February 2009
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Hackaton at P&G (but with an important caveat!)
From AdAge:
“A P&G spokeswoman confirmed the gathering, referred to by some as “Digital Hack Night,” though she said the “hack” part had been added by people in the digital-media world and did not refer to any interest by P&G in hacking digital devices or media. A “Hack Night,” one person said, sometimes refers in the industry to team-building...
Semantic data and geo-tagging the real world
The Japanese startup Tonchidot made a well-blogged ‘vaporware debut’ at TechCrunch50 last year. At the event they didn’t show a working app but a very feasible idea of an iPhone application - Sekai Camera -that allows people to tag the real world using the phone camera viewfinder as interface. It seems that they have finally unveiled it (or at least showed a working demo) at a...
NRDBMS
Some customs are sometimes hard to let go. Joe Gregorio from the Google AppEngine team arguments that traditional relational databases are not the solution for every application. If you’re building on the cloud perhaps the best way to build truly scalable and distributed apps is to use datastores like the one GAE offers (based on the famous Bigtable) or SimpleDB from Amazon (AWS) -...
“In ancient Greek mythology, Daedalus built the famous Labyrinth in Crete —...”
– Boeing: McNerney: Innovation and Invention