December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Applied Behavior Design: How to Have More Clients than You Can Handle
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Don't Be A Free User →
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Thinking lazily about wealth, its creation and... →
JP draws on Paul Graham’s and W Brian Arthur’s essays and the impact on Wealth Creation in The Second Economy by Maker Generation Consider, current IPO’s and Facebook are companies who help people spend time rather than save time, the second economy may be all about who creates and who owns attention streams?
Dec 21st
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The second economy (vast, automatic, and... →
FT’s Gillian Tett wrote: Men, women - and machines. Inspired by a thought-provoking piece written in the latest McKinsey Quarterly, W. Brian Arthur, an esteemed economist, scientist and visiting scholar at the PARC, thinks its crucial thing to understand about these new digitised machines. Brian argues that since 1990, we are not just automating human processes; but these machines have been...
Dec 20th
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Are You Building Products Customer Want?
Dec 19th
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MongoDB experiences from Wordnik, Foursquare and... →
“Your app should be smarter than your database”
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Selling engines as a service, fueled by data →
What’s truly interesting about Rolls-Royce:
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Yammer moving from Scala to Java  →
Yegge-long post
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Twitter Bot Auto-Debates Climate Change Critics →
Interconnected machines curating a shadow information economy? @FT’s Gillian Tett: Men, Women - and machines. @PARCInc’s W. Brian Arthur: The second economy. Full PDF c/o McKinsey Quarterly   sophiologist: “As anyone interested in the recent U.S. midterm elections can attest, arguing with people who’ll never agree with you is an exhausting hobby. At least one developer has...
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Moving from Transaction to Engagement →
— call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. R “Ray” Wang HBR blog
Dec 10th
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GigaSpaces / Cassandra great talk on Elastic Real Time NoSQL platform - Seattle Scalability meetup 12/7/11
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Siri eavesdroppers are becoming annoyed →
Jimmy Wong, of Los Angeles, called an overheard conversation with Siri on an iPhone “creepy.”
Dec 7th
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Gowalla: Gowalla is Going to Facebook →
Mike Arrington’s take http://uncrunched.com/2011/12/05/gowalla-founders-v-gowalla-investors gowalla: Three years ago Gowalla’s journey began when I took a photograph of Lake Tahoe on my iPhone. I had just finished a phone call with my dad, and I wanted nothing more than to share that photo and place with him. Not just in a text message or status update sort of way, but with a bit of...
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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ERP Software Project Attempt Ends in 'big Mess' →
Quickbooks lack of structure allows entrepreneurs to orchestrate horizontally, and change process workflow without software costs. Whereas ERP was often designed for vertically integrated mfg processes, change is tough. Ends in ‘big Mess’. And see you in court.
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. →
Micheal Arrington touched off a storm
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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