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The stock market continues to crash, down almost 500 points today, below 10K for the first time in four years. I'm taking a bath, but not as bad as some, since I sold all my stocks in January and have been getting back in very very gradually.
However
Guardian: Now Wall Street may shun $700bn bail-out. "Analysts believe that the mere presence of the government as buyer of last resort will be enough to get credit markets moving again, and that a large number of banks would not need to take part fo
If there are any Republicans out there...
I know some of you are honorable people, good Americans, taxpayers, people who love your families, pay your taxes, do your best to live by the Golden Rule, who try to do the right thing, whatever that is. It'
I've been meaning to write this piece for a while.
First thing you gotta know, T. Boone Pickens is the guy who funded the Swiftboat ads that trashed the reputation of John Kerry during the 2004 election. Kerry is a war veteran, who, according to the
That's a young Rumsfeld at the left.
And Kissinger has reared his head in the McCain campaign.
Guess who else was lurking in the shadows of the Nixon Presidency? And of course the current Republican standard bearer is completely surrounded by peop
The Republicans of 2008 tried to sell us Ronald Reagan, but switched to Teddy Roosevelt when Reagan's deregulation became the financial collapse of 2008. Now they seem to be switching again, in yet another reckless attempt to reignite culture wars, t
Tomorrow Mozilla will launch a new geotagging project called Geode into Mozilla Labs that promises to leverage your physical location to enhance your overall browsing experience. More details will be provided in an official post tomorrow, but this is what we know already:
Geode is a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content.
For example with Geode, a user who is looking for restaurants while they are out of town will be able load up their
Ebay cutting 1600 jobs and HP cutting 1400. Were they important in the first place if they can be cut like this? One in four mammals are doomed says the NYT. RealNetworks DVD ripper blocled from sale. Gag order imposed for unknown reason. Apple iPhone 3G users gah-gah over ATamp;T? Steve Ballmer gives Windows XP [...]
If you are in the San Francisco Bay area (or not too far away), then make sure to check out Flash Camp this weekend, being held in the Adobe San Francisco office by the Flash team.
This is an all weekend event that will go in depth over the new Flash Player 10 and Flash Authoring features. Its a great chance to get up to speed really quickly on all of the new APIs and features, as well as hang out and have a few beers with the Flash team.
Plus, everyone attending will get a Free copy of Flash CS
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Chris Pirillo is on the cutting edge of live stream media. The 35-year-old web whiz knows how to generate online community by hosting videos on UStream and other websites such as CNN.com. In this interview, he discusses how he drew an audience of five million people in 2007, what you need to create a successful brand, and why he'd stream his own natural death.
Question: What is your equipment setup?
Answer: I use a "broken" Canon GL2 that I purchas
I’ve given a few interviews in Milan where I’ve been for the past two days — what a beautiful city! — and almost every time, someone has asked what Web 3.0 will be. As if I’d know!
If Web 2.0 is about how easy it’s become for people to participate, how easy it has become to mash together disparate applications, and how the “network effect” brings about emergent results, then Web 2.0 is all about making the Net radically unpredictable.
So, the only answer
With all of the hype surrounding Cloud computing, Microsoft's upcoming Cloud OS and current efforts around Live Mesh, I thought I would take a trip on the WABAC machine to look at where it all started
File this under the better late than never... On September 26 and 27th, the folks who bring you Flex 360, put on a 2 day "Flex Camp" in New Jersery, which went over extremely well. I was presenting on Testing with Fluint (formerl
Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Cloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is aboutAmazon's EC2 now with Windowsdot.com bubble2.0Upcoming online webinar - Flying through the cloudsFrom deep within the bowels of SUNTime for VMWare to change its pricing modelAmazon S3 suffers an 8hr outage
Inventor invent things. What a revelation! But the thing is that often they invent things just for the sake of inventing things. Take a look at this mini motel for travellers that got stranded and have to sleep in the airport or other . Visualize yo
I noticed a news on an additional source of Impedance mismatch: Cloude Computing...Geir Magnusson, vice president of engineering and co-founder of 10gen, presented at a conference called Web 2.0 Expo, a talk: "The Sequel to SQL: Why You Won't Find Your RDBMS in the Clouds."Magnusson said "an RDBMS is what you need, but not in the cloud." Magnusson seems to support O/R mapping: "O/R mapping blends the power of an RDBMS with the programming simplicity of an ODBMS [object database management system
Skytap, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based virtual lab solutions, today announced its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance program to enable on-demand distribution of commercial software solutions through its Virtual Lab platform. Skytap's initial ISV partners include ITKO LISA. Skytap's Virtual Lab automation platform, combined with ITKO LISA, will enable customers to dynamically spin up entire IT environments for service-oriented testing or training labs.
I'm here at STARwest in ho
Today on http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/ Apple decided to drop the Non Disclosure Agreement for the Official iPhone SDK for all registered developers.On the website Apple stated... "We put the NDA in place because the iPhone
The whole Stack Overflow team got together in person at Fog Creek's shiny new office in New York City for a roundtable discussion about the future of StackOverflow.com, which is up as this week's podcast.
Shanah Tovah u-Metuka!
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A couple of years ago my friend Kaushal Vyas blogged about his first marathon experience. His blog entry started with some quotes from Lance Armstrong on his first marathon:
“the hardest physical thing I have ever done. Even the worst days in the tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way I feel now in terms of sheer fatigue and soreness. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier…”.
It didn’t resonate with me at t
The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” examples like Skype and Wikipedia but no open source software examples. Given Intuit’s proprietary nature I guess I [...]
I am speaking at UI13 in a couple of weeks, and have been mulling on what I should talk about. I’ve decided on a talk tentatively titled “16 Challenging Steps to Becoming a Customer-Experience-Driven Organization.” The point being, it’s a slog, and you ought to be prepared for it. The 16 steps come from our work and research at Adaptive Path. Here they are.
Assess your organization’s experience maturity.
Understand people as people.
Execute a quick win.
Evangelize succe
Fareed Zakaria: Palin Is Ready? Please.. Has a presidential candidate ever announced a new running mate this late in the game? If not, there's always a first time!
I overheard two engineers joking the other day. One says to the other “There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't”.A couple days later I decided to catch-up on some reading and took up a dated edition of Newsweek in which I read a short excerpt from Stephen Baker’s great new book called 'Numerati'. Baker posts a blurb in his website that describes the book as:“A captivating look at how a global math elite is predicting and altering our
Jim Sinur, newly returned to the Gartner camp, just made an interesting post on rule representations. As TIBCO is attending the OMG and W3c rule standards meetings this week, we’re probably in a good position to critique Jim’s view (and make some, er, suggestions).
Lets start at the top. Jim says business rule experts can choose from a variety of representations:
“semantics” (by which I think Jim means formal vocabularies rather than OWL-type ontologies and things like C
Sorry for getting this out a bit late, have been on the road the past couple of weeks...
I just wanted to let everyone in the Boston area know we're having the next meeting of the IASA New England chapter next Thursday, October 2 from 5:00pm-8:00pm at the Microsoft office at 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA 02451.
I will be talking about why interoperability is so hard, and then Brian Kelly and Yev Bronshteyn
will be giving an overview and demo of the new Artix WCF product, which provides native
I’m giving a one-day seminar presentation on “Peopleware” in St. Petersburg, Russia on Sep 22nd. If you’d like to download the 3-megabyte PDF file, click on the icon below.
Sep. 21, 2008 02:23 PM
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