May 2012
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Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for... →
Mobile is going to crush Facebook. The logic for Facebook’s price decline is that they have a problem in mobile. They can’t offer all the games they can in a browser. They can’t offer the same ads or branding opportunities. All true… Unlimited data plans, Netflix mobile. All not true…   Reconciledby Mark Cuban
May 26th
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May 25th
B2G: From Browser to Platform (for Coney)  →
in Browsers,Mozilla,Post-PC/Ambient Computing So Coney, notice how by moving to a canonical programming language JavaScript on both client and server, developer productivity may leap on simplicity.
May 24th
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Rich Karlgaard: The Future Is More Than Facebook  →
“Made in the USA” is set to have a major comeback. Who knew? We were all too busy fiddling with our iPhone apps to see it coming…
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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And so corporations begin to open data... →
Dr Rufus Pollock on Nike opening up supply chain data (hiring open data scientist last yr @WardCunnigham ). “Nike is opening up their data because they need suppliers to open up theirs”.
May 21st
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Butterfly Philosophy: Call for Immediate Phase-out... →
Crowd Source toxic phase-outs: suksmaratri: 18th May 2012, New Delhi: More than 80 People Living with HIV across New Delhi who has prominent side effects of toxic Stavudine, came together for a Stavudine Phase-Out Festival demanding immediate phase out of toxic Stavudine (d4T) from India’s National Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) program….
May 21st
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9 Deadliest Start-up Sins →
My #10 - don’t try anything
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 14th
Girls and Robots - Deus Ex Machinatio - Andrea... →
Feeling society’s expectations at only 5 y/o.   
May 13th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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COUCHDB & RubY YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG - @timanglade
May 10th
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May 9th
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“By putting yourself in the path of possible good randomness and avoiding bad...”
– Duncan Watts book Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know The Answer
May 8th
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“Multiplying scales. Dividing helps you make this quarter’s numbers.”
– Seth Godin looks at the contradiction between marketing and sales in basic, mathematical terms. (via 9-bits)
May 7th
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“while it is easy to start a social network, it looks expensive to run a big one....”
– ‘like’ Lex’s 2 fundamental questions … First: will Facebook become a part of everything that happens on the internet rather than just one digital tool among others? Second: can Facebook change digital advertising as profoundly as Google has done in the past decade? Lex in...
May 6th
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RT @Jimmy Wales: Actually, I think +Michael Arrington as CEO of Yahoo is a good idea. http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2012/05/yahoos-new-boss-a-plain-and-simple-bean-counter/
May 5th
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On APIs and Copyright →
Irrespective of my opinion on the subject, what will the impact be should APIs prove copyrightable? It is likely to be extensive, cascading and a lesson in unintended consequences. 
May 4th
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Scaling out millions of tenants using federated hierarchical sharding pattern. Web 2.0 can key driven security, private, shared, map reduced think-think by @SQLServerMike
May 3rd
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May 2nd
I am not a code monkey: Dear Christine, I wish I... →
iamnotacodemonkey: Ever dream of forming the next Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn? [Uhm…] UI designer & back-end programmer - please be experienced, have an entrepreneurial mind-set, and most importantly, have time to code! [aka be my code monkey/bitch] A new social network, that appeals to all who want…
May 1st
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April 2012
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Air France Flight 447: 'Damn it, we’re going to... →
It seems surprising that Airbus has conceived a system preventing one pilot from easily assessing the actions of the colleague beside him. And yet that is how their latest generations of aircraft are designed. #HCI
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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The Tipping Point has Arrived: Trust and... →
We suspect that as the Wikidata Project begins to provide “trust and provenance” in its form of web communications, they will not just be granularizing single facts but also immutabilizing the data elements to which those facts are linked so that even the content providers of those data elements cannot change them. This is critical for trust and provenance in whole chain communications...
Apr 28th
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JSConf US 2012 - Rick Falkvinge: Politics (or how we all make a difference)
Apr 27th
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"Microsoft Is The Best!" — Unnamed Microsoft...
MG Seigler piles on “the known knowns”. “We also know there are known unknowns” - Microsoft changing to cross-platform and open source support (really, Hadoop, Node.js, .NET commits). “But there are also unknown unknowns” - No Steve Jobs - Forrester: Apple is Entering a Long Decline parislemon: Earlier today, I wrote an anti-Microsoft post. Actually, it...
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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giant robots smashing into other giant robots:... →
thoughtbot: Redis is a key/value store, but it’s jam-packed with a ton of other little utilities that make it a joy to explore and implement. Two of these are the PUBLISH and SUBSCRIBE commands, which enable you to do quick messaging and communication between processes. Granted, there’s plenty of other…
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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“I hear people use Best Buy to check out the products and then go buy them...”
– The price is wrong: Ah, yes, the Amazon.com effect.
Apr 21st
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“The key to the company’s success is the use of technology to streamline the...”
– Revolutionizing ICT and Agribusiness: A Conversation with M-Farm’s Jamila Abass | infoDev.org Love it. (via parkparadigm)
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup -... →
blakemasters: Here are my class notes, typed in essay form, from Class 4 of CS183: Startup. Errors, omissions, and/or poor phrasing are my own. Credit for good substance and wording is Peter’s entirely. CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—April 11—The Last Mover Advantage I. Escaping Competition The…
Apr 17th
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A dip in the SPA or jump into Node?
A Dip in the SPA: 1st look at a Single Page App in HTML/JavaScript Ward Bell is steamed up about SPAs (“Single Page Applications”) as he tries to gauge the present and future prospects for HTML business applications. A typical SPA is a single shell whose contents are repeatedly replaced with new and revisited app pages as the user navigates the app. These pages are created and maintained locally...
Apr 12th
“The cost that has been rising is the cost of complexity — so spending a lot of...”
– How Google is using OpenFlow to lower its network costs — Cloud Computing News When Urs speaks, datacenter peeps listen. (via abnerg)
Apr 12th
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Haters gonna HATEOAS →
The web development community has been steadily improving as the web grows and matures, and so I hope that eventually we’ll see more people actually adopting HATEOAS and going ‘full RESTful.’ by Steve Klabnik
Apr 10th
Apr 9th
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Hadoop janitor busy at Linkedin (Youtube went thru this phase)
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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“Yahoo to cut 2,000 jobs”
– By Richard Waters in San Francisco (New CEO) comments appeared to confirm reports that Yahoo is planning to disband its large, centralised product development group, handing more control to smaller units as part of an attempt to speed up the creation of new services. Why do Tech Companies go the...
Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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Parker Harris, SFDC cofounder and head of development discusses why the company has moved past its Cloud 2 mantra.
Apr 3rd
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Sage Group back-fitting ERP with BigData UX
Stephen Smith: It’s important to remember that participation in this Sage program is purely voluntary and easy to opt out of. Further no actual data from your database is ever transmitted. We are also subject to various governmental privacy laws such as HIPAA. My take:  Concretely on-premise software couldn’t be more out-of-fashion. Yet by back-fitting the on-premise with the benefits...
Apr 2nd