I first pointed to this stunning Valdis Krebs infographic back in March 2004, when the New York Times published it. Krebs has long been fascinated with the clusters that emerge from an analysis of Ama
the crm systems can talk to each other, because it's really a huge peer to peer system. and we know peer to peer is kewl. (http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail139.html)
we're doing 1900 billable events/second, averaging 9 cents each. that is the world's biggest micropayment system. so can we agree that a telecommunications billing system is kewl? (from http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail139.html)
Dave talks about how a city-sponsored blog--in his example, a hypothetical blog for Madison, Wisconsin--would enable visitors to tap into local activities and events.
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with P
"this is my home laptop, I do all my work on it, then I use a USB memory card to bring it over to the work one"
A highly-compressed one-minute summary, by a master game designer, of emergence and "level-jumping"
This 6.5-minute excerpt, from an interview with a molecular biologist and geneticist, defuses the hype
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Excerpt from first Macromedia podcast (7min)
If this trend continues, they will spend approximately their entire revenues on fixing security, or they'll spend what remains of their bank balance. From my perspective, this is a consequence of a failure of design.
We found that a good place to hook in Fitnesse is at the virtual UI layer, which is a sublayer in the presentation layer just below the actual UI.
Anything that takes four years isn't worth doing
We can't take the gigantic processing power of the net, put it through this tiny soda straw of KVM (keyboard/video/mouse), and then couple that to an ultrawideband multi-sensory-fusing system called a human being.
"There's not that much talent in the world."
We're connecting front to back. There's way less mental overhead switching among these layers. And that means you switch a lot.