Monthly Archives: August 2009

The Future is Now – Tuesday August 11th 2009

Six fingered aliens, Microsoft’s Robot OS ambitions, micro bubbles and other trends
Good Trends:

As a high schooler when I was taking my first programming class – I wondered if it would be possible to have a microprocessor where more than one bit is the smallest unit of information. (I also wondered if there were aliens out [...]

The Future is Now – Friday August 7th 2009

Here are some amazing web sites/tools:

Xmarks: Firefox, Safari & IE bookmark plugin which makes it easy to find similar sites and makes it easy to synch bookmarks across different browsers and computers
Cuil: A new search engine which apparently indexes 3x more web pages than Google and with orders of magnitude fewer computers.  Check out [...]

The Future is Now – Thursday August 6th 2009

Here are some things I have read, heard or observed that indicate future trends:

Seeking Growth, Cisco Reroutes Decisions: Surprising place and scale to see “The Wisdom of Crowds” & “Agile Project Management” principles applied
Former employee hits Apple with unpaid overtime suit
Chip sales bounce but PC sales sink
Angel Funding Competitions:  Y Combinator ; TechStars ; LaunchBox [...]

Book Review – The No Asshole Rule

In an environment where being an asshole or being perceived as an alpha male (when more likely the person is behaving like an alpha-moron) is de rigueur to get ahead you must think through whether this is the path you should take:

to follow in their footsteps
to cope
to leave

If you are a manager or a project [...]

The Future Is Now – Wednesday August 5th 2009

Here are some articles I read around the web today that indicate future trends:

Latest Google Chrome Beta Is “30 Percent Faster,” Supports HTML5, And Is Prettier Too
Google Acquires Video Compression Technology Company On2 For $106 Million
TMS wins flash bragging crown with 100TB monster
Planned 3D web graphics standard taps JavaScript
Goldman Pay, Trading Probed

Enjoy