October 2011
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Technological Unemployment →
Another column signaling the seemingly massive change that is occurring to the world economy.
“Physical jobs are disappearing into the second economy, and I believe this effect is dwarfing the much more publicized effect of jobs disappearing to places like India and China.” [W. Brian Arthur, McKinsey Quarterly]
The potential separation between the benefactors of this second economy...
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The forever recession (and the coming revolution) →
I completely agree with this guy… our employment environment has fundamentally changed.
“The industrial age, the one that started with the industrial revolution, is fading away. It is no longer the growth engine of the economy…” [Seth Godin]
There are tradable jobs and non-tradable jobs. Tradable jobs are the work that can be done anywhere and are the jobs that provide...
August 2011
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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Fall... →
Is this an inflection point for the business of higher education? Two hundred students pay for the class but 55,000, as of today, are signed up to take the class. The side effect…. 55,000 people will potentially pay $50 or more for the required text book. Sure feels like a change.
May 2011
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peHUB » Slideshow: Top 10 Biggest Winners in... →
hmmmm. Not sure what the moral of the story is here: Primary Founder - $2B, Other Founders (3) - $$312M; VC’s (4) - $4.2B….
I guess… realize your worth if you are the “other” founder.
March 2011
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Communication Nation: Bitching about work means... →
hmmmm - got me to thinking. I have been here. I hated-hated-hated my job and then a turning point came. I made myself sick. So I decided to figure out a way to embrace my job - things have been a hell of a lot better ever since. So bitching may not really mean you like it the way it is - but it surely is not doing anything to fix the situation.
Google’s 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve -... →
Let engineers do their jobs… listen to them… care about them… and help them when you can. Not rocket science. Just plain old respect. A little disappointed that Google needed to do a study to figure that out. Was, however, mildly encouraged that they did not employ a survey of employees but used the already voluminous review data.
November 2010
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How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results... →
Good article…. An organization’s demeanor starts at the top.
June 2010
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Running Faster, Falling Behind: John Hagel III on... →
Excellent article on how innovation is stifled in large companies that either need to be or want to be predictable.
Passionate employees are not always the happiest, he said, as many chafe at the corporate barriers to innovation. In fact, Hagel said he finds that most large American companies discourage passion among their workers. ”Passion is extremely unpredictable in a world of...
May 2010
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Sensemaking & Expert Counting - Jeff Jonas →
An excellent discussion on the requirements for Entity Resolution and the challenges of Connecting the Dots without a single mention of “disambiguation.” :-) This problem has massive scale and data entanglement - RDF/OWL is not the answer - but I suspect neither is an RDBMS. It seems the problem is more about the connectivity between entities and the context of the information about...
Costner's Oil Separation Machines - NYTimes.com →
Wow - finally somebody that is thinking….
“For 15 years, Kevin Costner has been overseeing the construction of oil separation machines to prepare for the possibility of another disaster of the magnitude of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.”
April 2010
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Freedom, Security, Convenience: Choose Two →
Daniel Geer, Chief Information Security Officer with the CIA not-for-profit venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, has written a compelling and thought provoking essay on Cyber Security. Geer states that “because the United States’s ability to project power depends on information technology, cyber insecurity is the paramount national security.”
Geer presents several conclusions that have been echoed...
March 2010
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The Day Dot-Coms Were Invented - The Conversation... →
Happy 30th IEEE 802! And Happy 25th IETF DNS dot-coms!
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Intel can thrive today — not just survive, but... →
Wow. Staggering comments by one of America’s most successful leaders.
“When you take a hard look at the things that make any country competitive. … we are slipping.” Paul Otellini, the chief executive of Intel [Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times]
Otellini states that a 5% increase in research and development tax credits and lowered corporate taxes would incent more companies...
January 2010
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Terrorists Will Strike America Again →
Thoughtful commentary from Gergory Treverton on terrorism and America’s desire for neat and complete solutions. Terrorism, illegal border crossings, the drug trade are all zero sum games. Squeeze in one area and they threat pops out in another area. The United States will continue to throw good money after bad and will continue to constrict civil liberties to neatly contain the bad guys. Our...
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Google vs. China →
Is Google more powerful than the US Government? Time will tell - but I am betting YES.
“Openness for China is a means to an end — prosperity and development — but not a value.” “
This is the Chinese paradox Google now appears bent on challenging. Google is right to do so.”
“China is the world’s manufacturer. It is America’s creditor. It is using global technology and...
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Google China Cyberattack Part of Vast Espionage... →
If not for the tragedy in Haiti - Google’s response to China’s cyber-espionage would surely be at the top of the news.
“ At least 34 companies — including Yahoo, Symantec, Adobe, Northrop Grumman and Dow Chemical — were attacked, according to congressional and industry sources. Google, which disclosed on Tuesday that hackers had penetrated the Gmail accounts of...
Military Deluged in Drone Intelligence →
infoneernet:
As the military rushes to place more spy drones over Afghanistan, the remote-controlled planes are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up.
Air Force drones collected nearly three times as much video over Afghanistan and Iraq last year as in 2007 — about 24 years’ worth if watched continuously. That volume is expected to...
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Failed Promise of RDF, Linked Data, and the...
STEFANO MAZZOCCHI, an engineer and scientist that has been deeply involved in the MIT SIMILE project and Metaweb’s Freebase has written a very poignant discourse on the failed promise of the semantic web and linked data.
“The interests of semantic web advocates and people pushing for more government transparency align perfectly with efforts like these: government pressures agencies to get...
Google Seeks to Tap Power Markets →
The Internet giant has taken the unusual step of applying for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to become an electricity marketer, essentially giving it the authority to buy and sell bulk power at market prices, just the way large utilities and energy traders do. The company, which made the application last month through its Google Energy LLC subsidiary, says the change will...
December 2009
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Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free”... →
It’s hard to beat free… ”when I read this week that Google was including free turn-by-turn navigation directions with each and every Android mobile OS, I had an immediate feeling that I was witnessing a disruptive play of a magnitude heretofore unseen.” Bill Gurley, Above the Crowd
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Machine learning is really good at partially... →
“This doesn’t mean machine learning isn’t useful – it just means you need to apply it to contexts that are fault tolerant: for example, online ad targeting, ranking search results, recommendations, and spam filtering.”
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Top 10 Internet Startup Scalability Killers →
Compare the recent sale of Friendster for a reported $26.4 million with Facebook’s projected 2010 revenues, of $1 billion, and we have a stark reminder of how the inability to scale can kill a startup. “All they had to do was keep the damned servers up and running,” Matt Cohler, a former Facebook executive and general partner at Benchmark Capital, says in Adam L. Peneberg’s book “Viral Loop,” but...
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