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links for 2011-01-10
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-01-10

School's in for open source advocates Excellent initiative that deserves to be emulated all over the world. If you have any kind of meeting spaces at your company...

Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun
From Putting People First

Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun

When I was working at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I met Massimo Banzi who embarked on an open source hardware initiative which eventually became the very...

Cyberspace when you
From Putting People First

Cyberspace when you

The Internet promises a kind of immortality. What if your last tweet is the one that defines you for all time? Rob Walker reflects in a long article for the New...

Interesting Links 10 January 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 10 January 2011

Yesterday I got the

Our Institutions are Limited by the Pre-digital Technology
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Our Institutions are Limited by the Pre-digital Technology

Much of our institutions are limited by the pre-digital technology: (1) It is difficult to constantly re-edit a paper book; (2) without computers, global trade...

3D Printing for Rapid Prototyping
From The Eponymous Pickle

3D Printing for Rapid Prototyping

A good example of remote 3D  'printing', here of a musical instrument, done by researchers at the MIT Media Lab. A good example of rapid prototyping.  We are learning...

Cowan's Auctions Special Collections
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cowan's Auctions Special Collections

Cowan's Auctions, who I have been doing consulting work for, has started to do some online-only timed auctions.  This is different from online auctions like eBay...

Gender Persuader by Next Stage Evolution
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gender Persuader by Next Stage Evolution

I talked to the the NextStage Evolution analysis folks a few years ago, and they have developed some new methods that deal with gender orientation, see here for...

LG Thinq Automates Home Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

LG Thinq Automates Home Tasks

One of the things we actively looked at in the innovation centers was how changes in home appliances could alter the use of enabling products such as detergents...

? Light In The Dark
From Wild WebMink

? Light In The Dark

Apologies for the silence over the weekend – we’ve been taking a break in Helsinki. Because of it being the darkest part of the year, the city has a week-long night...

Quo Vadis, Quora?
From The Noisy Channel

Quo Vadis, Quora?

I know, everyone is sick about hearing about Quora, the community question answering site that is the darling of the blogosphere, and perhaps you fled here from...

Motion Silences Element Change
From The Eponymous Pickle

Motion Silences Element Change

A very clever demonstration from the Harvard Vision Lab about how the eye perceives change in moving objects differently from those that are stationary.  It is...

A Semantic Enterprise OS to Optimize Performance
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Semantic Enterprise OS to Optimize Performance

Mark Montgomery of Kyield publishes a new white paper: Kyield Executive Briefing, A Semantic Enterprise Operating System to Reduce risk and seize opportunities:...

Latest Innovations at Procter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Latest Innovations at Procter

A useful outline of the latest innovations at P&G.  Everyone, inside enterprise and out, can be an innovator with open innovation.  These examples are excellent...

Cyberspace after Death
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cyberspace after Death

In the NYTimes Mag, an article about deathswitch.com.  Immortality in cyberspace, settle scores and make revelations after you are gone?  Send out email and alerts...

Posterous Groups
From The Eponymous Pickle

Posterous Groups

I see that the Posterous Blogging system has now added a group capability.  Useful for communicating with groups of people via email blog posts.   I have mentioned...

Supply Network Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Network Design

Recently in SpingerLink, book on Supply Network Design, by Hoda Davarzani and Shabnam Rezapour.   An initial look shows some useful parts.

Friday Squid Blogging: Biggest Squid Ever
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Biggest Squid Ever

It's an oil field: Brazil's state-run Petrobras confirmed Wednesday that oil fields recently discovered offshore contained 8.3 billion barrels of recoverable crude...

On the Real Price of Gas
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Real Price of Gas

In Carpe Diem, an examination of the real price of gasoline.  Cheaper today in the US than in 1920. Market driven innovation works.

The Surprising Power of the Hive Mind
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

The Surprising Power of the Hive Mind

Have you ever heard of the alternate reality game I Love Bees? It was designed as a game to be played by a very large number of people who would form a collective...
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