My second PodCast show
..uuufff.. technical difficulties and not enough sleep .. not the best prerequisites for a show .. but here it is, my second PodCast .. and of course, again, in "Schwizer-Duetsch".
Music played:
Matthew Ebel
Adrina Thorpe
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..uuufff.. technical difficulties and not enough sleep .. not the best prerequisites for a show .. but here it is, my second PodCast .. and of course, again, in "Schwizer-Duetsch".
Music played:
Matthew Ebel
Adrina Thorpe
Gmail - Plus-addressing: "Gmail also supports 'plus-addressing' of emails. Messages can be sent to addresses in the form: gmail.user+extratext@gmail.com where extratext can be any string. Plus-addressing allows users to sign up for different services with different aliases and then easily filter all e-mails from those services. The string appended to the e-mail address may not be longer than six characters."
.. that is a cool feature, especially together with Gmail-filters .. it sounds like other email server support that too ..
Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes:
"And in fact the conventional wisdom in the world of copycat business journalists and large companies who rely on overpaid management consultants to think for them, chew their food, etc., seems to be that the most important thing is reducing the cost of programmers.
In some other industries, cheap is more important than good. Wal*Mart grew to be the biggest corporation on Earth by selling cheap products, not good products. If Wal*Mart tried to sell high quality goods, their costs would go up and their whole cheap advantage would be lost. For example if they tried to sell a tube sock that can withstand the unusual rigors of, say, being washed in a washing machine, they'd have to use all kinds of expensive components, like, say, cotton, and the cost for every single sock would go up.
So, why isn't there room in the software industry for a low cost provider, someone who uses the cheapest programmers available? (Remind me to ask Quark how that whole fire-everybody-and-hire-low-cost-replacements plan is working.)
Here's why: duplication of software is free. That means that the cost of programmers is spread out over all the copies of the software you sell. With software, you can improve quality without adding to the incremental cost of each unit sold.
Essentially, design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Or, roughly speaking, if you try to skimp on programmers, you'll make crappy software, and you won't even save that much money."
.. of course I like that article from Joel :-) ..
plazes.beta: "Plazes is the first global location-aware interaction and geo-information system, connecting you with the people and Plazes in your area and all over the world. It is the navigation system for your social life and it's absolutely free."
..interesting, have to check it out .. don't yet know what to think about it .. at least the design of the site looks cool :-) ..
AlwaysOn Network: "AO2005: The Innovation Summit, Stanford University Palo Alto, CA" .. offers a live-cast and video-archive of previous session .. cool .. if you want to know what the big thing, or probably the one after that, will be ..
.. finally I did it, I just recorded my first PodCast .. the PodCast is in "Swiss-German", sorry, no English-version .. it's about living in the USA .. but nothing too political :-) .. just daily stuff, daily tips .. stuff for my family and friends back in Switzerland.
A few links to the show:
Ann Arbor Art Fair
NASA - Return to Flight
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Brick - Amanda Mason and Steve Cole
Kelly Clarkson / Eagles Mashup by Aggro1
Marrying Maps to Data for a New Web Service - New York Times: "In 1991, David Gelernter, a computer scientist at Yale, proposed using software to create a computer simulation of the physical world, making it possible to map everything from traffic flow and building layouts to sales and currency data on a computer screen.
Mr. Gelernter's idea came a step closer to reality in the last few weeks when both Google and Yahoo published documentation making it significantly easier for programmers to link virtually any kind of Internet data to Web-based maps and, in Google's case, satellite imagery.".. the whole map/web-services frenzy got picked up by the New York Times .. an interesting statement from Mr. O'Reilly made in this article: "It's a classic example of this thesis that hackers show us the shape of the future." .. how right he is :-) ..
.. by the way .. the geeks even have a web-site: Google Earth Hacks ..
"Program to an interface, not an implementation", "Culture of shipping".. just two of many different topics discussed in a series of recent interviews with Erich Gamma, published by Artima.
..so in case you have some spare time..
Social tagging in the enterprise: "David Ascher reports on a filesystem-based tagging technique developed by Stephen Hahn, who works (and blogs) at Sun. On his personal blog, Stephen describes a Perl-based prototype that represents tags using directories and symbolic links. The scheme can chew up a lot of these resources, though filesystems with file attributes -- he mentions Sun's UFS and Linux's ext3fs, I'd add Microsoft's NTFS -- would reduce the resource cost by a lot, at the expense of portability. ..."
(Via Jon's Radio.)
.. tagging files in file-systems .. don't know .. I still prefer a combination of hierarchical folders and powerful search .. dealing with tags in a consistent way is just to "painful", the human error-rate is too high ..
NASA real-time coverage: "For the STS-114 mission, NASA has signed partnership agreements with Akamai and Yahoo! to provide webcasting of NASA Television well beyond the agency's normal capacity. "
.. cool! .. the NASA site offers a lot of additional infos to the Space Shuttle flight ..
..don't know if I completely get it .. have to "consume" it some more ..
Chris Dent posted a Manifesto: Fridge as Philosophy of Everything
Architect your hardware, your software and your life so your environment helps you out and you don't have to waste your brain deciding on things that shouldn't need deciding.
A nice read that ties in system architecture, personal productivity, simplicity and Engelbart.
(Via Ross Mayfield's Weblog.)
Free SkypeOut Days: "At Skype, we don’t believe you should have to pay for calls. That’s why Skype-to-Skype calls will always be free. But even we have to charge a little bit for SkypeOut calls (our service for calling landlines and mobile phones). That’s where Free SkypeOut Days come in.
On Free SkypeOut Days you’ll be able to redeem 10 minutes of credit for SkypeOut calls and it won’t cost you a thing.
We wish every day could be a Free SkypeOut Day, but that would make us bankrupt. So our accountant says we can have 4 of them this month.
When one is approaching, we’ll let you know through our website and on Share.Skype.com. We’re planning to have those days every week in July, so keep checking back for details. And when you spot one, spread the word."
.. so keep checking your account page and the blogs out there ..
"Using FeedMap you can geo-code your blog, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs. Once geo-coded, you can get your own BlogMap location using a simple url that allows you to network with your local bloggers and much more!"
.. interesting, but I think they are missing some opportunities .. anyway, they are using Microsoft's Map service and not Google's ..
Gmaps Pedometer: "This is a little hack that uses Google's superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout."
..simple but brilliant..
.. don't know if that will fly ..
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