links for 2008-01-28
28 January, 2008
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Nice tool to vectorize bitmaps.
links for 2008-01-25
25 January, 2008
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Interesting interview that deals with the real democratic value of voting systems. As Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem states that a perfectly fair voting system is mathematically impossible, it is argued that there are fairer methods.
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How keeping information about users is not always smart, and goes against privacy issues. One of the funny purge scenarios: “oops – we shouldn’t have been collecting that!”
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We all would like to think out of the box, but even being an engineer means we are in our own ‘little box’. Therefor it is so extremely important to get a mixed group of people together to ‘innovate’!
links for 2008-01-16
16 January, 2008
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Nice overview about how the iPhone was conceived. Although it doesn’t go into great detail, it gives some insight in the timeline and the project organisation. These are the trenches of innovation.
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Some interesting insights in how IBM is being run lately. About many people leaving or losing their jobs. The story is about moving a serious amount of labour to lower wage countries like India and the impact on the US labour market.
links for 2008-01-14
14 January, 2008
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Nice analysis of what company could be on the Apple merger list. The idea is that Apple is in the business of selling dongles for its software. The dongles are actually apple imacs. Same idea for iPods and ITunes.
links for 2008-01-09
9 January, 2008
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Funny to read how Google gets it great ideas. Employees trade in a market prediction game. How’s that for tapping into wisdom of crowds. There seems to be some value in the predictions as people can win real money and thus try to do their best.
links for 2008-01-05
5 January, 2008
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SAP is now also jumping the agile webdevelopment bandwagon. This post points out what they are doing with Ruby on Rails. At the same time it gives a good summary of what SAP is about.
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This article shows the value of ‘valleys’ for innovation is immense. It’s exciting to work at a time where the company where I work (Océ) is also working on building a valley for Service Innovation.
