Arvino Mudjiarto


  • Arvino believe in the power of business as enabler for creation of core foundation of better societies. He loves the idea of "business unusual" -- where unique mixture of business+ideas+passion+ brand+believe+innovation+technology+socialresponsibility is rightfully combined to create "amazing product", "differentiating services/experiences" and "innovative world-scale ideas" that spark the advancement and betterness of society.

    He is currently the founder of Worxcode, an internationally award winning automation design & software construction company, where together with his team, he is putting together web2.0 for business, integrate office-desktop system with the web, and make everything seamlessly interactive, mobile, tag-based, linked and connected.

Great Inspiring Leader Of All Time

  • Akio Morita
    AkiomoritasonyMagical act in branding & miniaturization. Charistimatic builder of great business with attitude. Sony Walkman, Sony Handycam. "It's a Sony" slogan. Build Sony from scratch, turning the tiny setup into the crown jewel of Asia, and the darling brand of the world.
  • Henry Ford
    HenryfordDedication, tinkering persistence, passion & strong vision to make horseless carriage a reality. "Car for the people". "Assembly manufacturing concept". Years of consistent dedicated act, tinkering and passion. One of the greatest, finest and bravest tinkerer of all time. Modern mobile society as the result.
  • Steve Jobs
    Stevejobsapple Passion for excellence & master of continous magical act. Make things happen greatly with style. Leaders with strong sense of vision and with "no limit" nor "no boundary" for next great cultural possibility to explore. Mac. Next. iPod. iPhone. Apple. Next. Pixar. Think Different. Mix innovation & culture at its best. Modern digital culture is born, and consistently turns greater under his act.
  • Thomas Watson, Sr
    ThomaswatsonsribmThe greatest people manager and most charismatic people-centric business leader of all time. Think. Respect to individual. People first. Under his great leadership turns the tiny IBM into a mighty organization of its time. The "king" in the annal of "business kingdom". A rare business person with great business persona and legendary people-centric attitude of our time.

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

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May 19, 2008

Vista Yoga & Vista Blues... !!!

If with XP we can have a minor "broken windows", with Vista we can have: a "broken heart". Take a look at the "parodic" video below. Interestingly, while the parody is funny, the statement and expressions that comes with it is NOT all that wrong. It reflects what Vista situation really is today.

Oh Vista, Vista. How sad ....

Perhaps it's about time Mr. Ballmer should step down (and Bill Gates shall be back).

May 18, 2008

Wall Computing Is "Coming Soon"...

A new exciting form factor for interaction design might emerge soon in the marketplace. It's called "surface computing" -- or if I would rather prefer to call it: "Wall Computing".

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With "wall computing" the impact and potential of information and technology to surround, influence and enhance our interaction and everyday living would be even higher.

Imagine at anytime during the day we can turn our "wall" into a "screen" and can immediately talk, video chat, conference and interact each other through this "wall" with no hassle.

Being able to do such would be truly awesome.

You might say, but that's just like the "Web TV" thing that we talked about a few days back. You probably right. Yet now imagine what would happen if -- instead of just being able to "read, chat and interact" through this wall -- we could also writing on top of those "walls", and -- as we write on top -- the "wall" smartly, seamlessly and interactively send the data/image across?

Such would bring computing and interactivity design into a whole new package of "great experiences", in ways that we never seen (nor never experienced) before!

People would then be able to wake up everyday in their home, go to their wall to check their morning "journal" (on their wall), and immediately save, tag, comment, annotate, jot down and respond to that piece of news and information online, right through their "wall", right ON TOP of their "wall" !!!

When such "wall computing" capability happen, our digital world will reach its greatest potential. That's the time when the power of the web magnificently combined with the potential of the interaction device that we can leverage and use, everyday.

Through that our daily living and working chore would never be the same again. It will improve significantly so much, for the better.

I can not wait to see it happen ... (and/or to participate to make it happening too). :-)

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Has Been Released!

Today Firefox 3 RC1 has been released. Despite there's still "add-on incompatibility" in this new version, soon a new browsing experience would begin.

It'd be faster, leaner, simpler, easier to use too!

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May 17, 2008

How Google Looked Like When They Started...

This is how Google looked like, when they started (1998):

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Even, prior to that, this is how they look like:

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People say everything great starts from small, then grow eventually very fast. I totally agree.

Alot of great giant company that we saw today (Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Matshushita, Toyota, Honda, Ford, Xerox) ... were all initially have one thing in common: once they are all small tiny struggling innovative company, which later on invent and redefine the industry that they are focusing on.

The early days of Apple

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The first Apple product - the "Apple I"

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The early days of Microsoft

Microsoft whole employee photograph - 1978

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The early days of Sony

Sony early factory & headquarters

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Sony Employee (the whole company!)

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Sony G Tape Recorder

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Sony Tape Factory

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Sony H Tape Recorder - for Home Use

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Sony Transistor Factory

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Sony Transistor Radio

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Sony Pocketable Transistor Radio
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Sony founders -- Akio Morita & Masaru Ibuka

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When something start small and then grow, we see nothing else but beauty of their founders great, continuous, consistent, persistent, ingenious effort in building things to try to make it happen.

Their journey become a great story that inspire many more entrepreneurs and business builders to come.

This is how Google look today:

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Awesome!!

Palm Centro Smartphone: Low End Alternative For Business Mobility?

While Palm positioned Palm Centro as the most affordable smartphone device to allow people to keep in touch through phone, text, email or web, it's potential seem to be beyond just for "fun" stuff.

Looking at the spec, this device seem to have tremendous potential to become the portable "mobile working device" that also -- at the same time -- is the most affordable too.

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With a price that is reportedly could be as low as $99.99 (with 2 years data plan -- in the U.S), surely this device is a great bargain. Everybody can now get connected and work anytime anywhere, as long as network and wireless GSM GPRS/EDGE or CDMA 2000 connectivity is available.

Unfortunately it doesn't come with a Wifi (yet). But seems it got alot of great potential to be a superb great device someday in the future, especially if it can keep the simplicity (and intuitiveness) of its Palm OS, and if it can keep the responsive speedy feel of the application performance.

If Palm can also give its OS a modern skin appeal -- so this easy, stable, fast, responsive and simple to use OS and software platform doesn't look very tired, boring, and old, as how it looks today -- then its relevance and popularity might increase back even more. After all, beyond skin look and feel, people do  love speedy response, intuitive - easy to use - interface, workable keyboard, as well as very stable OS.

Let's take a look at the latest Palm screen, and feel again its directness, speed and simplicity that is still uniquely differentiate Palm from its competitor. Then later on let's imagine how would it all feel so great, if a modern skin interface can be applied on top of that!

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If such "skin upgrade" can be done, I feel the whole usage and interaction experience would be wonderful and great.

We look forward for a greater future at the Palm camp. After all, they are the one that pioneer the "palm" and mobile computing industry.

If they can get their OS' skin improved to current modern age, and if they can get their device form factor to become as sleek as their "Palm V" once had been, I feel the future at Palm could be as wonderful and as great again as it used to be.

We will see how the future goes. I do really hope they would get their mojo back very very soon -- before everything becomes way way too late.

May 16, 2008

BlackBerry Bold Really Look Awesome!

Blackberry Bold really look awesome! With 3G capabilities built in, now we shall not be restricted to our desk anymore to do our everyday work stuff.

The device comes with a reasonable form factor. The size and dimension seems almost perfect.

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Yet screen size is perhaps the only worrying factor.

  • Can we conveniently browse and enter information through such screen size?
  • Would it be effective and productive to read and type-in information under such form factor?
  • Would the iPhone approach be better?

This is something that we need to study further. I wish the keyboard could disappear. But again I think RIM (the maker of Blackberry) is right: as of today, physical keyboard still function better (and more accurate) than the iPhone's soft keyboard. Today's iPhone's soft keyboard needs alot of getting used to, before "normal person" can start using it effectively.
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Moving forward, we will see how 3G portable device evolve to become more mature and effective both as a browsing device, and data entry device. At the right time, we will see more and more possibility of moving our computing chore from our desktop and laptop, to our "palm" top as well.

When we can start doing everything on our "palm" top, work and computing would then become so seamless and doable everyday, at anytime, anywhere.

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Awesome!

May 15, 2008

This TV Has A Browser Built In!

This might be a beginning of something important in the future:

A new generation of TV (from Sharp) now has a browser built-in. The announcement said that this device had a LAN connectivity and a built-in browser, hence at anytime we would like to switch from "viewing" mode to "browsing" mode, we can do that without having to switch to our computer.

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I wonder whether this means that with this "Browser TV" we would be able to run YouTube also or not. If we can, then it will be really great. We then can start to experience "personalized TV" on our "everyday TV"!. For example:

  • We can turn on our "daily TV" everyday for "normal mass-aired-program", but when stuff start to get boring, we can switch to our own "personalized" TV (for example by turning on YouTube, and other personalized web stuff), and enjoy our own personalized channel broadcast and programming.
  • When we saw something interesting about product, or event that is currently happening, we can then turn on the "browser mode" as well, hence we can start to see various related information about that subject -- news, information, pdf, presentation, youtube, blogs, people commentary, etc -- right on the same screen, on our TV!!! Even we can chat with our friends live about that subject (that we saw on TV) and hear their opinions about it ... around the world!!
  • May be someday we can also "tag" this TV? For example, when we saw a great program, product or advertisement, we can "tag" that content, store it as a "bookmark" in our browser, and then forward it to our friend as recommendation. We can say: "John, do take a look at this product and program, it looks fun!". Or we can also say: "Have you seen the new spiderman movie, I saw the advertising and video clip recently here". (And then the TV will display the video clip on when people click on the "here" link).

This brings personalized content richness and bi-directional interaction capabilities of the web, with the powerful event trigger capabilities of the "traditional mass TV" together.

  • Such will have great influence on how we (consumers) consume media, and how branding, marketing and TV-programming would be done in the future.
  • Such also will bring new tremendous power we never seen possible before, and open up totally new possibilities of how we (mass consumer) would see, think, feel, and experience TV in the future.

I guess it's a start of many more great "social interactivity design" and "personalized media consumption" things to come.

What a fascinating possibilities!!

May 14, 2008

Soon The Way People Communicate & Work Together Around The Globe Will Change

Soon, the way people communicate and work together around the globe will change. No more we will be bounded by distance that separate us. Our "office" will become global. No more boundaries for getting effective and productive. Everything would be simply visual, communicative and interactive at the same time.

Video, sound and document will be integrated as one.

This is probably an illustration of how we will "look", "talk" and "interact" each other in the future:

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  • Linda in Japan.
  • Jenny in the USA.
  • Robert somewhere in the planet.
  • All in "one" place!!!

The technology is soon will be fully ready for that. The people are increasingly ready for that. What is needed now is perhaps a continuous systematic effort to really make it happen.

We will see how soon it will become a true, daily, everyday reality.

May 13, 2008

How Our Office Will Look Like In The "Future" ??

Many people speculate about how the "future office" will look like. My suggested answer: How about this?

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Yes, now, sooner and later in the future, our office around the globe simply would be placed at the place where it would be most effective and productive ... on the web!!!

It's not about email. It's about work on the web.

That is how our "future" office will look like!

May 12, 2008

Psystar "Hackintosh": Here Comes The Mac Clone!

Mac Clone has finally arrived. Take a look at below OpenComputer machine by psystar. This machine runs MacOSX! Sometimes people call it "Mac Clone", sometimes people call it "Hackintosh".

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When the OS of this machine is that great MacOS X , and the hardware price is becoming even more affordable at $399 (Open Computer) or $999 (OpenPro Computer) because it is an OpenComputer/Hackintosh, ... is there still anymore reason to still consider Vista?? ;-)

Check out the psystar website for more.

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