July 2009
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Jul 31st
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 O’Reilly InsideMobile Conference July 26/27 recap  
Jul 30th
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U.S. energy efficiency supply curve: 2020 -... →
McKinsey Report Cites $1.2 Trillion in Potential Savings from Energy Efficiency - NYT
Jul 29th
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Jul 27th
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Get ready for a new economic era - Paul Saffo →
1900: The rise of the producer economy: The producer economy promised abundance, but it was haunted by scarcity, so efficiency became a managerial obsession. 1950: The consumer economy begins: Within companies, for example, power migrated from manufacturing to sales and marketing, as corporations sought to generate ever-greater demand for what they produced. 2008: The creator economy beckons:...
Jul 23rd
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Talentopolis →
Today a highly significant demographic realignment is at work: the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid people to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and a corresponding exodus of traditional lower- and middle-class people from those same places. Such geographic sorting of people by economic potential, on this scale, is unprecedented. I call it simply...
Jul 22nd
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Cobol – still doing the business after 50 years →
By Stephen Kelly, chief executive of Micro Focus There are 200 times as many Cobol transactions each day than Google searches. $25 per line to rewrite. 200 billion lines of code. $5 tillion dollar to rewrite Young developers have no interest coding in Cobol. Boomers retiring. Solutions…  
Jul 20th
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Silverlight Office by Steve Gillmor →
Sorry, Web User, you are in a Word document and do not have permission to collaborate in the browser.  Solved by GoogleWave HTML5 or SilverLight in Office 2010 
Jul 19th
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“Don’t be encumbered by past history—go off and do something wonderful.”
– Intel co-founder. Robert Noyce
Jul 18th
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Jul 17th
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Password strength and account recovery options →
Macduff Hughes, Google Engineering Director
Jul 16th
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Windows 7 getting ready “Microsoft a reliable technology provider” - Aad Hart.
Jul 15th
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“There comes a point in most programmers careers where they make a startling...”
– Kurt: Go To Hellman: Why the Times took 8 days to Announce its Linked Data Announcement (via lwu)
Jul 15th
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Google leads evolution of browser breakout →
Kindle, Crunchpad, Gazzel all point to internet centric rather than browser centric… 
Jul 14th
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Jul 13th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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Singularity University: think “globally” and... →
Jul 11th
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Gumption: Communities, Technologies and... →
(via lwu)
Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 9th
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Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed... →
“True breakthrough innovation doesn’t scale”. Bruce Richardson - AMR “You need margins and you don’t get that from commoditization. You need to commercialize and scale.” Sonny Singh - Oracle
Jul 8th
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Jul 7th
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The Philosophical Significance of Cox’s Theorem... →
Jul 7th
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US Startup Investment Market (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009) - Dave McClure
Jul 6th
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Jul 5th
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Jul 4th
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Jul 4th
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Why Walgreens Is Building Its Own Universal... →
Walgreens’s undertaking to provide accessible health care while still making a profit isn’t unrealistic. “I think they’re probably right,” says Elizabeth McGlynn, associate director at policy think tank Rand Health, about Walgreens’s win-win. “If there is no reform, retail clinics offer convenience and lower pricing. And they may well be stimulated by...
Jul 3rd
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Jul 2nd
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Securitizing Happiness: Solving the World’s Problems by Making Trillion-Dollar Markets for Individuals, Small Business, & Natural Resources - Dave McClure
Jul 2nd
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Jul 2nd
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Jul 2nd
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Entrepreneurial success is about circumventing... →
 via TrafficHoney.com aka Sana N Choudary
Jul 1st