Archive | November, 2009

Killing innovation with corner cases | VentureBeat

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Unlike large corporations, startup meetings are not about achieving consensus for every objection raised. They are about forward motion, momentum and feedback loops (i.e. Customer Development.)

The heuristic I suggest is: hear the corner case objections, make the objector calculate the odds, if the potential damage estimate is low (probability of the event occurring multiplied by its ability to put you out of business) keep the meeting focused and move on. If you do this consistently your team will catch on.
(Link: Killing innovation with corner cases | VentureBeat)

cornercases, innovation

The Ecommerce Scam – @alexdmoore's posterous

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Consumers are left to do their own hacky research on product review sites; reading product reviews and in the pinch literally just asking friends what is good. To add to matters, ecommerce search is broken. If I search for “Canon Digital Camera” on Amazon, I get 24,992 results. ( http://bit.ly/6g9aFR ) Are there really 24,992 Canon digital cameras? The tech sector has not employed enough computer science at this problem. Worst of all, a lot of times people are getting ripped off.
(Link: The Ecommerce Scam – @alexdmoore’s posterous)

crowdmind

supercoolschool.com – Start your own online School

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 2 Comments

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(Link: supercoolschool.com – Start your own online School)

e-learning, lms

Command line tricks for smart geeks | TuxRadar Linux

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

And so, we squeezed our brain cells, dug through dusty piles of old issues of Linux Format, and sat reflecting quietly over many a pint of ale, all with the goal of bringing you this: 42 awesome new command line tricks we think you ought to commit to memory. We’ve tried to include a few that are easier for our, er, less-experienced readers to enjoy, but we think even the most hardened Linux veteran will learn something new over the next 12,000 words.
(Link: Command line tricks for smart geeks | TuxRadar Linux)

linux

Obama Touts TV and Video Games as Teachers of Math and Science Skills – Chronicle of Higher Education

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Corporate donors encouraged by the Obama administration will spend at least $260-million over the next four years to help improve student achievement in mathematics and science through specially designed television programs and video games.

The plan, announced today by President Obama, will include new television programming from Sesame Street and Discovery Communications, as well as video games developed by Sony and other members of the Entertainment Software Association.
(Link: Obama Touts TV and Video Games as Teachers of Math and Science Skills – Chronicle of Higher Education)

e-learning, games, tweet

The time when the innovation movement grew up

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

6. Most companies seem to have the ambition of being innovative – what three obstacles do you think are stopping them from achieving their ambition?

The first and most important challenge is resource allocation. Innovation doesn’t happen by accident. Companies have to allocate time and money to innovation. Paradoxically, the second challenge is also resource allocation – in this case too much resource allocation.
(Link: The time when the innovation movement grew up)

innovation

jersey: Home

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 1 Comment

Jersey is the open source (under dual CDDL+GPL license), production quality, JAX-RS (JSR 311) Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services. But, it is also more than the Reference Implementation. Jersey provides an API so that developers may extend Jersey to suite their needs. The governance policy is the same as the GlassFish project.
(Link: jersey: Home)

java, restful

On Language Polyglotism

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Medium Risk stack, that addresses some of today’s shortcomings, but reduces the talent pool:

* Frontend: JRuby on a JVM, with Merb
* Application Logic: Scala on a JVM, with Jersey
* Persistence (non-relational): Scala on a JVM
* Batch: Scala, with Hadoop
(Link: On Language Polyglotism)

polyglot

Testing Time-Management Strategies – WSJ.com

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

The Pomodoro Technique: This quirky method had me working in intense spurts guided by a kitchen timer shaped like a tomato—or pomodoro, in the inventor’s native Italian. Developed by Francesco Cirillo, director of XPLabs, a software design firm based near Rome, this technique is spreading via Twitter and other social networks. It can be learned in a few hours from a free guide at pomodorotechnique.com; making it a habit takes up to 20 days.
(Link: Testing Time-Management Strategies – WSJ.com)

prod, Productivity, tweet

Tech-Ex: Record Exec Arrested For Not Tweeting

November 24, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 1 Comment

Fearing a riot, police asked a senior VP from Island Def Jam Records, Bieber’s label to Tweet a message to the crowd to disperse. James A. Roppo, 44, of Hoboken, NJ, has been arrested for not Tweeting, with police saying he hindered their crowd-control efforts by not cooperating.
(Link: Tech-Ex: Record Exec Arrested For Not Tweeting)

tweet, twitter
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