Posted in etech07, innovation, software development on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
Chad Dickerson presented his experiences with the Yahoo Hack Day at Etech 2007. This post can be fairly short. Yahoo regularly organizes internal hack days to get developers together to work on quick prototypes or demonstrations. There are just a few rules:
it’s about building stuff, not about powerpoint
the day goes for 24 hours, starts at [...]
Posted in etech07, innovation on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
Scott Berkun gave a fun talk on innovation at the Etech 2007. It was in line with his upcoming book (the myths of innovation). Mainly his presentation featured a lot of good quotes about innovation, which were pretty interesting. The most interesting quote was from William McKnight from 3M about his ‘innovation ethos’ (1948):
As [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
During the O’Reilly Radar Briefing at Etech 2007, there was a short but thought provoking discussion about energy. The discussion was with Alec Proudfoot, a co-chair of the Energy Innovation Conference 2007, Paul Kedrosky and Rich Miller. The interesting point that came up when web2.0 came up. Basically, web2.0 is all about centralization of [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 5 April, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Although I missed part of this session, it turned out to be very interesting. Forrest Higgs presented his work on a self-replicating 3D printer. His goal seems very bold, but actually feasible: build a 3D prototyping machine for less than $500. It should be able to replicate most of its own parts.
Actually, during the talk [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 5 April, 2007 | No Comments »
Still having Etech 2007 on my mind. One of the themes this year was clearly the future of manufacturing. One session about this theme took place in the O’Reilly Radar Briefing.
A lot of people start hacking ’stuff’. Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of Make and was part of the O’Reilly Radar Briefing. I [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation, software development on 28 March, 2007 | No Comments »
In a way I’m a bit disappointed by the talk of Jeff Hawkins on Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). But, I guess, it’s my own fault as well. Already I read his book (On Intelligence), read up on the NuPIC platform and played around with the demo application. So what can you expect from a 45 [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 27 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Another part of the ‘briefing’ today was about how web 2.0 and wallstreet are related. Seems like a far stretch, but actually wallstreet turns out to be fairly connected (yes, that is an understatement). Nowadays trading takes place within (a) millisecond(s), and no that is not overstating it.
Peter Bloom and Bill Janeway took a seat [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 26 March, 2007 | No Comments »
The first part of the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing mainly dealt with the way manufacturing of hardware is changing. It started off with a talk about the Make: magazine with the editor and publisher Dale Dougherty. Basically what is happening is that a some people like to hack hardware to make new things. This could [...]
