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Adam Green points to Scoble who re-discover and discover, respectively, Amazon’s street by street, address by address, photographic coverage of the map of, what, the universe? It’s a neat new user interface of something [they’ve had for a ...
Read more →I met with a potential client the other day who was on red alert because there were a lot of nasty things being said about them on blogs, comments and forums. And I thought of the concept of asymmetrical conflict as we have learned about it in recent years. Even without knowing whether the criti...
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(Thanks, Aleksey) Technorati Tags: funny
Many more where this one came from. Good for a chuckle 🙂 
If there are any rowing fanatics out there, or competitive rowing coaches, take a look at this cool in-boat rowing instrumentation product. Here is a bit about it from their site: > “The RowMetrics system is innovative in-boat instrumentation bundled with...
Read more →Check out Arduino, a totally cool tiny embedded computer suitable for creating smart things – art, robotics, sensors and controllers. You program it on your laptop, and download the program to the device. I tried it, it was pretty easy. Had to touch wires and stuff though 🙂...
Read more →“No language is perfect, and English is no exception. There are always words or expressions that cannot be rendered from one language to another. English supposedly has the largest vocabulary of any languages in the world (7x more words than French !), and well-educated people typically know less th...
Read more →Went to hear Ray Kurzweil yesterday at MIT, at an event jointly sponsored by IEEE and GBC/ACM Robotics Sigs. The blurb said: > “[…] With input from people around the world, an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to...
Read more →Try this out, it really worked for me, and is really strange and wonderful! > “This should be proof enough, we don’t always see what we think we see.” (from Very Cool Illusion, via del.icio.us) Technorati Tags: cool
Just a few handy links that, if you are a Rails developer you may be interested in: - Ruby Plus – Free Ruby and Rails Screencasts - RailsCasts – free Ruby on Rails screencasts - ActiveScaffold – A RoR plugin that magically and dynamically creates user interfaces - PeepCode – A super valuable collection of in-depth Screencast, worth every one of the 900 pennies each costs I have found each of these a great resource, and I recommend them to you!
Here’s something I hadn’t seen before: I IM’d a friend of mine at a Big Company and the message got rejected because it included a URL. I have to suppose that it’s any URL that gets bounced, but who knows? So the workaround? I sent the text for a Google query that returns the same url. Further details: Discussing it with him, the logic seems to be that someone could send an employee a phishing link in an IM message.
I recently was on a trip with United Airlines. It’s a long story, but basically the short form is that the pilot didn’t show up, our flight was about 2 hours late, and I was going to miss the connection, also on United. A bunch of us were in the same boat (or plane) and so there was quite a buzz in ...
Read more →SnapLogic is an open source product (at least in it’s base edition) providing tools to construct pipelines that deliver and process and filter information through collections of interconnected REST services. As usual, they provide a free ‘community’ edition, and then variously priced developer and enterprise editions. Pricing wasn’t indicated but if you have this kind of need, SnapLogic looks like it’s worth a peek.
Seven Do’s And Three Don’ts For Creating New Web Products contains some excellent Do’s and Don’ts for someone (like me) thinking of starting a new business. Here is just one little ‘D...
Read more →Bill Ives of the Portals and KM Blog writes an interesting two-part article on the business impact of Web 2.0: > “Now with Web 2.0 the open architecture, the refinement of web services, and the ability to put together applications through mashups makes the basic devel...
Read more →I came across this very cool and simple set of criteria or rules to apply for funding from YCombinator. Not sure how well it works for them but they are quite reasonable. Here’s a sample: > “(4) Yes decisions will include the amount we’ll invest and the percent of the company we’d want for it. We usually invest $5000 + $5000n, where n is the number of participating founders (i.e. 2 founders get $15,000, 3 get $20,000), in return for between 1% and 10% of the company. The median is 6%.” Cool. Does it work?
Well it’s not really ‘coming’ – it was here all along, just dormant. Here’s the down-lo: > BarCamp Boston 3 May 17-18, 2008 http://barcampboston.org/ BarCamp is an unConference, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. There is no registration fee, but you ...
Read more →You might have missed the announcement of Microsoft Mesh. Cycnical me: these grand strategies come and go. I believe this is the second or perhaps third major iteration of Microsoft’s strategy in this area, in each case without an actual scaling implementation of same.At any rate, if you are interes...
Read more →Check this post Twitter’s Lead Architect Leaves: It’s Not You, It’s Me from Mashable!: > "While I’ll give Cook the benefit of the doubt, I can’t think of a more pressure packed job than being re...
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