Category Archives for Digital Life

Taking literary snobbism to new a era

There is an article on NYTimes about how the age of Kindle or e-bookreaders is going to impact the old-fashioned books and the culture associated with book reading. Much of the article is devoted to the physical nature of books … Continue reading

25. April 2009 by pankaj
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Selecting books to read

No question about the fact that book reading is great. After completing college education, only way to grow further is by reading books. But reading a book also means time commitment. Typically a week to few weeks of reading every … Continue reading

20. April 2009 by pankaj
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Livemint's four values of sensex

Livemint has become quite popular during the last year or two of its existence. But sometimes funny things happen on the first page. Example in case is the screenshot above taken on  Nov 14th about 12:30pm IST. This image shows … Continue reading

14. November 2008 by pankaj
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Weighing Machine by a Videogame Company

There has been a visible shift towards design on Beta Thoughts in the past few months. If you are one of the 1.5 readers of this blog you might have noticed it. While I have always been interested in the … Continue reading

07. November 2008 by pankaj
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Dash GPS and Ants

When Dash Express, a GPS with internet connectivity and utilizing the collective knowledge about routes from its users was announced, it was quite an innovative concept. But it seems ants might have beaten them to it. Though a bit of … Continue reading

06. November 2008 by pankaj
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Enabling total customer experience

I have just started reading “Do you matter?” by Apple design guru Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery. In the very first chapter I came across a paragraph which is just too good to be read alone The iPod is an … Continue reading

29. October 2008 by pankaj
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Another gem from the house of Steve

I am sure you have heard the news of new MacBooks. As anything Apple these days you have to admire the industrial design and thought that has gone into building this. The “brick” design or unibody design is quite an … Continue reading

14. October 2008 by pankaj
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Increase Notebook/PC Sales – Promote HD Camcorders

Here is a clue to Intel/AMD – with HD camcorders becoming a commodity a lot more consumers will be mucking around with HD movies at home. Just the playback of HD quality (1080p) movies in AVCHD format is a heart … Continue reading

06. June 2008 by pankaj
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Education pays but no golden ticket

In a NY Times article “The Wealth Trajectory” Greg Mankiw, a Harvard Professor and a famous economics blogger explains the differences in earnings for average workers and the super rich. I found the following statistics good on value of education … Continue reading

20. April 2008 by pankaj
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Nextjob – a job portal with video

YouTube revolutionized the idea of embedding videos into websites. It was a matter of time before before various domain specific websites started embedding videos in their sites. There have been numerous job sites on the internet for job hunting. Now … Continue reading

03. December 2007 by pankaj
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