Archive for the ‘Thought Provoking’ Category
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
The Guardian features a fascinating article on where developers should focus their freetime development over the next year and half or so. It goes on about the options between building for iOS, Android and Windows 8.
And then Windows 8. If you learn how to build apps for Windows 8 you’ll emerge with skills that are bang up-to-date and are readily transferable into your day job. But again, you might make some small amount of money shifting applications. But things get more interesting after next Christmas…
Tags: Android, Apple, development, iOS, software, Windows
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
PopPhoto reports about a new site GadgetTrack that tracks if your stolen camera has uploaded images to flickr or 500px
John Heller was on assignment for Getty Images at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, when his Nikon D3 and lenses were stolen, but it wasn’t until a substantial amount of time later that he searched for the camera’s serial number on GadgetTrak’s service, which has indexed all the serials embedded on images from 500px and Flickr from 2006 onwards. With a positive hit on a couple of photos on Flickr, the police were able to track the camera down to a photographer, who bought it not knowing its origins — and even had a receipt for the transaction.
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
I just joined Google Plus. The main thing I have been getting my head around is how it works. Since I didn’t really use Google Wave or Buzz that much, I was intrigued to find out if lessons had been learned. It seems that they have and are taking the best bits from Facebook and Twitter. I found this article that includes the following paragraph that illustrates its purpose very well:
That is the big difference between Google Plus and most other networks. Twitter is an all or nothing model. You can share with everyone or you can only share with all the people that follow you. But you can’t share with only a sub set of the people that follow you (such as a specific Twitter List.) Facebook is a little more flexible than that. But you must be friends with people or you must reduce your privacy. You can limit who sees individual things you share, but it is difficult to do and not intuitive to get set up.
It seems that Google learned something from its former employee Paul Adams. His presentation of the real life social network illustrates the problem of using facebook and shows how personal networks are more complicated than the facebook philosophy of everything about you should be public. Look at the whole presentation to see understand his point.
Tags: facebook, Google, social networking
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Wow, this does look cool. Skin scan is an app on the iPhone or iPod touch that analyses a spot on your skin to examine if the spot looks like melanoma. Techcrunch has more of the details.
The app takes a picture of a mole on the skin, then uses a proprietary algorithm to look at the fractal-like shapes which exist in human skin (have a look up close, you can see little triangles in normal skin, honest). It then calculates if the shape of the mole means it is is developing normally, or abnormally thus in a into a potential cancerous melanoma.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
99% has some good tips on achieving daily goals when they asked some of their contributors for their thoughts.
If we want to take back control of our workday schedules and priorities, the only way to do it is by relentlessly questioning how we’re spending our time. But what questions should we ask?
I reached out to a handful of regular 99% contributors and 99% Conference speakers to get their insights on daily energy and task management. Here’s what they said:
Tags: goals, lifehack, productivity
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
The Wall Streeet Journal has a very interesting article by Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert about how education could be modified to fit the abilities of different types of students.
I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers and engineers who will propel civilization forward. But why do we make B students sit through these same classes? That’s like trying to train your cat to do your taxes—a waste of time and money. Wouldn’t it make more sense to teach B students something useful, like entrepreneurship?
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Business Insider has a nice article on how information on facebook can possible hurt your job hunt. What was more interesting was the highlighting of how much more important linkedin (and others like xing) are for looking for new opportunities. Remember facebook is social, linkedin professional.
LinkedIn Gets Top Marks
This is how recruiters are using social media, according to the survey.
- LinkedIn is by far the most popular social media tool, with 74% of recruiters saying they use it to find candidates.
- About half of recruiters use LinkedIn to check up on candidates’ professional backgrounds
- Some 21% of recruiters use LinkedIn to research candidates’ networks.
- Candidates like LinkedIn too. As one says, “The lack of photos of people puking or wearing dumb costumes at some Really Great Party helps keep the professionalism up.”
- Facebook is used by about 11% of recruiters to get a handle on candidates’ reputation
- Twitter is a distant third, with only 3% of recruiters saying they use it
Keep the Racy Photos and Posts Private
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-could-be-hurting-your-job-hunt-2011-2#ixzz1DNMkdkci
Tags: facebook, job hunting, linkedin, networking, professional, social, xing
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