Posted in delicious on 31 October, 2007 | No Comments »
If We Had No Moon (Astrobiology Magazine)
I was discussing this with my wife a few weeks ago. Some of the things in the article I knew, but even more I didn’t, interesting stuff! (Let’s hope Mr Moon sticks around for a while… 
(tags: moon science interesting)
Posted in delicious on 30 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Evidence Based Scheduling (Joel Spolsky)
Planning software development is kinda tricky, but Spolsky explains how it can be done. Benefits on two levels: it’s easy for developers and you get high quality estimates. Also some pitfalls are mentioned.
(tags: software development agile joelspolsky management)
The Semantic Web Goes Mainstream
Short article about twine, in a way similar to Clearforrest [...]
Posted in delicious on 29 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Inventing Left-Hand Columns (Jeff Jonas)
Haven’t seen a quicker explanation of what innovation is, and why it is needed. Users don’t know what they want, until they get offered new featured, they add it to they requirements list, make product matrices and the innovators come up with new stuff.
(tags: innovation jeffjonas features user)
VectorMagic
Nice tool to vectorize [...]
Posted in delicious on 27 October, 2007 | No Comments »
IBM says it has a new way to profit from patents (Technology Review)
Crazy…IBM says it found a way to reform the business model of patents, and patented that. The idea is to get a license not just for one patent but a complete company portfolio, like an insurance against future infringement lawsuits.
(tags: patents ibm business [...]
Posted in delicious on 26 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage (HBS Working Knowledge)
Article with some concrete ideas about how to innovate within the existing market. The points that are given are a good basis to start-up some new research or endevour.
(tags: business innovation management research strategy)
ClearForest Gnosis (Firefox Add-ons)
I hadn’t seen this extension before, but came accross through [...]
Posted in delicious on 24 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Frontiers in Service Conference
Enormous list with links to presentations of the ‘Frontiers in Service Conference’, some interesting topics can be found in the list. Maybe interesting to visit this next year…
(tags: conference services ibm presentation)
NESTA - Making Innovation Flourish
Something different that the innovation platform in the Netherlands, this is the National Endowment for Science, Technologies [...]
Posted in delicious on 20 October, 2007 | No Comments »
What about research, interviews, and documentation? (37signals)
I still have a great time reading this stuff from 37signals and to spot the difference with big organisations. Good stuff.
(tags: agile development research software prototyping)
Posted in delicious on 18 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Nutch
I was looking for a easy way to index some pages, this seems to be the right tool for that. Based on Apaches Lucene, this is a crawler that will fill a full-text index, making it possible to search for documents or webpages.
(tags: apache search opensource lucene nutch)
Google, Apple and the future of personal computing [...]
Posted in delicious on 17 October, 2007 | No Comments »
How to go from clients to products? - (37signals)
Neat to read the idea of a small company about software development. Putting down serious constraints on the project gets it done. Maybe not fully but half, as long as it is not half-assed.
(tags: software development management agile product)
Posted in delicious on 16 October, 2007 | No Comments »
Textkernel
This is a company, which recently won an innovation price in the Netherlands. Looks like some interesting stuff they are doing.
(tags: contentresearch metadata content context classification text)
