Make IT Scale - scaling and more scaling......what a night. (1)
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So what a night was had at Make IT Scale. We had Mike from last.fm discussing how to scale a large startup and some of the pitfalls to be wary of, power and good coding all help to grow the company and yes it did start with the guys sleeping in tents on the office roof, to make it happen. Phil Harman from Sun microsystems explained about OpenSolaris, Dtrace, ZFS and all the lovely stuff ...
“Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search [BoomTown] (6)
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A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo’s search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-known Internet execs Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn, is–in the words of one key player–”total fiction.”Actually, that’s Levinsohn speaking, on the record. But that’s also the essential word from all key players regarding the Times’ report. BoomTown has spoken to top sources at Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) too and all ...
Entrepreneurs' Basic Etiquette with Potential Investors (1)
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A couple of incidents for the past year recently made me ponder about the way how entrepreneurs in Singapore, or generally Asians handle their potential investors differently from their western counterparts. Perhaps, in terms of Gladwell's "Outliers", the cultural legacy could be the major fact that contributes to their behaviour. Since raising money in such difficult times is so much more challenging, it may also be good to provide some thoughts for those who are ...
iPhone version of Opera Mini Will Not be Coming to the App Store (1)
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Saul Hansell from New York Times who had interviewed Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, co-founder and CEO of Opera had quoted him saying that the iPhone version of the App Store was rejected by Apple has got some clarifications from Mr. von Tetzchner on the issue. Therefore, if you were an...
Meet the Dragons (2)
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Uploaded on September 27, 2008 by Steve Wampler …after you’ve laced my palm with silver. There’s always been a healthy market in one group of people selling access to a small second group of people that a third, larger group of people value. In many circumstances this is entirely right and proper. I was recently at the 31st International Conference on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, this was a massive gathering of academics researching the world ...
Battutologia (1)
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Sto leggendo “Storytelling - la fabbrica delle storie” di Christian Salmon e lo consiglio vivamente. Saper raccontare delle storie convincenti è alla base della costruzione delle “visioni del mondo” in senso etnologico. A partire da Barthes, a Propp, a Lyotard per cui anche gli scienziati sono dei narratori… siamo sempre tutti eterni bambinoni, che hanno voglia di ascoltare belle fiabe. Per questo forse non era difficile immaginare che la “narratologia” fosse alla base di strategie ...
Dismal U.S. jobs report may rattle investors (1)
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Here's Allan Robinson's At The Bell which you'll find in Friday's newspaper:There has been a buildup in expectations for weeks that today's U.S. jobs report will be dismal with job losses reaching levels not seen since the technology bubble burst more than seven years ago.WHAT ARE THE EXPECTATIONS?Investors - Follow link to read full post
The Era of the Entrepreneur! (15)
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Without VCs many start-ups wouldn’t have a chance. Unfortunately with VCs many entrepreneurs also don’t have a chance. There will always be a power struggle between investors and entrepreneurs. Sure, they have a common goal: make the company successful. But unfortunately they also have a goal that is completely opposed to each others goals: they both want to make as much money as possible. If that means screwing each other out of some, so be ...
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One in Five Households Watched Obama Ad (3)
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Nielsen reports that for the six networks that aired Sen. Barack Obama's 30 minute advertisement last night, 21.7% of all households watching television in the top 56 local television markets were watching his commerical.In contrast, the last presidential candidate to air a paid simulcast was Ross Perot in 1996, was seen by 16.8% of households.However, the ad was seen by fewer households than watched the presidential debates. The three debates were seen by 34.7%, 42% ...
Web时代的“元数据方法”(一) (1)
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描述一类资源，首先需要明确为什么要描述，也就是明确需求。需求决定了那些实体需要析出，分别有哪些属性应该被描述，以及实体之间、属性之间的关系是什么。 我们现在的”元数据方案”一般就管到这一步，成果是ER图和属性表，基本方法论就是实体-关系分析。基本功能交给关系数据库来实现。 上面几乎和数据库系统的开发如出一辙。所不同的，我们的目的是建立标准化的、供行业（领域）或更大范围使用的”元数据规范“。即我们希望提供的属性表以及编码方案应该是可被大家共同遵守的、可共享和重用的。 但是上面这种思考方法（“思考范式”），到了Web时代，虽然引入和“神秘的配方”——元数据，也还是不够用的。 1、 Web是一个开放的环境，其功能需求考虑的不光是”自己”的需求，这里的”自己”是指的是本地系统的”相关用户”，借用术语来说：”传统的需求定义只考虑了企业级应用范围内的各类代理（agent）的需求”，Web用户访问特定应用的目的和方式常常会超出系统设定的情境，并且Web用户是不接受”培训” 的，他们会有更多的”替代”选择，甚至你系统的look and feel不好，他们都会走人。因此一个优秀的Web应用，必须能够具有更好的可用性和更强的功能性，必须把更多的可能性置于你的”控制”之下，即便不直接开放，也要提供开放的可能性。 2、这就是为什么很多数字图书馆的Web应用，不能仅仅以”实现需求”为目标，而要深层挖掘”为什么”的原因。特别是现在Web2.0概念引入，需求分析、设计、实现诸多流程合一，用户常常不仅要提出需求，还要介入设计，并且关心如何实现。大多数软件公司希望你明确定义需求，而采用什么平台技术架构来实现，不需要你来关心。这样开发出来的数字图书馆或2.0应用，虽然能够实现功能，但是几乎肯定不是一个“好的应用”。你可以责怪用户没有充分明确需求，很多隐含的需求没有提出来，但系统不好就是不好，谁都有责任。 3、当然这个困境应该是由于软件工程还没有发展出相应的分析方法和设计工具，以及经验流程性的东西能够支撑Web级的数字图书馆或Web2.0应用的开发而造成，也并非任何一方的责任。 4、 Web级的应用对于资源描述的需求可能就常常包含在那些未被提出的”隐含的需求”中，例如Web范围内的语义互操作、数据共享、代码(方案)可重用、永久保存的需要，以及相关技术标准和协议的支持和遵循等等。这些规范的研讨和制定，实际上也是为了将来省事：你只要遵循了我的这些标准规范，许多可能的”隐含需求”就自然而然能够的到满足，即便你的行为是无意识的，好处是奉送的。 因此目前的”元数据方法“（全称应该是”Web资源描述的元数据方法”），已经超越了仅仅提出一套（不管是普适的，例如DC，还是领域的，例如IEEE- LOM或者DCAP）元素集的阶段，因为光是属性元素集是远远不够的。目前DCMI所做的，希望在思想方法上进行一定的统一，即：基于”我们如何看待这个世界”建立描述世间万物的一般方法，而建立起一个一致的思考模型（”抽象模型”）；并且基于这个抽象模型，提出一整套的描述体系和元数据方案。语义Web技术可以提供这种方法的技术基础。可以说，我们正在向语义描述的”统一场论”进发。 Tags: DCAM, 元数据, 抽象模型, 数图统一场, 语义技术 Related posts 近期关于元数据编码的讨论 (11) 演讲：元数据抽象模型与新加坡框架 (17) 信息资源描述的“假设系统” (3) 呼唤数字图书馆的“统一场”理论- - (1)
No Funding Until March (1)
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The writing is on the wall. No startups will receive angel or series A funding before March 2009. I know it’s not what we (entrepreneurs) want to hear. We’re optimists. We can visualize that term sheet coming next week. We can each personally justify why our specific venture is more attractive than any of the others out there and why this rule doesn’t apply to us. But it’s just not likely. And this time, when ...
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Dear Readers,A couple of days ago, a Follower of mine on Twitter asked me if I qualified to be nominated for the Tech Crunch Crunchies for Best-Bootstrapped Startup: For a company that has raised less than $100,000 cumulatively from individuals, angels or others. Well I certainly qualify. Last week, someone approached me at a networking event and said that he knew about SavvyAuntie.com - and that he had heard that the founder (me) had used ...Shared by warren sukernek (8)Contribute commentSix Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image (19) permalink
Shopping is a social activity. You would think that retailers would be running to figure out everything they can (and should) be doing online to improve their conversion rates by building community and connecting to consumers through online social networking. That was the general message speaker after researcher after retailer after venture capitalist told the crowd in Amsterdam this week during the first-ever Global E-Commerce Summit presented by Shop.org (full disclosure: I was one of ...Shared by Dan (20) Ethan Goodman (0) jscheu (0) Kneale Mann (1) Lynette Young (0) Mitch Joel (5) warren sukernek (8)Contribute comment
