Your “Experiencing Self” vs. Your “Remembering Self” and the Implications for Software Design !

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Zia Yusuf

I have been attending TED for a couple of years and again this year was amazed by the speakers and their insights.  For those of you not familiar with TED I would suggest that you visit the TED website  where you will find a treasure chest of the most amazing talks on a broad range of subjects [...]

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Starbucks vs. Peet’s: Why the IPhone matters more than the coffee.

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Zia Yusuf

The coffee at Peet’s tastes better than Starbucks (at least to me). Peet’s offers free wifi while at Starbucks you have to pay for wifi through AT&T.  The price of a medium Café Latte at Peet’s and at Starbucks (I refuse to call a medium a “Grande”) in Palo Alto is the same @ $3.35 [...]

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Open Government – are Data.Gov and Apps.Gov delivering on their promise ?

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Zia Yusuf

There is certainly a long list of challenges facing the Obama administration – the economy, healthcare, and two wars just to name a few.  Regardless of your politics, I think there is one aspect of the Administration’s efforts that require further discussion and exploration.  On his first day in office President Obama signed the Memorandum on [...]

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Why words are killing the adoption of innovation !

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Zia Yusuf

Ruby on Rails is not a story about Ruby and her travels on a train.  A Desktop is actually not the top of your desk.  No, a Cookie is not something you would want to eat.  A Flash memory is not what you have when you have had a little too much to drink.   A Cloud  [...]

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The Tablet PC – Invention (2001) and Innovation (2010) – What happened ?

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Zia Yusuf

In the Fall of 2001 at the Comdex show in Las Vegas Bill Gates talked about the digital decade and introduced the future of computing the “Tablet PC”.  Well the good news is the future of computing seems to be here, except it appears it will be delivered by Apple today in 2010, not Microsoft in 2001.   Now [...]

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