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How long can movies like Blow Up be made?

April 11th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars , Uncategorized

No, not the 1966 Antonioni movie (which I was young enough to enjoy illicitly in 1970) but its Brooklyn remake by Vinnie.
It didn’t matter that it was late at night in Chennai, that I had a very early morning flight, and that the broadband connection I has was less than perfect, that it took many [...]

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Markets are (Dangling) Conversations…with a difference

April 11th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Four pillars , Uncategorized

And you read your Emily Dickinson

And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we’ve lost… Simon and Garfunkel, The Dangling Conversation
The more I think about it, the more I realise what incredible changes there are in value creation when we co-create and trade and exchange across open marketplaces.
Now I can [...]

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More on blogging

April 11th, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

[BTW If any of you find that comments you made in the last day or so somehow disappeared, you’re right. It is not because I’ve suddenly taken on control-freak levels of moderation. The answer is simpler.
By accident or design, there were problems with my site and I had to revert to backup.]
My previous post, on [...]

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Four Pillars: Collaborative filtering and tags

April 11th, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars , Uncategorized

While working on the implications of better tagging and better learning (as part of syndication and search) I recently visited Rashmi Sinha’s site (as recommended by Chris Messina whom I found via Tara Hunt who was RageBoyed my way). Very interesting post on collaborative filtering and tags, something that everyone interested in that space should [...]

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