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Archive for December, 2007

Anatomy of Software Collaboration

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, jobs, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , on December 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »

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 of experiential as well as quantitative information regarding social collaboration on software projects. This is [...]

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Brain Real Time Collaboration

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, data mining, jobs, tagged , , , , , , , on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »

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 about doing business in a connected world. Sometime around 10am PST this story hits slashdot.org: [...]

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Grid, more Grid.

Posted in grid computing, tagged , , , , on December 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 little more than filling in a sales web form, watch out hardware, hosting, and desktop [...]

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

Posted in speculation, tagged , , on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 out for all platforms kicked ass and made mobile a real platform in the US [...]

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GAME CHANGE ALERT: GOOGLE TALK IM TRANSLATOR

Posted in information theory, voice recoginition, wearable computers, tagged , , , , on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 around you and do look ups on anything it hears or you can set it [...]

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Consumer Grid Computing

Posted in data mining, grid computing, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 that you can rent N number of cpu cycles to compute whatever you need.  Run [...]

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FRAGILE MEDIA

Posted in hollywood, vertical media on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 we like to consume? Mostly chicken wire and not secure. In this day of security [...]

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

Posted in business strategy, grid computing, tagged , , , , on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 GRID COMPUTING IS AT THE CENTER OF ALL FAST INNOVATION IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. [...]

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

Posted in health care, information theory, tagged , , , on December 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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 during decision making assumptions and pre conditions by family, self, doctors written policies surround use [...]

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More Online Analysis Possibilities

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, game theory, video games, tagged , , on December 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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 I reacted to marketing. Match this data against news about Halo 3, census data, labor [...]

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