Silicon Valley Musings

Robert Scoble states: “First of all, Twitter doesn’t store my Tweets 25,000 times. It stores them once and then it remixes them.”
I do not know how Twitter is built. However, “back in the day,” I was the development manager for a real-time, stock quote delivery system, so I do have experience with architectural issues similar […]

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…Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases Saturday so the three-run homer would count — an act that contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs…

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Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks.
In recognition of the 45nm technology (but also for the innovation that will […]

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I have been thinking about Dr. BJ Fogg’s recent video entitled “Elements of Simplicity.” I have been thinking about capital and tunneling and how they make Web-based products and services simpler.
I would suggest expanding the resource Money to Capital. This would allow other forms of capital to be considered when developing simple products and services. […]

From http://www.sigchi.org/dis2008/
DIS 2008 will be hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from Monday 25 February – Wednesday 27 February 2008. It will be the first DIS conference to be held outside the USA or Europe, and as such aims to challenge participants to reflect on designing interactive systems for users outside these established markets. This […]