#Sopa #Censorship Show them the money!
Power sits on top of humanity because it exists to control human flaws. Human beings are corrupt by nature - most would rather not do many of the seemingly right things - like pay for books, movies, music - which is why we need laws.
The idea is simple - it’s easier to shut down the site (Facebook, Google, Youtube… any site really) - than to go after the users. But with this law it’ll be easy to frame any company - it can actually effectively be used to unplug all the government sites - unless they put in a clause to keep them away from this law.
I think it’s important for people to know who these people are who support such censorship - because they need to understand how a law can be created to force the media and technology companies to work together. We have in our hands possibly the greatest distribution channel ever made - use it!
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Zomato may change something very fundamental - #food
Every now and then there is a company which has the potential to change or rather inspire quality by showing organizations a promise of more business. Zomato is right now at that place, where they have a statistically significant amount of data on Indian restaurants to help create a change.
Not many years ago - eating out in India was almost always concluded with some form of unhappy abdominal pressure. Having the restaurants care about a rating will make them cleaner and possibly even make them look into innovating unique offerings. But there seems to be some fundamental problem in the system of rating and this can be improved in some ways… It’s a long list but please read slowly and carefully to understand the ideas…
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Very old documentary about Next - the company Steve Jobs created. The video contains a lot of footage from their internal retreat meetings when the company was being formed. It was a NeXT Computer that was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN that became the world’s first web server. Apple later acquired NeXT and got Steve Jobs back eventually.
Very modern and accurate depiction of our state of affairs.
The Last Question - eerie!
Complete at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54421334/last.png
Offline Vs Online Retailing - FIGHT! Don’t actually.
Maybe I am just being naive but to me it makes perfect business sense. The retailing industry players, it seems, have still not realized that one or a few very large companies can’t really provide an optimized shopping experience - at least not in the way we are expecting this business to be conducted. As more and more people want to be treated as “Humans” the solution we’ll have from the big players will always be a compromised one. We would all love it if things were better than what they already are.
Shopping is a very personal thing - I am very picky when I go in to buy things for my son - I would definitely like someone to go give me some personal attention. Right now where I live the idea of”customer satisfaction” hasn’t really peaked - people are still learning that “customers are kings and queens” but in more mature markets this is pretty much the norm - you do more business if you treat your customers well and go the extra mile to serve their needs.
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Google+Facebook : Ideas for improving our social sites!
The basic problem is that no one is really sure what the perfect social application would be - Facebook, twitter are their best bets right now but there is immense room for improvement and there will be changes which will come in the future which will get us closer to a real online life social experience.
What is being social? Social means different things to different people - to the constant chit-chatter sister it’s about hyper connecting with all her friends, to a family person who wants to remain in touch it’s about sharing, liking replying to various family updates, to a business person it’s about developing new connections and keeping the existing ones. Each group has a different idea about being social and the reason Facebook is winning is because of it’s modular design.
This is a very long post about some new things which can help improve our online social experience.
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This should be addressed to all our members
Thank you very much for accepting me as a member of CiteHR. For the last 67 years I am a student, starting my learning and training from the laps of my beloved mother. I have a little time to stay in this world but have desire to learn. You are doing a sacred job by disseminating knowledge through CiteHR. My prayers are with you!
Riaz Shirazi
This should be addressed to the all of us - all members of the Cite community. Which is why I am posting it here for all to read.
Quora - will it be the greatest Q&A site ever?
There is a question on Quora about “What turns people off about Quora?” - I think I found my answer when this reply of mine somehow got collapsed right after posting because of some vaguely described reasons in their faq. Here’s the link and my answer:
http://www.quora.com/Quora/What-turns-people-off-about-Quora
I use facebook to connect with my family. I use twitter to follow the people I want to follow. I am now using Quora to read about and connect with people in the startup community. People go to Google for search, gmail for mail - people need classification of what the product does. More examples - airbnb, dropbox, elance, 99designs… the list goes on and on.
There is a trend here. It’s rare that a site would come up and say I can do all subjects - one such rare site is wikipedia. But on wikipedia the users are alligned to believe that they are building the greatest encyclopedia that ever existed - people want to be part of that - they want to own their subjects there.
