April 2009
28 posts
“If you can’t manage chaos and uncertainty, if you can’t bias yourself for action...”
– Preparing for Chaos - the Life of a Startup « Steve Blank (via hiten)
How to make Higher Learning More Agile, Adaptive,...
rahmin:
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(Step 2) Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed. It is possible to imagine a broad range of topics around which such zones of inquiry could be organized:...
“Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which...”
– Mark C. Taylor- End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com (via rahmin)
“Twitter is fast becoming a viral distribution platform for not just the NYT’s...”
– Umair Haque
Or, we like to call it “Social Distribution Network”
(via betaworks)
The World's First Solar-Powered Waterproof Cell... →
Ever find yourself with a water-soaked low-battery phone? Sharp and Japanese network KDDI have a solution: the world’s first solar-powered waterproof cell phone. The phone, scheduled for a June release in Japan, can nab one minute of talk time or two hours of standby power from ten minutes of sun. The phone can derive 80% of its charge in total from solar power. It’s not a fast enough...
How Twitter, Digg and Social Media Are Going to... →
The one thing that Iraq really, really needs, according to the US State Department… is Twitter. Finally, thanks to what I’m already calling “Operation Fail Whale”, ordinary Iraqis will get access to the clean video streams, flamewars and Lolcats that we in the west take for granted. Here are predictions of what the future might hold for Iraq 2.0.
“We typically think of “creativity” as a singular effort with the Steve Jobs or...”
– Can Creativity Be Crowdsourced? - Advertising Age - DigitalNext (via somewhatfrank)
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
– Dwight Eisenhower (via fuckfailgoawesome)
“It isn’t the strengthening of copyright law that allows me to make money, it’s...”
– Jonathan Lethem
(via Signal vs Noise)
(via betaworks)
EBay planning spinoff of Skype through IPO -... →
(via somewhatfrank)
How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind →
hiten:
somewhatfrank:
Sometime in the near future, Apple is going to announce that a billion little apps have been download for use on its iPhone and iPod touch platforms. As of yesterday, about 945 million apps had been download. That translates to about 31 apps per iPhone/iPod touch out there. As it crosses the billion-apps mark, the company is showing that once again it has been able to take...
“When your sole metric is the number of times that pages on your site are loaded...”
– Merlin Mann: Free as in “Me”, a great article about creative motivations and web traffic that you should really read. (via marco) (via hiten)
“A successful product manager also knows that he or she is not an engineer. Trust...”
– Tips for product management success « Venture Generated Content (via hiten)
