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September 20, 2014

Things I Learn from the Internet – 10

Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. Peek: a user testing tool: order a test, a real person test your site, result sent to you in a video. (nice website […]

August 28, 2014

Digital Physical Mashups

The example given by the author to illustrate the great divide between the digital and the physical worlds which some companies still struggle to bridge hits home for me. I have came across many such baffling instances myself. People experience disconnects like this one all the time. Here we are, a quarter century into the […]

August 12, 2014

Toastmasters speech #1: The Crazy Antelope

Two weeks ago I went to this conference and I noticed something. Almost every speaker who went on stage had a formula: the five ways to achieve your goals. The top five myths about marketing. Five interesting facts about shoelaces, etc. I thought to myself, hey I could do that too. I don’t have a […]

August 6, 2014

Smartphones and Journalism

If you were to assume that the dawn of the mobile era means people are giving up reading actual article and are just snacking instead, you’d be wrong. The Atlantic recently reported that a gorgeously illustrated 6,200-word story on BuzzFeed—which likewise gets about half its readers through mobile devices—not only received more than a million […]

August 1, 2014

Tech’s Ugly Gender Problem

There has been many instances where people around (or even close to) me wave off the notorious ‘sexism in tech’ problem as ‘all in the woman’s head’. The worst thing is, these are intelligent people. They argue that talking about sexism won’t solve the problem, that we cannot avoid it from happening (and thus need […]

July 30, 2014

The Technology – A Talk by Paul Buchheit

Great talk by Paul Buchheit, creator and lead developer of Gmail. We often sweat life’s big decisions, but it’s the little decisions that matter the most — the ones we make thousands of times a day, often without even realizing it. The big decisions are the inevitable result of those small decisions. They steered the […]

July 12, 2014

Slacktivism?

Online causes might attract more clicks than commitments. The article includes several studies that discovered ways to drive token support into real actions. His group ran its first study shortly before a date when Canadians annually show support for veterans by wearing poppy flower pins. Participants consisted of 92 people who walked across a concourse […]

July 11, 2014

Jerktech

The tech startup scene in Silicon Valley can be pretty fucked up. There is a term for it now: #JerkTech. Source They’re emblematic of a compassionless new wave of self-serving startups that exploit small businesses and public infrastructure to make a buck and aid the wealthy. Case in point: ReservationHop and Monkey Parking. The latter […]

July 9, 2014

Back to Basics

At a certain point in the startup journey, a founder might pause and ask him/herself this question: “What a minute. Am I doing the right thing?” It is so easy to jump right into the process of building an MVP without properly validating the need for the solution. In the heat of the moment when […]

July 7, 2014

Things I Learn from the Internet – 9

Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. SnapEngage: Live chat tool for customer engagement Joomag: digital publication tool (create digital magazine) Outbrain, Sharethrough: create In-feed ads Slack: Team communication tool, chat and […]

July 6, 2014

Things I Learn from the Internet – 8

Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. RedPen: Feedback tool. Get your point across, click and comment on a visual image. SnapEngage: Live chat tool for enterprise to engage with customers LawBite: […]

July 5, 2014

Things I Learn from the Internet – 7

Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. HubSpot: A marketing software platform. Tools include SEO, web analytics, social media, blogs, etc How to ace the 10 most common interview questions: […]