Category Archives: smart software

Smart software that folds around human needs rather than the other way ’round.

Evolvability

For extremely profitable price/quality ratios, aim to maximize evolvability for all stakeholders by: minimizing the efforts to develop, release and maintain your product; maximizing scalability; maximizing innovation to happen elsewhere—make it open source and use crowd sourcing; maximizing adopting & … Continue reading

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ScriptCloud for your tag cloud

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ZFS on a laptop

Eric Kustarz‘s excellent point in favour of using ZFS for your laptop to create a extremely reliable store for all your personal data. Sun Microsystems is really making a change here. Wish for ZFS to become abuntantly ubiquitous. Next: swap … Continue reading

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Innovation and Agility

Jim Highsmith on Innovation and Agility: I have always maintained that one characteristic of a good agile leader is the ability to balance: up-front planning with on-going planning, early architecture with evolutionary architecture, and innovation with efficiency. It is a … Continue reading

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Check this out: cool Mac software from Amsterdam

Via Apple Developer Connection: The team of young developers at Amsterdam-based Madebysofa were frustrated as customers of a difficult point-of-sale (POS) application and a shortage of usable and affordable alternatives. So they decided to turn a problem into an opportunity, … Continue reading

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DocBook – FrameMaker – MediaWiki – DocBook

To my former creative colleague, while at Sun Microsystems, Wilfred Springer, now at TomTom. Hi Wilfred, Seeing on your blog Distributed Reflections of the Third Kind that you’re still a big fan of DocBook, allow me to pose a question. … Continue reading

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Kwantumcomputer wereldveranderend

Volgens Ronald de Wolf van het CWI in een artikel in de Computable nummer 19 van 11 mei 2007, pagina 30 en 31. En zelfs lekkende qubits geven toch antwoord… Benieuwd hoe Ronald aankijkt tegen de kombinatie van spiritualiteit en … Continue reading

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Semantic Web FAQ

Nice summary W3C Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions.

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Aarde blog live on Earth Day

Creating a brand new country is a startling endeavour. And today is Earth Day. An excellent day to go public with my passion. I’m giving it my whole heart, soul, and mind. Previously code-named LandONE, I’ve renamed it to Aarde. … Continue reading

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Second Life To Open Source Server Code

Slashdot writes: Second Life To Open Source Server Code. This is an excellent step! And resonating with my LandONE”’ perspective: LandONE also results in a flurry of new and serious multi-user games, to be played on-line, on game consoles, mobile … Continue reading

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Apple to design for diabetics

Amy Tenderich writes about iPod design for diabetes care: Why, oh why, do consumers everywhere get the most “insanely great” little MP3 player, while we whose lives depend on medical devices get the clunky stuff of yesteryear? Excellent idea Amy! … Continue reading

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Information Ecology

In the same issue of the Automatiseringgids there is an interesting article on Information Ecology—the evolotionary aspects of self-organizing information. Wikipedia alo links it to the noosphere.

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Luis von Ahn—Smart Games—Smart Software

Article in Automatiseringgids on Luis von Ahn‘s ESP Game—a.k.a. the Google Image Labeler—to smart tag images by human swarms. Ahn also created the spam-avoiding Captcha. Thank you very much Luis!

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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! Now Support GeoRSS

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! Now Support GeoRSS: “Lord Satri writes ‘This week, Microsoft announced their new Live Maps, in addition to supporting Firefox on Windows for 3D, now supports the GeoRSS standard. They join Google which recently announced the support … Continue reading

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