LinkedIn

I’ve been playing around with some of LinkedIn’s new applications such as box.net, announced with some fanfare by Reid Hoffman.

It’s taken some years for LinkedIn to get here! Do the new social applications make the critical difference?
The first things I’d say is that LinkedIn’s competitor Xing does less of the social online and more of [...]

China Network

The world of online network has transformed over the past two years. I remember a couple of times reaching out to people, bloggers in particular, in India and China some time back but not with any great success (I also tried with bangladeshi blogs).
Recently I opened a correspondence with Christine Lu of the China Business [...]

Hardboiled Creativity

Let me introduce my new friends from the creative community in Singapore, design and conscience flagbearers, Hardboiled an online magazine tagged “Creative Social Revolution” produced in partnership with the designers at Yolk. I had a few e-mail exchanges with one of the guys there - Chris Basil.
It’s objectives are to create a digital [...]

Design, Innovation and Ecology

I have a couple of articles coming up in next week’s Innovation magazine. Both are exciting pieces for me, and I hope readers like them too of course. I will post some excerpts here once they are published but I also wanted to preview the subjects.
The subjects are closely related. One is on art and [...]