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Share my ride
From Putting People First

Share my ride

The New York Times Magazine on the service design concept behind car sharing: “Car sharing, is a pay-per-use system, which has the effect of significantly altering...

Weekend Link Roundup, Sunday March 8th
From Wild WebMink

Weekend Link Roundup, Sunday March 8th

B-Live Share and Groove Armada Clever viral marketing campaign rewards you with free music if you recruit your friends to Bacardi's marketing site. Yes, that link...

Twilight Zone
From Wild WebMink

Twilight Zone

Just a reminder to everyone I have calls with that Summer Time (Daylight Savings) starts in Europe on the last Sunday of March and not today like it did in the...

Visual Think Map
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual Think Map

Intriguing site: Visual Think Map. A nice set of examples of information design. " ... Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information...

Cable Targeting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cable Targeting

Good short piece in the NYT Business section on increasing use of cable company ad targeting. This is likely to continue to expand.

Targeted Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Targeted Media

More word of targeted media using a system we originally helped design and test. Here in Progressive Grocer. These systems are usually installed first for shopper...

Building multicore and cloud ready
From insideHPC

Building multicore and cloud ready

Found at Multicoreinfo.com, a pointer to the first in a two-part series on designs principles that will lead to multicore- and cloud-ready applications Multicore...

Intel invests in new HPC center in
From insideHPC

Intel invests in new HPC center in

This week Intel chairman Craig Barrett announced that Intel is beginning a 5 year collaboration in France for the construction of a new academic research facility...

From insideHPC

I actually like that better than “green computing” — it’s sounds less like hype and more like someone is actuallly doing something. The someone in this case is...

NVIDIA reveals plan to develop own x86
From insideHPC

NVIDIA reveals plan to develop own x86

From a recent blog post by Michael Feldman at HPCwire “I think some time down the road it makes sense to take the same level of integration that we’ve done with...

Science in the FY09
From insideHPC

Science in the FY09

Peter Harsha over at the CRA’s Policy Blog has a detailed summary on science funding in the budget omnibus including funding for the agencies that traditionally...

New Japanese plasma simulator in
From insideHPC

New Japanese plasma simulator in

Found at Cheer HPC, news that alongside the new Earth Simulator 2, Japan has put another super into operation. This one is a 77 TFLOPS Hitachi SR16000 system for...

Robots Start an Evolution
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Start an Evolution

Interesting piece, though it is not saying that the physical aspects of the robots are evolving, only the algorithms that drive them. When a robot starts to be...

Dynamics of Being Sorry
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dynamics of Being Sorry

From Knowledge@Wharton, a good essay on the power of being sorry for unforseen circumstances. Early on in my enterprise career I was told that I used 'sorry about...

Eponymous Numbers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eponymous Numbers

Eponymous means, of course, something that is named after something else, usually a proper noun or person's name. I have explained this a number of times. Not...

Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification

More than likely you wouldn't be reading this blog if you didn't feel passionately that computer science is an essential discipline in our high schools. Certainly...

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

Expanding Horizons is a quarterly publication aimed at ICT decision-makers in the private and public sectors. It explores the socio-economic benefits that mobile...

Link Roundup on March 6
From Wild WebMink

Link Roundup on March 6

Mozilla and CyberMentors "The Internet is full of bullies, not predators" - This looks like a great way to do something practical to protect young people on the...

The user experience of money: how interaction design can help
From Putting People First

The user experience of money: how interaction design can help

Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path reflects on the user experience of money: For anyone designing for consumer finance

I want to evolve to not hear the cell phone
From Apophenia

I want to evolve to not hear the cell phone

Whenever I'm in a public space where folks are blabbing away on their phones, I want to scream. Trains, cafes, busses... they all drive me batty. I'm dreading the...
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