December 2009
37 posts
“If you are truly offering value (have achieved product/market fit), then there...”
– When Should a Startup Start Charging?
Engagement Economy [SR-1183] | Institute For The... →
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OpenIDSupport - Shibboleth 2 Documentation -... →
Sweet, “Work is underway to add native OpenID support to the Shibboleth 2.x Identity Provider.”
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“Don’t try to drag your customers to a new platform. Find them where they...”
– A New Source of Stress: Feelings of Social Media Inadequacy
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Branching and Merging in CVS →
“It’s like a mashup of a 1960s teach-in with smartphone technology from the...”
– How the iPhone Could Reboot Education (via earthmancomehome)
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Micro service authentication
A service provider who wishes to provide micro-services to the UC campus community will need some mechanism to authenticate and authorize access to certain individuals, institutions, and processes. Using Shibboleth via mod_shib and using django or ruby on rail it seems like it would be pretty simple for a service provider to put together a little web app where one can.
log into application...
“The reality for IT workers of any age is that they are being asked to do more...”
– IT careers: Retire? How about never?
CrossTech: Add CrossRef metadata to PDFs using XMP →
/via @infopeep on twitter
“Being addicted to your work might be slightly better than a coke habit, but it...”
– Signal vs. Noise - Step one is admitting you have a problem (via zehnuhr) (via hiten)
“Men who consistently failed to express their resentment over conflicts with a...”
– How Playing Nice Kills You (via hiten)
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Study: Facebook users willingly give out data →
infoneernet:
Facebook users are too willing to give out their personal information, security firm Sophos has found.
According to Sophos’ Australian team, which conducted a study to see how likely Facebook users were to offer up personal information, 41 to 46 percent of the 100 people Sophos contacted “blindly accepted” friend requests from two fake Facebook users created by the security...
“The time to start iterating the product is if and only if sufficient customers...”
– Customer Development is Not a Focus Group « Steve Blank (via hiten)
“innovator beware, it is an inefficient and distressing process plagued by a high...”
– Bob Sutton (via designinginnovations) (via smartercities)
“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
(via peterpawlick)
(via neilperkin) (via wearethedigitalkids)
“Meaningless work not overwork wears us down, saps our strengths. and robs our...”
– (via labellevie) (via idannodoyou) (via nihilnoetia) (via roomthily) (via infoneernet)
“You can’t manage knowledge — nobody can. What you can do is to manage the...”
– Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell (via nihilnoetia) (via roomthily)
“Minimum Desirable Product is the simplest experience necessary to prove out a...”
– Minimum Desirable Product | Andrew Chen (@andrew_chen) (via hiten)
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“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss (via kari-shma) (via roomthily) (via infoneernet)
“Most of us still haven’t grasped the fact that everything we commit to the...”
– Douglas Rushkoff: Tiger’s Digital Sex Trap (via earthmancomehome) (via notational) (via infoneernet)
“When someone cuts themselves off from the world by not logging on to Facebook or...”
– Urban Dictionary: airplane mode
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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods →
a taxonomy of visual literacy /via @rloren. Mouse over the “element” an example of that visualization type.
Navigating csudigitalhumanities.org to find... →
cphdh:
A number of CCC America participants have presented mentoring colleagues for their programs about the history exhibits and posters created by participants. For those of your colleagues who wish to…
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Can anyone stop Facebook? →
infoneernet:
Facebook’s continued rise prompts several questions. Why do people keep joining? Will it peak and begin to decline, like so many social networks that came before? And more importantly, do we want a universal sign-on service, a single Web site that stores all our relationships, comments, pictures, and status updates?
Yes, I think we do. In fact, I’d argue that’s why Facebook...
NASA Nebula - Cloud Computing →
/via slashdot, also article on datacenterknowldedge.com
Grok - A Smashing Web Framework — Grok →
What is Grok?
Grok is a web application framework for Python developers. It is aimed at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok has an emphasis on agile development. Grok is easy and powerful.
Stressing the Web, ‘NewsHour’ Begins an Overhaul -... →
Webcast: Web Squared →
webcast notes from first couple mins:
Web meets word = web squared
web 2.0 is not a version number; second coming of the web (5 years ago, after dot com bust). Web as a platform. Collective Intelligence. Is the web getting smatter?
/by John Battelle, Tim O’Reilly
/date June 25 2009