Monthly Archives: December 2007

Anatomy of Software Collaboration

Posted on December 24, 2007 by

Summary (PDF of Draft Analysis) What started for me as a typical “read Slashdot” for a minute has turned into a full blown research project into collaboration. The participation in solving the N-BRAIN Master Software Developer challenge delivered huge amounts … Continue reading →

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Brain Real Time Collaboration

Posted on December 23, 2007 by

Man, whew! had a great last 18 hours DORKING OUT.  i’ll admit it.  i just participated in one of the biggest dorkouts ever.  It’s relevant to business, behavior and media because it represents EXACTLY what is so crazy and different … Continue reading →

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Grid, more Grid.

Posted on December 22, 2007 by

I’m a bit behind some of the other early movers… 3tera.  Taking grid and virtualization in a different direction.  They provide services for entire virtual clusters, virtual data centers, and more. If implementing massive super computers and data centers becomes … Continue reading →

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2007 Silent Shifts – The Things We Don’t Talk About That Will Matter

Posted on December 20, 2007 by

HIV drug… down to one pill.  quietly on the market…  this will change lives .net 3.5 release… finally a really robust .NET release Moonlight/Silverlight – microsoft’s relatively quiet push into multiplatform iphone’s pressure on other handsets… the phones that came … Continue reading →

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GAME CHANGE ALERT: GOOGLE TALK IM TRANSLATOR

Posted on December 19, 2007 by

Google Talk now does on the fly language translation. This is huge. It makes my bluetooth Googler Intelligence adapter that much cooler.  Yup.  I’ve been working on a bluetooth ear piece, clothing clip on that will listen to ambient talk … Continue reading →

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Consumer Grid Computing

Posted on December 19, 2007 by

Grid is here and it’s a game changer.  Not today, maybe not totally in 08, but certainly in the nearish future. What is grid computing (cloud computing), you ask?  well, it’s lots of things.  Generally it refers to the idea … Continue reading →

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FRAGILE MEDIA

Posted on December 17, 2007 by

Have you ever gone outside your apartment or house to look at the connectivity – the actual wires leading to your internet, phone and television? It’s chicken wire. Have you ever been to a typical datacenter housing all this data … Continue reading →

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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Everyone Else – How Fast Can You Go

Posted on December 17, 2007 by

There’s just more and more analysis and speculation about how critical it is to be fast. Slashdot linked to this fairly decent NYtimes article about Google and Microsoft.  One of the key points, which I actually agree with, is that … Continue reading →

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DNRs – one of the most confusing information concepts of our time

Posted on December 15, 2007 by

One of the great mindbenders of our lives is End of Life directives. Here’s a list of where directives go haywire: unclear language in the document document “enforced” by someone other than the subject of the document document not present … Continue reading →

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More Online Analysis Possibilities

Posted on December 15, 2007 by

Check out my halo 3 stats. This is an amazing example of how much data is available to mine.  You can see how i’ve played the game, how others view me, how changes to the game changed my play, how … Continue reading →

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