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According to the Consumer Electronics Association, the average American household has 24 electronic gadgets. This may seem extraordinary at a time when device convergence is all the rage but practically speaking, “true” device convergence remains ahead of us. This, not only because we’re carrying multiple devices for multiple needs – I read on the iPad, [...]

I am obsessed with the twin ideas of innovation and invention as the engines that propel us forward. And its not the idea of reaching a destination that interests me as much as the process of getting there, because the process disciplines our brains to think creatively, leapfrog real or imaginary boundaries – and that [...]

WIRED ran an opinion piece last week on writer Neal Stephenson’s fear that big thinking – the sort that propelled the space race – has slowed down considerably in present times. The piece tickled a thought that’s been skirting the edge of my mind for a while. I’m just as guilty as the next person when [...]

“If Amazon was web 1.0…Fab is web 3.0″ “Startup” is not the word that comes to mind when we see one of Fab.com’s lovingly designed online sales, or receive one of their exquisite emails in the Inbox. Yet, Fab.com’s current incarnation was launched just over a year ago, and this startup’s design aesthetic and values [...]

Larry Page took over as CEO of Google in April 2011 and in July 2011 Google went on to announce the impending closure of Google Labs, the company’s experimental playground used to bring new features to users. I remember thinking “is this the beginning of the end?” As it turns out, it could well bookend [...]

Look at this depiction of Paul Graham‘s Startup Curve that Fred Wilson recently wrote about. Note the “Wiggles of False Hope” and “The Promised Land” events in the graph. Now look at this graphic interpretation of an actual website’s growth in the last three years (Source: quancast). This website is GoodReads, a social network for [...]