Archive for November, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29
The question that got me to leave Seattle for greener startup pastures http://bit.ly/08Hmc2W # Why I Love Foursquare http://bit.ly/8uVgpd # Siri raises $15.5M more for virtual personal assistant http://bit.ly/6pToah # The Future of Taxonomy (and Taxonomists) in the Enterprise http://bit.ly/5hGOpK # Google Profiles Turn Into OpenIDs http://bit.ly/5SE22c # Founder Institute: Seattle has the most promising [...]
November 29, 2009
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22
Take Note: Evernote Raises $10 Million http://bit.ly/64htb # RT @Carnage4Life: "One prediction: Microsoft will emerge as a champion of the open web platform" – Tim O'Reilly in http://bit.ly/zH9z9 # RT @toddbishop: Bing rises, Google hits new peak http://bit.ly/H8qEJ # RT @Carnage4Life: Fake Steve Jobs on Don Dodge changing opinion of GOOG vs MSFT since being [...]
November 22, 2009
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-15
The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In Five Years? http://bit.ly/18qwe1 # Orchard: Microsoft's open-source CMS platform is (re)born http://bit.ly/3yh5c5 # SQL Server Management Studio Support for SQL Azure!!! http://bit.ly/gThrl # Bill Gates’ Plan for Fixing the World http://bit.ly/3nSLqW # Drupal wins two Packt awards (again) http://bit.ly/iI1hz # Overview: SharePoint 2010 Metadata and [...]
November 15, 2009
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Memex: Perspectives From The User
In an earlier post, I wrote about the opportunity to create a user-centered personal data platform called memex. Memex is both a personal data store and a data platform that enable memex agents, which are personal data-driven applications ranging from personal informatics to behavioral targeting (aka interest-based advertising). This time I will discuss requirements for [...]
November 9, 2009
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08
The Ph.D. Problem: On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, academy's self-renewal http://is.gd/4Lawf # @techcrunch Farmville or Scamville: the social gaming ecosystem of hell http://is.gd/4Lbm7 Also @Andrew_Chen's analysis http://is.gd/4Lbp2 # Nielsen in Pact to Use Offline Data for Online Ad Targeting – ClickZ: http://www.clickz.com/3635547 # Microsoft Embraces Open Source (in the Online Ad Business) [...]
November 8, 2009
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Memex and the Personal Data Economy
Wikipedia’s defines memex as a portmanteau of memory and extension, a term coined by Vannevar Bush in his influential article titled As We May Think. In layman terms, memex means a personal data store that contains stuffs that matter to a particular user. In our daily computing activities, we generate data. From Amazon.com wish lists [...]
November 1, 2009
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