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LinkedIn Group Management Problem

May 23, 2010

LinkedIn is one of those sites that you hate but use. It is boring. It has horrible user interface. But it is useful as a secondary professional network — to loosely stay in touch with professional acquaintances.
There is however one ridiculous problem with how it support groups. You can setup a group for managing communications [...]

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Furniture Liquidator as Economic Indicator

April 23, 2010

First, a shout out to Office Furniture Liquidators in Somerville MA. I need a set of cubicle partitions to block off some space for storage in the new office. After trying to work with a few different firms unsuccessfully, these guys (Dave) took care of me and within 15 minutes he located the right set [...]

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Staples website need better integration

March 29, 2010

I shop at Staples a lot. Nothing easier than ordering online and have heavy things delivered right to my office, often free. Having spent enough money there, I’ve signed up, in store, for a Staples Reward card. Then I realized, that the staples.com website, and the Staples Reward Center are not integrated. You sign up [...]

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Index Cards, the Ultimate Multi-Touch Interface

November 25, 2009

Turns out, 007’s new multi-touch comm device has nothing on the decades old index card. Index cards are a great communication tool. Use them to present website designs, create conceptual layouts for applications, and brainstorm ideas in general. These two pictures were taken from one of our client meetings, when we are trying to organize [...]

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Massachusetts DOT Opens Transit Data for Public Access

November 16, 2009

Massachusetts department of transportation, Mass DOT, recently decided to
offer real time and other transit data on a trial basis to the public. I attended
their very first developer conference (official website). My Notes follow:
Open is Good – Don’t Build Apps like Bridges
The central message was voiced by many presenters: Open is good for everyone. The case [...]

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My Accidental Connection with Senator Ted Kennedy

August 28, 2009

Being Chinese in Boston, I always hear positive stories about the late Senator Ted Kennedy helping immigrants. In addition, I agree with most of his political views, he seemed like a good Senator. After learning of his death, I felt we had lost a great man. I added one of his biographies to my Amazon [...]

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Can We Separate our Online Personal and Professional Lives?

August 12, 2009

Went to PodCampBoston4 this weekend. Everyone is working on the “next big thing” -what is “social media”? What does it mean? How is it affecting all of us? How far should it go? This weekend helped me answer a question – when social media enters the arena, should we keep our personal and professional lives [...]

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The ugly side of Web Site Building

April 17, 2009

Our process for developing a website is to help the client express their brand and customer base, to help our designers come up with a consistent and effective design. Often, as a project picks up attention, the client committee size grows, or new people take charge, and they started “contributing” to the visual design over [...]

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I am in the NY Times, sorta

November 15, 2008

Check out the NYTimes article on WilsonDailyPrep. We at Imperial Consulting did the application, using Django and Python. It is a great service and a lot of fun to work on (my own vocab and grammar has gotten better, the Math quizzes are too easy). I am glad it is getting the big time publicity [...]

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Apple Production Transition is not Hardware

July 22, 2008

So the web is buzzing with the “product transition” comments during the financial result calls. Cheaper iPod? Cheaper MacBook? What if it is nothing to do with hardware, but their new unlimited subscription based iTune music, or better still, video service?

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