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For LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, Relationships Rule the World | Epicenter | Wired.com
Reid Hoffman dreamed of becoming a philosopher. After Stanford, he took a Marshall scholarship so he could ponder the great ideas at Oxford. “What I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture,” the 44-year-old LinkedIn cofounder reflects over lunch during one of his regular trips back to the UK. “I’d write books and essays to help us figure out who we all should be.” Within months of starting his term, though, Hoffman concluded that spending decades answering a single philosophical question might not have sufficient impact on the world. “Academia wasn’t the right platform,” he says. “It didn’t have enough scale. So I decided I would be a software entrepreneur instead.”

Thiel calls Hoffman the firm’s “most rigorous strategic thinker,” who used his empathetic nature to defuse potential conflicts. “I don’t know what’s the opposite of a sociopath, but that’s what Reid is,” Thiel says. “The anti-sociopath understands other people incredibly well and tries to craft solutions that work for them.”

All LinkedIn needs to do now is enlighten its users to the full power of the platform. “Ask the average person,” Hoffman says with frustration. “They think it’s a place they keep their CV online and maybe have some connections with people they know professionally. They don’t think of it as a place to get business intelligence, to research problems, to establish an online presence where other people in the network can find them. It’s as if we’re a screwdriver in a world where people don’t quite understand screws. If Americans really learned how to use LinkedIn, it would raise the country’s GDP.” It’s a massive claim, but you get the sense that the “intellectual entrepreneur”—as Elon Musk calls Hoffman—really means it. Joi Ito says, “He looks at the world and society as a huge game, an intellectual exercise where he’s trying to optimize for the common good.” Two decades after his stint at Oxford, the big thinker still lives in a world of ideas—but on the mammoth scale he craved and with a bit better compensation. (Hoffman’s net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $1.5 billion.)
philosophy  wired  oxford  fellowship  england  uk  books  essays  academia  entrepreneur  software  linkedin 
17 days ago by mwfogleman
Welcome to MusicBrainz! - MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections
reference  software  opensource  tools  free  music  web  web2.0  freeware  audio  organization  community  media  social  collaboration  tagging  metadata  mp3  tags  utilities  search  musicbrainz  tag  id3  cd  itunes  database  tool  ipod 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
GizmoStyle // We Love The Web : Linux enters the I’m A Mac/I’m A PC row with ‘We’re Linux’
We’ve all seen the various Mac v PC ads but no Linux ads as of yet. And why would we? - Linux does not have the bank balance to finance Hollywood style adverts - remember Microsofts Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign? $10 million for what? Well, that’s all about to change as Linux have announced five finalists who have made adverts for their ‘We’re Linux’ video campaign. I must admit, they probably aren’t TV ready…..yet. We’ll see what Linux decide to do when they announce the winner tomorrow (Wednesday evening Pacific Time). Here are the 5 videos:
video  software  linux  internet  humor  opensource  design  apple  business  programming  windows  community  sharing  tv  advertising  microsoft  marketing  videos  2009 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb
Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of the Web 2.0 Conference, gave a short address on the 5th anniversary of that event at tonight's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and offered some thoughts on what's going to come next. He discussed five applications that he believes point the way.

Two themes stood out: sensors will surpass humans in front of their keyboards as the primary data source on the web and Moore's Law will need to be applied to humanity's greatest problems.

It's time for the Web to get smarter, O'Reilly said. Having just become a grandfather, he drew a parallel between the evolution of the web and human development. The early days of search engines were like a child just putting things in its mouth, wondering what they are. Now the web is starting to use all of its senses together to do do something with the information it has access too. Here's where he's seeing that happen.
software  technology  semantic  app  ibm  web3.0  blog  article  web  readwriteweb  google  web2.0  cisco  commentary  future  tech  webapps  trends  innovation  iphone  application 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Daring Fireball: Complex
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
software  startup  evolution  technology  apple  daringfireball  design  architecture  business  read  article  strategy  blog  platform  development  simple  simplicity  agile  ideas  usability  2009  ui  iphone  ipod  complexity 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Internet Explorer 8 released, progress unmistakable - Ars Technica
Microsoft's has tethered Internet Explorer to long development cycles with huge changes. This strategy is driven in part by the fact that it has businesses to keep in mind; the company does not want to overwhelm them with frequent minor releases. The leaps Microsoft has taken between IE6 and IE7, as well as between IE7 and IE8, are arguably larger than those any other browser maker has made in its major versions. Now that it is back in the game though, Microsoft needs to step it up and start delivering more quickly. The progress that Microsoft's competitors are making—both in terms of features and standards—is still outpacing Redmond's development effort. To truly compete with Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, the software giant is going to have to match their release cycles—early and often instead of slow and steady.
software  technology  internet  news  web  browser  microsoft  internetexplorer  arstechnica 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
Ubuntu: A User's Look at Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
New to Ubuntu 8.10 is a nifty seamless encryption feature. It's always been possible to encrypt individual files/folders in Ubuntu but it involved creating a key pair and then individually encrypting files. To view or edit the file, it was necessary to decrypt it and then re-encrypt it again if changes were made. Messy.

The new feature creates an encrypted filestore, mounted in the Private folder in your /home directory. This is automatically locked and unlocked as you log in and out, so accessing it is seamless and transparent. Other users won't be able to access it, and it isn't possible to see its contents by booting into rescue mode.

To activate the feature, just type the following two commands:

sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils
ecryptfs-setup-private

Follow the prompts shown and then log out and back in again. Once the desktop reappears, you'll see a new Private directory in your /home folder, where you can save data, as with any other directory.
reference  linux  software  opensource  lifehacker  free  ubuntu  computer  encryption  tech  review  download  office  blogs  eee  ibex  intrepidibex 
february 2009 by mwfogleman
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