Category: Innovation

To be or not to be – in Silicon Valley

Post author By goelp
Post date October 11, 2007

I had the opportunity to attended the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in London 3-5 October ’07. A key talk I eagerly awaited was one by Paul Graham on “The Future of Web Startups“. In his talk, Graham made a point, that to really succeed startups need to move to a hub like, and especially, Silicon Valley.

Ryan Carson, the organiser of the event, was not convinced by Graham’s claim and asserted his opinion on the stage after the talk. According to him, startups needn’t be in Silicon Valley to succeed.

This confutation was catered-to by Paul Graham in his following article/essay “Why to move to a startup hub” which in-turn spawned a debate led by Ryan Carson here and here.

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3D search & browsing

Post author By goelp
Post date September 27, 2007

A new, patent pending, technology by SpaceTime lets you search and browse the internet through multiple windows laid in a 3D orientation, either according to relevance or time. For instance, upon a Google search, actual website previews can be seen in a stack of windows which can be browsed quickly and zoomed into if required for detailed perusal. Similarly an eBay search lets you browse through related products in a similar 3D way. [via Mashable]

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Inkless printing with Zink

A small hand-held printer is one of many upcoming products from Zink which produces inkless polaroid quality, water proof prints instantly. “The core of the technology is the paper, which is layered with crystals that, when melted at specific temperatures, become colored.” – [via VentureBeat]

arrow_blue_small Zink offers inkless printing, raises $25M

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‘Green’ architecture at its best

Post author By goelp
Post date September 14, 2007

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have designed a 71-story, 2.2-million-square-foot net-zero-energy-skyscraper called Pearl River Tower as the headquarters of CNTC Guangdong Tobacco Company in new city of Guangzhou, China. The high-tech design employs four ways to make it environmentally friendly: reduction, reclamation, absorption and generation. Check the link for pictures. – [via BD4D]

SOM’s Pearl River Tower

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The age of electric cars

Post author By srungta
Post date July 22, 2007

The electric green valley car with lot of promise. Flashy, $98k tag and fast. Team is impressive: 250 employees in all create a new car, focus on core differentiating features, outsource mundane stuff and manufacturing, core tech and the bet is on laptop batteries (lots of them); and invent their own business model in mature auto segment. Success is to be seen, looks promising 🙂

Tesla: A Carmaker With Silicon Valley Spark

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The Network/Internet is the Computer

Post author By srungta
Post date July 22, 2007

…how we change the fundamental nature of the Web. Web 2.0, mash-ups, and feeds are interesting, but they are step one of a two-step process. The Web today is a push model. People write content that is pushed out to people who read it. Programmers write Web applications that end users “use.” People write mash-ups or scripts to access the “pushed” content. These applications run on the PC today, but I believe that they could migrate into the Internet “cloud.” The Internet now becomes the programmable Internet and can run my applications for me. The tag line is, “The Internet is the computer.”… by Ex-IBM Fellow and now MS Technical Fellow (note: the emphasis on Software)

btw, Sun have had this tag line for sometime. See Schwartz’s blog entry (note: the emphasis on Hardware), their idea was well ahead of its time, but execution for this vision isn’t simple or quick, and thus hasn’t been so!