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links for 2009-10-22

Groklaw - Reasons I Believe the Community Should Support the Oracle-Sun Deal Another unexpected position that is wellworth reading and which I'm... webmink
From Wild WebMink | October 22, 2009 at 10:37 AM

From Putting People First

The mad dash toward touch technology

True innovators need to know as much about when, why, and how not to use trendy technology as when to use it, says Microsoft Research principal scientist Bill Buxton... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM

From Putting People First

Human behavior: the key to future tech developments

As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 06:01 AM

From Putting People First

On security, programming, privacy, and

Three articles in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM are quite relevant for the readers of this blog: Usable security: how to get it Why does your computer... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 05:59 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

A Week For Computer Science Education

Computer science education reform is going to come in fits and starts working on issues from the top down (national media, federal policy, etc.) and the bottom...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | October 21, 2009 at 10:56 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Wowd: Peer to Peer Popularity search

In the spirit of Web Squared, Wowd is a search engine that seeks to get 'fresh real-time results'. See also their blog. Heard it described at the Web 2.0 Summit... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 21, 2009 at 09:04 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Web 2.0 Summit

The Web TV Summit is underway and its live video stream can be accessed here. Interesting speakers on the topic, including Berners-Lee. I believe it will be archived... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 21, 2009 at 08:13 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

GPS Shoes

I remember the idea being pushed back in 2007. A set of GPS enabled shoes. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 21, 2009 at 08:06 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation in Consumer Goods

Good short piece in ConsumerGoods:Clorox, GSK and More Share Innovation TacticsIn the current economic climate, innovation is power. Top consumer goods executives... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 21, 2009 at 02:32 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 2 of 3 - Current Applications 2

This is the second of three posts on the experiential learning workshop held Monday at ISMAR09. The first post introduced the topic and summarized the first three... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 21, 2009 at 02:25 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

ISMAR09: Experiential Learning 3 of 3 - Group Discussion

This is the last of three posts on the ISMAR09 experiential learning workshop. Post one and post two covered the morning presentations on current applications,... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 21, 2009 at 02:24 PM

From Schneier on Security

Ballmer Blames the Failure of Windows Vista on Security

According to the Telegraph: Mr Ballmer said: "We got some uneven reception when [Vista] first launched in large part because we made some design decisions to improve... schneier
From Schneier on Security | October 21, 2009 at 12:46 PM

From Computational Complexity

The Humbling Power of P v NP

[Note from Bill: He now has an on-line list of papers who still need reviewers] Noam Nisan, back in grad school in the 80's made the following suggestion... Lance
From Computational Complexity | October 21, 2009 at 10:57 AM

From The Noisy Channel

Off To DC

I encourage you to check out some of the blogs I read. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 21, 2009 at 09:21 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Dashboard Design

Reading Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. by Stephen Few. Very good. See also his blog: Visual Intelligence. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 21, 2009 at 09:16 AM

From Schneier on Security

Australia Man Receives Reduced Sentence Due to Encryption

From the Courier-Mail: A man who established a sophisticated network of peepholes and cameras to spy on his flatmates has escaped a jail sentence after police... schneier
From Schneier on Security | October 21, 2009 at 09:15 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Second Life For the Enterprise?

I abandoned SL about a year ago after over a year of exploration. Is it now crowded and profitable? People spending 100 minutes of time there per visit on average... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 20, 2009 at 08:49 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Shopper Lists - Store Contexts

One of my particular interests, starting at enterprise innovation locations, was to experiment with how a shopper could engage with retail locations in a seamless... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 20, 2009 at 08:29 PM

From Wild WebMink

? A Remarkable Reversal

It was a surprise to see Richard Stallman's signature on a letter to the European Commission calling on them to block the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle with its... webmink
From Wild WebMink | October 20, 2009 at 05:05 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

WolframAlpha has an App

WolframAlpha, the computational knowledge engine, has an application for the IPhone. What has received much of the early publicity is that it is expensive in the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 20, 2009 at 04:32 PM