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What’s Generative and What’s not?

This is a follow up on my previous post regarding Generativity.
Now, what’s generative and what’s not among the following examples? 
Legos and Dollhouse. Legos are highly adaptable, accesible, and easy to master. They can be built, deconstructed and rebuilt into whatever form the user wishes, and third parties can publish "recipes" for new forms. The less-generative […]

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Four Elements of Generativity

Many people or even bloggers are not yet aware of this term "Generativity" and I’m also not aware of this until I read this from HBR magazine. So I’ll try to share this information as best as I could.
There are four main features that define generativity:

Leverage - How strongly a system or technology leverages a […]

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Paypal in the Philippines, bitin in service?

Recently, Paypal opened in our country but it didn’t fully offer all of their services, like collecting money from their respective outlets. All you can do right now is deposit your money. What? money leaving our country? I understand that Paypal has certain conditions to be met. It depends on PayPal’s policies to work in […]

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Ford Motor worst quarterly result in 14 years

Ford Motors will have to act quickly to stay liquid. In their latest report, they are selling their ultra-luxury Aston Martin business and a $5.98 billion loss for this year’s third quarter.
 
With Ford Motor reporting its worst quarterly results in 14 years on Monday, there was a growing sense that the auto giant […]

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Do you know Bruce Chizen?

Job: CEO of Adobe Systems since 2000. Adobe makes popular software such as Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash and Premiere. Adobe’s 2005 revenue: $2 billion. Other career highlights: Sales positions at Mattel, Microsoft and Claris. Joined Adobe in 1994, in sales. Home life: Married with two kids, 18 and 15. Born in: Brooklyn, N.Y. First salary: $1 […]

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Can I be sued on the basis of blogging?

Well I’m not a lawyer but this article will answer some of your questions. Read the article here.

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Best books of 2005

Guys if you have still a few bucks on you pockets after spending most of it during the holidays perhaps these best books as described by Fast Company is worth our every penny. Here’s the list :

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Hardball by George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee […]

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Seagate acquires Maxtor

The digital storage giant, Seagate Technology, acquires the its rival Maxtor for 1.9 billion in stock. Seagate investors will own about 84 percent of the combined company and Maxtor shareholders will have about 16 percent. 
Read more about this news here. [via]

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GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt 10 Things Leaders Do

1. Personal Responsibility. "Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility. You lead today by building teams and placing others first. It’s not about you."
2. Simplify Constantly. "I always use Jack [Welch] as my example here. Every leader needs to clearly explain the top […]

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Opera 8 now free!

Guys Opera is now free. I downloaded and tried it. It’s really fast. They also have this recycle bin thing on the upper right hand corner that is very useful. e.g. You mistakenly closed one of your tabs and now you don’t know how to get back there. Worry not, the Opera’s recycle bin will […]

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