My hiccups with Snow Leopard

October 22, 2009

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I upgraded to Snow Leopard and went off to Khandala for the weekend, assuming everything will work quicker! Most things did, and my three year old macbook is really quick again, but I had problems with opening powerpoint and in getting connected via my Reliance Netconnect modem. Yesterday, I found that my printer was [...]

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2 hard disk crashes and a swollen battery; still, I love my Mac!

September 12, 2009

I’ve had my share of problems with my black Macbook!! Two hard disk crashes (one was before I got Time Machine and was not pleasant) and now a swollen battery. The first symptom was that I found my trackpad was behaving weird – keys sticking, cursor jumping all over the place. A little [...]

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links for 2009-09-10

September 11, 2009

Evangelist: Think! says @elsua in a great post on social computing and the corporate world
CLIP (ed): "During all of this time I have been thinking about my role as a technology evangelist, specially in the area of Social Software, and its impact within the corporate world. & how the change towards a new, more social, [...]

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links for 2009-09-06

September 7, 2009

There Will Be Web Jobs for Social Scientists | good news [via @ndhanthro at anthrodesign group]
"Social Science Meets Technology in Next-Generation Jobs," – report by Gartner that discusses four areas of jobs in the near future, which implies that "most companies aren't really geared toward taking advantage of the impact of these online [...]

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Reading Ahead … ethnography on evolution of books and reading

September 6, 2009

Is a good series from Portigal Consulting on an exploratory study using an ethnographic approach to explore the evolution of books and reading habits, and is intended to inspire conversations and innovations around the future of reading, an issue that’s quite a meme these days in the digital space! The series takes us on [...]

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links for 2009-09-05

September 6, 2009

Facebook Claims 65 Million Mobile Users | via @raquelrecuero
Facebook said more than 65 million people are actively using the social network on their mobile devices.
The social network said it had just 20 million active mobile users at the beginning of the year. The site has seen explosive growth in the mobile department thanks to Facebook [...]

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Will it kill us?

September 5, 2009

Leon Benjamin argues that command and control organisation is actually killing people, in a post titled “How public companies are killing their own employees”.
“I was working in Bangalore with Tesco a few years ago. I remember having conversations with successful upwardly mobile young Indian technologists about new houses, cars, holidays.  I pointed out that what [...]

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The Progress Project

September 2, 2009

The Progress Project is the initiative set up by Nokia and Lonely Planet that is focused on capturing the human impact of mobile innovation; tackling social, environmental or economic challenges; bringing to life real stories of people through video. The site’s not fully live yet – I was told it will be up and running [...]

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links for 2009-08-31

September 1, 2009

FutureChat – Indian Crafts and Mobiles | interesting thoughts around craftsmen, artisans & mobile innovations!
CLIP: Since I work with craftsmen in rural India, the applicability of mobile innovation, and the changes it could bring in my field about seem almost limitless.
1. Craft services – this service could actually tie up with either a Dastkar, Dastkari [...]

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My laptop, my MBA! Commercial Mobile Innovation for SME’s

August 31, 2009

This is the last post in the series on Mobile Innovations based on a learning journey that I was a part of. Here’s the full series:

Mobile Innovations – Introduction
Nokia Life Tools – Agriculture Service – “The Internet for the next million” – mobile innovations in rural India
Nokia Life Tools – Education Service – “Raju [...]

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The old, the not-so-old, and many facets of the new

August 31, 2009

I took this picture of Dhanaji Dongre, the farmer we visited during our Nokia Life Tools immersions, on my test N97 (which has a pretty cool camera but a lousy touch-screen esp. when compared to the iPhone). He is taking a picture of the crew on his own little camera phone, who in turn, are [...]

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“The Internet for the Next Million” – Mobile Innovations in Rural India

August 31, 2009

It’s how Natesh, Head of  Nokia Life Tools India describes the program – I like the realism when he uses ‘million’ and not ‘millions’ or ‘billion’! Alan Reiter, who was with us during our rural immersions has a great article on Life Tools – here’s an excerpt:
Farmers view Dhanaji Dongre’s crops in Khandali, India, and [...]

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“Raju, go and get some bakery” – Mobile Innovations

August 30, 2009

Umesh Markat, a 9th grade school boy, shyly rattles off this line, quietly proud that he can actually string together a sentence in English! Another example of a sentence in English he shared with us – “Raja Ravi Verma is the best Indian artist”. In the picture below, taken by fellow-blogger Alan Reiter, Umesh shows [...]

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links for 2009-08-04

August 5, 2009

InfoLady – the rural mobile troubleshooter | via @rmack & @whiteafrican
Clip: "The village information workers, 'mobile ladies', were renamed 'info ladies'. An info lady possesses a laptop or classmate computer, internet modem, headphone, webcam, digital camera, photo printer and a mobile phone for giving the entire livelihood information services at a cheaper rate, and fast.
Help [...]

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