Links for November 20th through November 22nd
- Joshua Kosman, Predicting The Next Credit Crisis : NPR
"You know, when I read that in your book, I actually couldn't believe it."
- Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map – Appirio
- THE i-DECADE | More Intelligent Life
designers and arty types predict how we'll back on the 2000's – "when everybody is equally dressed down, a bag is the only way to proclaim a high-fashion badge. Everything else was about repetition and looking backwards, from the Sienna Miller Sixties boho moment to the current Eighties revival. Happier times" – "This is a big sea-change: it is more about communication through the word and less about the image" – "People listening to iPods on their way to work—and not merely as a symbol of technology, but as a representation of a sort of introversion, a retreat within our own bubble. A sort of atomisation—one we’ve imposed on ourselves rather than one we’ve had forced on us by economic forces. I suppose you could see it as the triumph of individualism." – and so on.
- Illy Caffe Looking to Replace Your Morning Starbucks
- Architects Envision NYC Underwater
- adidas To Make “1 Euro Shoes”
The (unintended?) consequence, whatever the final price, will be us 1st worlders finding out how much we're getting ripped off by Adidas
- "There was some sense of urgency,” Brand says. “This book (reflects) that I had veered…"
- The Fate of the Yeast People
This guy don’t like middle-America too much
- Phenomenon – The Price of Free
You get what you pay for?
- This American Life – 380: No Map
There seems to be a good story in here about how some banks IT couldn't change fast enough and did crappy things as a result.
- Clients From Hell : Whiteboard
- BMC Software and Salesforce.com Forge Strategic Alliance to Deliver Cloud-based IT Management on the Force.com Platform – BMC Software
"BMC Software and salesforce.com announced a strategic partnership to deliver BMC's highly regarded IT management solutions on the Force.com. This exciting new cloud-based service desk offering is designed for customers looking for strong IT-business integration and rapid time-to-value. Leveraging BMC’s industry-leading expertise, the core functionality of BMC Service Desk Express, and the trusted and scalable Force.com platform, BMC Service Desk Express on Force.com delivers cloud-enabled service desk, self-service and inventory management capabilities."
- Dell's Q3 profit slides 54%
- AMD talks upcoming Bulldozer, Hemlock, and Fusion chips
AMD chips named after Texas rivers and locales.
- Adobe’s Acrobat.com comes to smartphones
- activity streams – an extension to the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around web
I'm always curious how these standards evolve outside he traditional (90's born) standards committees – like, are the old standards bodies not fast enough? Not the right place? etc.
- Twitter Data Dump: InfoChimps Puts 1B Connections Up for Sale
Here, what RedMonk is interested in is selling data, data marketplaces. Infochimps is actually selling this data for $6,000 a chunk. It'll be exciting if there's a market for that, very cyberpunk a la Islands in the Net.
- What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible
With geo tagging in Twitter, there's all sorts of apps you could whip up. Marshall blue-skys a bevy of apps.
- Google Wave relies on kindness of strangers
Brief, but interesting insight into Google's plans for getting Wave success – it depends on lots of users (not big surprise) and third party integrations. Bit of a chicken and egg problem there, but Google can fall back on its brand (trusting the user base will grown & marketing glow-off) to motivate third party integrators. Me: I'd just like a less Ajax interface for it. It's like when GMail didn't have a delete button.
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