http://www.adrianlee.info Internet Marketing Geek Musician Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:36:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just wanted to recommend this thought as the theme resonates with me right now - The Laws of Simplicity. Speaking from experience, it really is so hard to get simplicity right... The natural tendency of people around me is that simple is easy, and that they don't want anything that's ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2007/02/02/the-hard-art-of-simplicity/ Just wanted to surface up for a little breath for a while to kinda give an update of where I'm at right now: Keeping a low profile because things are getting a little insane project-wise. (Pure laziness and procrastination to be blamed as well!). I've also been kept busy on the music ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2007/02/02/resurfacing-update/ Courtesy of Daryl's blog, I've stumbled across the Tesla electric sports car, and it's now the car that I want (now if only I had that darn license...). Wow! Which brings me to another topic - Wow versus Good Enough. This is something I spotted over at Uncommon Sense for Software. ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/12/07/electric-cars-and-the-wow-factor-versus-good-enough/ This is hilarious. Check out this gem from the blog: we'd like to make clear that you should please only use "Google" when you’re actually referring to Google Inc. and our services.I'll not go into the marketing aspects of a genericized trademark since Google has put it so succinctly. But they ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/27/dont-google/ Yesterday night, had drinks with Richard Edelman along with Mediaslut, Debbie from Marketing, Brown, Daryl, Bjorn, Justin, Popagandhi and a bunch of new folks I just met including Joe Augustine (the radio Joe), and Jennifer from Stomp. Edelman was primarily there to listen, and soak, and shared a bit about how ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/26/milk-them-bloggers/ Saw this over at Chris Anderson's blog, which got me thinking. He was talking about how to relearn programming and do actual coding in order to do research and analytics for his book, the Long Tail (if you haven't heard of this, you're probably hiding underneath a rock somewhere). What actually ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/26/marketing-geeks-non-existent/ It's funny that I happen to stumble upon this article right after I wrote my previous post: SandHill.com | Management | The Birth of Enterprise 2.0. As far as misunderstood terms, I think Enterprise 2.0 has even more misunderstandings behind it than Web 2.0. As for me, I've decided to spend ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/20/enterprise-20-the-closest-definition/ It seems that the Enterprise 2.0 meme has not gained the momentous heights of Web 2.0. I've got my own thoughts around it... To me, the new wave of innovation in the Enterprise (as what the term Enterprise 2.0 implies) is not only in the realms of Knowledge Management. But reading ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/19/enterprise-20-whatever-happened/ Here's the funny thing about technology - I've mentioned before that technology should help current business processes, and that as far as possible, should not dictate the process. This article that was sent to me got me thinking about that. Short summary, it's about how content management systems need to ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/19/tech-punching-holes-in-processes/ Geek out time! There are a lot of places on the web that keep telling you about the merits of purely CSS based design, and avoiding the use of tables (A List Apart is one example). But reasons cited have always seemed to theoratical to me; it's always along the ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/14/destroy-tables-a-call-to-all-designers/ Wow... I've been following this for a little while, and they've finally gotten acquired by Google. For an obscene amount of money I might add. Here's a few thoughts on this: I think this will jolt quite a lot of people into starting up companies, just by the sheer amount money ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/10/youtube-us165-billion-buyout-by-google/ The latest book that I'm in the middle of right now is "The Theory of Almost Everything", for those of you who are curious about what's catching my fancy now. It's a science textbook essentially, except quite a whole lot more interesting. It kinda describes how a physics theory ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/07/books-im-reading-now/ In the past few months when I've been quiet, the Web 2.0 buzz has been creeping into the Singapore psyche apparently. The signs are everywhere now. A little bird told me that the Media Development Authority (MDA) wants to take advantage of this Web 2.0 thing to kick the media industry ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/07/the-singapore-web-20-bandwagon/ Am now rebooting my brain and starting to blog again :-). Many, many things has happened over the past course of the year as I'm out on my own (effectively) right now, and I'll share details of my business once I'm less embarassed about my corporate website ;-).  In the ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/10/06/reboot/ Riddle - What does marketing guru Seth Godin and Lee Kuan Yew have in common? I can still remember it wasn't long ago when people (in Singapore at least) were scratching their heads over MM Lee's remarks... I guess great minds do think alike, even when it comes to quirky ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/07/19/seth-godin-and-lee-kuan-yew/ Edit: Here's the cool Today feed created by uzyn, who has penned his thoughts in the comments here. Thanks uzyn! I've always liked the way Miyagi writes... entertaining, self effacing and most of all, he knows what he's talking about. But today, he's writing about some hacker dude ripping the content ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/06/28/today-hacked-through-rss/ This is definitely good news: Yahoo! Maps API, now for commercial use too (by Jeremy Zawodny). On the other hand, Google provides far superior (IMHO) satellite images especially for this part of the world (i.e. Singapore), hasn't made the distinction between commercial and non-commercial. To quote: "The Service may be used ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/06/19/mashing-maps-on-your-site/ I was reminded of this article by way of Tomorrow - Wired 1.04: Disneyland with the Death Penalty - an essay on Singapore by William Gibson written in 1993. It led me to think about what Mr. Gibson might have missed out on. For one, the grassroots are definitely ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/06/19/disneyland/ I'm not going to comment on whether this will take off (it very well might) - but one thing's for sure - I think it's lame. Let me count the ways: I've read starblogs, and man most of them just ramble on. Xiaxue was totally off topic, but at least that ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/06/15/rant-stomp-is-kinda-lame/ I've been looking for something like this for quite some time now... and open source partition magic. Partitioning with FDISK is such a pain... I haven't tried it yet though, but probably will soon since I've always wanted to double boot into Linux. Linux.com | A quick look at the GParted ... http://www.adrianlee.info/2006/06/15/untitled/