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Posts Tagged ‘Ideas

Ideas to Toss: Energy Storage FAT?

Posted by: Vijay on: September 9, 2008

It’s quite possible that I am just plain simply crazy, but if you bear with me and try to understand how my brain and thought process works, I think there is most certainly an idea here.
So I was sitting through a Sustainability Conference in IIT Madras today and there was one talk on Energy Consumption. [...]

Ideas to Toss: Virtual Community Watch. Preserving Earth

Posted by: Vijay on: August 15, 2008

There was sometime back when was doing a rough math on how many live camera streams there are. There are some that are pointed towards the “habitat” of the Loch Ness Monster, there are enough live traffic camera, and plenty of them pointed towards a birds nest or so. And if you take the example [...]

Ideas to Toss: Beacon Unplugged.

Posted by: Vijay on: June 7, 2008

Social Networks are the way to the future. Ah, I can see people getting ready with pitchforks to nail me to the wall, but lets hear this out.
There is this basic ideology. The paradox of the masses. Whenever at any given network the number of members become too huge, the system starts to break down. [...]

Ideas are Immortal. Let’s Recycle.

Posted by: Vijay on: May 24, 2008

There is nothing new under the sun. Nothing Whatsoever. Ideas are just evolved from one form to another to adapt and wear a new dress.
I often used to quote the phrase that “Ideas are worth nothing. Implementation is all that matters”. Its true, but it also frustrates a lot of people who think they have [...]

Ideas to Toss: Professional UGC.

Posted by: Vijay on: May 2, 2008

Professional User-Generated Content. You think its Oxymoronic? Think again. Let me cite to you two examples. Rocketboom, and ZeFrank. I dont think Frank is doing the show anymore, but Rocketboom is essentially a low-budget, five minute clip which basically is one of those “tequila shot” videos, giving you a summary of everything thats going on [...]

Ideas to Toss: Does India need a Unified Directory?

Posted by: Vijay on: February 12, 2008

I was thinking of this while I was sitting through a brainstorming meeting and there were heated debates on the monetization capabilities of local business search services such as what Google Local is doing.
Well, there are arguments for and against it and for one, I dont believe that vertical silos of the same information [...]


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