links for 2008-01-28
Posted in delicious on 28 January, 2008 | No Comments »
VectorMagic
Nice tool to vectorize bitmaps.
(tags: photography image vector online web2.0)
Archive for January, 2008
links for 2008-01-25
Posted in delicious on 25 January, 2008 | No Comments »
The Verdict Is In: Our Voting System Is a Loser (Mother Jones)
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.
(tags: math democracy politics interview science)
Data Decommissioning – Destruction of Accountability [...]
links for 2008-01-16
Posted in delicious on 16 January, 2008 | No Comments »
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry (Wired)
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.
(tags: apple iphone innovation project management organisation)
Leaner and Meaner Still (I, Cringely)
Some interesting [...]
links for 2008-01-14
Posted in delicious on 14 January, 2008 | No Comments »
End Game: Why Apple Will Buy Adobe (I, Cringely)
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.
(tags: adobe apple business model)
links for 2008-01-09
Posted in delicious on 9 January, 2008 | No Comments »
Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game (NY Times)
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.
(tags: google scenarios crowdsourcing economics [...]
links for 2008-01-05
Posted in delicious on 5 January, 2008 | No Comments »
SAP’s Composition on Grails (O’Reilly ONLamp Blog)
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.
(tags: sap ruby rails automagic web2.0 webservices)
Innovation Communities and Network Effects (Irving Wladawsky-Berger)
This article shows [...]
