Full Interview: Does Location Matter? (1)
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Yesterday at the Mesh 2008 conference, Nora did an onstage interview with Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher with Microsoft and "a designer and a researcher concerned with human aspects of technology." The central question was, does location matter? In this digital age, we have many tools -- wikis, webcams, IM, videoconferencing, and other technologies of telepresence -- and yet we still seem to want to be in the same place with one another. Is that because ...
Ken Ledeen & Harry Lewis - Blown to Bits (1)
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Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis are co-authors (with Hal Abelson) of the forthcoming book "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion." All three authors are veteran information technologists. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks to Ledeen and Lewis to reflect on the rapid and sweeping changes these technologies bring.
IT Conversations | Technometria with Phil Windley | Evan Prodromou (4)
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Identi.ca is an open microblogging service. Users can post short messages about themselves to Identi.ca, which are then broadcast to friends in their social network using instant messages (IM), RSS feeds, and the Web. The product's developer, Evan Prodromou, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the project, including its open source license.
Obviously Not (2)
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Student #1: I have to go to class.Student #2: Which one?Student #1: Quantum physics.Student #2: Is that where you go back in time to set right what once went wrong?Georgia Southern UniversityOverheard by: Sydney Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-08-25
Matt Zimmerman: Are we there yet? (1)
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The gap between our digital lives and our physical lives is narrowing. The data we collect and publish about ourselves appears sooner and sooner after the event itself: camera and mobile phones upload photos directly to the web, text blurbs about our activity are published instantaneously via text message, acquaintances made in person soon appear in your online social networks, our conversations are enriched by instantaneous question and answer sessions with vast archives of human ...
FLOSS Weekly 37: Laconica (3)
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Laconica, the open source microblogging tool implementing the OpenMicroBlogging standard used in Identi.ca. Guest: Evan Prodromou for Laconica and Identi.ca Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte Running time: 1:27:20
best of craigslist : Girls Piss Me Off ! ! ! (2)
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Girls Piss Me Off ! ! !Girls Piss Me Off.. "can you tell im single"? ? ? I swear that if I wasn't sexually attracted to girls that I'd be gay. At leastguys make sense most the time.First off, girls just talk way too much. When you're with your othergirlfriends, go ahead and talk about whatever the fuck you want. I don't care.But why exactly do you think that I care about the kind of ...
The Future of the Desktop - ReadWriteWeb (111)
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If these trends continue, will the browser eventually swallow up or simply replace the desktop? Yes. In fact, it will probably happen very soon. There just isn't any reason to have a desktop outside the browser anymore.
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Felix Banuchi said:
food for thought...nova has some compelling ideas on the future of personal computing...
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Andy J said:
I like Nova
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jezarnold said:
I already find that search on my desktop is my most powerful tool. This will be linked to a more "me" concentration on the web, especially linked to two seperate "me's" - Work & personal.. I find with work, that the use of the corporate intranet, an internal Wikipedia and also team sharepoints is becoming more prevalent amongst my colleagues..
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Joshua said:
Too many underdeveloped metaphors. Take out the words that don't mean much, and you're not left with nearly as much...though still something very interesting.
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Matt said:
A decent, albeit long, article about shifting the desktop into the cloud. Have to say that I found the librarian analogy off-base, but not surprising.
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neal said:
Great article about the possible future of desktop computing. Kinda long, though.
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David said:
The best description of the future of personal computing that I've read so far.
The Future of the Desktop (141)
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Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, DabbleDB, Basecamp, and many others now provide Web-based alternatives to the full range of familiar desktop office productivity apps. The same is true for an increasing range of ...
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Andy J said:
I like Nova
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Dedalus said:
A good and insightful read on future trends.
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David said:
The best description of the future of personal computing that I've read so far.
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Matt said:
A decent, albeit long, article about shifting the desktop into the cloud. Have to say that I found the librarian analogy off-base, but not surprising.
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neal said:
Great article about the possible future of desktop computing. Kinda long, though.
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Joshua said:
Too many underdeveloped metaphors. Take out the words that don't mean much, and you're not left with nearly as much...though still something very interesting.
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Felix Banuchi said:
food for thought...nova has some compelling ideas on the future of personal computing...
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Devlin D said:
Long post but well worth the read.
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MiramarMike said:
A lot to digest but well worth it
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Moah said:
Needs to read this in detail
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jezarnold said:
I already find that search on my desktop is my most powerful tool. This will be linked to a more "me" concentration on the web, especially linked to two seperate "me's" - Work & personal.. I find with work, that the use of the corporate intranet, an internal Wikipedia and also team sharepoints is becoming more prevalent amongst my colleagues..
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griflet said:
An ode to my late 2005 vision as I would discover in awe Google Earth ... The WebTop!!!
Scott James Remnant: Concept Distro (2)
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The automotive industry, with its particular emphasis on efficient workflow and practices, has had a lot to teach the software world over the years. From the process of requirements, specification and design through to LEAN development practices, it is difficult to argue that we haven’t learned anything from them. I think that there’s another practice from that industry it might be fun to adopt: the Concept Car (sometimes known as a Show or Halo Car). ...
A quote from Steven Frank (2)
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I can’t question that [the App Store] is probably the best mobile application distribution method yet created, but every time I use it, a little piece of my soul dies. - Steven Frank
Lessons on Blogging from Jon Stewart (72)
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The New York Times today has a fascinating profile of Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, entitled Is This The Most Trusted Man in America? The article is a wonderful celebration of the person and the spirit of the show he's created. But perhaps more interestingly in the internet context, this article is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of journalism. It shows how the informality and attitude that we take ...
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Abhishek said:
read it: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/television/17kaku.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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marcel weiß said:
"What a call to action! What a way forward for all of those trying to understand the future of news! Point of view fused with fact checking, bluntness and informality fused with ruthless editing, a humanistic vision that acts as a filter to make sure that the stories covered actually matter!"
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Rizzn said:
This is along the lines of my latest blog posting.
Scott Ritchie: Using the right metaphor (1)
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Not long ago, I was actively involved in a local movement to use single transferable voting in the city of Davis' city council elections. STV is really a simple system at heart - casting a ranked ballot is in many ways easier for a user than properly choosing a single candidate in a plurality election.Intuitively, when you give voters a single choice, they want to pick their favorite. In a plurality election with vote-splitting and ...
IT Conversations | O'Reilly Media RailsConf | Kent Beck (3)
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Relating anecdotes from the past, Kent Beck, the father of Extreme Programming and JUnit, reflects back on the impact his ideas have had in the last 20 years, especially with respect to the history of Test Driven Development (TDD), Design Patterns, and Extreme Programming (XP). According to him, good ideas take about that much time to mature and come to fruition.
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If you have the time to listen to only one podcast this week, this is the one you should listen to.
REST as an engineering discipline (18)
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Damien Katz: "Simpler is better, and REST is generally simpler than SOAP"It's hard to imagine anything simpler than SOAP:<SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"/> <SOAP:Header /> <SOAP:Body /></SOAP:Envelope>there you go. That's as simple as its gets, TSTTCPW. Way less cruft than Atom or RSS. It even says its simple - the Simple Object Access Protocol. REST is not that simple; you can fit the basics into a few slides, but it's purpose is to induce simplicity into the right ...
The Web Computer: Closed, Secure, and Tightly Controlled - ReadWriteWeb (9)
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Lately, people have been noticing that the big shift in computing - that is, moving our apps off the desktop and into the cloud - has more ramifications beyond what simply appears to be a return to a mainframe/thin client architecture. On the surface, today's web seems to be a developer's dream - there are more platforms than ever and everything has an API. Yet the darker side to this shift leaves developers with less ...
The Web Computer: Closed, Secure, and Tightly Controlled (26)
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Lately, people have been noticing that the big shift in computing - that is, moving our apps off the desktop and into the cloud - has more ramifications beyond what simply appears to be a return to a mainframe/thin client architecture. On the surface, today's web seems to be a developer's dream - there are more platforms than ever and everything has an API. Yet the darker side to this shift leaves developers with less ...
