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rajendran commented on Toondoo Thanks a lot for this wonderful blow-by-blow review and tutorial on how to make a cartoon using the ToonDoo platform. We were about to release a help video and documentation, but have held it back because it doesn’t hold a candle to your wonderful effort. :-) Thanks again. Rajendran. ToonDude from www.jambav.com 3 years ago
rajendran commented on New Technologies in Education Hi, Thanks a lot for mentioning ToonDoo as a SuperCool Tool for Education. We are really thrilled about the prospect, and are working hard to make it even better. Rajendran. ToonDude from www.jambav.com 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Software Cycles – Forget waterfall, dump iterative, embrace “Remarkable Themed Releases”, strive for constant improvement, and a clean backyard Collaborate instead of Compete – The focus is on the end-user. Not on how to go one up on your competitor. Data is the new King – Like we saw in the earlier slides, Data (and accompanying metadata) becomes the most important piece in the Web 2.0 Game. Rip, Mix, Burn, Mash, all happens ON TOP OF data. Programming Languages – It is going to be an alphabet soup. So, focus instead on algorithms and mathematics. They will be your unique differentiators. Not the next latest shiny domain specific programming language. No longer a lone wolf – Gone are the days of the lone wolf, antisocial programmer nerd. She now needs to collaborate, join hands, develop together, probably even with total strangers from across the world. Communication skills become much more important than before. 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Slideshare doesn’t seem to honor hyperlinks within content. All slides that come after this point, were in fact, to be hyperlinked from other portions of the slideshow. That is not working. Sorry! The slides that follow are basically example slides of good design, mashups, etc, representing Web 2.0. 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? A big role in your life – Second Life, Virtual Interactions, Commerce, Your Daily Dose Wisdom of the crowds – None of us is as smart as all of us An idea, A friend, a garage – Amazon’s AS3, EC2 Embrace chaos, Enjoy risk – A way of life in these changing times Read and Write the Web – Remember to contribute, Web 2.0 DEPENDS on YOU! (Times Magazine!) 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Okay, we now come to the final personality type – the anonymous non-IT type… (I hope there is nobody like that among you!, at least not for long!) 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Tautological oxymoron – Everybody is a marketer, there are no marketers! Getting vs. Keeping Attention – It is easy to be seen, VERY VERY HARD to be remembered (digg, delicious, reddit…) Avoid Spin – Remember MS on XML formats? Steve Jobs on IPod scratches? Viral and Word-of-Mouth – Tell a friend, share favourites, Six-Degrees, Smugmug dollars… Get the conversation going – No monologues, only dialogues here, respect even dumb/angry customers 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Guess who this is? He famously calls you to visit his site and click on his head! A true web 2.0 marketer if ever there was one! (He is actually drinking from his book!) SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of seven books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list. 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Let me interrupt the show briefly, guys. I just heard from one of the seniors here that I am in deep trouble. I probably underestimated your exposure to the web in general, web 2.0 in particular, and I am here with a milelong presentation about stuff you already know. So, before I get going, embarrassing myself, I have a favour to ask. My presentation is in two parts. – Web 2.0, and the are-you-ready bit. I would like to know how much time I have to spend telling you about Web 2.0. No, I am not going to shoot quiz-format questions to you all, I just want to HEAR a few questions from you about Web 2.0. That will help me decide how much time to spend on my first part. Please help! Waiting!! 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Okay then, Here comes Web 2.0! 1.9, as I originally called it in the first slide, and a 0.1, a very important ingredient to this whole 2.0 platform, the conversation, the two-way dialogue I kept referring about. I called it 1.9 then, for it missed the vital two-way-dialogue factor. Here it is, then, 1.9 + 0.1 = 2.0. So, ask me your questions, and let me try to answer them! 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Simplicity – Less is more. Don’t confuse Simple with Simplistic. We need features. But, only the features we need! Strong Color, Cute Icons, Bold Text, Ample White space – Doesn’t need an explanation, does it? Sitebranding vs. Contentbranding – As the navigational approaches, even the actual place on the web a piece of content is viewed become many and varied, site design and branding becomes less important than content branding! Think Leftbrain, once in a while – Leftbrain is the hemisphere where you do your logical, systematic, mathematical, calculation-oriented, algorithm-oriented thinking. A designer can hardly be a web designer (what with CSS, XHTML, fluid laying out, etc) without learning some kind of programming (javascript and AJAX, just to name two) Think Flock – Remember, when you visualize your typical user, look at her not as a single person sitting with a computer in a dark room, instead visualize group browsing, a crowd, a mob, a connected community, sharing, chatting, gossipping, mashing up. 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? No, this is not Richard P Feynman, though he resembles him quite a lot. Guess who this is? Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri to Virginia and Edward E. Tufte), a professor emeritus of statistics, graphic design, and political economy at Yale University has been described by The New York Times as "the Leonardo da Vinci of Data". He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Tufte has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Guess who these two are? The name of their company is actually a spelling mistake! Co-founders Larry Page, president of Products, and Sergey Brin, president of Technology, brought Google to life in September 1998. 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Just in case you are dreaming of working in a software company doing Web 2.0 software, or Infoware as Oreilly called it, I would say you would broadly fall into one of the four personality types I have mentioned here. 3 years ago
rajendran commented on The Web 2.0 Lifestyle, Are you ready for it? Well, actually, I will be calling it 1.9, for there is a missing ingredient I will be referring to towards the end of the presentation. :-) 3 years ago
rajendran commented on IT - Reaching the UNreached CNN runs a Future Summit, and an ad appears in the Outlook Magazine, every now and then. This one said:- How will your kids get to school in 2029, and waxed eloquent about GPS technology, and driverless cars, and whatnot… What was appalling, what was monstrously bad, was that, this visionary artist had somehow failed to realize that the school, as a concept, as a place to ‘go to everyday, dropped and picked up later in the day’, would change.. It better change, if the other enhancements like GPS driven driverless cars have to occur too! Just to think of it, 25 years from now, we still go to school the ‘oh-so-traditional’ way!?!!?! Yikes!! 3 years ago
rajendran commented on IT - Reaching the UNreached Jokes apart, there is a deep philosophical thought I saw here. Homework must not be ‘outsourceable’ or even ‘outsource’worthy. If the math homework for this boy is, “Solve the hundred problems below” and each problem is a set of two three digit numbers to sum up, obviously he would want to outsource it. If on the other hand, it were, “Now that I have shown you what the results are, come up with your own rule about what is carry and what is borrow”, then it becomes interesting, useful, … 3 years ago
rajendran commented on IT - Reaching the UNreached Join the raging conversation at Sridhar’s own blog at Jambav. Here:- http://blogs.jambav.com/svembu/?title=on_galvanometers_and_exams&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 3 years ago
rajendran commented on IT - Reaching the UNreached Read relevant portions from that bestseller book, here:- http://www.design.caltech.edu/Misc/pirsig.html 3 years ago
rajendran commented on IT - Reaching the UNreached The spectacled types are boys from ‘top notch’ schools who got through the tough Joint Entrance Exam and are now pursuing elite engineering degrees at the Indian Institute of Technology. The girls are from AdventNet University, a unique place of learning they decided to join after passing out of a government aided corporation school. The aim here was to show, irrespective of school type, and irrespective of student performance level, the cribs about the system were pretty much the same. 3 years ago

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