I’m in our New England office today (the NERD – or New England Research and Development Center). I’ve got a great view of the Charles River and the Citgo sign and keeping a watchful eye out for the pending blizzard…Charles is freezing over in parts and a there is a low ceiling, but so far no snow. I [...]
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A great demo showing an OpenXML file on Apple’s iPhone. If you are not familiar, Open XML is the new default file format for Microsoft Office and also an international standard (see the ECMA website here). There are translators available for the open document format and additional support through a number of projects on Sourceforge.
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Prior to the holidays, Guy gave a presentation on innovation at the one year anniversary event for Microsoft and Novell. Shortly after, he was gracious enough to answer a few questions for me about innovation, technology, and his personal life. If you’re not familiar with Guy, I would start here http://www.guykawasaki.com.
Guy, thanks again for your [...]
I found a great pair of articles over at Ars Technica today that looked at fitness benefits of video games. It never crossed my mind before – I enjoy going to a gym – but there is a healthy industry around fitness programs for gaming consoles – moving beyond video tapes to a more interactive and engaging scenario? [...]
If you’re like me, you already have some sort of MP3 and manage a significant number of songs, videos, pictures, etc through a utility on a PC. In my case, its about 10 videos, 50 or so podcasts, and about 2300 songs. I must admit, coming up with interesting playlists is getting more and more difficult because [...]
FastCompany.com posted fascinating article yesterday on the emerging science of neuromarketing. Â The gist? Brain scanning gives us much greater insight into the decision making process around why we choose the products we choose. Bottom line? A subconscious, Â self-serving motivation based on a weighing of risk-reward and self-importance (there are also drivers for why we think [...]
I recently signed up at stumbleupon.com and one of my first ’stumbles’ was physorg.com – a collection of science articles ranging from nanotechnology to health and medicine. In the mix was a great story on human computer interaction (HCI), based on a recent announcement by Massey University in New Zealand. The university has developed a computer-based instructor, [...]
This reminds me a bit of the old netzero play. Free internet as long as you were willing to take on a few pop-up ads from sponsors. Hopefully they’ve worked out the kinks. Blyk in their own words “is the new mobile network for 16 – 24s that’s funded by advertising. Blyk links young people with [...]
I came across a post today on Sam Larbi’s blog entitled Save your job: understand the basics of business. Its a short post that gets to the heart of something that I have been thinking about for quite some time: how should engineers think about their role relative to the strategic direction of their organization? [...]
