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kweschun to Canadians and rest of world !!

I am alpha testing  kweschun .  I posted my first kweschun , please go here and answer my kweschun :)-

Oh, What is  Kewschun ??

"Kweschun harnesses the collective wisdom of the internet to predict the future.

The premise is, if you can get enough different people to answer a kweschun, the many will be smarter than the few, and you'll get more accurate results "

Congrat's to  Chris and his team for such a kewl service !!

Update: I was just informed there is some malformed links occuring. In case you have a problem, please email me

Riya to Lunch public beta on Feb 6th

Riya, which hosts a photo search service based on face and text recognition, announced Thursday that its service will be available to the public from Feb. 6th

The service on the company's site  is currently available only to a few users who are testing the service, Munjal Shah, chief executive officer and cofounder of Riya, told reporters in Bangalore Thursday.

Whats he doing in Bangalore, my home town ??  is there going to be a link into vast.com somewhere ?

Notes from Naked Conversations !!

I ordered 6 copies of this book by Robert and Shel.  Their First Podcast on this book is here.

I like these tidbits of converstaions;

in the blog they talk about their dreams, their hopes, their failures, their solutions, maybe people comment in and send solutions in.

So in a naked kind of conversational way, the fully clothed versions are the overproduced stuff, and the naked versions are the raw truth.  The endorsement side of it.

The customers would leave and they would tell others that they had a good deal or a bad deal.  It was a personal endorsement from someone you know and trust.

use blog search engines to read everybody in the world who says something about your company which is really powerful.

I memorized 3000 SKUs in my store and I memorized them twice.  Once for my store, and once for the competitor  [liar liar pants on fire.. Robert could you reproduce this ??? after all your memorized it.. it cant be forgotten :)-!! ]]

One simple rule for doing it right is “Be Real.”   If you are going to blog, be authentic. Keep your conversations naked.  Let people know who you are and where you are coming from. We call if being transparent. 

“the audience is smarter than I am, more connected than I am, wealthier than I am, more educated than I am, and comes from a problem from a lot more viewpoints than I do.”  They make me smarter by participating in that.

Sometimes they were very kind, and sometimes they gave us what the blogosphere calls “tough love”. 

He was naked at that point.  The audience pulled his pants down![Joe Nacchio, right?  ]]

It is like a brawl…a brawl for the truth. [John's Comment !!) so, kewl..he knocks me off me seat laughing... yeah its the brawl of truth !!

The way I know a company really “gets it” is when they start listening to their customers and start building better products based on the conversation that they are having with their customers"

A lot of companies come into the blogosphere and do press releases on their blogs

When I asked him the most important thing about blogging he said, “Listen, really listen.” 

Because I write on the web everyday.  What a bizarre way to meet people.

Any final parting comments ?

About the book?  Nah, that’s too commercial.

A good Conversations happening here. This is the live verersion of the ClueTrain Manifesto actually happening, its kinda funcky business

Top 50 -SuperComputers !!

Heres, major shake-up of the TOP5 ;

No. 1 is DOE's IBM BlueGene/L system

No. 2 is a similar but smaller IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution system.

The new No. 3 is the ASCI Purple system at LLNL, also built by IBM , but based on the pSeries 575 servers. It reached 63.4 TFlop/s.

The Columbia system at NASA/Ames built by SGI slipped to the No. 4 spot.

Two systems at DOE at  Sandia National Laboratories occupy Nos. 5 and 6. (the ASCI RED SYSTEM).

Via :Top500

"This book leaves you no wiggle room !!

This book leaves you no wiggle room ! Why , Its a story about Kyle Maynard, a nineteen year-old wise man, and author of the book, "No Excuses."  It may seem strange to think of someone not yet twenty as a wisdom keeper, let alone as the author of a book that those of us who are older and more experienced could learn from.  Yet Kyle's story is a silver bullet to the heart of the excuse vampire that drains us of our dreams.

On the surface, the story seems ordinary enough - a young, gifted athlete who triumphs in wrestling, football, weightlifting, and pretty much anything else he attempts ... except maybe typing.  His typing is only a respectable but not stellar 50 words per minute.  That seems rather lackluster until you learn that he was born without hands or feet and types this speed with elbow stumps.  Plus, he's already in the Wrestling Hall of Fame and is recognized as the World's Strongest Teen, bench pressing almost 400 pounds.

Via:GoodMorningThinkers

CES 2006 - Keynote Events

CES 2006 - Keynote Schedule
- Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 6:30 p.m.
Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corp.

- Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 9 a.m.
Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO, Sony Corp.
Special address prior by Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, CEA
Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel Corp. - 4:30 p.m.

- Friday, January 6, 2006 - 9 a.m.
Terry Semel, Chairman and CEO, Yahoo! Inc.
Larry Page, Co-founder and President, Google Inc. - 4 p.m.

Update : "Sallie Hofmeister: Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason it would be so cheap — perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars. Bear Stearns analysts speculated in a research report last month that consumers would soon see something called "Google Cubes"  - Hat tip Randy

CCC, Lessing & MSFT

I have been following the story of the Creative Comman Project. Microsoft chips and helps them with the remaining $25K .

Was this hush money or just a good gesture from MSFT ?? All in All, this is a good thing. I am happy for Lessing !!

Update : Flickr also helps !!

Meditation Room !!

My Value's  Room is slowing being built up.

I am building three value systems into my room. Which I hope to complete shortly. I have chosen 3 walls of the room to create independent value systems;

1) Left Wall - My Belief System : This is place where I will work my belief Systems.  Yup the "oh father.." and the "hail Mary" prayers :)

2) Centre Wall - My Discipline system: Mediation on the soft arts and on Tai Chi.

3) Right Wall -My Service System : Adopt the Japense Tea Cermony as part of humility and creed of Busido.

More will follow as I do it up. Any Suggestions from Blogsphere ??

Goal Setting

I trolled this from Tom Peters Posting. Here, in the comments section RTodd sez :

The main thing I would add for resolutions is to think of them as goals; not just for the new year but as building blocks for the next 5 or 10. Each year at this time, my family and I make personal, professional, spiritual, and financial goals that align with our long term plans, hopes or dreams (not sure of the word there). What amazes me is that unless something dramatic happens like 9-11, Dot-Com bubble, or some other life changing event, we make 95% of them year after year. Even if one of these events occur, the goal is only put of for a year or two; the result is inevitable. What seems impossible on Jan 1 will appear simple come Dec 31"

This is a good example of holistic goal setting approach. Thank you Rtodd, I always wanted to be able to define what I meant by holistic goal setting, but you did it very neatly here !! :)-

Good Customer Experience !!

Ok LocalStreet is OUT and GrenVilleStation is IN !!

I just wanted to send someone a gift basket and ordered thru localStreet and then discovered that the franchise is actually being serviced by GrenvilleStation !! They screwed up big time !!

Anyhow James of GrenVilleStation , steps up to the plate and helps me get it going (albiet a little late). But then again, he said in a communiction " I'm going to have to talk to localstreets because they knew of our policies in december and didn't abide by them." -   Well, I dont 'know what the role play is here and connection points, All I wanted was someone to listen to me and take action.

I think that he did great, under the season pressure. So there, to all my readers, if you want to really really want to ship gifts and flowers in and around Canada/US , then contact GrenVilleStation, they do give you attention and are upfront with sincere service.  They Now have the status (in my books) as prefered partner for flowers and gift baskets !! :)- 

""When it's more than just the thought that counts, count on Grenville Station to deliver your holiday gifts in style!

James, Happy Holidays to you and Yours !! :)

P.S : JAzzman are you reading this  ?  Don't order thru LocalStreet !!