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capucha: Celebrating the first day of fall with this oldie but...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:36:16 +0200

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Celebrating the first day of fall with this oldie but goodie. (november 2006)

Huff TV: Black Swan Author Nassim Taleb Joins Arianna on...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:34:45 +0200

Huff TV: Black Swan Author Nassim Taleb Joins Arianna on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Eric Burdon and War - Love Is All Around (Live, Denmark 1971) HD...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:22:34 +0200

Eric Burdon and War - Love Is All Around (Live, Denmark 1971) HD & HQ (via magusmagic4)

"But, in order to make money, YouTube has been obliged to pay for programs that aren’t crap. To..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:55:28 +0200

“But, in order to make money, YouTube has been obliged to pay for programs that aren’t crap. To recap: YouTube is a great example of Free, except that Free technology ends up not being Free because of the way consumers respond to Free, fatally compromising YouTube’s ability to make money around Free, and forcing it to retreat from the “abundance thinking” that lies at the heart of Free.”

- Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

"There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:52:08 +0200

“There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is effectively Free), a psychological claim (consumers love Free), a procedural claim (Free means never having to make a judgment), and a commercial claim (the market created by the technological Free and the psychological Free can make you a lot of money).”

- Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

"In 1961, Anderson says, a single transistor was ten dollars. In 1963, it was five dollars. By 1968,..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:49:51 +0200

“In 1961, Anderson says, a single transistor was ten dollars. In 1963, it was five dollars. By 1968, it was one dollar. Today, Intel will sell you two billion transistors for eleven hundred dollars—meaning that the cost of a single transistor is now about .000055 cents.”

- Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

"Magazines and newspapers were perfect businesses for a moment of time, but they wouldn’t have..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:47:40 +0200

“Magazines and newspapers were perfect businesses for a moment of time, but they wouldn’t have worked in 1784, and they’re not going to work very soon in the future either.”

- Seth’s Blog: Malcolm is wrong

"People will pay for content if it is so unique they can’t get it anywhere else, so fast they..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:47:22 +0200

“People will pay for content if it is so unique they can’t get it anywhere else, so fast they benefit from getting it before anyone else, or so related to their tribe that paying for it brings them closer to other people”

- Seth’s Blog: Malcolm is wrong

"a Kindle subscription to the Dallas Morning News cost ten dollars a month, seven dollars of that..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:46:47 +0200

“a Kindle subscription to the Dallas Morning News cost ten dollars a month, seven dollars of that belonged to Amazon, the provider of the gadget on which the news was read, and just three dollars belonged to the newspaper,”

- Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

"The people at Amazon valued the newspaper’s contribution so little, in fact, that they felt they..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:46:09 +0200

“The people at Amazon valued the newspaper’s contribution so little, in fact, that they felt they ought then to be able to license it to anyone else they wanted.”

- Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

"Magazines and newspapers were perfect businesses for a moment of time, but they wouldn’t have..."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:37:30 +0200

OLPC: OneLapTopPerChild : Les lessons d'un échec

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:07:51 +0200

One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality | June 2009 | Communications of the ACM

Diffusing a new innovation requires understanding the local environment.
Innovative technology can be disruptive and trigger a backlash from incumbents.
Innovative information technologies do not stand alone.
Understand the true costs and risks, as well as benefits, of innovation.
Adopting organizations need to develop internal capabilities and set priorities.

"The fact that OLPC was much stronger in developing innovative technology than in understanding how..."

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:04:15 +0200

“The fact that OLPC was much stronger in developing innovative technology than in understanding how to diffuse it may reflect the engineering orientation of the organization and its lack of understanding of the needs or interests of the nontechnical people who will ultimately buy and use the innovation.”

- One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality | June 2009 | Communications of the ACM

"Deployment involves training teachers, creating software and digital content, delivering maintenance..."

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:03:45 +0200

“Deployment involves training teachers, creating software and digital content, delivering maintenance and support, and sustaining a long-term commitment. Such capabilities are in short supply in developing countries,7,26 and OLPC simply never had the resources to provide them.”

- One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality | June 2009 | Communications of the ACM

"IT innovation is also part of socially embedded systems, the use of which cannot be isolated from..."

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:03:30 +0200

“IT innovation is also part of socially embedded systems, the use of which cannot be isolated from the social and cultural environment or from local norms of practice.1,25 In some cases, teachers and the educational establishment have resisted innovation that requires a significant change in pedagogy and that might reduce teacher status.”

- One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality | June 2009 | Communications of the ACM

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waku: kapi: That’s me on the right (via thismightsuck)

Sun, 17 May 2009 09:27:41 +0200

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That’s me on the right

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capucha: karenabad: I bought myself a Special Edition...

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:57:21 +0200

capucha:

karenabad:

I bought myself a Special Edition Moleskine Polaroid Pogo for my birthday. I can hook it up directly to my dSLR or send files via bluetooth and it prints them out with inkless technology. Granted the quality is as if you printed a photo out of your printer, but it’s pretty awesome because: 1) the film is really cheap. You can score 60 sheets for about $20. 2) it’s adhesive, so the photos are like stickers. 3) the Pogo is portable, it fits in my pocket and is smaller than even the Moleskine.

It’s the same idea as the iZone, except I can print multiple copies of stuff. I started journaling in a brand new Moleskine entirely with photos. I love my Pogo!

WANT !!!

"When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on..."

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:06:46 +0200

“When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day. It wasn’t an absolute rule; if it had to be the second day, that was OK. But if it slipped to the third day, I started to worry. Generally, we’d let them pick their own bug to fix, or, if necessary, assign them something small. As we got better at this, we realized the smaller the better. Either way, it had to be a real bug and it had to be fixed live, in production. For some, this was an absolutely terrifying experience. “What if I take the site down?!” was a common refrain. I tried to make sure we always gave the same answer: “if you manage to take the site down, that’s our fault for making it too easy. Either way, we’ll learn something interesting.””

- Lessons Learned: Fear is the mind-killer (via igrigorik)