4 Appendices that conclude “How to build the Open Mesh” (7)
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I’ve been finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and I wanted to post the four Appendices that conclude the book. Here they are: Appendix - A = “What does Google’s Open Mesh look like?” Most of the infrastructure, services and applications that Google offers work all by themselves and are not dependent upon anything else. Google has launched OpenSocial and built Google Friend Connect. Appendix - B = “How is Yahoo building ...
What does Google’s Open Mesh look like? (6)
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I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh. So here is Appendix - A. Most of the infrastructure, services and applications that Google offers work all by themselves and are not dependent upon anything else. Google has launched OpenSocial and built Google Friend Connect. Google is a leader in OpenAPIs and keeping ...
The Art of iPhone Battery Life (68)
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Some of my buddies have expressed astonishment that I get approximately thirty-six hours of standby with my iPhone, so I'm sharing my settings. Note: this is my second 3G iPhone--I returned the first one because I was getting only five hours of standby time. This is my usage screen. One thing to notice: I don't talk much on the phone--"talk is not cheap" in my book. I am totally an email/tweet centric person. This clearly ...
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Michael Hyatt said:
This is great advice. It is especially helpful if you travel. When I'm in town, I keep my iPhone plugged in. The battery life truly is terrible. I hope this is something that Apple can fix going forward.
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Loic Le Meur said:
I should follow Guy's advice to get better from mine
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Tibor said:
I'f you want your brand new iPhone 3G to last longer, here's tips from Guy Kawasaki.
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colladude said:
iphone battery life
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ScrewTheMan.com said:
Guy's approach is a bit extreme- I really don't think I should turn off all of the advanced features on my phone. But it's a good example that the iPhone's standby time can be improved with some customization. We just need an app to support Locations and swap settings like the Macs too.
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adam said:
I consider my iPhone a "tinytop computer that can also send and receive phone calls" as opposed to a phone that can "do email and browse."
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Stewtopia said:
all good tips. the only thing that I would add is turn the brightness down to about 1/4.
How do we tap the collective wisdom? (9)
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The internet has become a great enabler in democratizing information. The elitism of paid information easily accessible by a rich few has been replaced by a wealth of knowledge accessible via a few mouse clicks in our own homes. And yet, for all the positives the internet provides, our own sub-cultural biases steer us to content that often reinforces our own ignorance, as opposed to enlightening our understanding of the world and the people in ...
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I am going up to New England to visit with some of our customers for the next few days. The New England area has been a good area for our business for many years. At one time in 2000 our largest NetApp customer was based in Boston. They used to buy 760's from us with 1TB of storage which filled a cabinet with FC9 shelves filled with 18GB drives. It is amazing how much has ...
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Darius said:
My buddy Mike runs this great little networking and storage engineering company in Delaware. They do business everywhere and have a first class client list, including Fortune-rated companies and government agencies like NASA. They also refurb and resell NetApp equipment, and here is a great deal...
McCain to Obama Supporters: "Get a Life!" (7)
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One of the most powerful tools in the Karl Rove arsenal was a form of political Judo: take your opponent's strengths and turn them into vulnerabilities. For example, coming into the 2004 convention, Democrats had seen war hero John Kerry as pretty much unassailable on issues of patriotism and they made it a central theme of their event. Within a week or two, the Swift Boat Campaign made Kerry's service record an uncomfortable topic to ...
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Neil said:
Jenkins thinks that Obama's support has some resemblance to a fandom, and McCain is exploiting the negative stereotype of the "fan" in his attacks on Obama. Jenkins doesn't like this, and explains why.
Who should be USA’s CTO? (10)
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There are two views of the CTO position and Larry laid out both views in his interview and explained why he didn’t want the job (which, personally, is the best reason to want him in the position).
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Eater said:
Could you imagine Bill Gates as CTO of the nation? *shudder*
Who should be USA’s CTO? (20)
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Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger shared by 4 people Today I visited Larry Lessig. He’s the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things. He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has a view of things that very few other people have. On the way over to the interview I kept thinking back to ...
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Alex said:
I like the idea of Lessig, too. Andreessen also solid. The typo at the end has me rolling though: "how he'd get retard corruption in the Capitol"Oh, Scoble. Special Olympics will flay you. I'm rolling in the aisle though.
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Art said:
Know what I like about Lessig? His thought process is different. And you can't buy that.
New C-SPAN Sites Get Way Unboring With YouTube, Twitter, Qik, Flash… (17)
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I’m willing to stand up and say it. C-SPAN, which is dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming, is the one channel that we all skip past as fast as possible on those rare occasions that we actually flip the channels on un-Tivo’d television. If not for The Onion making fun of it all the time, I’d forget it existed. If CSPAN has a demographic, no one I know is ...
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Darius said:
Certainly, this convention season will attract more attention and interest than any in my memory. And the coverage is going to be amazing...
New C-SPAN Sites Get Way Unboring With YouTube, Twitter, Qik, Flash… (20)
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I’m willing to stand up and say it. C-SPAN, which is dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming, is the one channel that we all skip past as fast as possible on those rare occasions that we actually flip the channels on un-Tivo’d television. If not for The Onion making fun of it all the time, I’d forget it existed. If CSPAN has a demographic, no one I know is ...
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Darius said:
Certainly, this convention season will attract more attention and interest than any in my memory. And the coverage is going to be amazing...
OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch) (7)
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing — Six months ago, OpenSocial was nothing but a list of promised partnerships. But the social network application platform backed by Google has made a lot of progress since then as those partners started to go live with their OpenSocial Apps.
12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today (206)
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The workplace, more and more, is changing, and with this change comes a whole new set of rules. The traditional office work environment and tools are still around, but at a very rapid pace, they’re being supplanted by newer and better tools, newer and better ways of working. The old rules are being broken, and new ones are emerging. You could call this the Workplace of the Future, as not all businesses have adopted these ...
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Andrew said:
I don't necessarily agree with all the points, but I think they make some good points.
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Greg Lowe said:
Interesting, I'm not sure I'm there yet, but it does provide a very interesting alternative.
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Robert Scoble said:
Nice manifesto on the future of work.
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Howard said:
This is my life, increasingly, every day .. and I'm loving it.
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Dan Kearns said:
WHAT A FANTASTIC PIECE! Great find, Tim! Best thing I've read on the net in months!!!
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Steve said:
Too many offices stuck in the past
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philco said:
LIVE THESE!rule 13- everyone gets a Co at the end of their name.
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David B said:
Add this to the "428 Zen Habits lists to live by" list
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jezarnold said:
2. Wikipedia: In a few short years, this has become one of the most useful tools ever. It is more useful than regular encyclopedias by an order of magnitude. And it was created by opening things up to the public. Despite massive criticism for this open process, it has worked beautifully. Collaboration works.I couldnt agree more
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lkratz said:
on va faire cela ...
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Kevin Rossen said:
Good read on new trends for offices, working, and productivity today. I practice a few of them already, but I need to implement more.
How Technorati Could Become Relevant Again (16)
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Blog search engine Technorati made a fresh round of promises this morning, assuring users that the service will be less awful soon once a new anti-spam program is put in place. The company says it sees nearly 10 million unique visitors each month but we cringe a bit every time we visit the site. It doesn't have to be that way. Blogsearch in general is rife with spam and Technorati is at a real disadvantage ...
How Technorati Could Become Relevant Again - ReadWriteWeb (10)
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Blog search engine Technorati made a fresh round of promises this morning, assuring users that the service will be less awful soon once a new anti-spam program is put in place. The company says it sees nearly 10 million unique visitors each month but we cringe a bit every time we visit the site. It doesn't have to be that way. Blogsearch in general is rife with spam and Technorati is at a real disadvantage ...
10 Free Productivity Applications for the iPhone (18)
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Posted in Productivity I’ve had my iPhone for a week now and I’ve started playing around with some of the free applications available for the device. Here are ten free productivity apps for the iPhone. I haven’t had a chance to evaluate all of these, but they look the most promising to me. Evernote - Evernote for iPhone lets you capture any moment or idea as it happens, wherever you may find yourself. And, thanks ...
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eEditor said:
I have so many productivity apps loaded on my iPhone, I've probably even organized YOUR life.
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Darius said:
I use Evernote, for it's sync'ing with Windows and Mac clients. I also use Omnifocus, which isn't free and is Mac and iPhone only.
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griflet said:
Wow, I'm impressed with Jott, it takes down voice and puts it into text. Now that's disruptive!
Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work (31)
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Psychology Today: The Creative Personality [via delicious.com/huxant, w/a reminder by Jack Shedd] Some days, I can’t decide how I feel about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say: “chick SENT me high”). He’s written some great stuff, but, sometimes, he mixes Big-Word academicspeak with anecdotal observation in a way that smells a little hokey to me. So, although I’m trying not to audibly roll my eyes at a pop-psychology Top 10 list about creativity’s “dialectical tension,” I definitely am ...
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Denver said:
great post on creativity from merlinn mann. This goes along well with the idea of the BS first draft I tried (unsuccessfully) to adopt in school.
Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work (24)
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Psychology Today: The Creative Personality [via delicious.com/huxant, w/a reminder by Jack Shedd] Some days, I can’t decide how I feel about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say: “chick SENT me high”). He’s written some great stuff, but, sometimes, he mixes Big-Word academicspeak with anecdotal observation in a way that smells a little hokey to me. So, although I’m trying not to audibly roll my eyes at a pop-psychology Top 10 list about creativity’s “dialectical tension,” I definitely am ...
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