SAST Wingees » Trendspotting http://www.sastwingees.org Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:15:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 OrgChart Wiki experiment by Forbes.com http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/09/04/orgchart-wiki-experiment-by-forbescom/ http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/09/04/orgchart-wiki-experiment-by-forbescom/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:00:00 +0000 Sukumar http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/09/04/orgchart-wiki-experiment-by-forbescom/ Recently came across an interesting experiment being done by Forbes magazine with their orgchart wiki project. They are expecting the ... ]]> Tweet

Recently came across an interesting experiment being done by Forbes magazine with their orgchart wiki project. They are expecting the wider Internet community to update the org charts of the public companies. They already have uploaded the information about boards of directors for all public companies. They feature key companies like Apple and Google and Intel on the home page of the project.

One feature i thought they could easily add is links to articles they have written on the people featured in these org charts. For instance, i should be able to click on Steve Jobs and look at all the articles Forbes has written about him or featuring him.

Seems like an interesting use of Wiki (they actually use an Adobe Flash based UI instead of Ajax). What do you all think?

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A company called monthlytshirt.com has started a cool new monthly subscription service. When you subscribe you receive a TShirt every month with a topical message printed on it. Check out this image below of a sample T Shirt. For the  clueless – it refers to the latest Tyra Banks obesity stuff.  What do you all think?

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Google has filed a patent for a system to have digital billboards connected to the inventory at a nearby store for advertised products. So when you are out driving for milk, you can check the billboard to see if the nearby store has stock! Isn’t that cool? When I read that last week on New Scientist, i was wondering about the business potential for such an idea? My doubts were erased by a report in Livescience today, that says Digital Billboards are likely to become a $10B market by 2010. Way to go Google.

]]> http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/01/18/want-to-buy-milk-check-your-local-billboard/feed/ 2 Case Study Method makes way for the newspaper headline method http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/08/08/case-study-method-makes-way-for-the-newspaper-headline-method/ http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/08/08/case-study-method-makes-way-for-the-newspaper-headline-method/#comments Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:06:15 +0000 Sukumar http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/08/08/case-study-method-makes-way-for-the-newspaper-headline-method/ new method of teaching that is taking root in B-Schools ... ]]> Tweet

Came across an interesting report in yesterday’s ET about a new method of teaching that is taking root in B-Schools in India. In addition to the usual Case Study Method that is used in B-Schools the world over, this new method is being used:


The sessions — consisting of all the participants, a couple of  professors and an industry expert — are interactive in nature. Participants are expected to browse through major headlines from some of the
leading financial publications, especially The Economic Times and The Economist, covered in recent issues. They are then expected to deliberate on those issues for some time before coming to the session, to attain an insight into the subtleties of each issue, headline or news item. 
I am not sure if this is entirely new or something that is already in vogue in B-Schools in the USA or Europe as well. Can anyone comment, please?
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Kawaii – Japanese for cute is sweeping the Japanese marketplace. Hello Kitty is an example of cute products which has made it stateside. Many products like toasters, cell phones, flash drives and air-conditioners have been Kawaii-ed in Japan. Piers Fawkes of PSFK tells me that this has been going on for a few years now. <Via Hemispheres Magazine>

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