Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles

I was at a friend's son's birthday party last weekend. We were all huddled around the parents, and the kid, with the cake and everything. No one seemed to be taking the initiative to start singing happy birthday. The parents didn't wanna do it. So I screamed...

I have a problem. Songs magically make their way in to my head, and often stay there. Sometimes, I can't get them out. Sometimes, the only way to get one song out, is to get another one in. There was this incident , and then this incident . It seems to...

First, congratulations to the Yelp team on raising another round . Just last week at the Online Marketing Summit after our panel talk, I spoke to a few people from other verticals like medical, finance and automotive about how I think everyone sees the...

I've had my Samsung Blackjack II for a few months now. One of the things about this phone that excited me the most was the integrated GPS. I unlocked the GPS receiver (follow the instructions on that site verbatim to unlock your GPS*) to work outside...

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You couldn't be listening to a better song on a wet Friday afternoon... now playing : " the past and pending ", " the shins " " ai "

In the wake of the Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition proposal, I've met quite a few disappointed Yahooligans. And they are not disappointed that they'd be working at Microsoft, they are disappointed that they'd be working for Steve Ballmer . And it's not just...

Online Marketing Summit 2/21-2/22 : San Diego, CA Entrepreneurship Weekend 2/22-2/29 : Stanford - Palo Alto, CA Search Marketing Expo 2/26-2/28 : Santa Clara, CA MIX'08 3/4-3/7 : Las Vegas, NV SXSW 3/7-3/11 : Austin, TX Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio...

Sure a lot of my blog posts are self-righteous, self-involved, non-humble posts. This one's not very different. But I felt like I need to air this one out, because it felt good, just thinking about what I'd heard. A friend told me the other day that she...

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A few years ago, I'd made a new year's resolution - the resolution was to not make any more resolutions. This year, I had to break my pact. I made some resolutions. I'm tired of being a victim of circumstance. Oh, the market's slumping, oh, the economy...