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Continuing Education

18

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-18 edition

  • Seven ways to boost US jobs – http://c32.co/1cr – it's a bit biased given the author, but there are some good ideas here as well… #
  • US prez to personally manage his @barackobama twitter account http://c32.co/ney #
  • The new Silicon Valley douchebag – http://c32.co/71s #
  • At 110, Livermore has the oldest working lightbulb in the world – http://c32.co/kke #
  • Day of the Tentacle – one of my favorite games – http://c32.co/mv9 – those old LucasArts games are great, I have Moneky Island on my iPod #
  • Chinese border control RFID tags (supposedly similar to toll tags) actually contain audio recording & transmitting hw – http://c32.co/bhq #
  • ING Direct being bought by Capital One for $9 billion – http://c32.co/cno #

17

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-17 edition

16

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-16 edition

  • Ancient French drank beer, not wine – http://c32.co/8se – I guess Asterix was wrong all this time… #
  • LexisNexis challenges Hadoop with Thor and Roxie – http://c32.co/qdr #
  • BatCopter! http://c32.co/bdb No, not Batman, actual bats…. #
  • Adobe cans AIr for Linux – http://c32.co/8cc – Bummer, it was one of the few decent x-platform environments #
  • "Last year China spent more on domestic security than it did on national defense" http://c32.co/d5j – That never leads to a positive outcome #
  • Tracking Chinese riots – http://c32.co/mw – from (@pkedrosky) #
  • Interesting "daily deal" analysis – 55% of businesses make money, but only 38% would do it again – http://c32.co/wpx #
  • European-based cloud hosting – http://c32.co/hsa #
  • Global performance monitoring service – http://c32.co/1mp #

14

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-14 edition

  • Disturbing trend, police arresting people for recording them – http://c32.co/ze6 it's Monty Python-esque "Help, help, I'm being oppresed" #
  • Why GroupOn will collapse (hint: because their model is a loan against future sales…) http://c32.co/v3v #
  • Mistrust in Japan's nuclear crisis, and the US gov't key role in getting the Japanese gov't to talk to itself – http://c32.co/wcc #

13

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-13 edition

12

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-12 edition

  • GroupOn's insiders discusses future of GroupOn despite quiet period and past comments come back to haunt http://c32.co/a1h #
  • My ISP now offering 1Gps fiber for $70/month… http://c32.co/ow0 #
  • Too much coffee makes you hear voices – http://c32.co/q13 – I just don't even know what to say…. #

11

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-11 edition

  • Made in America alive and well – the resurgence of manufacturing in the US, something I've always believed in – http://c32.co/n7r #
  • How failure is important in success – http://c32.co/o8z #
  • Successful people leave work early and work harder for shorter periods – http://c32.co/sbx #

10

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-10 edition

  • I'm not much of a gamer, but WOW – http://c32.co/1wj – BioWare's new StarWars game has one amazing trailer…. #
  • Why Apple's new iCloud datacenter is in North Carolina – http://c32.co/40k #
  • Deep dive on Google's app engine – http://c32.co/cbt – this is one of the PaaS offerings I've been looking at for a new venture…. #
  • Or perhaps this is the future of transportation? http://c32.co/54q – interesting stuff, but it's all a bit, er "segway" #
  • The future of transportation? http://c32.co/fpf dunno, but it looks fun…. #
  • Steve Jobs pitching his new headquarters to the Cupertino City Council – http://c32.co/cbj – He looks REALLY ill, worse than I thought #
  • Too cool, Google builds javascript guitar – http://c32.co/ehn – check it out at Google.com today… #

09

Jun

Continuing education – 2011-06-09 edition