Category: technology | 技術 | 기술 | テクノロジー
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Jeremy Zawodny + other news
Jeremy Zawodny Leaving Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny) – this is big, as Jeremy bleeds purple. Jeremy Zawodny is to Yahoo! what Matt Cutts would be to Google. Jeremy was active in the MySQL community. The Jeremy Zawodny blog one has helped build relationships for Yahoo! in the developer community and attract potential employees to the…
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Microsoft alternatives + more news
Microsoft alternatives EU stumbles on buying Microsoft alternatives – The European Commission, a thorn in Microsoft’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) side for its antitrust campaigns against the software giant, is falling short in its own internal attempt to promote Microsoft alternatives – this isn’t surprising. The open source community have failed with desktop…
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Chinese bloggers + more news
Chinese bloggers China Journal : Chinese Bloggers Really Are Edgy – interesting that Chinese bloggers don’t necessarily reflect the rabid knee jerk nationalism that we have come to associate with web users in PRC Economics All of Inflation’s Little Parts – The New York Times – lovely infographic that the folks at PSFK pointed out…
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Chinese nationalism + more
Chinese nationalism Talking heads spar over Carrefour boycott – internal debate on China’s self confidence and identity and how it should be expressed. I think that Wang Xiaodong was one of the authors of China Can Say Now – a groundbreaking collection of essays on Chinese nationalism published in 1996 EastSouthWestNorth: Why Is CNN Patriotic?…
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Social network decline + more
Social network decline Social network decline is likely hard to define at first, we would likely seem small signals here and there. It may be easier to see in smaller, niche platforms. It is hard to know when a backing track of Jim Morrison droning ‘this is the end my friend. This is the end’…
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Open Sources
In Open Sources: voices from the revolution – O’Reilly Publishing recorded the history to date and ethos of the open source community by having the main protagonists write essays on their parts in it. The essays are insightful about the development of the open source phenomena, the technology and the personalities of the protagonists. In…
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Mountain Lion + more news
Mountain Lion Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion – interesting insight to Apple’s PR approach on OS X Mountain Lion Apple OS X Mountain Lion unveiled: Consumer dream, developer nightmare | ExtremeTech – Mountain Lion is leaning much more heavily on the app store and has an eye towards iOS converts Beauty Not Made Up: Tourists Boost…
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The Future of Ideas
I was curious to read Lawrence Lessig‘s The Future of Ideas because of Google’s recent intervention in the ongoing wireless spectrum auction being held in America. Google sought to get slivers of American wireless spectrum in the 90MHz space with a view to providing an alternative form of broadband access. This would be a challenge…
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Semantic web + more news
Semantic web Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now – The semantic web is designed to be machine readable. The underlying technologies supporting the semantic web are used to formally represent metadata. For example, ontology can describe concepts, relationships between entities, and categories of things. The most interesting thing about Berners-Lee’s…