May 2009
38 posts
To my wife that laughed at me this morning: I got my upgrade! Pays to be pleasant to gate attendants. Thanks British Airways!
So intuitive, even a two year old can use it… http://twitpic.com/676af
Can someone explain the Irish fixation with car washing? Come on…do we really need roving washers at Tesco?
Great quote by marketing guru Seth Godin author of Tribes: “My job is to help my tribe, to prod them and provoke them and connect them.”
I Like this article on socialised power and empathic leadership… http://bit.ly/iQCkJ …sometimes I sound like a self-help guru!!!
Continuing the theme:Seems that we are becoming increasingly aware that we are tribal & that scalability depends on leadership & federation.
Excellent analysis by Wired’s Kevin Kelly on “The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online” http://bit.ly/n0MLe
I really like @guykawasaki but there is way too much noise in his stream! I don’t care about “25 original uses of recycled Coca-Cola cans.”
That every gen. claims to be living in extraordinary times is: 1)a relection on the evol. of human cond.OR 2)our need for self-agrandisment!
Good leaders know when you need a kick in the ass, great leaders know when you need a nudge. Ah Sun Tzu and the art of proportionality!
It’s hard being a Buddhist while walking to work on damp Irish mornings and the sidewalks are covered by snails!
Google translation tech. has been integrated directly into Gmail. Enabling “Message Translation” translates emails between 41 languages.
Hmm…anyone know how I can score a Gist beta invite? http://www.gist.com
A sign of too much futures thinking…woke up this morning worrying about why the technological world hasn’t converged more! #IamODD
Hey Ireland…global economic meltdown, 15%+ unemployment, increasing taxes, 23% VAT got you down…just say Fuck It! http://bit.ly/2wGi6
3 takes on online crowdsourcing: http://www.crowdspirit.com http://www.cambrianhouse.com http://www.kluster.com
http://twitpic.com/5dabh - I’m guessing either future neurologist or slightly neurotic mad-scientist.
“In the context of software, the word ‘Enterprise’ has now officially come to mean software that sucks.” Miko Matsumura http://bit.ly/16Xh5p
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Personalisation & the future...
Have been sitting on this as a draft post for far too long. The takeaway is that personalisation is going to change the way we experience the online & offline worlds in the not to distant future! Stuff like Microformats, provenance services, mobile devices & VRM are coming together in ways that I haven’t seen from some of the past efforts in the space.
Thought it was worthwhile to...
“Get out of your office!” So many leadership clichés are common sense, yet it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day http://bit.ly/CxOUo
Anyone have any interesting tidbits/factoids/anecdotes about science & technology innovation in India?
Gray matter isn’t “a” natural resouce it’s “the only” natural resource that allows countries to compete in the 21st Century!
Man no fast replies to my “twitquests” - twitter requests. I need a bigger Twit Posse! Anyone/thing able to help with that?
Getting ready to head out to a reception at the Indian Ambassador’s residence for a visiting Science & Technology delegation.
I like Kawasaki’s 10-0-10 model of technology licen.: 10% royalty, €0 upfront, 10% ownership. Takes degrees of complexity out of the system.
I get the impression that the sunk cost fallacy has yet to find its way into the day-to-day lexicon of some TTO’s http://bit.ly/f2ymZ
Nice, but I can’t take credit…RT @ParaicS Catching up on reading.Can’t remember who pointed me to this (Steve?): http://tinyurl.com/djt22w
Relaxing morning enjoying Mira Mira’s new CD…”Music for Scientists”… http://bit.ly/1a1qP6
Plex vs. Boxee update…Plex is currently winning on the Wife-Acceptance-Factor measure. Says Plex is easier to use! Listen-up Boxee team!
“Doubt is better than certainty”…sagacious startup advice from the legendary designer Milton Glaser http://bit.ly/P8VU3
Intel’s Andy Grove on the need for patent reform… http://bit.ly/NTl5a …perhaps reform will force NPE’s to become PE’s & spur innovation.
Just introduced my 2yo to HyperScore from the MIT Media Lab…amazingly designed music composition tool. Spent over an hour playing b4 bed!
Will be in Boulder first week of June for NAACL Conf,hoping to meet up with @bfeld & @dgcohen23 to talk about Techstars & entre. ecosys dev.
Love getting ads for SDL Trados while I am reading email. Google, you know me oh so well! Soon I will be asking for lunch recommendations!
Emerging from self-imposed digital cocoon ready to re-engage the ether. CNGL scenario planning went very well. Now the hard work begins!
Trying out Plex Media Center on the Mini…have to say it is giving Boxee a run for it’s money! Much better job of managing music library.
Cool Twitter dream trends http://bit.ly/l6CMb … kind of like the “Dear XYZ” idea I was playing around with… http://www.dearxyz.com
April 2009
63 posts
Really digging the functionality Bit.ly has built into URL shorteners, great example of innovation in what many considered a boring area.
Required reading for folks in the technology transfer sector, university administrators & funding/government agencies… http://bit.ly/g31yX