- How to publish and receive blog posts in Real-time
Comparison of pubsubhubbub, rssCloud, SUP and im.wordpress.com.
(categories: rss blog blogging rsscloud pubsubhubbub feeds im realtime )
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Links: 9-6-2009
- Nosco – Idea Management and Prediction Markets
Employee idea management backed by a prediction market.
(categories: idea innovation crowdsourcing ideas software ) - Palantir Government | Palantir Technologies
Palantir Government is a platform for information analysis. Palantir was designed for environments where the fragments of data that an analyst combines to tell the larger story are spread across a vast set of starting material. Palantir provides flexible tools to import and model data, intuitive constructs to search against this data, and powerful techniques to iteratively define and test hypotheses. With Palantir, an analyst can go all the way from an initial tasking to a final product in hours or days, rather than weeks.
(categories: government information infoviz data ) - linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
A bunch of different ways of looking at popularity.
(categories: algorithm popularity ranking algorithms statistics social voting ) - Collecta
Distinctive in that it updates search results in real time on the search results page.
(categories: search realtime searchengine twitter social ) - Strophe
JavaScript XMPP library.
(categories: xmpp javascript im http bosh library jabber ) - visophyte: data made shiny :: So’s your facet: Faceted global search for Mozilla Thunderbird
Pretty nice implementation of faceted search inside Thunderbird. Love seeing something new going on in email.
(categories: email search faceted ux thunderbird ) - Lessons Learned: What is customer development?
ie: how to make stuff that people want to buy.
(categories: startup entrepreneurship business strategy development customerdevelopment )
Links: 8-31-2009
- Open Government Innovation Gallery
The Innovations Gallery celebrates the innovators and innovations who are championing the President’s vision of more effective and open government. In the Innovations Gallery, the public can browse examples of new ways in which agencies across the Executive branch are using transparency, participation, and collaboration to achieve their mission.
(categories: government innovation transparency socialmedia government2.0 collaboration politics opengovernment whitehouse ) - DoDTechipedia – Department of Defense
The DoDTechipedia Family of Services utilizes a wiki-based approach to foster collaboration between the S&T community and the military services and combatant commands. The Department of Defense is also fostering government and industry collaboration to improve overall technology awareness, and is experimenting with innovative procurement approaches that leverage the innovation of industry in addressing immediate military needs.
(categories: wiki innovation gov2.0 government government2.0 military collaboration ) - Department of Defense – Aristotle
Aristotle is a social networking system that provides government and contractor personnel with transparent, but appropriate, access to information regarding tens of thousands of science and technology projects, topics of interest, and collegial networks. Aristotle provides an interactive digital workspace where users can explore, understand, visualize, and contribute to information about – and linkages between – people, projects, topics and documents. This allows scientists, engineers, technologists and other users to perform better as individuals and in teams.
(categories: collaboration transparency government2.0 government military )
Links: 8-30-2009
- The Medium – Facebook Exodus – NYTimes.com
Quote: Is Facebook doomed to someday become an online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages and packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit? Sad, if so. Though maybe fated, like the demise of a college clique.
(categories: facebook twitter socialmedia )
Links: 8-28-2009
- Looks Good Works Well: Renting an Idiomatic Experience
Fun read about idiomatic interfaces (… and instinctive and intuitive interfaces as a sidelight).
(categories: interface design usability ui ux idiomatic ) - The Temptation of the Mobile Web – Acts of Volition
Quote: If you haven’t had a real Internet phone before, and you’re a wired kind of person, there are social stresses. If you can always glance at your email or Gtalk or Twitstream, the temptation to fill any otherwise-blank moment by doing so is considerable. Your mind may find itself classifying a lull in conversation with your spouse as an “otherwise-blank moment” which turns out almost always to be inappropriate.
(categories: mobile attention life realtime psychology )
Links: 8-26-2009
- Stop Using the Word ‘We’ – Ted Dziuba
Quote: The best part about working at a startup is that I’m free to suggest that yes, you fucked this up. Yes, it’s your fault, and yes, you need to fix it. Delegate! Don’t waste time listing out action items, spend time telling people what to do. Everyone you work with should be a grown up, and can handle it. The other side of that is owning up to your mistakes. Instead of "There is memory leak in the code, we should prioritize it over other defects", say, "I introduced a memory leak in the code. I am going to fix it as soon as possible."Anyway, I’m going to keep this up until somebody openly calls me an asshole. You should try it too. You don’t have to be a prick about it, just be assertive. Your co-workers will be impressed at your new found confidence. It might even get you laid.
Well, probably not, but you won’t be wondering when a meeting is going to end if you grab it by the balls.
(categories: programming management collaboration humor bugs )
Links: 8-25-2009
- Best Buy in 3D
Best Buy continues to push the envelope. Useless but cool.
(categories: shopping ecommerce cool augmented-reality bestbuy ) - YouTube – Social Media Revolution
*Awesome* video about social media and how it affects your brand.
(categories: socialmedia video youtube social facebook twitter statistics ) - Netflix Culture
Nine behaviors and skills that they value: judgment, communication, impact, curiosity, innovation, courage, passion, honesty, selflessness. Great deck.
(categories: culture business management netflix leadership hiring ) - Bill de hÓra: Process and individuality are not exclusive
Interesting pop up of "product design" and a short discussion on the Chief Engineer role at Toyota.
(categories: design product-design industrial-design agile management ) - .: Fail Fast, Debugging and Systems that Never Stop
Quote: There are two advantages to failing fast. First, easier debugging and analysis. …Second, ability to build "systems that never stop".
(categories: concurrency design distributed programming software ) - tldr – Interfaces for Large-Scale Online Discussion Spaces
tldr is an application for navigating through large-scale online discussions. The application visualizes structures and patterns within ongoing conversations to let the user browse to content of most interest. In addition to visual overviews, it also incorporates features such as thread summarization, non-linear navigation, multi-dimensional filtering, and various other features that improve the experience of participating in large-discussions.
(categories: visualization comments interface forums discussion infoviz ui-scalability ) - Who’s Winning the Smartphone Wars? – O’Reilly Radar
An update from Raven on the mobile landscape, check the comments for a short discussion wrt who installs applications on their smartphone, would be awesome to see some statistics on # of applications installed for BlackBerry / iPhone / Symbian / Android users. I bet iPhone is 5x better than anyone else.
(categories: mobile statistics stats android iphone )
Links: 8-15-2009
- Designing for Social Traction (slide deck) – Bokardo
*Awesome* slide deck.
(categories: design usability social ux socialsoftware )
Links: 8-14-2009
- CONTEST – What’s Your One Idea to Use Social Media to Improve Gov’t Operations. – GovLoop – Social Network for Government 2.0
Transparency, wikis, blogs, microblogging, lots of ideas here. Note the multiple pages of comments.
(categories: government government2.0 socialsoftware ) - Facebook | A New Look at the Path to Popularity
From our work so far, it appears that the most explosively popular Pages catch on as closely connected groups of like-minded people contact one another. Individual influencers aren’t nearly as crucial to a Page’s success: Pages grow if people are easily engaged by the content, not because of the actions of a couple trendsetters.
(categories: facebook popularity research socialsoftware marketing social ) - Recruitment – 5 tips from Aussie software house Atlassian – The Atlassian Blog
Good stuff on hiring.
(categories: atlassian jobs interview hiring )
Links: 8-13-2009
- Managing UI Complexity | Brandon Walkin
Great illustrative examples.
(categories: ui design usability interface ux gui complexity interaction ) - Secrets of the Amazon best-seller list – U.S. business- msnbc.com
"I’m not sure the exact number," Kessler says of the weightings, "but my guess is 40 percent hour, 30 percent day, 20 percent week, and 10 percent month. So if you have a huge spike in sales, you don’t completely dislodge books that have been in the top 10 or top 100 for months and months. Though you might pass them for a very fun hour."
(categories: books popularity amazon algorithms ) - la petite url | Extra Future
WordPress plugin that does URL shortening if you don’t (and you shouldn’t) trust another site to do it for you.
(categories: wordpress url plugins tinyurl shortener ) - ManTech to support ‘social network’ for DIA analysts — Washington Technology
More good news about Jive and the DIA.
(categories: dia government jive dni aspace ) - The Baseball Analysts: Regression and Pineiro
The amount of data available about MLB floors me. Who determines that a guy is throwing a 4 seam vs. a 2 seam?
(categories: baseball infoviz statistics graphing value ) - User centered design map – serious about camo
Design as a map.
(categories: infoviz design maps )