July 2008
32 posts
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft - →
Video streams of DG artists at the Verbier Festival 2008
How Hard Could It Be?: Good System, Bad System -... →
Digital files of 78 rpm records →
Here’s an archive of more than 3,000 titles recorded from a collection of old 78 rpm records
Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons →
Buy and Sell Electronics, Sell Cell Phone, Recycle... →
“Here’s my number one fiduciary rule for big brand marketers: The...”
– Seth Godin
Linux inside
Some of the strangest places we can find Linux running.
VW Production plants: Assembly robots are running Linux
Motorola cell phones: Apparently all motorola phones run Linux. I didn’t know that!
Sail boats: Some fancy sailboats are controlled with embedded Linux systems.
Cars: Many cars run Linux now and when customers demanded iPod support in their car, Linux made a huge surge...
AWS Service Health Dashboard - Amazon S3... →
Facebook Sunni and Shiite networks
Leila Fadel, McClatchy’s correspondent in Baghdad blogs about her vacation in Beirut and reports that the segregation is as bad as in Iraq.
“On Facebook, a social networking site, groups were formed to boycott Shiite stores. I don’t know how Lebanese fashoinistas will stay away from European stores like Zara, Mango and Bershka. The groups have hundreds of people and are named...
Are 3D Worlds Useful Yet? →
“Look, I know that being ranked 28 is pretty much near invisible in terms of...”
– The Day After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google
Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP... →
presentation is here http://www.slideshare.net/rabble/beyond-rest-building-data-services-with-xmpp-pubsub
Digging Beyond User Preferences →
Mental models are diagrams that represent the underlying philosophies and emotions that drive people’s behavior, matched up with the ways you think you can support them with your software.
“Over the few years this site’s been in existence, studies have shown that...”
– What Productivity Studies Really Show
Best places to live 2008 - Westport, CT →
Perl likely the next language on AppEngine
From Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick:
I’m happy to announce that the Google App Engine team has given me permission to talk about a 20% project inside Google to to add Perl support to App Engine. To be clear: I’m not a member of the App Engine team and the App Engine team is not promising to add Perl support. They’re just saying that I (along with other Perl hackers here at...
one: Gnip's Head is in the Clouds →
Some internal look at how Gnip is building their service
Monitor110: A Post Mortem →
Mysteries of time, and the multiverse →
George Dyson's New Sci-fi Story →
jeanphony:
The global computer, for all its powers, was perhaps the least efficient machine that humans had ever built. There was a thin veneer of instructions, and then there was this dark, empty, 99 percent.
Cloud Architectures →
Description of a sample cloud app (GrepTheWeb) that enables running grep across millions of web pages.
“The application brings up hundreds of virtual servers on-demand, runs a parallel computation on them using an open source distributed processing framework called Hadoop, then shuts down all the virtual servers releasing all its resources back to the cloud.”
User Mediated Trans-Enterprise-Web Mashups? -... →
Great post from Jim.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? →
WatchJeff Stewart just launched his latest venture: Urgent Career.
Best of luck Jeff!
Let the microblogs bloom - RussellBeattie.com →
The Scandinavian Startup Scene
It’s cool to see this from Fred Wilson as I learn more and more about the European (Scandinavian in particular) startup scene. Some of you know that I’ve been working on a ‘stealth’ concept, and what you don’t know is that my partner and CEO is from Danmark. That has opened a great new pool of networking and investors that I had no idea was avaialble beyond the...
“A city where the real quality of life lies in the fact that it is difficult,...”
– Paulo Coelho: Rio, Essay, Places of a Lifetime, Travel, Photography - National Geographic
“Q: What do I need to do to get Google to index the text in my Flash files?...”
– Google now crawls Flash content.