Archive for January, 2006
« Previous EntriesWisdom of the crowd, not
Friday, January 20th, 2006One of the memes of web 2.0 is the Wisdom of the crowd. I’ve always been suspicious that the wisdom of the crowd is not always that wise. A couple of weeks ago, an O’Reilly Network editor was accused of stealing Digg’s CSS pages. Problem one is that this accusation was completely false. Problem two, [...]
Popular elements of a 2006 web site or service
Friday, January 20th, 2006From Popular elements of a 2006 web site or service:
A lot of the features and functionality of so-called Web 2.0 sites are now common elements in most current web apps and sites. It’s really gone beyond what was labelled ‘Web 2.0′ last year, because so many mainstream websites are now using these elements.
The features listed [...]
The Backhoe, The Internet’s Natural Enemy
Friday, January 20th, 2006A study issued last month by the Common Ground Alliance, or CGA — an industry group comprised of utilities and construction companies — calculated that there were more than 675,000 excavation accidents in 2004 in which underground cables or pipelines were damaged.
A reminder that the most vulnerable parts of our critical infrastructures lie literally beneath [...]
Anonymity on a LiveCD
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006Anonym.OS is a Live CD based on OpenBSD 3.8. The idea is that the Operating System is ‘hardened’ to ensure that all incoming traffic is silently dropped/denied, and that all outgoing traffic is transparently encrypted and/or anonymized — optimally both — from the host computer to its final destination.
It uses the tor onion routing [...]
BitTorrent links
Thursday, January 12th, 2006BitTorrent links (from the most obvious of places)
The Art of Evangelism
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Another Guy Kawasaki post:Apparently, “evangelist” is becoming a mainstream job in the tech industry. as people hit the streets with this title, they need a foundation of the fundamental principles of evangelism. According to Kawasaki, these are:
Create a cause.
Look for agnostics, ignore atheists. A
Localize the pain.
Let people test drive the cause.
Learn to give a demo.
Provide [...]
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Thursday, January 12th, 2006From Guy Kawasaki: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than
twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.BTW, The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:
Problem
Your solution
Business model
Underlying magic/technology
Marketing and sales
Competition
Team
Projections and milestones
Status and timeline
Summary and call to action
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The Mobile Data Killer App is ….
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Link from RusellBeattie.com: details a Nokia presentation (pdf format) about smartphone usage. Key points is that browsing is the number one (by far) mobile application that uses data. Fits in with the recent Robert Scoble posts about wireless and mobile websites.
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Playing with dpolls
Thursday, January 12th, 2006This is a poll from dpolls.com.
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tech bubble back again ?
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Andy Kessler, who made his bones with Wall Street Meat, a book that skewered people being welcomed back by John Battelle sums up the current silliness around Google’s price targets in his latest post….
Ah, price targets are back in fashion. And stupid investors will fall for them again. It’s what we do on Wall Street [...]
Paul Allen on the joy of vintage computer collecting
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Computer Collector Magazine has an interview with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen about the importance of preserving computer history:
The most appealing aspect of … PDPplanet.com [computer history website] is live Telnet access to machines in Allen’s personal collection — click the “community” link to register for an account. The PDP-10 systems are the same kind that powered [...]
Kid spending a year (and $100k) at Disney World before college
Thursday, January 12th, 2006A 19-year-old entrepreneur is blowing $100,000 out of his savings on spending a year at Walt Disney World before going away to college. “Jupelo” is the alias of a young man who flies to Disney for six days every week, stays in Disney hotel, and goes to parks and resorts every day, all day. I [...]
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