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Scratch Paper: Notes on Geambasu's CloudViews (HotCloud, June 2009)
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Friday, June 5, 2009. Notes on Geambasu's CloudViews (HotCloud, June 2009). Communal Data Sharing in Public Clouds. Authors: Geambasu, Gribble, Levy ( UW. Increasingly, we're seeing corporate web services deployed on top of "the public cloud" (e.g., Amazon S3) rather than on their own servers in their own data centers (private clouds). Creates some possibly new security issues when have:. Thousands of independent and mutually distrustful Web services [that] share the same runtime. Can augment the run-tim...
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Scratch Paper: Quotes from: Closing the Innovation Gap (Estrin)
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Monday, August 10, 2009. Quotes from: Closing the Innovation Gap (Estrin). Closing the Innovation Gap. Introduction: Innovation Is Not Optional. Chapter 1: The Capacity for Change. Curtis Carlson, CEO of SRI: "When you start a project, you don't know enough about the competition or the customer needs. You haven't developed the best ideas or the best technology. So it's the nature of the game that in the beginning, most of what you're going to do is going to be a failure.". Bell Labs: between 1960 and 1983.
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Scratch Paper: I also really like these companies that create new ad-hoc employment marketplaces
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Thursday, October 8, 2009. I also really like these companies that create new ad-hoc employment marketplaces. For example, JustAnswer. Is a company that lets random people post questions on a variety of topics (from auto repair to programming to relationship advice). The questioner specifies how much the answer is worth to him. Then the question is posed to the community. Whomever answers the question in a way that satisfies the questioner gets paid. Where Google worries about hosting, server administrat...
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Scratch Paper: JavaScript; Interpreter; VM; etc.
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Monday, June 8, 2009. JavaScript; Interpreter; VM; etc. Below are my quick and dirty notes on JavaScript (JS): how to construct basic programs using it, how people use the language, what is interesting about it. I looked at JavaScript to understand execution of gadgets and social-networking apps and, in particular, where that execution takes place (i.e., which part of app execution occurs server-side and which occurs client-side). Incorporating JS into HTML. What you can do in a JS script. On a String str.
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Scratch Paper: Some interesting companies (just the gist), 10/06/2009
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Some interesting companies (just the gist), 10/06/2009. Http:/ www.rapleaf.com/. Figure out what your customers are doing on the Web as far as social networking etc. goes; for individuals: figure out what is being said about you on the Web. Http:/ www.trialpay.com/. Http:/ www.justanswer.com/. Earning the fee in the process. Not so different from aardvark.com and fixya.com except that the answerer gets reimbursed in this case. Also, JA takes steps to make sure that...Overcomes...
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Scratch Paper: Cloud Service providers
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Friday, July 10, 2009. So this is all about determining what kind of app I can run on the Amazon cloud vs. the MSFT cloud vs. the Google cloud. Are these guys all considered "cloud service providers"? Who else should I care about? What do their offerings look like? How do they differ from one another? What kind of app do they let me build (i.e., what do I upload to the cloud)? What type of functionality does their API expose (what can my app do that it couldn't do before)? The biggies of which I am aware:.
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Scratch Paper: Thoughts from: Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Thoughts from: Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin. Below are some quotes from this book. That summarize the major findings/arguments. In all cases, emphasis (italics) are mine. What genetic brain-science research is telling us. The research is revealing many ways in which DNA and the environment. Why care about "deliberate practice"? Deliberate practice "can extend one's ability to perform at high levels. Than most people believe." (pg 79). What is deliberate practice? A finding...
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Scratch Paper: So I recently added Google Analytics code to this blog...
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Monday, September 21, 2009. So I recently added Google Analytics code to this blog. Mostly to play with the functionality and so on. But a funny thing happened on the way. You are given a code snippet to add to your page's HTML; a portion of which is copied here:. Var gaJsHost = ( "https:" = document.location.protocol)? Https:/ ssl." : "http:/ www.");. Document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" gaJsHost "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E") ;. As is —. And Compose —. Docume...
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Scratch Paper: Notes on The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
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Saturday, August 15, 2009. Notes on The Long Tail by Chris Anderson. For some people, a blockbuster movie really is the best movie they can imagine; whereas for other people (who also see that blockbuster movie), the movie is merely good enough. So there is a. Effect of broadcast distribution where audiences are cajoled into seeing a movie, for example, because it's the best. Now the niche products are available via. This 98-percent rule held for Amazon, Apple,. His claims: the tail is longer than we rea...
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Scratch Paper: What's a gadget?
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Is an application that is specified via an XML file, which can contain HTML and hence JavaScript and even Flash code. There are two types of gadgets. Is there such a thing as a gadget mashup? Ie, a gadget which gathers information from more than one webpage? Eg, could I write a gadget which grabbed data from boxofficemojo (box office receipts), rotten tomatoes (movie reviews), and fandango (or some other movie-time site)? And a gadget can read/write from the network, correct?
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