RT @hiroshiwald #Innovation :: Nano Plane: I want one: RT @ycombinatornews: The 70 kilo single person plane http://bit.ly/gWcMnY
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michael: RT @hiroshiwald #Innovation :: Nano Plane: I want one: RT @ycombinatornews: The 70 kilo single person plane http://bit.ly/gWcMnY
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In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution/all/1
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G's Game Plan
As we've all come to expect, although should never for one nanosecond take for granted, The Game Plan is as Inspired and Inspiring as ever and another bold expression in Open Career / Individual Enterprise management in a society where only about 60% of adults are actually needed to supply more than 100% of the meatspace goods and services required to keep the GCG evolving and extending.
If someone else doesn't beat me to it, I intend to get over there and be the first consensus-reality-coinage supporter of this type of innovative approach to articulating and designing one's own Justification of Being (JOB).
Also discovered in The G Plan is the fact that we need to get a Cintiq 21UX for Ken, ASAP. So once again, non-monetized WOM closes the deal; this time for Wacom. I both a.) learned about the device and b.) decided G's endorsement was all the 'market research' I'd ever need to make that purchase; but does G see even one penny of that in commission? No. I've been explaining that this is broken for the past few years and it's still broken.
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RAILS RUMBLE: 11 New Apps We Love (via feedly)
http://mashable.com/2009/08/30/rails-rumble/
Shared by @silverton: 48 hours; 168 teams; countless functional apps that do everything from aggregate your social media profiles to turning your Twitter account into a de-facto visual voicemail. Which of the 22 remaining will win Rails Rumble?
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Last weekend, a group of entrepreneurs and programmers got together for Rails Rumble. The goal? To build the best web app possible in only 48 hours based on the Ruby on Rails programming framework.
The result? 168 teams completed functional apps that do everything from aggregate your social media profiles to turning your Twitter account into a de-facto visual voicemail. Now the field has been whittled down to 22 applications where a popular vote will determine which one wins the Rails Rumble. While we don’t have a vote for who we think is best, several of these Rails apps really piqued our interest. Thus we’ve decided to highlight a few. Here are 11 of our favorite Rails Rumble apps, all of which we’d love to see developed further or even emerge as startups:11 Amazing Rails Apps
Hi, I’m: Hi, I’m is a social profile aggregator. Add your Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blog, and other profiles into one clean page. Even cooler, your profile updates anytime you update any of your networks. It’s a profile-centric FriendFeed.
Heart On: Okay, I love this idea. Have a crush on someone (like @mashable or @benparr)? Is he or she on Twitter? Then send him or her a Heart On and your crush will get the note. If your crush reciprocates, it’s broadcasted via Twitter. Great idea, but we’re not fans of the name.
- Lowdown: Trying to manage projects with groups of project managers, engineers, executives, and designers is a pain in the ass. Lowdown is a software management tool that lets you spec, estimate, and prioritize tasks within your projects.
Tablesurfing: Never eat alone again. Find food enthusiasts and make new friends by setting up dinner parties at your home or joining dinner with others. It’s couchsurfing, but with food. And who doesn’t like food?
Omnominator: The name’s awesome, and the service makes sense too. It essentially helps a group of people decide on a restaurant using Google Maps and Yelp.
- AlertMe.TV: Pick your favorite TV shows, and set it to give you an alert when the newest episode of your favorite show is online. No longer do you have to click refresh for the newest episode of the Daily Show!
Pockets: This app lets you record and send a voicemail to your friends via Twitter.
Twixperts: It’s like Yahoo Answers (or the defunct Google Answers), but for Twitter. You can ask a question and it’s tweeted to experts in that area. So a design question is sent to design gurus, music inquiries…well, you get the idea.
- PeepNote: It’s a personal notebook for Twitter. You can take notes on your Twitter followers so you always remember why you followed or unfollowed someone. You can also organize followers with tags – add quick labels so you target your tweets.
- Minutes: Meetings suck. Taking notes about meetings sucks. So organize your agenda and make notetaking easy. Minutes makes it easy to log your meetings, set a time limit, and assign tasks to your team during the meeting.
How’s My Code: Programmers collaborating on code will always miss what their teammates did, especially if they’ve been away for a few days. How’s My Code uses git to make reviewing code a snap. Be sure to tell us which one is your favorite in the comments. Reviews: Facebook, FriendFeed, Google Maps, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube Tags: Rails Rumble, RoR, ruby, Ruby on Rails, twitter
[extracted from RAILS RUMBLE: 11 New Apps We Love via feedly]
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You: Fwd: Support for Google Reader Friends and Comments (2.x.009) « Building Feedly - http://blog.feedly.com/2009/08/30/support-for-google-reader-friends-and-comments-2-x-009/ (via http://ff.im/7nm7Y)
http://friendfeed.com/augmentedcognition/6b2bcd05/fwd-support-for-google-reader-friends-and
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You: If you haven't had time, yet. I think you're gonna' like the Friendfeedish trajectory of http://bit.ly/feedlyreadly How do you do it all, man? ;-)
http://friendfeed.com/silverton/b1a08f3d/if-you-haven-t-had-time-yet-i-think-re-gonna-like
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If you haven't had time, yet. I think you're gonna' like the Friendfeedish trajectory of http://blog.feedly.com/2009... How do you do it all, man? ;-)
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Monocle: Yelp AR Easter Egg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQSwG2v6hFw
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Just because it's ironic doesn't mean it isn't true
- "I think Wave's capabilities actually exceed human capacity to interact."
- "It's probably best to pare down those exorbitant expectations."
Both quotes are from previously posted Engadget write up at http://u.nu/9snt
- "I think Wave's capabilities actually exceed human capacity to interact."
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Culture of Denial and other Salient Subtexts of #AOSS09
Clearly, the past few days of the Always On Stanford Summit 2009 have proven once again that neither technical capabilities, opportunities, entrepreneurial drive, nor innovation represent bottlenecks to progress in today's economy.
The bottlenecks are still anachronistic resource allocation models and empty industrial era narratives that continue to exert massively attenuating influences upon what would otherwise be increasingly accelerating competitive advantage for the U.S.
As we've repeated time and again, massively unsustainable resource skews have resulted in Far Too Few Gatekeepers to even come close to adequate capitalization of the Explosive Acceleration of Innovation, at hand.
Today's Explosive Acceleration of Innovation is not some futuristic forecast, it's today's everyday reality. The millions of real innovators on the ground know this beyond any shadow of doubt. As a society, we're losing more and more Accelerating Value Growth every day, due to the ineptitude and irrelevance of the Capitalism 1.0 world view and the crippling centralization of wealth it has created.
The most generous analogy I can come up with is to compare the predicament of Insanely Centralized Capital to that of Insanely Overworked Physicians, today. If one is a physician or medical researcher today, there are literally thousands of pertinent research findings published EVERY WEEK. It's just simply no longer humanly possible to keep up with even ONE FIELD OF PRACTICE, let alone to be a perpetually fully informed general practitioner.
Similarly, if one is a VC or large institutional investor -- or even part of a network of a few hundred peers -- there is simply no efficient or effective way to keep up with the thousands, nay millions of new ventures that are sketched out on kitchen tables across America in any given week. Obviously, there is no way to know which among those might become the biggest successes in the long term; and one of the most malignant features of the current "traditional" 19th Century Industrial Era paradigm is the seemingly inherent inability to recognize one simple fact:
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE KITCHEN TABLE BUSINESS PLANS CREATES JOBS in a world that is rapidly moving toward 20% and greater Structural Unemployment. Our entire societal OBJECTIVES have changed, but capital resource and liquidity circulation algorithms haven't appreciatively changed in a century or more.
By institutionally obsessing upon the Next Big Thing that will enable Centralized Capital to continue it's insane, pathologically hoarding "traditional model" behavior, we are literally choking our own economy to death, even while the number of able and willing entrepreneurs is greater than at any time in history. There is only one single word that can sum up such a inherently untenable situation:
Inexcusable.
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