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Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book

Interesting… especially in the context of Aloha, and also potentially in the context of Baobab. Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book: “WikiTiki writes ‘Safari Books Online has a new interview with Barry Libert, one of the authors of … Continue reading

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Anton Heyboer on quantum, consciousness and awareness

Gaston Vilé was searching for the essential difference between consciousness and awareness. While on the phone, I told him that Amit Goswami’s The Self-Aware Universe has an extensive point on this very difference. I promised Gaston to make the key … Continue reading

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Levitated | the Exploration of Computing

Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. Check out Levitated.net—a friendly company.

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Look what they do with P2P worms

Martijn van Steenbergen tipped me on The Storm Worm: Some key points: Storm is designed like an ant colony Rather than having all hosts communicate to a central server or set of servers, Storm uses a peer-to-peer network for C2. … Continue reading

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Helping others makes us happy

How coincidental. Yesterday Thomas Herald from Dream Manifesto writes about Longest running study shows helping others makes us happy. And today I receive Mike Dooley‘s Note From The Universe, stating the same: First, as a child, it seems like the … Continue reading

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Flirting with the Crowds

Flirting with the Crowds: Sami Viitamäki was early to come up with a very comprehensible model about Crowdsourcing: the FLIRT model. Read more on Carl’s post on Flirting with the Crowds.

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Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

While working on a new stylesheet (CSS) for my web presence, and being a zealot when it comes to a baseline grid snapping all text, I found this wonderful article on Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid … Continue reading

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Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill?

Cherry-pick from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for October 1 on Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill?. Summary: Introductory text on Web pages is usually too long, so users skip it. But short intros can increase usability by explaining the remaining content’s … Continue reading

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Telekommunisten – the worker-owned telephone company

Worker Owned and Operated telekommunisten is controlled by it’s workers and committed to staying that way, we believe we can serve our customers best and at the lowest cost by remaining focused on meeting the needs of our employees and … Continue reading

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SixApart: Opening the Social Graph

SixApart: Opening the Social Graph: We think that the best way for you to manage your network is to stop thinking about all of the little pieces and to start focusing on the big picture: you and the people who … Continue reading

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SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival

SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival: “PacoCheezdom writes ‘Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called ‘Swarm OS’. The robots are able to work together … Continue reading

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Bill Clinton: Giving

Bill Clinton published a book titled Giving, focusing on philantropy, charity and volunteering. I feel very much strengthened by this, as it resonates tremenduously with the core brand click Geef™ from the Aloha project. Thank you Bill.

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Groovy Actors

Refreshed my link with Gerald “tensegrity” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled Creatures on the beach from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s Fluidiom and Darwin at Home projects. Gerald’s email … Continue reading

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Erlang distributed concurrent programming

A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called Erlang and one of the interesting aspects are that it eases concurrent programming and distributed processes. Erlang is a programming language designed at the … Continue reading

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