Am fascinated by this word. How can we build a product so that the user feels some of the above?
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June 23, 2008 • 1:25 pm 0
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- Beware of the Browser May 25, 2012I was given a fresh reminder of what a ‘web browser’ does behind the scenes. I stopped using Chrome a long time ago, even after I turned off all data sharing options. I like Firefox but its a bit sluggish when a lot of tabs are open. I tried to install Yahoo Axis, but it [...]ashim
- ‘Save’ us from itself! April 10, 2012Auto-save is implemented so differently in Windows and iOS.ashim
- Android Settings Screen February 20, 2012Is there ANY logic to the way this list is arranged??ashim
- Spectrum Allocation- Nuts&Bolts of Wireless February 19, 2012I’m re-reading ‘Being Digital‘ by Nicholas Negroponte. He gives an accurate description of the kind of services, products and media will be in the near future. It feels as if he had a time machine and travelled 10-15 years from 1995 to see how media is changing and wrote the book. He also talk about [...]ashim
- Reimagine February 11, 2012Can we reimagine stuff like Apple does? Here are some products, markets that Apple reimagined. Tablet: Handwriting vs. Touch While Bill Gates was pushing for tablets with styluses and giant touchscreen tables for years, the handheld touch-based interface is pretty much the standard of the next-gen computing. Phone: Carrier does not dictate whats on the [...]ashim
- Samsung is not copying Apple December 7, 2011 ashim
- Thoughts on Invention November 6, 2011The term ‘invention’ is messy Out of the following people, who do you credit an invention with? The one who thought of the idea first (“He thought of this years ago!”) The one who first published the idea first through a blog, book, article or educational paper (the idea is shared among a small group [...]ashim
- Thoughts on Apple TV- 2 June 28, 2011Now, is Apple TV its old set-top box with a new interface? Or a whole new TV? The TVs available today are dumb terminals with the rich interactive experience coming from the set-top box. The current experience for interactive TV comes through a set-top box. The interface lets you play around with the tv schedule [...]ashim
- Thoughts on Apple TV- 1 June 25, 2011Its been almost 10 years since Apple was rumored to launch its own TV. Apple kept denying it, mainly because it does not talk about their future products. But Steve Jobs kept dropping hints that they are constantly thinking how to revolutionize the TV industry. The release of Apple TV in 2007 was the first [...]ashim
- Android- Disruptive Innovation? March 29, 2011I read this great, though-provoking article on Android. It talks about the disruptive market that Google has created in the mobile space.ashim
