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Murli Ravi
Interests: cycling, table tennis, yoga, reading, writing
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Sogou uses Chinese input method to expand its search footprint
Sogou is a company that is best known for its software that helps people use a standard QWERTY keyboard to type Chinese characters. They recently integrated search results into their typing software interface and a Tech in Asia blogger writes... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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The CEO’s Weekly Checklist
What should CEOs of young businesses do every week? Here's a great list. Not only for tech companies. Excerpt: "As a first time CEO, there were times when I would sit at my desk and think, “What should I be... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface
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Excerpt: The first real-world demo of Google Glass’s user interface made me laugh out loud. Forget the tiny touchpad on your temples you’ll be fussing with, or the constant “OK Glass” utterances-to-nobody: the supposedly subtle “gestural” interaction they came up... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Here is how Zopnow delivers orders in 3 hours in Bangalore
Excerpt: "As logistics continues to be a challenge to major ecommerce players, a tiny startup in Bangalore is promising intra city delivery in 3 hours. Zopnow, the grocery retailer has managed the feat. The online store, facilitates delivery of almost... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Y U No Lean Your Bike Properly
"There are always at least two ways to accomplish any task: properly and improperly. Drinking beer from a glass, not the bottle; carrying a full umbrella instead of a miniature fold-up; stirring your gin martinis, not shaking them; wearing french... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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How emoji conquered the world
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Excerpt: "In 1995, sales of pagers were booming among Japan’s teenagers, and NTT Docomo’s decision to add the heart symbol to its Pocket Bell devices let high school kids across the country inject a new level of sentiment (and cuteness)... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Schlep Blindness
Excerpt: "There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Why the Largest Social Network in 2015 Won’t be Facebook, and Will Be From Asia
Excerpt: "We’re all familiar with the major social networks in the U.S. (FB, Twitter, etc.) as well as which ones are up and coming (Vine, Snapchat, Kik, WhatsApp). But what are not talked about a lot, are the social networks... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips
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Excerpt: "The government of India, home to many of the world's leading software outsourcing companies, wants to replicate that success by creating a homegrown industry for computer hardware. But unlike software, which requires little infrastructure, building electronics is a far... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Peter Thiel's 3 Rules for Starting a Business
Third rule: make sure ownership, possession and control are aligned. "Bonuses and cash salaries produce opportunities for misalignment. Salary caps are very important. A categorical rule of thumb that Founders Fund has developed is that no CEO should be paid... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Moore's Law and the Origin of Life
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Excerpt: "As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself." More here: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/ This is an... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Governments should clear the decks and let entrepreneurs drive their own destinies
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Excerpt: "Over the last ten years I have worked with something like 35 different government agencies in the UK, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. All are trying to support early stage business through economic intervention of some kind. I... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Why I Sold Zappos
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Excerpt: "Tony Hsieh built his online shoe retailer into an e-commerce powerhouse. But with credit tightening and investors eyeing the exits, Hsieh was forced to ask: Was selling Zappos really the only way to save it? The first time Amazon.com... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Facebook Shatters the Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces
Excerpt: When you sit down with the burly Texan, inside Facebook’s Northern California headquarters, he takes the Open Compute philosophy to new extremes, revealing the blueprint for a computer server that doesn’t even look like a computer server. This design... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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HP’s Project Moonshot and its competition
HP has announced "a new server designed for high-volume internet data centres, the result of something it immodestly termed Project Moonshot." However, "some potential customers for the HPs and Dells of the world now prefer to buy the components and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Gujarat: Myth and reality
Excerpt: "For the last several years, [Gujarat's Chief Minister] Modi has been successful in projecting his "vibrant Gujarat" as a role model of economic growth and himself as ''Vikas Purush". Though one must give due credit to Modi for his... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Gujarat: Myth and reality
Excerpt: "For the last several years, [Gujarat's Chief Minister] Modi has been successful in projecting his "vibrant Gujarat" as a role model of economic growth and himself as ''Vikas Purush". Though one must give due credit to Modi for his... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Time crystals
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Excerpt: "Physical bodies have a natural tendency to settle in a state in which they contain the lowest potential energy. When an object falls under the influence of gravity, its potential energy decreases. The same thing happens when two opposing... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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DBS online banking password security restrictions are puzzling
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A few days ago, I logged in to my Internet banking account with DBS, South East Asia's largest bank by assets, and decided to change my login password. Take a look at the password page: Click to zoom See anything... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Being the proactive investee [Involve the Investor]
Excerpt: "Having been an investee for a sizable part of my work life and then on the other side as an incubator/janitor which operates as a bridge between the investors and an investee, I’ve had a sincere opportunity to step... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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How India can minimize credit-card fraud in 60 days
Excerpt: "The news that more than 30crore (~USD 6Million) of credit card fraud is hitting Indian consumers with potentially more to come is most disturbing – not because of the scale of the fraud, but because of the trivial cost... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Rumor: Google negotiating $1 billion acquisition of WhatsApp
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Excerpt: "Messaging app WhatsApp is in the negotiating phase over prices with Google in what could be Google’s next billion dollar acquisition, according to an inside source." More here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-acquiring-whatsapp/ This is an auto-generated post from my reading list courtesy... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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The frequent fliers who flew too much
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Excerpt: "There are frequent fliers, and then there are people like Steven Rothstein and Jacques Vroom. Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. It was almost like owning a fleet of private... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Following Your Bliss, Right Off the Cliff
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Excerpt: "SO you want to be a writer. Or an artist. Or to open a cupcake shop. What you’ll hear, often, is that you should pursue your dream. Follow your passion. Quit your job and live the life you want."... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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Why RSS still matters
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Excerpt: "Google's bombshell last night that it would be shutting down the Google Reader RSS client hit the web, well, like a bomb. Just as with any major tech event, it spurred a raft of reactions on what is currently... Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2013 at Greek Complexity
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