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The Myth of the "Transparent Society"
via Slashdot by kdawson on March 07, 2008
palegray.net recommends a piece by Bruce Schneier up at Wired. Schneier addresses the central fallacy of the "transparent society" idea promoted by David Brin, and also takes on the flawed arguments that attempt to justify increased government monitoring of citizens. From the article: "If I disclose information to you, your power with respect to me increases. One way to address this power...
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Building the Facebook gaming platform: Interview with Shervin Pishevar, CEO of Social Gaming Network
via Inside Facebook by Justin Smith on March 02, 2008
... Developer Page Inside Facebook: How did SGN get started inside Freewebs?Shervin Pishevar: TJ Murphy created Warbook last summer. By August, it had reached 15 million page views/day, and we saw that there was a huge opportunity for a pure play social games network. Since then, we’ve focused on original ideas and games that are specifically built for Facebook and other social networks. We ...
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The "Python Paradox," Redux
via raganwald by Reginald Braithwaite on March 01, 2008
The only way to get Ruby into the enterprise is if a strong champion threatens firings unless it happens, actually fires the first suspected saboteur and builds the first version of the new application outside the company in secret. It may sound extreme, but take it from a guy who’s done six such applications at four organizations. People generally love the Ruby language, which is why there...
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Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software
via Slashdot by Soulskill on February 29, 2008
spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and reverse-engineer these interfaces to...
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TED 2008: Philip Zimbardo on The Lucifer Effect in Action
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on February 28, 2008
(I'm liveblogging from TED 2008, in Monterey, CA)Presenter: Professor Philip Zimbardo, creator of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment in the 1971 which put students into a prison setting, randomly chosen to be either guards or prisoners. He is the author of Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Zimbardo is a very lively and engaging 75-year-old with a devilish van dyke...
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Assetbar Aims to Bring Scalability to Social Web Apps - RSS Reading is First Up
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 14, 2008
Prelaunched social RSS reader Assetbar calls itself the first application built on the company's new “Media Participation Platform” and has a number of remarkable features already that you'll want to check out if you can get in. (invite code below)The experienced team of entrepreneurial engineers behind the application says its goal is "to open the platform to other developers around...
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Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Engineering
via Slashdot by CmdrTaco on February 20, 2008
An anonymous reader writes "When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster as a member of the Rogers Commission, he issued a scathing report containing brilliant, insightful commentary on the nature of engineering. This short essay relates Feynman's commentary to modern software development."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Ancient Roman computer was used to chart the skies
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
Some of the mystery surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer recovered from a 2100-year-old Roman shipwreck near BritainGreece has been unravelled. The device was an astronomical calculator -- and it employed a differential gear!Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered...
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The Drake Equation
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 15, 2008
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Be Organic, not Viral
via Epeus' epigone by Kevin Marks on February 20, 2008
I just got back from the VLAB Multi-platform Social Networking event, which I thought was very interesting overall. Jeremiah Owyang did a great moderating job, and Jia Shen, Sourabh Niyogi, Ken Gullicksen and Steve Cohen brought lots of different viewpoints to the discussion. Growing and deriving value from Apps within Social Networks is still full of lots of unknowns, but it was good to hear ...
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