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January 2010
Music news, Listings, Reviews, Reaction, Interviews and Community // Drowned In Sound
Run IT as a business -- why that's a train wreck waiting to happen
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Evan Williams | evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups
Les idées, inspirations initiales peuvent être fausses. (cependant l'article ne dit pas combien ont réussi avec leurs idées initiales ;) )Pyra was started to build a project-management app, not Blogger. Flickr's company was building a game. Ebay was going to sell auction software. Initial assumptions are almost always wrong. That's why the waterfall approach to building software is obsolete in favor agile techniques. The same philosophy should be applied to building a company.
[this is aaronland] continuous partial [redacted]
One reason that I run the cron job in the first place is that not backing up your stuff on third-party services is just silly. That's not meant as a judgment or a finger-pointy thing, against any particular company or cloud-castle. It's just that many copies keeps stuff safe.
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December 2009
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VideoClix to Power Clickable Interactive Video for Dailymotion | InteractiveTV Today
VideoClix, a Vancouver-based provider of technologies for clickable interactive video (which it calls "hypervideo"), said last week that it has signed a deal with Dailymotion, a Paris-based company which claims that its flagship broadband video portal is the world's second-largest. According to VideoClix, its technology will provide Dailymotion users with an "active and engaging" experience while providing advertisers with a non-intrusive way to reach their target audience. "This partnership brings clickable video to the masses on a global scale," VideoClix CEO, Babak Maghfourian, said in a prepared statement. "It's a win, win, win for audiences, publishers and advertisers alike."
A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network
HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to be a "Central Nervous System for the Earth" (CeNSE). It's a research and development program to build a planetwide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors."
EyeSteelFilm
EyeSteelFilm is a production and distribution company based in Montreal, Canada. We focus on theatrical documentary films and socially conscious new media projects.
November 2009
Firefox's Plan to Kick the Login's Butt
Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web. Nearly every site has a concept of a user account, registration, and identity. Searching for "sign in" on Google yields over 1.8 billion hits. And yet, the browser does nothing to make this experience better save for some basic auto form filling. The browser leaves websites to re-implement identity management, and forces users to learn a new scheme for every site... Your identity is too important to be owned by any one company.
Announcing Kong: A server description and deployment testing tool | Surfing in Kansas
t work we have to manage a ton of Django based sites. Just for our World Company sites, we have over 50 different settings files, and this doesn't take into account the sites that we host for other clients. At this size it becomes basically impossible to test each site in a browser when you push things to production. To solve this problem I have written a very basic server description tool. This allows you to describe sites (settings file, python path, url, etc.) and servers.
