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Stroke UX, Synthetic Life and BMW: Geometry and Functions In N Adaptions
Three videos that made me think: How it feels to have a stroke (TED Talks) Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as
Open Source in a SaaS World
About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Se
The Third Order of Order
I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The Power of the New Digital Disorder). Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it
Classic Raymond Chen
Here's some classic Raymond Chen: "Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years".
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE
I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson, discussing FREE. The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy; the Attention E
Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings
Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by TwitterÂ’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. B
The Efficiency of (the) American English Language
As I've come to learn while living in the US, the American English language is more efficient than its British English cousin. The difference between the two languages is more than just fonetic phonetic simplification - the general rule seems to be a
So...what?
About four years ago I wrote a post (on my old blog) about some of the verbal tics and language use I encountered at Microsoft (memetic habits I inevitably picked up myself). My observations centered around the use of the word "so", example: "So, h
Bungee Connect news x3 to share with you this morning
Three big pieces of Bungee Connect news to share with you this morning: 1. Bungee Grid now running on Amazon EC2 and accessible to Bungee Developers Bungee-powered application hosting on Bungee Grid-EC2 using AmazonÂ’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) i
So what is this Platform as a Service thing?
The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring "Let the
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Curl announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Inter
Engelbart's Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use
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Web 2.0 Is Fundamentally About Empowering People
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The Grand Convergence: Web + RIA + Widgets + Client/Server
For the past ten years application developers have been stuck with only two desktop client choices.
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3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo CFP Deadline April 11
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Drupal CMS to Move to a Whole New Level
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NetBeans Innovators! Today Is Final Deadline for Winning $11500 Grants
Sun is offering ten grants of US $11,500 - equivalent to several months of pay for developers in som
Mighty Google Misses
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The i-Technology World Celebrates 25th Anniversary of TCP/IP
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ActiveState Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Perl with Release of ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1001
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Opera Reopens Browser War; Charges Microsoft with Antitrust
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