Posted in delicious on 24 December, 2007 | No Comments »
He with the most data wins (Nicholas Carr)
Insightful addition to the ‘Google Enigma’ article. “In economic terms data has an increasing marginal utility [while] most physical objects have a decreasing marginal utility.” When you have more data, you can make more money in the internet world.
(tags: google analysis nicholascarr data contentresearch)
Posted in delicious on 19 December, 2007 | No Comments »
Computing on Paper (Technology Review)
This is about the reincarnation of the anoto pen. New player, new chances. The fact that I find annoying is that this trick still depends on the paper with patterns. Without the patterns it would be so much cooler (think wii).
(tags: paper digital integration technology anoto)
The Interoperation (Bruce Sterling)
Cool science-fiction short [...]
Posted in delicious on 15 December, 2007 | No Comments »
Use a Wiimote to Make Whiteboards Out of Anything
Very cool and cheap application for using the wiimote as infrared detector turning any surface into a multitouch screen.
(tags: wii howto multitouch diy video)
Posted in delicious on 14 December, 2007 | No Comments »
From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm (New York Times)
This article is a nice read about swarm intelligence, however it is kinda superficial. Nothing new here.
(tags: swarm intelligence emergence collective)
Posted in delicious on 10 December, 2007 | No Comments »
The Yahoo! Juku
Amazing to see how seriously Yahoo is taking their webdevelopment. The only thing I hope is that participants get their hands really dirty and make stuff for us to enjoy…
(tags: software engineering course jobs yahoo juku)
Posted in delicious on 7 December, 2007 | No Comments »
Through the Kindle window (Nicholas Carr)
So true, why would web 2.0 be constrained to the boundaries of the browser window, let’s get it out on many more appliances. Kindle, the iPhone, printers, what have you…
(tags: kindle nicholascarr web2.0 cloudcomputing thinclient)
Google Chart API
Briljant stuff. A very easy api to put charts into webpages. Quality stuff from [...]
Posted in delicious on 6 December, 2007 | No Comments »
Comet works, and it’s easier than you think
Comet opens up the possibility of using a true two way web communication. Thus taking out the necessity of a web client polling the server. I thought it was too complex and far from prime time for this technology, but this article proves me wrong.
(tags: comet web2.0 ajax [...]
Posted in delicious on 5 December, 2007 | No Comments »
mvs - A command line Mediawiki client
Although I had seen this before, I lost a reference. It would be great to automate uploading documents to mediawiki this way. It seems not so usable for any user.
(tags: wiki software svn tool offline)
Outsourcing Technical Services - India Today, Anywhere Tomorrow (IFTF’s Future Now)
You always hear about outsourcing [...]
Posted in delicious on 3 December, 2007 | No Comments »
The Potential of Enterprise 2.0 (Living Networks)
I just found this blog, and I must say, it has been some great inspiration already. This post about Enterprise 2.0 has some good points that I recognize. It’s not riding the 2.0 bandwagon, but has some sincere realism.
(tags: enterprise information architecture web2.0 services)
Computerprogramma als menselijk oog (SYNC.nl)
(Article is [...]
Posted in delicious on 1 December, 2007 | No Comments »
Strobist 101 (pdf)
Great tutorial about DSLR and flash photography.
(tags: photography strobist tutorial camera flashlights)
