Seems like Amex is figuring out how to transit into a device centric digital landscape, aren’t we all. However Amex recently stated they plan on investing USD100 million on a digital ecosystem, putting money behind the talk. Intentionally vague scope … Continue reading

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Partner-up or die

Developing a suite of programs, apps or business solutions from ground up? This is quite literally piss talk nowadays, given development time for any of the above mentioned can take anywhere up to 6-18 months to design and build. Recently … Continue reading

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