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Pink Fluffy Bunny Friday 
Steve via SteveStreeting.com on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
The only trouble with the whole international, interwoven, inter-everything internet is that it frequently throws me a cultural curve-ball (or, to localise it in the spirit of this post, an ‘off spin ball’). One such case is the inexplicable deluge of emails and news feeds I’m getting telling me about the run up to ‘
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Visual numeracy for collective survival
Jon Udell via Jon Udell on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
In response to an item last week about regional sources of imported oil, @jesperfj wrote:
Not sure what to conclude? Do informed people like Udell really not know that?
I really didn
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Startup Salary Data from Private Company Compensation Survey
Dharmesh Shah via OnStartups on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
It has been a while since I’ve written an article about startup compensation
(what do founders, CEOs and others make)? My previous article about startup
founder compensation continues to be popular, despite having been written in
2006.
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Rocky on Oslo
Chris Sells via Marquee de Sells: Chris's on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
Rockford Lhotka had this to say about Oslo:
"The Oslo modeling tools are also interesting, though they are more future-looking. Realistically this idea of model-driven development will require a major shift in how our industry thinks about and approaches software developm
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The Insanity of Microsoft BizSpark
Hank Williams via Why does everything suck? on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
BizSpark is a new business development program from Microsoft targeted at startup web software developers. BizSpark allows young tech companies to get free use of Microsoft’s development tools and platforms for three years. According to Anand Iyer, developer evangelist at Microsoft, who I heard speak at last night’s
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Worst. Bug. Ever.
(unknown author) via Simon Willison's Weblog on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
Worst. Bug. Ever.. Android phones were executing every keystroke typed in to the phone in an invisible root shell! Text “reboot” to a friend and your phone rebooted. Wow.
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User generated content and centralised control don’t mix
Steve via SteveStreeting.com on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
User generated content is currently something of a media darling in the game industry. Of course, it’s actually nothing new - gamers on open platforms like PC and the home computers before it have been creating mods and new content for their games for a couple of decades now. What
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Where the oil comes from: Not from where I thought
Jon Udell via Jon Udell on Sun, 09 Nov. 2008
At a party the other night, a friend mentioned that the country supplying us with the most oil is Canada. Maybe so, I said, but on a regional basis the Middle East dominates, right? He wasn’t sure, but didn’t think so. And it turns out he was right, at least according to the US Dept. of Energy d
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Who Should Obama Hire To Be America’s CTO?
smoothspan via SmoothSpan Blog on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
There’s a discussion making the rounds of several groups I frequent (including the Enterprise Irregulars) as well as Techmeme about who Barrack Obama should get to be America’s CTO. It comes in the wake of John Doerr saying he thought Bill Joy shou
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Microsoft Offers Free Software to Startups
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
Microsoft today announced that it will give away software and services to qualifying software startups as part of its newly announced BizSpark initiative. To qualify fo
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Entrepreneurs 1 - Patent Trolls 0
Fred via A VC on Fri, 31 Oct. 2008
Well it looks like we got a win yesterday when the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that software and business method patents must meet a two pronged test that should serve to render many of these patents useless. I am not a patent lawyer and there is a debate in the comments to
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Windows Server and SQL Server on EC2
(unknown author) via Simon Willison's Weblog on Thu, 23 Oct. 2008
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Cliff notes version of EC2 pricing
Windows Server and SQL Server on EC2. Launched today, the pricing includes rental of the Windows license. Regular Windows is 25% to 50% more expensive than Linux, but SQL Server comes in at a hefty $1.10 per hour, which is $9636 per year (nearly three tim
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Using the Cloud to build highly-efficient systems
Werner Vogels via All Things Distributed on Thu, 23 Oct. 2008
These are times where many companies are focusing on the basics of their IT operations and are asking themselves how they can operate more efficiently to make sure that every dollar is spent wisely. This is not the first time that we have gone through this cycle, but this time there are tools available to CIOs and CTOs that help them to manage their IT budgets very differently. By using infras
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Remembering to forget
(unknown author) via Rough Type: Nicholas Carr' on Wed, 22 Oct. 2008
Slowly but surely, scientists are getting closer to developing a drug that will allow people to eliminate unpleasant memories. The new issue of Neuron features a report from a group of Chinese scientists who were able to use a chemical - the protein alpha-CaM kinase II - to successfully erase memories from the minds of mice. The memory losses, report the authors, are "not caused by disrupting the
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SaaS for the SaaS-less
Phil Wainewright via Software as Services on Wed, 22 Oct. 2008
A really interesting and perhaps counter-intuitive phenomenon is that there is a huge demand for SaaS services from enterprises that are firmly committed to the on-premise model. Perhaps it’s not so surprising — the vast majority of computing still runs on-premise, and therefore today’s marketplace consists almost entirely of organizations with huge investments in on-premise infrastructur
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Product Parenting
(unknown author) via Eric.Weblog() on Wed, 22 Oct. 2008
The genesis of this article happened back in May when I
posted a blog entry
containing the following snippet:
And finally, for something
completely different, don't miss the Jam Session at Tech-Ed on June 3rd.
Several of us minions from SourceGear are planning to take the stage an
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Is Enterprise 2.0 a Real Trend, or a Bubble That Has Burst?
smoothspan via SmoothSpan Blog on Tue, 21 Oct. 2008
In down times there is always a morbid curiosity, call it a death watch even. Which companies are really just bubble babies (a delightful phrase coined by MDV venture capitalist Nancy Schoendorf) that can only exist in frothy times and which ones represent real trends that will last?
In particular, what about Enterprise 2.0, which I see as the trend to Social Computing for
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40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data
Nathan via FlowingData on Mon, 20 Oct. 2008
One of the most frequent questions I get is, "What software do you use to visualize data?" A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don't know how to go about doing it or even start. Here are the tools I use or have used and resources that I own or found helpful for data visualization – starting with organizing the da
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