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Was lucky enough to escape the office and be inspired today at the MI Expo 2012, here are the topline updates (unfortunately had to leave early afternoon for meetings):
How Google does A/B testing with their YouTube Chrome campaign (see stats) The 8 Innovation principles of Google:
How the Work [...]
The priest stood up and told us a story about the man and his 4 wives.
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We Chinese have a lot of stories to tell. Handy metaphors. Stories that make you think.
This one starts with a man who married his childhood sweetheart. He loved her dearly, unfortunately she was very fragile and was [...]
Many times I am asked, what is social media?
It’s funny how just 3 years ago my tech friends would literally shudder when they heard the term; as too often marketing terms get spinned around and completely lose their real meaning. Think of terms like ‘Web 2.0‘, ‘taxonomy‘, ‘the cloud‘.
But there’s [...]
Just came back from a special talk at the Foundling Museum that really blew my mind away.
I have always been very interested in the attachment theory, in terms of the way we bonded as children affects the way we relate to others as we grow [...]
Some of you who followed my blog may notice that I tend to write a reflective piece (like this and this) towards the end/beginning of the year. Every year I was surprised by much learning/people/inspiration that came into my life; for that, I thank you. Here is my list for 2010,
1. A [...]
by Liu XiaoBo’s speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, with exerpts below (more about Liu),
On ‘I have no enemies’,
“Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and hinder [...]
Another great post from Setty’s blog:
Mini Saga #61 – Thoughtfulness
The waitress repeated, “Medium $3, Large $3.50.” The kid had emptied his pocket. He had $4 in total. The waitress was getting impatient. Five minutes. Finally, the kid asked for a medium scoop. Later, the waitress came to clean and swallowed hard. There [...]
I picked up on Danah’s post commenting on Clay Shirky’s post on ‘A Rant about women’,
It’s tempting to imagine that women could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying [...]
Have been researching more on the business side of social media due to a recent project and it seems really challenging to wrap the space so I am keen to share with you the thought process.
Social media, like all media, is a medium for people to connect Social media is defined as digital medium [...]
Here is a Chinese story,
There were two brothers who lived on the 80th floor of a building.
They went out together for a party without noticing there’s no lift service on the day. The brothers were very frustrated when they realised that they were kind of doomed, but they decided [...]
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