“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”— Albert Einstein |
SM: What was your ultimate design goal?
MM: The first problem we aimed to solve was how to make a re-transmission machine, a control system that retransmits data at a rate that matches the channel capacity for any packet loss rate over the channel and any delay. That was our design goal. Read the full article »
Indian readers: you have been asking me about the availability of Entrepreneur Journeys in India. Well, on January 2, I signed the contract with Hachette India. Hachette will be publishing EJ1, and the book will be available in India by the end of February. Thank you for your patience. Read the full article »
I had the pleasure of visiting IIT Kharagpur on January 2 to give the opening lecture at the Entrepreneurship Summit 2009 on Entrepreneurship Opportunities in India. Here’s Shrey Goyal blogging about the event. Read the full article »
I am on my way back from India, writing from the Singapore airport lounge. I think we missed to highlight my last Forbes column, Silencing India, which discusses the serious problem of noise pollution in India.
Have a look. Someone in the comments suggests banning cars altogether. Perhaps unrealistic, but reducing the number of cars on the streets of India’s metros is certainly a necessity. Smart cards, congestion taxes and new street designs are all tools that, if applied as part of a comprehensive traffic management solution, can improve the quality of life in Indian cities.
SM: You were able to find a starting point in the open source community?
MM: I found a good model from a different domain that we experimented with, and it worked well. That was the point at which we started making the protocol. Read the full article »
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy
The following websites seem to have bottled the “magic” surprise factors of curiosity, intimacy, humor or shock. They are some of our favorite examples of how strong an impact you can have on your customers by paying close attention to how you design their experience with your website. Surprise is one of the hardest components to add to design, but our philosophy at 3Strand is that this particular ingredient can make the difference between a website that is just another place that’s trying to sell something and a website that gets passed around virally from friend to friend. Plus, we think these sites are just plain fun and geeky. Read the full article »
SM: What was the problem the digital media companies were facing that you wanted to solve?
MM: I knew it was a problem in application layer networking, which was something I had always had an interest in. I liked the theoretical underpinnings of it. I could see there was a layer which was unsolved. Read the full article »
SM: Concepts coming before their time happens a lot here in Silicon Valley.
MM: It sure does. However, it was my first real experience in a startup with a peer group I was excited about. Partly because of my inquisitive nature, they used to send me out to customers as well. I gained a lot of exposure to customers. Read the full article »
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