November 2011
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Seven
parislemon:
When I read Om’s post today celebrating 10 years blogging, it made me think back to when I began. Oddly enough, in three days, it will be exactly 7 years since I started blogging as well.
I actually remember the timing and the thought process. I had recently graduated from college and had just left everything and everyone I knew back east and drove 2,000+ miles by myself out to...
Defining services around a grand theme or even emotion allows them more...
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Continuations: Tech Tuesday: No Computer is an... →
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It is funny how quickly we take things for granted that didn’t exist just a few years back (obligatory reference to Louis C.K. rant about appreciating technology). Today the thought of using a computer that’s not connected to a network is almost unimaginable. What would you do on that…
X
parislemon:
When I left my full time gig at TechCrunch last month, there were a few things on my plate that I was still looking into. One of those was “Google X”.
I first started hearing about Google X in March. I was told it was the codename of the group Sergey Brin took charge of after he handed off control of Google+ — then-called “Emerald Sea” — to Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz. The...
The Old Kingdom →
The old kingdom is a pattern of centralized information, command, and control. Businesses, governments, and even the very fabric of the web (more on this in a moment) is composed of…
Continuations: Wikipedia, Occupy Wallstreet and... →
continuations:
Whenever my kids tell me how their teachers don’t want them to use Wikipedia as a source I redouble my effort to show them why Wikipedia is important and how it works. In particular, I make sure they understand how to look at the history of a page and to check out the discussion or “talk”…
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This February 6th we are launching a new workshop: Advanced Rails. The workshop draws content from the Scaling Rails and Rails Antipatterns workshops, replacing them and creating best-of-breed content that will take your skill to the next level in creating well-crafted Rails applications that…