October 2010
BigCo vs Pre IPO Gangbuster →
Glen Kelman posited this inflammatory statement yesterday on Redfin’s corporate blog, One in Five Facebook Employees Has No Imagination Whatsoever. While the title is link bait to…
Pursuing a Path of Self Manipulation →
There is a great deal of evidence that the most productive folks have developed methods to hack their own motivation. In David McRaney’s recent post on You Are Not So Smart he highlights …
I caught a bunch of high school/early college kids... →
Here’s the recent zombie walk in Portland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPsT2GKuoPo
Adobe Flash Translation to HTML5 →
At the MAX 2010 conference a technical demonstration of flash conversion to HTML5 was shown that caught my attention.
What I found most intriguing was how much more web…
The Illusion of Patience →
Youthful Energy and the Flow of Time
I can clearly recall frustrating moments from my youth. The majority of these memories were the result of waiting. Waiting was an eternity of boredom combined…
Job Alignment and Getting Paid to Learn →
The above image was a short exchange between Scott Carleton of Artsicle and Tyler Kieft of SpeakerText starting from the bottom. It provided the impetus for the rest of this post.
Real-Time Searching of Big Data with Solr and...
nosql:
Great presentation on searching BigData in real-time integrating Solr and Hadoop from ☞ OpenLogic’s Rod Cope:
Real-Time Searching of Big Data with Solr and Hadoop
And they are definitely not the only one using Hadoop and HBase for search. I guess this would also be a counter-example to Beyond Hadoop - Next-Generation Big Data Architectures.
Original title and link: Real-Time...
“The Obama administration, facing a vexed relationship with China on exchange...”
– - Mark Landler and Sewell Chan, Pressing China, U.S. Lines Up Allies on Issues Like Currency
Obama is missing a chance to beat the trade war drum in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections. He should use the growing rancor between the US and China to rally the angry American electorate...
“Mobile telecom companies really are an optimal contemporary example of an...”
– Good stuff Dorian Taylor. http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2009/07/the_value_every_business_needs.html#comment-50003742
Prediction, a pinhole look at the future →
We are able to perceive only a tiny fraction of current events that are happening around us. Even given a narrow area of study, the rate of change eludes even determined observations.
Mac OSX Snow Leopard vs Ubuntu Linux Lucid Lynx... →
I’ll compare two system’s usability, one Ubuntu Linux on a Dell desktop, the other Mac OS X on an iMac.
System 1 – Juggernaut
It’s running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx riding on a dual core 3Ghz…
Differences in Natural and Technological Evolution →
Today’s riff was inspired by Kevin Kelly’s latest book, What Technology Wants. In WTW Kevin discusses the taxonomic work of Niles Eldredge. Niles compares biology and technology, leveraging his…
Matricide, SocNets Plan to Strangle the Web which... →
This post was instigated by MG Siegler’s Tech Crunch coverage of the Kleiner Perkins $250 million dollar Social Fund (sFund). What fired me up is a quote from Mark Pincus that discloses the…
Decisions decisions, zeroing in on a Mobile... →
What I’m looking for
a mobile computer so I can engage in the ritual of hackathons
capable CPU
enough memory: 4GBytes+ is sufficient for my needs
TextMate, a nifty Mac OSX project…
The new MacBook Air
marco:
The new MacBook Air was released today, and it’s a hell of an upgrade. It got much better and it’s at an extremely compelling price.
It’s a great computer, but it’s not for everyone. It’s like a two-seater car. Read on if you think it might be for you.
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Semantic Services and Interacting Data →
This is a brief response to a post shared by Robert Scoble this morning on advances in semantic applications.
I envision the open web as one large database, with various search and services…
Why Fucking Awesome is Better than like →
Please upgrade your browser
code for the above fugly buttons are at this gist
It’s not important what you like
We all like plenty of mediocre crap. The humor that get’s a single…
Autonomy, Dictate Your Own Boundaries →
The moment an individual relinquishes control of their potential, they give up their self direction. A classic case is the employee who seeks to please their manager, but quiets their own input,…
Seasonal Model for Web Perspectives →
Winter: Technical Execution
Hacker minds dwell on clarity of code form, models, and data interfaces. A resolute hacker’s mind is like cold steel. They ignore all else, even their own environment…
Tired of Ads and Shitty Content? Click Everything →
I’m tired of the ad supported model for crappy web content. I don’t feel it’s working to support high quality information, or informed decision making. I’d like to suggest a simple change in…
if you want to be an entrepreneur, a great way to...
Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo focused much of his talk on the idea that if you want to be an entrepreneur, a great way to learn is to be an early employee at someone else’s promising startup where you can gather experience, recognition and connection from: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/16/my-9-favorite-startup-lessons-from-startup-school/
Probability of Profitability due to Team, Market... →
This is my first iteration on startup location and how it interacts with the goal of profitability for a nascent business. The original startup location* post was three overlapping…
Kevin Kelly’s new book, “What Technology Wants” is... →
I’ve been following Kevin’s work for several years, and am psyched in a extreme fanboyish manner to have pre-ordered a copy of What Technology Wants. It’s out now so I invite urge you…
Lessons learned in 12 months of web hacking →
Quick list of some lessons I learned in the last year
Never make a client wait
I’ve made and continue to make mistakes while experimenting. My earliest design faux pas was forcing clients to wait…
Designers are from Venus, Hackers are from Mars,... →
The Pitch
The primary design challenge for any web or mobile app is gracefully greeting a new visitor and introducing them to an irresistible offering. Advanced functions and options should be…
Discover Emergency 911 calls in your area via Push...
PDX 911 dispatch calls as an ActivityStreams JSON API served from CouchDB stored by Couchpubtato via Superfeedr. Phew! http://bit.ly/au5jRR original tweet from MaxOgden. It’s an application of couchpubtato a PuSH powered CouchDB, primarily crafted by another PDX hacker Tyler Gillies (currently @rdfturtle on twitter but who knows how long that will last). Tyler’s the resident hacker...
“When people ask about your startup you should have the confidence of a Noble...”
– Hacker News | “Ultimately, the point of these videos is not for you to sell them on your idea…. (via wensing)
“Money is just a type of information, a pattern that, once digitized, becomes...”
– Kevin Kelly
Java Trap, 2010 Edition | Paul's Journal →
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Wensing, M.: Bootstrapping Stormpulse →
wensing:
(This is part 1 in a multi-part series. Part 2 is “Marketing Stormpulse: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”)
So you want to start a startup? Great. You are here:
Unfortunately, unlike the path our hero takes from left to right, there’s no formula for how you’re going to get to the…
couchpubtato: Turn CouchDB into a PubSubHubbub... →
thechangelog:
Tyler Gillies and Max Ogden, who recently ported Diaspora to a CouchApp have released Couchpubtato. Couchpubtato is a CouchApp that turns CouchDB into a PubSubHubbub subscriber. Be sure and catch Episode 0.3.7 for the scoop on PubSubHubbub if you missed it.
What does all of this mean for you? Now with a little help from Superfeedr, you can create a realtime JSON API from any...
Startup Location →
how I see startup location
