February 2011
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“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge...”
– Nikola Tesla, 1926 (via colamonstrosity)
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WatchCharlene Li: Disruptive Technology Outlook for 2011
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David... →
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Path Video, now on the Web. →
Dave Morin teases new sharing patterns in the dmz between closed and open web.
Path:
More and more moments on Path are being captured in video. Today we are happy to roll out Path Video on the Web. This is an important step towards enabling you to privately share the most important moments of your life with close friends and family, no matter how they choose to connect through the…
HTML5 Browser Wars - It's on. →
cjus:
IE9 and FireFox4 comparison against HTML5 features. I wonder how webkit browsers are fairing?
After Hours: An American Internet kill switch?... →
rankandfile:
“The timing was dire. On January 25th American senators reintroduced a bill granting the president emergency powers to shut down parts of the nation’s internet as a defence against cyber-attack. Three days later Egypt’s embattled autocrats took their country offline…”
Despite a fearsome…
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Dear Tumblr
imkevinxu:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please. (UPDATE: They did!)
-The Oatmeal
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F*** Yeah Vim. A new tumblr. →
howardtharp:
These F—- yeah tumblrs are enjoyable, but they are challenging to pass around at work without paragraphs of disclaimers.
In any case, here is a most excellent new Tumblr all about Vim-fu.
(For Windows people, VIM is an incredibly powerful editor that is available for Windows, though less popular/known in that environment.)
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WatchYikes.
The Commuter Bike Redesigned and Electrified
“WHAT IS CALMING TECHNOLOGY?”
– Calming Technology - Technologies that promote wellness and reduce stress. (via lwu)
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WatchTrust makes the world smarter.
TrustFabric facilitates trusted relationships between businesses and individuals.
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WatchLets Loop via UX designer Lili Surkirman
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Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success →
The recent WSJ article on the supposedly Chinese style of parenting has generated a lot of interesting discussion.
My strategy can be reduced to two rules: 1) Find a way to make it fun and 2) If that fails, find a way to do something else.
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NoSQL @ Netflix - Siddharth Anand →
White Paper What Netflix expects from a RDBMS
What Netflix can live without and hence move to NoSQL
What Netflix cannot move to NoSQL
Idiosyncrasies specific to SimpleDB
Why Netflix is considering other NoSQL alternatives like Cassandra
Some thoughts on Bi-directional Data Replication — a pipeline Sid built at Netflix
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WatchMongoDB is Web Scale - by Alex Popescu
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The Power of the Platform at Apple - NYT →
“The more people buy iPhones and iPads, the more software developers and media companies want to write applications for them, as various as games and digital magazines. And consumers are more likely to buy iPhones and iPads when more entertainment and information applications are available on them. The combination of hardware, software and services is what corporate executives, economists...
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MapReduce from the basics to the actually useful... →
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wild chocolate: 13 Reasons Why Software Is Not... →
wildchocolate:
Lately it seems more and more evident that the general population expects software to be free or at the very least cheap. This is reinforced when companies like Apple, who make a tremendous income off of their hardware, the iTunes store, and many other revenue streams, heavily discount their…
