June 2009
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What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign? →
tagged by aadjemonkeyrock.com Aad’t Hart
Jun 30th
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Machines that can outwit the smartest brains →
ProBot is waiting for you. If you’re looking for a game of backgammon, he’s your man. Blackjack, too, and gin rummy, poker, dice or dominoes, all for stakes of £1,000, though you can play for less if that’s a little rich for you. He’ll take you on any time of the day or night: simultaneous sessions, multiple opponents, whatever you like. All the games he plays are a mix of skill and chance, so if...
Jun 29th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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How IT infrastructure creates business... →
“Executives regard IT infrastructure as a commodity. That’s a mistake. Yes, components such as servers and storage—even some support processes, like the monitoring of applications—have been commoditized. Even so, an effective infrastructure operation creates value by making sound choices about which technologies to use and how to integrate them. A technology product purchased from a vendor...
Jun 26th
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awwwww (big UP to Pixar)
thillythenny: The folks at Pixar helped a dying girl fulfill her final wish when one of their employees hand delivered a DVD of the film Up to the family’s residence for a private screening. 10-year-old Colby Curtin was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in December 2005, and ever since she saw a preview for Up, she’d been excited for the poignant film about a man who goes on an adventure...
Jun 25th
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“How we approach our work is often what determines its outcome. The more it’s...”
– Mark Hurst - goodexperience.com (via edview)
Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 20th
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“Our resources may be finite, but our impact doesn’t have to be”
– Ruth Messinger exhorts students to be strong, bold, courageous (via lwu)
Jun 20th
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Jun 18th
Centralised and decentralised Web will coexist →
Jun 18th
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Sweeping U.S. financial regulatory overhaul
“Today, my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression,” announced President Barack Obama today from the White House. Many investment firms that have been lightly regulated like hedge funds and private equity firms will now have to be registered.  Large firms that...
Jun 18th
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Monetization of social networks. In search of the successful path…
Jun 17th
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Anchor-tenant theory of economic development
Woody Powell is a Stanford sociologist who studies the economic culture of cities. Recently, he and his research team studied why certain regions—Boston, San Francisco, San Diego—became leaders in biotechnology while others with a similar concentration of scientific and corporate talent—Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York—did not. The answer they found was what Powell describes as the...
Jun 16th
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The MBA Oath: Responsible Value Creation →
Jun 14th
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Gadget lovers have never had it so good. →
$99 iPhone, Palm Pre, Notebook, PC and a Bermuda Triangle of inbetween devices.
Jun 13th
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Safari 4 so cool too
edview: My machine just gave me the new Safari, I already liked the ‘top site’ page from Google Chrome. To me this was a real masterpiece of Goal-Oriented Design. Users visit a limited set of sites frequently, so why not offer them at the single click of a mouse button. Apple was nicely inspired for their new Safari by this but the WOW-factor is clearly added over here. In the browser it is...
Jun 12th
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Jun 11th
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Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
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Jun 7th
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Consumerism v. Consumerism
davidlok: “If people find the culture loathsome, they solve the problem by just buying different stuff. Even in the sixties, products were sold as a way of dealing with the anomie of consumer society—things like Volkswagens that were seen as nonconformist,” says Thomas Frank, who’s written about alternative marketing in The Conquest of Cool and about modern conservatism in The Wrecking Crew....
Jun 7th
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Jun 6th
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Me on Vista (1)
edview: For a while I have been using Vista now. I highly like the fast startoption via just typing what you are looking form accessed via the Windows-key. This really is a great feature which makes my computer-using-life a lot easier. It was inspired by the Mac, but for me a good reason to migrate all my Windows machines to Windows Vista. However there are also things which annoy me so much,...
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Ray Kurzweil shows that technology’s breakneck advances will only accelerate — recession or not.
Jun 3rd
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Harvard on Twitter: Who follows whom.  →
On a typical online social network, most of the activity is focused around women - men follow content produced by women they do and do not know, and women follow content produced by women they know Not on Twitter… via Harvard Business
Jun 3rd
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Google and Microsoft integrating realtime into the... →
Wave’s delta-driven XML streams are directly descended from the Groove architecture, and Live Mesh can be seen as a similar reboot of its parent as part of Windows 7 and Live. In effect, Google and Microsoft are now at roughly the same place in integrating realtime into the respective architectures. I think we may have a race between the two vendors who really matter in core IT platform...
Jun 2nd
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Jun 1st