Posted in delicious on 27 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Subscribing to RSS Theory (Subtraction)
My thoughts exactly: I like the way the RSS reader of today is compared to the kitchen drawer with all the ‘rubber bands, pens, take-out menus, birthday candles, etc’. The comments are equally interesting with some pointers to usable feedreaders.
(tags: rss information overload reader)
Taming my RSS feeds, the Bayesian way (The [...]
Posted in delicious on 26 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Service Oriented Systems (Rijks Universiteit Groningen)
This group is part of the Distributed Systems and Software Engineering unit of the Rijks Universiteit Groningen. They are active in the field of service request languages, mobility of service consumers and provides and testing Service-Oriented Systems.
(tags: university group saas services research)
Posted in delicious on 22 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Domain Specific Language Simplexity (Jay Fields’ Thoughts)
Simplexity: what’s not to like about this word. DSLs are really about compartimentalizing complexity in something that is much more simple. You shouldn’t try to do everything in a DSL, as then it becomes a general programming language.
(tags: dsl domain language ruby programming)
Posted in delicious on 20 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Nurturing a Healthy Innovation Environment (Irving Wladawsky-Berger)
Some valuable insights into nurturing innovation from a personal perspective. Generally, the culture in a large company is against innovation, operations is a day-to-day worry. Therefor innovation is pulled by individuals with an ambitious goal.
(tags: innovation management culture organisation career)
Posted in delicious on 15 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Liberate and disseminate (Times Higher Education)
Here’s a story of courage: Erik Ringmar is copying documents (of the British House of Commons) from a access restricted website and putting them into the Internet Archive. He “feels strongly about this and is prepared to live with the legal consequences”.
(tags: copyright education contentresearch internetarchive)
Posted in delicious on 14 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Automated content creation: pushing the boundaries of human value (Trends in the Living Networks)
A program which can write books: wow. However, the real question that springs to mind is, how much value is added. From the video it seems that at least the content consists of tons of data, is it at an information or [...]
Posted in delicious on 9 April, 2008 | No Comments »
What Is Google App Engine?
Amazing, Google is offering an App Engine, like Amazon’s webservices. However, the cool thing is that they make use of Python and Django. Really cool stuff. I’m curious to see if Django developers will start working on this platform.
(tags: google saas webservices python django webdev)
Posted in delicious on 4 April, 2008 | No Comments »
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business (Wired)
Thought provoking article about how things are getting free. Although from one perspective things might be free, others may be picking up the bill. This article offers some great inspiration to think about new businessmodels.
(tags: freeconomics business economics future)
