Autor: Tim Strehle

Jon Udell – Can the Noosphere Save Us?: „We are all continually discovering useful knowledge that we want to share. Until very recently, it was costly to transmit that knowledge beyond the local sphere: friends, family, tribe. Now, suddenly, it’s free to address the whole world. The only cost is your time. Of course that…

Simon St. Laurent – Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access: „The general practice set by Access’s creators from the beginning was to do as much as possible through visual interfaces rather than through code. In that, perhaps more than anything else, they struck a balance that made Access approachable while still letting it…

Rick Jelliffe at O’Reilly Broadcast – Announcing the date of the FOSS revolution: 2032!: „So why is retirement important? It is because I suspect that if FOSS can present itself in a form that is convenient and fun for retirees to take up as a hobby, it will have access to an incredible reserve army…

violet – The Internet of Things starts here, fun objects using RFID and WLAN: „Violet’s dream is therefore to make the physical space in which we live – our homes, offices, public spaces – a better place: rich, intelligent, connected, personalized, awe-inspiring, fun. Not a space that simulates 3D, but that naturally is 3D. A…

I keep forgetting how to get started with the wonderful rrdtool, so here’s a note to myself for the next time (and here’s the tutorial)… I’m creating a database with these characteristics: a single, once every 10 minute measured gauge named „num“ which is OK with up to 20 minute gaps between values 10 minute…

Eric Ries – Validated learning about customers: „The problem stems from selling each customer a custom one-time product. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. That leads to cashing many checks. […] They are closing orders. They…

„EtherPad lets multiple people work on the same text simultaneously. […] Insanely useful for Meeting notes, Conference calls. […] No account required. The only really real-time collaborative editor on the web.“

Scott Adams – How I Saved Newspapers: „The key is to get kids interested in the online version of the super-local news. Kids care about themselves more than they care about anything else in the world. […] With this concept the local newspaper extends their business model to include working with schools and youth sports…

Martin Kelley at O’Reilly Broadcast – Will Facebook (all but) replace corporate websites?: „With the rise of the real-time update streams being popularized by Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed, users are becoming accustomed to a constantly-changing flow of pictures, videos and new snippets. Even actively-maintained websites seem locked in languid stupor in comparison. […] This will…

Tim Bray – Al3x, Meet Ted: „At this point I appeal to Sturgeon’s Law, usually stated as “95% of everything is crap”. The key thing is, you have to do some mental filtering and look at the other 5%. The Internet helps via PageRank and friends, but independent thinking is required too: make your own…