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, interaction design, software development on 6 April, 2007 | No Comments »
The way Jeff Jonas gave his talk at etech07 was similar to the content he was presenting. His theme was ‘enterprise amnesia’. Jonas has a history in Las Vegas, where he worked on fraud detection for casinos. The main problem with these organisations is that the left hand does not know about what the right [...]
Posted in etech07, software development on 5 April, 2007 | 2 Comments »
At the Etech 2007, Marc Hedlund and Brad Greenlee gave a technical talk about privacy techniques for web applications. They both work for Wesabe, a online community where people can manage their money. Users can upload their bank account information which is aggregated in the community. From the collected information good tips and recommendations can [...]
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 [...]
