The West Comes Unraveled (1)
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by J. R. Nyquist. "When a civilization begins to unravel, the first action is always internal. It is hidden, spiritual, and unobserved by the public. Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho recently pointed out that Western Civilization has produced more “educated” people than we have positions for."
The Curious World of the Last Stop - NYTimes.com (1)
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At the city’s often-threadbare fringes, there is an inescapable sense of lonesomeness.
6 Emerging Trends CIOs Should Care About (57)
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According to Forrester Research, we're in the initial phases of a new 16-year cycle of technology innovation and growth called "IT Everywhere." This shift comes on the heels of the previous cycle which brought us networked computing technologies for our enterprise applications and the Internet. During this transitional period, CIOs need to be aware of which trends from the older cycle are still important and which of the new trends they should also be paying ...
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Kevin said:
Great summary of the Forrester research on 'The Emerging Technology Trends That CIOs Should Care About'.
Co-creation means never having to say you're sorry (2)
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The Mini brand is all about fun and owner-specified (if not always owner-created) customization. Take a look around Flickr and you'll see an amazing display of creativity. Mini fans are taking the brand ball and running with it. As a marketer, the tradeoff is one of control. Traditional marketing communications, PR, and branding was all about control: say this, don't say that, stay on the straight and narrow, conform to this set of brand guidelines ...
Interesting Graph [The Corpus Callosum] (2)
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Just in case you thought you were having a good day, here is a graph from the Fed that shows how much money the banks have: Don't panic. The final number is from 1 July 2008. I'm sure they've fixed the problem by now. HT: London Banker, on Roubini's Global EconoMonitor (RGE Monitor). Read the comments on this post...
Data-centers built out of sealed shipping containers filled with servers (40)
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Microsoft's new data-centres are comprised of entire sealed shipping containers that are slotted into racks and left to run until a critical mass of their processor units have failed, then are swapped out. Starting with a Chicago-area facility due to open later this year, Microsoft will use an approach in which servers arrive at the data center in a sealed container, already networked together and ready to go. The container itself is then hooked up ...
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Dom Derrien said:
Is Jonathan Schwartz, SUN's CEO, going to approve the concept reuse? See http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/a_logical_end_point, published in October 2006...
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Steve said:
Now we just need robots to swap the containers in and out and we're on track for technological dystopia!
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Rui said:
huge racks ...
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Josh Bancroft said:
Those are big servers.
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Doctor Setebos said:
This is interesting to know - especially since Microsoft will soon be building a data center right here in Des Moines.
Timo Heuer shared as favorite Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone (19)
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1) Shazam for places - I blogged about this when I was in Scotland earlier this month. I met a company at TechStars yesterday that might be able to build it. I hope they do. 2) Shazam for people - same idea. even more possibilities for this one. 3) Twitter or sms bot for Crunchbase - When I hear about a company, I want to send the name of the company via twitter or sms ...
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Todd said:
Cool list of things needed on a phone
Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone (5)
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1) Shazam for places - I blogged about this when I was in Scotland earlier this month. I met a company at TechStars yesterday that might be able to build it. I hope they do. 2) Shazam for people - same idea. even more possibilities for this one. 3) Twitter or sms bot for Crunchbase - When I hear about a company, I want to send the name of the company via twitter or sms ...
11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0 (74)
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Yesterday we wrote about Enterprise 2.0 from the point of view of the Enterprise, the buyer. The conclusion was that the impact of social media on the Enterprise was very big, addressing the very "nature of the firm". This post looks at Enterprise 2.0 from the point of view of the vendor, specifically startups. This is a 30,000 foot view, but we aim to get past the hype to insights you can use in your ...
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Sean said:
I think this is a good list. My advice for startups that want to pitch me business? 1) Understand that just because you don't like MS products my business (an most other enterprises) run on a Microsoft backbone. Integrate with AD for security and run on IIS. 2) Understand my business, and how we are structured. Professional service orgs. are very different than big companies.
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maccman said:
Very interesting article
What makes for a good blog? (15)
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Merlin Mann lists some attributes of good blogs. Good blogs try. I've come to believe that creative life in the first-world comes down to those who try just a little bit harder. Then, there's the other 98%. They're still eating the free continental breakfast over at FriendFeed. A good blog is written by a blogger who thinks longer, works harder, and obsesses more. Ultimately, a good blogger tries. That's why "good" is getting rare. Like ...
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Atherton said:
Merlin Mann on good blogs. I could not agree with him more.
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Noelle said:
so true
ClockQuotes [A Blog Around The Clock] (4)
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Digital Domain - Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense. - NYTimes.com (1)
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Tired of creating and changing Web site passwords? Many experts propose dropping passwords entirely for a security system based on cryptography.
LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface [Nike+] (63)
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We've known that Nike+ has long been in development for the iPhone. Now we're finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface. From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone (before this stuff was available on the web only). But the biggest improvement over the old Nike system may be Google Maps support: We don't know just how robust the Nike+ ...
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kyle said:
This is cool! I wish they had a bike one too.
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Jonathan Washburn said:
This is change my life - in a small way at least. I am so excited.
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RLivsey said:
GPS & Nike+ would be the killer app for me to upgrade to a v2 iPhone. At the moment the upgrade price isn't worth it.
Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed, Defies Belief [Burj Dubai] (84)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. To celebrate it, David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air which give an exact impression of the breathtaking, massive scale of this building. Inside, it looks like a set from Blade Runner or the interior of the Death Star. Corrected and updated: ...
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Stewtopia said:
Despite sharing this via Reader, you really need to go to the Gizmodo page for this one.I've always admired the Burj al Arab architecturally, but this building gave me goosebumps.... Incredible.
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Tambu said:
FIGATA!
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
awesome, in the truest meaning of the word.
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beggs said:
"No, the sultan is NOT compensating."
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Matt said:
This thing just blows my mind -- absolutely amazing.
Eyes on the Road - WSJ.com (1)
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Sanjay Rishi, leader of IBM Corp.'s global auto industry consulting practice, says interest in car sharing reflects a dwindling passion for automobiles in some parts of the world, such as Europe. That, plus rising fuel prices, means fewer consumers will want to spend money on big vehicles that serve what he calls "the maximum need."Selling consumers more vehicle than they need has been the mainstream auto industry's business model for most of the past century. ...
3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart (6)
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A while back I asked what you wanted to see more of on FlowingData. Thanks to the 447 of you who responded. I was actually kind of surprised that there were so many votes for statistical visualization. I thought there would be more of a balance between design, art viz, and stat viz. I was, however, happy to see that the second most voted-on choice was "All of the Above." I must be doing something ...
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qthrul said:
Scatter plot with log scale please
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web? (63)
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Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that "over time, Wall Street 'firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside customers.'" As I wrote in my blog post at the time, Trading for Their Own Account, "I thought, whither Google, Yahoo! and Amazon?" At the time, I ...
