August 2008
21 posts
Mapping open →
A couple of us have been working on trying to ‘map’ the ‘move towards openness’. This is my attempt - covering the different levels of openness in communication input - process - output….
“If you don’t love your brand why should anyone else?”
– Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company
The future of the way we do stuff →
Ever thought the idea of the power of the Internet being stuck in a small box is a bit old-school. Well here’s an interesting device, which delivers the power of relevant information to…
Hanako, the fish who lived to 226 →
My friend Justin Ried just sent me the fascinating story of Hanako, a koi fish who apparently lived to be 226 years old. During the last decades of Hanako’s life, her caretaker was Dr. Komei…
Sysadmin 101: Securing Leopard →
Filed under: Security, Mac 101
Security researchers at Corsaire have published a PDF whitepaper discussing best practices for securing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in a networked…
Disqus is one of the coolest startup around →
Disqus has just announced a site and wordpress plugin redesign. I am a fan of Disqus and CEO and co-founder Daniel Ha, they execute fast, well and listen to their community all the time. I…
Reasons to be religious about GTD
It is the panic at 3:30am about time sensitive work items that I have forgotten about that remind me why it is such a good idea to read GTD carefully and become religious about it.
Is Facebook the Most Popular Social Bookmarking... →
ShareThis reports that it is now. How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after…
7 Things The Dave Matthews Band Has Taught Me... →
I am a beeeg fan of the Dave Matthews Band. Have been for nigh on ten years now. I own all their albums, most of their DVD’s and a healthy selection of their bootlegged recordings.
Their…
WatchAside from a mild aversion to anything that makes anything to do with the Nazis a form of entertainment, this video is really funny (probably because I don’t understand German).
(via Mike Stopforth)
Google insights on Drupal →
Recently, Google launched Google Insights. Like with Google Trends, you can just type in a search term to see search volume patterns over time, as well as the top related and rising searches….
Practical pointers for boys and girls →
To latch onto my Thought Leader debate, some basic values and principles for both men and women. I will add to this list in time.
Your intelligence is not superior to mine – nor am I in awe of your…
Phew! →
The iSummit is done and dusted. Beautiful event. Starting to look like a festival. Now for some rest.
Pic: by Kenji
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Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? →
One academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it. As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching…
Lifestreaming and Twitter is making us lazy →
Actually, I should not say Twitter as they’ve been giving themselves enough shit lately with their scalability issues. I should say “micro-blogging”, but you know what I mean.
ReadWriteWeb…
Zimbra officially embraced by Ubuntu →
Zimbra, the open-source e-mail software that Yahoo acquired for $350 million last year, is officially coming to Ubuntu Linux.
Coinciding with this week’s LinuxWorld conference in San…
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Dark Knight cell wall exists →
If you thought that cellphone wall monitor which Batman uses to track the movements of The Joker in the Dark Knight movie was a clever idea, you’ll be interested to know that it does…
WatchZoopy | Videos | Neotel’s first TV ad (01:01)
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This video blows my mind. It should be required viewing!