Monthly Archives: December 2007

links for 2007-12-31

Does Vista’s stunted growth hint at the death of the desktop? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
(tags: desktop vista windows web thinclient)

Jason Santa Maria | Have A Seat
(tags: furniture comparison home office aeron chairs via:zopemaven)

What are we doing when we Twitter? - - […]

links for 2007-12-30

Coding Horror: An Inalienable Right to Privacy
“Demand privacy even if you don’t think you need it.”
(tags: privacy liberty security internet)

Thrudb - faster, cheaper than SimpleDB - igvita.com
(tags: database aws amazon thrudb simpledb architecture storage)

links for 2007-12-28

Landing Page Makeover Clinic: 10 Tips for Better Book Sales | Copyblogger
(tags: copywriting landing-pages books marketing promotion)

Social Media 360 | Lena West | InfoWorld | Social Media Talent Wars | December 17, 2007 09:22 AM | By Lena West
“Organizations that are not engaging with social media are getting the short shrift on top talent, because […]

Predictions are Tired, and So Am I

So I didn’t do any. I aimed to. I started to. I tried to. But I can’t turn myself into a cranking-widgets-style blogger, producing diggable articles on demand, much as I want to. If I’m not inspired, I can’t write. Lame, lame, lame.
I hate that I’ve lost my beginner’s mind. I hate my jadedness and […]

links for 2007-12-27

Open Source Living
(tags: open-source applications reference tools)

Google Gears Wants to Upgrade the Web
(tags: google gears features offline)

links for 2007-12-21

BlogTagging *8*8 - My Response to Luis | stuart henshall
Eight things that people don’t know about me? Could there be anything I haven’t already revealed?
(tags: blogging tagged todo toblog)

links for 2007-12-18

You’ve Already Had a Multicore Crisis and Just Didn’t Realize It! « SmoothSpan Blog
(tags: multicore manycore parallel concurrency)

ongoing · WF VI: The Goal
“I’m not asking for the detection of concurrency to be automatic, because that just feels too hard; it’s OK to require the programmer to tell the system what parts to parallelize. But it […]

links for 2007-12-17

Coding style - a non-issue - fa.linux.kernel | Google Groups
Linus Torvalds: “don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a
feedback cycle.”
(tags: evolution quotes development design inspiration)

Weblog | Amazon SimpleDB’s non-REST API
“This is not unlike shipping a database that lets you update by embedding […]

links for 2007-12-15

Podcast: Chris Messina on DiSo at Like It Matters
(tags: tolisten podcasts diso social networking social-networks)

Oracle AppsLab » Admit it, we’re all free agents!
Want to dig a bit more into why KM efforts have been such failures. Here’s some stuff to chew on.
(tags: knowledge-management km knowledge free-agents)

links for 2007-12-14

Fimoculous.com: 2007 Lists
A wealth of 2007 lists!
(tags: 2007 lists trends bestof yearend)

» Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office’s strengths | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com
“Whereas nothing special is required with Google Apps for a bunch of people to be able see the changes in near real-time,… Microsoft requires what is essentially […]