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Chinese buyers, that is. Not a bid for 76 gas station, or IBM hardware (now Lenovo). A GM unit then Symentech. On seeing David Stockman on TV. I thought I were back to the early 80’s. This time, just one just needs to replace the word Japanese, for Chinese (remember Michael Keaton and his gold fish?).…
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Last week, I installed a new Search engine (w/ a slash). Today, there is a whole new browser altogether. Rockmelt. It does improve Facebook quite a bit. Steven Johnson calls this phenomenon (of one bright idea led to another), the adjacent possible. It’s like my New Year resolution of hanging out with positive people to…
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In clinical terms: selective memory. Speak ill not of the dead, for instance. Auto-biography is another version of selective memory (before actual amnesia). For me, to see Dow Chemical opens a polymer and acrylic factory in Vietnam, roughly 40 years after Agent Orange got sprayed over the same landscape, is a great example of collective…
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In Selling Professional Services to the Fortune 500, Gary Luefschuetz warns against mix and match people and rates of various service tiers, which will compromise the rate structure. In short, swim against the tide. IBM got it. Cisco follows suit. And HP is moving in that direction. The Economist takes an in-depth look at IT…
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World’s oldest woman. 115 years old. Oldest man, from Japan, 116 years old. Life expectancy in 1900 was 47. World population has increased drastically. (Bio tech century). At the nano level, we can detect early symptoms of all sorts of disease (nano pharma). Ironically, as the West is more aware of health issues and is taking…
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First, with satellite uplink, we experienced reverse information flow in the 90’s. Then the Internet, with Information without borders e.g. tweeting from Iran post-election . There has been some experiment with online funding (P2P micro lending), mashing new concept from India with the beauty of the Web (disintermediation). Kiva helps fund village entrepreneurs, while Kickstarter…
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In his 2005 Standford commencement address, Steve Jobs ended with ” Stay hungry. Stay foolish”. Today, we should add “keep searching”. After Google, Bing and Yahoo and Blekko, which promised to keep out spam. Wild Wild West. More content, more classification, increasing need for trusted recommendation. Part of the reason Facebook is where it is…
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Young people are out in drove, that is, if they were not already on bikes, racing like mad on weekend nights. This time around, in costume. Halloween costume. In Vietnam, of all places. First, the masks trickled in at tourist and expat hot spots. Then, wider adoption is made possible by cheaper goods from next…
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