Category Archives: Opinions
Education Begins With You
Writing this in the span of five minutes before section, I feel compelled to write a post proclaiming the power behind the new education movement of self-education. With the rapid proliferation of the education space, ranging from startups such as Codecademy to my friend’s Webdev101 (a project out of UCSD). Now, with the oncoming rise […]
I Pronounce You, Googorola, Until Death Do You Part
Some thoughts, inspired by Topolsky’s article and the millions of others from TC, AllThingsD, Economist, Bloomberg, Giz, etc. The most striking things to me about this acquisition: 1) Microsoft seemingly forced Google’s hand into outright purchasing Motorola Mobility. Additionally, it doesn’t help that Motorola was contemplating pursuing litigation against other manufacturers of Android, which would […]
It’s All About the Patents, Baby – News & Views
Update: And this story just got loads more interesting thanks to the major development that Google just acquired Motorola Mobility (for $40/share, $12.5 billion in cash total, a 63% increased valuation of their closing price Friday).Edit: So this turned into a flown blown news overview (with some views). Originally I was just going to bring […]
The 10 Keys to Being Scrappy in Business (and Life)
A short and sweet Friday night post, adapted from Docstoc CEO Jason Nazar’s post: 1. Commit to a result. 2. Can you get your result with what you have? 3. Cheat when possible. 4. Avoid analysis by paralysis. 5. Get different results. 6. Negotiate everything. 7. You can’t make it on your own. 8. Exploit […]
Rooting for the Underdog of Online Services: Microsoft’s Hail Mary to its Ecosystem
Other writers have beaten me to the punch in response to “Bing Becomes a Costly Distraction for Microsoft”, ranging from Wired to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, to even MG Siegler. I was originally appalled at how the analysis lacked any sort of depth or foresight, and even more so that a publication such as the “prestigious” NY Times […]
News and Design
I’ve been sitting on this one for a day, and is a response to this article by Andy Rutledge, discussing how digital news is broken. Specifically, he references sites such as the nytimes in how they layout their news page as an enormous swathe of information, with no neat layout, redundant/unnecessary categorizations, and most importantly, the lack of […]
Want to know about.me? One splash page to rule them all.
One of the issues that plagues a professional life is how to give someone access to yourself. Business cards as a medium are antiquated at best, landfill matter at worst. Then again, emailing someone your entire life story and such isn’t a very feasible option either. Tangent: Then again, maybe you don’t want to share […]
Sharing is like a river…with many tributaries
Sharing has become a huge mess of complexity, with many questions to ask yourself before you even share one item. The biggest one for me is “Where do I share, and where does it go from there?” Really, it comes down to an engineering problem – a large system of equations to tell you how […]
Why can’t sharing be easier
I just found a wonderful video of old photos in 3D on someone’s blog (really, it’s pretty neat), and wanted to share. So first, I attempt to copy the URL of the video, head back a tab to Gmail where I’m conversing with a friend, and paste the URL – I had to try again […]
The Kin Is Out – But What Did It Leave Behind?
The Kin may have sold out in a humiliating, short-lived fashion (or rather, for worse, returned to sender), but that begs the question – what did it leave in its hurried footsteps to the nearest bonfire? Despite somewhat poor reviews, a data plan that strangled the would be sexy-slightly-smarter-dumbphone, the Kin did leave two great ideas behind, and most […]
