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Interview with Jeff Howard of Design for Service
From Putting People First

Interview with Jeff Howard of Design for Service

Jeff Howard writes the blog Design for Service and is also the curator of the most comprehensive and well organised service design reference library on the internet...

Old Code and Old Licenses
From Wild WebMink

Old Code and Old Licenses

I was in Brussels at the weekend to attend FOSDEM, one of the handful of "real" Free software developer conferences I attend each year (another is LCA which I went...

Eye Tracking - Tie Tying
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eye Tracking - Tie Tying

Short piece on Google eye-tracking studies and universal search. Interesting to see how they approach it. I like the Tie tying example, it was one of the first...

What I Have Learned About Life From War Games
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

What I Have Learned About Life From War Games

Like most dads who have professional careers, I have little time for games. Nevertheless, I spend some time playing war games. These games have taught me some basic...

Provisional Words
From The Eponymous Pickle

Provisional Words

Nick Carr posts about Automatically Updated Books. Where he points out that devices like the Kindle can provide updated text for for any work. Great for a book...

Locations too Honest
From The Eponymous Pickle

Locations too Honest

I see that GMail has added a new optional feature to its signatures. It will add a location designation that it derives from an IP address. In an article, Wired...

ORNL & Morehouse to Offer Supercomputing
From insideHPC

ORNL & Morehouse to Offer Supercomputing

Morehouse College computer science seniors now have their own supercomputing class in the catalogue.

Intel to Invest $7 Billion in US
From insideHPC

Intel to Invest $7 Billion in US

Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced yesterday that the company has planned to spend roughly $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities...

Link roundup after travelling too much
From Wild WebMink

Link roundup after travelling too much

TripIt API Documentation - v1More web end-points for cloud applications. This is the path to the future of cloud.A Twitter Decision"Twitter spam. Really? Are you...

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RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails - RailsLab Scaling Rails screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack and supported by New Relic

The Third Wave on Video
From Wild WebMink

The Third Wave on Video

While I was in Australia I recorded this video with the essence of my talk about the third wave of free and open source software and the adoption-led trend andfreedom...

Brain Processing Subliminal Messages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Processing Subliminal Messages

Roger Dooley posts on the processing of subliminal messages by the brain. Based on a 2007 University College London Study. It is known that the brain reacts to...

Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive
From insideHPC

Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive

Well, it looks like someone at the EE Times hit the publish button a few hours early, since they refer to a press release for tomorrow in the present tense. But...

Using virtualization to make many servers look like one
From insideHPC

Using virtualization to make many servers look like one

ScaleMP founder and CEO Shai Fultheim has an article today at the Virtualization Journal extolling the benefits of using server virtualization to aggregate many...

Timelapse installation of Ireland
From insideHPC

Timelapse installation of Ireland

Last week SGI posted a release about the installation of a 2,500 core Altix ICE in Ireland last November. The system peaks at 25 TFLOPS, and made it to slot 117...

Concurrent Thinking updates cluster
From insideHPC

Concurrent Thinking updates cluster

UK-based Concurrent Thinking announced this week the release of the latest version of their cluster appliances. From the release …these bring unprecedented simplicity...

Leadership Cohort Update - February 2009
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Leadership Cohort Update - February 2009

Since the beginning of January, Leadership Cohort members have been instrumental in establishing new local chapters for the Southern New Jersey Shore and Houston...

Congress Finalizes Massive Boost in Science Funding
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Congress Finalizes Massive Boost in Science Funding

Late last night Congress released the first high-level details on the final agreement for the American Recovery and Reinvestment package. (For background, this...

Seismic shift in Internet age mass
From Putting People First

Seismic shift in Internet age mass


Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites

An interesting article. Has some good points. One thing I did not agree with was that a company should suggest that its employees publicly blog and Tweet, as...
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