One of the best chapters I have read in Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson, is “Serendipity”. Here are a few snippets: The English language is blessed with a wonderful word that captures the power of accidental connection: “serendipity” Serendipitous discoveries often involve exchanges across traditional disciplines. The history of innovation is replete […]
Is this really true? In the past, we collected information not simply to know things. That was only the beginning. We also collected information to convert it into something larger than facts and ultimately more useful — into ideas that made sense of the information. We sought not just to apprehend the world but to […]
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Cloud Computing Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private CloudVirtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must […]
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Will this be a trend as books become digital?From a review of a book that got a Jolt Award. Don’t read this book when you have no Internet connection. This book reads better in electronic form than the printed page, and makes liberal use of hyperlinks to reference information. In the preface, Russell says that […]
From A Theory of Everything (Sort of) By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Thanks to cloud computing, robotics, 3G wireless connectivity, Skype, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, the iPad, and cheap Internet-enabled smartphones, the world has gone from connected to hyper-connected.
One of our conversation topics yesterday at in50 hours was how to extract the useful conversations from Twitter. One way to do that is to find the intersection between tweets from the people you follow and the topics you are interested in. This is easier said than done. How do you identify tweets with topics […]