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As described in the lecture, standards are important vehicles for companies to win in a competitive market and to "take it all". Standards are network goods: The perceived utility of a user increases with the number of users to also use the same standard on their devices, software etc. Take Windows, a DVD or the Internet Protocol. This is because standard compliance allows interoperability, higher performance and increased reliability as well it enables new features and services.
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Iomega Zip Drive (1998)Mon, 11/01/2010 - 13:01 — achunghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlEt0kkv6eM 100MB was a big deal in 1998. BeardarchyMon, 11/01/2010 - 10:02 — brendanmcurran
For a better look, visit: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009/05/11/hierarchy-of-beards/beardarchy...
Google - The ultimate information organizer or the ultimate big brother?Fri, 10/29/2010 - 17:39 — dsakharovaI came across the following video: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/64111786/ This is 40-minute video exploring the history of Google and the company's current endeavors. The video follows the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, from their first meeting at Stanford to the new media-company that collides with old media businesses of newspaper, books, movies and television. Aphex Twin has 6 albums completedFri, 10/29/2010 - 14:20 — jlzychAccording to a recent interview, Aphex Twin revealed he has 6 albums completed. To quote the man himself:
Anticipating Tuesday’s vote on Prop 19, web speculators hoard marijuana-related web domain namesThu, 10/28/2010 - 21:02 — emilybarabasThis is an interesting example of how people value and commoditize identifiers on the Internet in response to changes in the political and cultural landscape: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/us/28pot.html?ref=technology. Carbon Paper Found In IndiaThu, 10/28/2010 - 11:33 — baileyIn Search Of India's Red-Tape Factory (It's worth listening to the audio of this story for the ambient sound alone. ) Future Me Says...Wed, 10/27/2010 - 12:56 — baileyToday when Bob was talking about PIM and the game of catch metaphor, I was reminded of FutureMe.org. You can write yourself an e-mail on the site, and it will be delivered to 'future you' at some future date. You can choose a year up until 2060. I wonder if it is less likely that I'll be alive in 2060 or that FurtureMe.org will still exist. Maybe we won't even have e-mail anymore. Transition from analog to digital in a multimedia archiveMon, 10/25/2010 - 16:06 — angelrhLondon’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) is renovating its technology infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of digital storage. Data & Data About Data - When pasting into a gchat windowFri, 10/22/2010 - 11:14 — evanThis morning I was doing research for a friend. Found a useful piece of info embedded in the webpage. I copied from the webpage and then pasted into the chat window in gmail. What got pasted is shown below. Notice the "Read more," somewhere along the chain the browser and gmail working in nice harmony decided I wanted to share data about my data. Which frankly though I did not ask for explicitly with my keyboard commands, in the end I am glad they enhanced by data in such a way. Did this only work because I was running gmail within chrome? Crafty Hackers Needed for Collaboration OpportunityWed, 10/20/2010 - 20:10 — evanany hackers want to write a program that takes the corpus of student notes and crafts narrative responses to the question prompts. the program can be run on the day of the test locally without any need to access internet (per regulations) perhaps employing some of the data mining techniques in from "knowledge to babel" comments encouraged. DashboardsWed, 10/20/2010 - 08:59 — limonThose of you who're interested in dashboards and how visualize complex information, might want to check out a source called Perceptual Edge. One of the partners of the company, Stephen Few, has done a lot of work studying the best ways to communicate complex business information in limited space. He was a guest lecturer in the InfoViz class last semester and provided a lot of good examples of well-designed dashboards. I believe he is also a lecturer at Haas, so he cares both about the business value of those dashboards and about their usability. Implications of Controlled Vocabularies - Opportunities and LimitsTue, 10/19/2010 - 10:15 — gutheimI'd like to take natural languages as an example for an interesting question I'm thinking about and use this to analyze implications for Controlled Vocabularies. This post partially refers to a previous blog post (courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i202/f10/blog/cultural-categorization) where the topic of cultural categorization using Russian imagery expressions as an example has been analyzed. |