5 days ago
veen : Open Source and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar - "if you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time."
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12 days ago
Andy Baio : NYT's roundup of home electricity monitoring tech - isn't it against the utilities' best interest to provide tools to monitor and reduce usage?
veen : Prototype - Finding and Fixing a Home’s Power Hogs - NYTimes.com - “We have all the technology we want in our cellphones and plasma TVs and cars, but in electricity we’re still like our grandparents were."
joshua : Prototype - Finding and Fixing a Home’s Power Hogs - NYTimes.com
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21 days ago
veen : How to Change the World: $4,824.13 for Legal Fees
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21 days ago
veen : How We Built an iPhone App for $4873.92 | None | Gifter
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21 days ago
veen : How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)
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1 month ago
philgyford : Drivers of Change - A thing from Arup that would be directly up the street of me eight years ago. And maybe sometime in the future. (via City of Sound)
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2 month ago
Andy Baio : Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno predict unthinkable futures from 1993 - "it costs half a day's pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city"
philgyford : Conceptual Trends and Current Topics - Unthinkable Futures - I like this kind of "thinking the unthinkable" as a way to come up with new ideas about what the future could be. So easy to get stuck thinking about the most likely outcomes otherwise.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends - And that’s it. Lots of mobile phone predictions. Green energy. Water. And more phones.
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5 month ago
veen : The Evolution of Websites: How 10 Popular Websites Have (And Have Not) Changed
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veen : Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine - New York Times - “If you’re looking for what’s next after the Web browser, this is it."
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veen : The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York Times - Somewhat interactive visualization - large amounts of data with scrolling and mouseover effects. Anyone know what this sort of graph is called?
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veen : Hype cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A hype cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies."
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veen : Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb - "Is cloud computing a bad idea? Of course not. It is a wonderful, powerful idea. In this post, we explore the ideas behind cloud computing and argue that it will be an integral part of our future."
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veen : Demystifying Clouds - "In this article, I am going to try to demystify some of the hype around utility cloud computing and focus in on the companies that are providing cloud solutions and the technology components that they are using."
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6 month ago
veen : ReadWrite Web - This is not our bubble - "Right now there are new companies and new models that are below the radar screen that will emerge as major powerhouses in a few years and they will be radically different from what's out there today. "
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8 month ago
Linkorama : 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2008 - Would be interesting if flexible displays actually make it to market widely this year
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9 month ago
veen : Web 2.0 Reactions, by Fred Wilson - "I heard one business described as Google Maps meets delicious, and another described as Skype meets MySpace. When the first derivative hasn't fully figured its long term business model (other than getting bought), the second derivatives are pretty
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veen : House passes federal journalist shield, includes bloggers - Ars Technica - The law protects "a person who, for financial gain or livelihood, is engaged in journalism." Does AdSense count?
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10 month ago
veen : Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again - New York Times - " Internet start-ups are drawing investment based on their ability to build an audience, not bring in revenue — the very alchemy that many say led to the inflation and bursting of the dot-com bubble."
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Madonna Dumps Record Industry - Just when we are discovering the power to find misses, the recording industry starts to worry mainly about the hits
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead - Telegraph - Some of the music industry’s biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead to let fans download their new album without charge.
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veen : Date Of Apple Backlash Set For March 21, 2008 | The Onion - "Until then, I would like to point out that my iPhone is awesome."
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13 month ago
veen : Hiring is Obsolete - "When a startup gets bought for 2 or 3 million six months in, it's really more of a hiring bonus than an acquisition."
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14 month ago
veen : Flickrites: Why your camera isn't so popular anymore - "I thought it might be a change in methodology or a server bug, but one chat with a Yahoo representative explained the real reason: the arrival of the Yahoo Photo plebes."
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