ohskylab + technology 62
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
Worth it. Overdue. Helps explain noticeable burn-out type feelings. "There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto. But maybe it's time that changed."
digital
innovation
social
technology
free
notfree
via:blech
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
Scripting News: WikiLeaks on the run
december 2010 by ohskylab
"Politicians should be aware that these are the stakes. They either get used operating in the open, where the people they're governing are in on everything they do, or they go totalitarian, around the globe, now."
dns
politics
wikileaks
internet
government
technology
from delicious
december 2010 by ohskylab
The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More -- Vulture
december 2010 by ohskylab
Emergent technology is the most powerful single driver of change in the world, and it has been forever. Technology trumps politics. Technology trumps religion. It just does. And that’s why we are where we are now. It seems so self-evident to me that I can never go to that Technology: threat or menace? position. Okay, well, if we don’t do this, what are we going to do? This is not only what we do, it’s literally who we are as a species. We’ve become something other than what our ancestors were.
williamgibson
branding
technology
books
interviews
culture
from delicious
december 2010 by ohskylab
It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing... | Public Knowledge
november 2010 by ohskylab
"This white paper, It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology, examines how intellectual property (IP) law impacts the rapidly maturing technology of 3D printing, and how incumbents who feel threatened by its growth might try to use IP law to stop it."
via:tomtaylor
3dprinting
ip
technology
3d
fabrication
copyright
drm
law
november 2010 by ohskylab
rc3.org - Content management is still an unsolved problem
september 2010 by ohskylab
"Content management remains an unsolved problem. Untold billions of dollars (and hours) have been spent building commercial, open source, and custom content management systems since the first Web page was pushed to a Web server using FTP, and yet they all still suck." High five!
cms
web
quotes
technology
september 2010 by ohskylab
Lee Maguire – Guided by the Whispers of Angels
august 2010 by ohskylab
Much more beyond this quote... "When you actually need to travel, your personal devices will keep you on track. For example something the “JITwatch“, or that iPhone app that triggers an alarm when GPS indicates you’re within a particular distance from your destination."... but everything has been done already.
ideas
augmentedreality
ubicomp
travel
information
interface
future
technology
via:infovore
august 2010 by ohskylab
What Happened to Yahoo
august 2010 by ohskylab
"So which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Which companies are "in the software business" in this respect? As Yahoo discovered, the area covered by this rule is bigger than most people realize. The answer is: any company that needs to have good software."
yahoo
culture
technology
business
paulgraham
august 2010 by ohskylab
William Gibson - BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK
june 2010 by ohskylab
"If Pattern Recognition was about the immediate psychic aftermath of 9-11, and Spook Country about the deep end of the Bush administration and the invasion of Iraq, I could say that Zero History is about the global financial crisis as some sort of nodal event, but that must be true of any 2010 novel with ambitions on the 2010 zeitgeist. But all three of these novels are also about that dawning recognition that the future, be it capital-T Tomorrow or just tomorrow, Friday, just means more stuff, however peculiar and unexpected. A new quotidian. Somebody’s future, somebody else’s past."
williamgibson
books
future
technology
scifi
zerohistory
june 2010 by ohskylab
Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputing
january 2010 by ohskylab
"This fragmentary text is the attempt to sum up some thoughts of mine about performing electronic music live."
monolake
music
software
audio
performance
technology
live
roberthenke
january 2010 by ohskylab
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | Interview | Music | The Observer
january 2010 by ohskylab
"The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber."
brianeno
music
art
guardian
technology
interviews
quotes
ambient
january 2010 by ohskylab
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research
december 2009 by ohskylab
"The collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized." Free book from Microsoft Research.
science
visualisation
microsoft
free
technology
analysis
fourthparadigm
datamining
december 2009 by ohskylab
8 Lessons From the Creativity and Technology Conference - Advertising Age - Digital
november 2009 by ohskylab
"Bring tech-heads into creative conversations early to color communication ideas with what's possible in web development." But don't call them tech-heads.
business
advertising
technology
digital
creativity
planning
adage
november 2009 by ohskylab
Should a "Big 5" Firm Implement Your CMS? -- CMS Watch
november 2009 by ohskylab
"Partners have little or no incentive even to investigate non-fee-producing options. Therefore, open source or lower cost, more out-of-the-box CMS solutions are rarely if ever offered as possible solutions. In fact, my experience found that more times than not, the Big 5 partner already knew exactly which CMS solution she was going to pitch before she walked through the client’s door. This was something that never ceased to amaze me, but the lesson here is to beware of software recommendations from any Big 5 firm." No shit.
cms
strategy
technology
accenture
consulting
via:alastc
november 2009 by ohskylab
Charlie's Diary: Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens
october 2009 by ohskylab
"Today's big news is that Amazon are going to start selling Kindle ebook readers world-wide. Let me explain why I think this is very bad news for writers."
charliestross
books
amazon
kindle
technology
economics
publishing
drm
october 2009 by ohskylab
TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit
october 2009 by ohskylab
"A TubeSat is designed to function as a Basic Satellite Bus or as a simple stand-alone satellite. Each TubeSat kit includes the satellite's structural components, safety hardware, solar panels, batteries, power management hardware and software, transceiver, antennas, microcomputer, and the required programming tools. With these components alone, the builder can construct a satellite that puts out enough power to be picked up on the ground by a hand-held amateur radio receiver."
technology
diy
space
satellite
spaceflight
october 2009 by ohskylab
h+ Magazine
september 2009 by ohskylab
"Covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing - and will change - human beings in fundamental ways."
via:paul.irish
design
culture
trends
technology
science
pdf
magazines
september 2009 by ohskylab
The Technium: Progression of the Inevitable
august 2009 by ohskylab
"The procession of technological discoveries is inevitable. When the conditions are right — when the necessary web of supporting technology needed for every invention is established — then the next adjacent technological step will emerge as if on cue. If inventor X does not produce it, inventor Y will."
top
culture
innovation
technology
science
interesting
kevinkelly
technium
august 2009 by ohskylab
Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects) - UCSB English Department Knowledge Base
july 2009 by ohskylab
""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."
tools
collaboration
community
technology
freeware
education
july 2009 by ohskylab
WebHome < Main < Reprap
july 2009 by ohskylab
"Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself." Want.
design
tools
hacks
technology
hardware
prototyping
diy
electronics
engineering
fabrication
reprap
july 2009 by ohskylab
tweenbots | kacie kinzer
april 2009 by ohskylab
"Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal."
social
art
video
culture
technology
navigation
urban
interactive
robots
april 2009 by ohskylab
Wrong Tomorrow - time vs. pundits
april 2009 by ohskylab
"What does this site do? It keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures."
trends
future
predictions
technology
politics
april 2009 by ohskylab
The UK gets reWired: Wired magazine relaunches | Media | The Guardian
march 2009 by ohskylab
"Wired, [Albert Read] suggests, may not really be a tech magazine at all. "It's a magazine about innovation and the future, and should not be narrowly confined to technology in people's minds," he says. "You read Wired if you see yourself as a forward thinker or an early adopter." I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
wired
guardian
magazines
culture
technology
publishing
via:blech
march 2009 by ohskylab
I, A Bee
february 2009 by ohskylab
"Those individuals carry at least one non-traditional title. To the advertising creative partnership that traditionally has teamed a copywriter and an art director, a third member must be added: the creative technologist."
via:russelldavies
marketing
advertising
technology
digital
creativity
february 2009 by ohskylab
Shapeways | passionate about creating
january 2009 by ohskylab
"We want to be a fun, inspiring place where you make your own 3D designs come to life using 3D printing."
design
tools
art
technology
3d
models
prototyping
via:peter.costello
january 2009 by ohskylab
The Computer for the 21st Century
november 2008 by ohskylab
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Must read.
design
trends
technology
gui
hci
research
november 2008 by ohskylab
MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track
september 2008 by ohskylab
"So why is the experience just an 8/10? For now only U.S. users can access the new music content [...] there’s lots of work to do on the product itself. There’s no way to share public playlists, for example. And unlike iMeem, MySpace Music doesn’t yet offer the ability to embed the music player into other sites. Also, my browser crashed repeatedly tonight while I was testing the service." 8/10? Talk about ratings inflation.
music
technology
distribution
myspace
crock
september 2008 by ohskylab
Arup | Consulting engineers, designers, planners and project managers
july 2008 by ohskylab
"A global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants."
architecture
engineering
design
technology
innovation
lighting
july 2008 by ohskylab
ongoing · Multi-Inflection-Point Alert
april 2008 by ohskylab
"We’re simultaneously at inflection points in programming languages and databases and network programming and processor architectures and Web development and IT business models and desktop environments. Did I miss anything?"
programming
web
business
technology
future
april 2008 by ohskylab
We need a Wikipedia for data - Bret Taylor's blog
april 2008 by ohskylab
"I think we should create a Wikipedia for data: a global database for all of these important data sources to which we all contribute and that anyone can use."
data
wiki
innovation
technology
april 2008 by ohskylab
With friends like these ...
january 2008 by ohskylab
"Facebook has 59 million users [but] you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site"
facebook
privacy
politics
technology
guardian
web
january 2008 by ohskylab
The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies - New York Times
december 2007 by ohskylab
"To keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year"
movies
digital
technology
preservation
nytimes
film
december 2007 by ohskylab
The death of e-mail. - By Chad Lorenz - Slate Magazine
november 2007 by ohskylab
"Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it."
email
facebook
technology
communication
microblogging
society
trends
november 2007 by ohskylab
IEEE Spectrum: The Future of Music
august 2007 by ohskylab
"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes
top
music
audio
technology
compression
loudness
history
article
mp3
august 2007 by ohskylab
Policy Unplugged
may 2007 by ohskylab
"Exists to help promote social networking, knowledge generation and sharing, co-creation and the harnessing of collective intelligence within organisations and communities."
networking
web
social
technology
may 2007 by ohskylab
Achieving emptiness with "Bit Literacy" - (37signals)
may 2007 by ohskylab
"In an age of infinite bits, time and attention are the scarce resources. The solution is to constantly manage your bits with the goal of reaching an “empty” state."
gtd
productivity
information
technology
top
may 2007 by ohskylab
Wired News: Web Startups Reboot 'London 2.0'
february 2007 by ohskylab
"Some of the web's most innovative developers might want to check the temperature when they arrive for the Future of Web Apps conference this week -- in tech circles, this city is getting hot again."
web2.0
london
fowalondon07
last.fm
events
technology
february 2007 by ohskylab
Vitamin Interviews » Steve Olechowski
november 2006 by ohskylab
1. How is FeedBurner impacting on the way we understand media? 2. What kind of information about their readers do media and advertisers want? 3. RSS and television 4. How can RSS be developed?
feeds
rss
technology
web
november 2006 by ohskylab
Technology For Marketing 2007 - TFM Awards
october 2006 by ohskylab
Technology For Marketing Awards
technology
marketing
awards
web
october 2006 by ohskylab
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
october 2006 by ohskylab
"WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected."
environment
weblogs
green
technology
sustainability
eco
october 2006 by ohskylab
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.
august 2006 by ohskylab
"For years, compact fluorescent bulbs have promised dramatic energy savings--yet they remain a mere curiosity. That's about to change."
energy
environment
lighting
electricity
conservation
green
sustainability
technology
august 2006 by ohskylab
Wired News: What If They Gave a War...?
may 2006 by ohskylab
"I'll tell you where they are. They're at home, tuning in to root for the next "American idol." They're plugged into their iPods, utterly self-involved and disconnected from what lies just outside their doors. They're spending 25 hours a week playing vide
wired
society
politics
technology
activism
may 2006 by ohskylab
Beginners Guides: USB Memory Drive Projects - PCStats.com
june 2005 by ohskylab
"Encryption, Firefox browser, word processing, arcade games and yes even an operating system can be run off your USB hard drive... if you know how! - Version 1.0.0"
usb
hardware
tutorials
technology
mobile
firefox
utilities
june 2005 by ohskylab
Do and don't battery table
may 2005 by ohskylab
"Each battery has unique needs that must be met to obtain reliable service and long life. The Do and Don't battery table summarizes these needs and advises proper handling of each battery type."
batteries
technology
reference
top
may 2005 by ohskylab
Hiring Technical People
february 2005 by ohskylab
"Use the tips here to hire better, or find a new job."
career
interviews
jobs
weblogs
technology
february 2005 by ohskylab
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