Kishore Balakrishnan’s Blog

WordPress 2.5

My Grandfather’s teeth

LiquidPlanner is slow but looks promising

It would have been better to let me assign multiple labels/tags to a task instead of 1 category !

Also, can users be interested in tasks apart from being assigned ?

Dogfood and Dependencies

Who are the 100 authors ?

Today is also Earth Hour 2008 - a global event which will see people around the world turning off their lights for an hour from 8pm

MotionPortrait.com is the technology that automatically creates 3D face model from one single picture, which can be animated in a variety of facial expressions.

kottke.org : How uncanny is her valley?. mm.. what does that mean ?

Y Combination Summer 2008 Funding

via tipjoy blog: How to hack together a Y Combinator application

ThoughtFarmer an integral component of IDEO’s intranet : ..IDEO’s ThoughtFarmer installation is an eclectic mix of ideas, conversations, reference documents and project materials. The content is fluid and constantly changing: every day edits are made as pages evolve, new discussions emerge and new files are uploaded..

Nice.

IDEO is #5 is FastCompany’s 50 Most Innovative companies of 2008

Proxemics is a very interesting concept that I came across at ThoughtFarmer

Michael Arrington in 2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur

The long term answer is that someone needs to create a new technology that allows us to enjoy our life but not miss important messages.

Dear Gmail - Consider the following solution
user1 sends 10 emails to user2
email3 is most important followed by email5 followed by email2
( these emails are basically messages/tasks for user2 ! )
now let user1 sequence/sort messages sent to user1 and
let user2 see this sequence too

Now user2 will never miss the important messages !

SAP Global Survey: Jay Dvivedi, Shinsei Bank

My [Joi Ito] hero Jay Dvivedi, the uber-CIO of Shinsei Bank

Preventive Medicine Research Institute retreat

Dean Ornish’s The Spectrum

Dean Ornish’s Lifestyle Program @ WebMD

fire the workarholics

fire people who are not workaholics

A friend at work : i have heard that people never buy a dell again !

me: maybe rare

yesterday, the _possibly_ rare event happened

SAP Global Survey: Michael Dell : ..The reality is that my response to finding out about a customer’s problem with our equipment is the same today as it was then – let’s resolve our customer’s issues as quickly as possible and let’s learn from each opportunity and get better every time..