Information anxiety leads to winner takes it all

by | Jan 22, 2010 | Post

I wanted to know whether to say "overcharge customers" or "overcharge for customers" so I turned to our everlasting frienemy Google. As a good adviser, it encouraged me to add the word definition so that queries from online dictionaries would come...

Case study: rubbing salt in the wounds – Palm

by | Jan 21, 2010 | Post

Palm is the inventor of PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). I feel obliged to spell out PDA; it's been that long since its entire market had disappeared. But their position in the history as one of the godfathers of smartphone–the other the Newton from...

Cram schools help create less xenophobical future 2/2

by | Jan 20, 2010 | Post

So in the last entry I wrote how the Asian students fleeing overseas will do a favor to almost everybody involved in the process. Cram schools can proudly show their achievements off to attract more income generators (parents). The students themselves start enjoying...

Cram schools help create less xenophobical future 1/2

by | Jan 19, 2010 | Post

It looks like sending kids to schools which start when the schools end is required by law in all Asian countries. Kids releasing their evening energies in cram schools are one of the cultural connections that unite East-Asian countries like Taiwan, China, Korea, and...

From outsourced to outsoftwared

by | Jan 18, 2010 | Post

Another year, another TechCrunch article. This time they talk about an iPhone application that helps filling tax returns by taking a snapshot of the paper form. It is probably the most awesome software of the year so far (well it is still January) utilizing the fact...

How to make a ballsy PR move

by | Jan 17, 2010 | Post

One of the more authoritative British media, BBC news has declared that fat people with distorted self-image were expelled from an elite dating site. "As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard...