December 2007
37 posts
VideOlympics Showcase →
Google Research Publication: MapReduce →
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets.
Android as enabler of grid computing
GridGain is an open-source grid computing project that aims to break down CPU-heavy tasks between a grid of nodes running concurrently. They are considering to leverage Google’s Android APIs to implement an ad-hoc swarm grid between handsets.
Google Phone blog
Spokeo →
Internet Famous Class →
Amazon SimpleDB thoughts →
Cross-Domain Ajax →
WatchStairway to Heaven
Pew Internet: Digital Footprints →
60% of internet users say they are not worried about how much information is available about them online. Similarly, the majority of online adults (61%) do not feel compelled to limit the amount of information that can be found about them online.
8 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die
Reblogging from Andrew Baron’s dembot
1. Audience Exodus.
2. Expendable Middle-Person.
3. Unsupportive.
4. Dependent on Exclusivity.
5. Rogue Reputation.
6. Unplugged.
7. Ineffectual.
8. Luddites.
How to Evaluate a New Product Idea →
From Evan Williams.
YouTube Architecture →
Mission Bicycles →
The Mission Bicycle is a light steel frame fixed gear bike with high quality components, a custom paint job, no visible branding, and a base price of $790. You choose the colors for the frame, handles, and wheels and an artist designed vinyl decal kit.
What happens when users are really in charge
Picture by Jason Calacanis
Wish i was in Paris for Doc Searl’s presentation at LeWeb3. Here’s a good summary of his speech - still about his idea of VRM that I saw (or heard) first articulated at the defunct (and now ressurected) Gillmor Gang.
Bullshit will lose leverage.
Advertising as we know it will die.
The most important producers are what we used to call consumers.
The...
“i love paris, but the people are so french…got in an argument tonight with...”
– Michael Arrington
Farewell Marc Orchant
Very sad news…
Photo from Scott McNulty
The Police live in Rio
UPDATE: The page has been taken down.
The Police played at the Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro last night to 70,000 people. Watch the entire show here.
1 tag
“1: Software patents have in our experience not added significant value to early...”
– Rob Shurtleff via Evan Williams
WatchWatch video interviews from some Open Social developers and partners:Shelfari, E-junkie, Ning, Flixster, Plaxo, iLike, FotoFlexer, LinkedIn, Hi5, Qloud, Bleacher Report, Slide, RockYou, Oberon, Chronus, and Hungry Machine.
Hit the MENU button to navigate through the segments.
“As a result, I find myself slowly building a new network of friends, colleagues,...”
– Ed Yourdon
Semantic Web: Intelligence at the Interface
Interesting event. Wish I could be in SF:
The interfaces we use to interact with the world’s information are getting smarter. Web portals gave us someone else’s idea of the content we should see. Then came search engines, which let us tell the system what we want, one query at a time. We are about to see the next wave — intelligence at the interface — in which the system...
“But the impact of all of this pounding on Facebook is we’ll get less...”
– A VC: Is There A Happy Medium Between Opt-In and Opt-Out?
Fred has an excellent post today about Facebook and their challenges with Beacon. Go read the whole post. This quote was too good and too right not to grab.
Quarterlife might not get to midlife crisis.
Interesting to see two opposing interpretations coming from blogs and from mainstream media. New TeeVee and Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron question whether the hyped web series Quarterlife is a flop.
On the other side The Hollywood Reporter writes the results as a success.
PR buzz doesn’t generate real results if the product is not good. Disclaimer: I didn’t watch any episodes....
“There’s a weird dynamic when you mix unemployed people and working people...”
– me, to David
NYC tech meetup from the IAC building lobby
It was the first Tuesday of the month and as usual the New York tech community gathered for Scott Heiferman’s Tech Meetup. The sold-out event crowded the lobby of Barry Diller’s IAC building. (And in case you’re curious no sightings of Jakob Lodwick, recently fired from Vimeo one of IAC’s young web companies.) Ignighter It’s a group dating application where friends...
The 2007 Silicon Alley 100 →
Get well soon, Marc.
Just found about this. Marc Orchant is a fellow blogger that I met during the Weblogs Inc golden days. Hope you get back into activity very soon, Marc.
How to block Facebook Beacon →
Case closed
Poking Facebook →
“Adding more users to a social network [site] increases the probability that it...”
– [Danah] Boyd’s law enunciated by Cory Doctow
Android - Poor man’s “My Location" code →
Show me the code..