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 […]

Gotta love math humor. See more at XKCD.com

From today’s Intel press release.
The Intel Atom processor is based on an entirely new microarchitecture designed specifically for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility consumers are accustomed to when using a standard PC and the Internet.
The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 […]

Larry Lessig’s 20 minutes on Barack Obama and our chance for Peace.
Here is an audio version so you can download it to your MP3 player.

Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip

This is funny.

Original here.

If you are not using Webkinz as your social network, you are old. Old enough to drive that is.
According to Techcrunch, Google has announced their fastest growing search terms. Number two is Webkinz.
Ganz  sells cute little beanie baby-like stuff animals that come with an id code that unlocks an online  virtual world for your Webkinz […]

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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 […]

Robert recently made a prediction of Google’s demise.
Below are fifteen queries (actual text of queries was different) I have made to Google in the last couple of days.
You can see that the queries fall into several types: general facts, current news and event information, recommendation for products or services, research and opinions on general topics.
All […]

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