Friday, June 27, 2008

Bill Gates - a computer in every home and on every desk


Thank you Bill for that bootlegged Windows 95 OS on which I learned to make mistakes.
Thank you for Windows 98 on which I grew up.
Thank you for Win xp on my office PC. It did not even crash once the last year.
Thank you for Office 97. And thank you for office 2007.
Thank you for Regedit. Thank you for "format c:"

And thank you for DX8.1 on which my son Sriduth discovered his first games.

Thank you for making computers ... well, usable, playable, tweakable, and kickable.

Jay, from Bangalore


Sunday, June 15, 2008

Story of the web

Like any real-life success story, this one is also full of surprises, unexpected turns, off-track growth, and adrenalin pumping breakthroughs, not to say the best years of the world's best.

And who succeeds the best? As always, the ones who sell pans!

How the web was won. Read on...

Jay, from Bangalore

Obama and Drucker: the five eternal questions

Peter Drucker's five eternal questions for business:
What is our mission?
Who is our customer?
What does the customer value?
What are our results?
What is our plan?

Business Week's Rick Wartzman wrote an interesting article about how Obama found the right answers. Read On...

Jay, from Bangalore

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Office 2.0 is here

There is nothing virtual about it. Office 2.0, the connected, networked, real-time work place is here.

Work together, anywhere, says Adobe Acrobat. Google Docs offers "Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online." (Right idea, wrong grammar!)

Many organizations now prefer the real-time features of Google Docs over Microsoft Office, making for surprisingly speedy adoption..

Here is Scoble's take on Office 2.0

For an exhaustive list of Office 2.0 tools, click here. How many of these are you using right now??

Jay, from Bangalore

People and environments

"Pleasant. Caring. Engaged." people are the key to success, says Tom Peters.

‘Pleasant, caring, engaged’ work environments create "Pleasant. Caring. Engaged." people, says ideaburger.

Join the conversation here.

Jay, from Bangalore