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(Link: markupslicer | Slice your HTML/CSS markup into Ruby on Rails templates)
Archive | April, 2010
markupslicer | Slice your HTML/CSS markup into Ruby on Rails templates
April 27, 2010
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myGengo API – low-cost human translation
April 27, 2010
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Our API allows you to translate content when you choose – as if you had a team of in-house translators, but without the cost. It’s a whole new way of working.
(Link: myGengo API – low-cost human translation)
The Problem with Online Education for Non-traditional Students
April 27, 2010
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As I see it, the problem with online education and the whole concept of the DIY University is that it solves a smaller problem than it creates. Namely, it solves the problem created by a one-size-fits-all course structure that come from the brick-and-mortar school system: curriculums are not tailored to the individual and thus produce a sub-optimal learning experience. What it eliminates (as far as I can tell) is the a) intimate social structure and bonds that come from being forced into a classroom for several hours a week, b) rigor and discipline of being forced to get shit done on a fixed schedule, and c) peer pressure that drives much of the psychology of academic achievement.
For students in the mass “non-tradtional” market––for my old co-workers and my pa’s students––I still don’t see how they crack the code.
(Link: The Problem with Online Education for Non-traditional Students)
StatusNet | Open Source microblogging service
April 27, 2010
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StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.
With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand.
(Link: StatusNet | Open Source microblogging service)
Steve Blank’s Startup Lessons Learned Keynote – It’s a “Must Watch”
April 27, 2010
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Startups search and pivot; companies execute.
Key startup numbers are not: balance sheet, income statements and cashflow. They are cash, viral coefficient, customer acquisition cost, burn rate, average transaction size…
Customer and agile development is how you search for a business model.
Customer development = hypothesis testing, minimum feature sets and pivoting. Product management is very different than customer development.
Very different skills needed to execute a business model compared to those needed to search for a business model.
You fail if you stay a startup – goal is to become a large company. Search is bringing order out of chaos, pivoting all the time.
No business plan survives first contact with the customer.
(Link: Steve Blank’s Startup Lessons Learned Keynote – It’s a “Must Watch”)
Growl4Rails
April 27, 2010
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Growl4Rails is now production ready. I’ve added the ability to show multiple growls at once, as well as improved support for IE.
(Link: Growl4Rails)
Vator.tv – Knewton's plan to kill oldschool school.
April 26, 2010
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Though the platform won’t open up for 18-24 months, the company is already working with textbook publishers on pilot programs. If the platform becomes widely used by content creators, an student’s Knewton profile could become a valuable repository of information about the students’ learning style, knowledge base and skill set. A student’s profile can stay with him regardless of the application, which means that once Knewton learns, for instance, that musical rhymes helps a given child learn times tables in McGraw Hill’s 3rd grade math curriculum, that information could follow him locked up in his Knewton profile to his 8th grade algebra class, developed by Holt McDougal.
(Link: Vator.tv – Knewton’s plan to kill oldschool school.)
Zuckerberg believes that the company with the best hackers win
April 26, 2010
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Zuckerberg believes that the company with the best hackers wins. “One good hacker can be as good as 10 or 20 engineers, and we try to embrace that. We want to be the place where the best hackers want to work, because our culture is set up so they can build stuff quickly and do crazy stuff and be recognized for standout brilliance.”
(Link: Zuckerberg believes that the company with the best hackers win)
The Open Graph Protocol
April 25, 2010
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The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to enable any web page to have the same functionality as a Facebook Page.
While many different technologies and schemas exist and could be combined together, there isn’t a single technology which provides enough information to richly represent any web page within the social graph. The Open Graph protocol builds on these existing technologies and gives developers one thing to implement. Developer simplicity is a key goal of the Open Graph protocol which has informed many of the technical design decisions.
(Link: The Open Graph Protocol)
What is XML and Why Should Companies Use It?
April 25, 2010
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XML is an international data standard, a sort of lingua franca for computing. To be formal about it, XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. Practically speaking, XML is a method to structure electronic documents, and its aim is to separate presentation, structure, and meaning from the actual content. It’s been so successful at doing this, it’s now used to represent any kind of data structure (including databases and other business information).
(Link: What is XML and Why Should Companies Use It?)
