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Ed Sim writes: "One of the ways we like to invest is by talking with the buyers in the market, the CIOs and CSOs, and understanding what their pain points are, what solutions they are evaluating, and how open they are to working with early stage companies." I'd like to see an enterprise knowledge network where CIO's spelled out their problems to invited software providers. A forum where high level problems are thrown out there as individual problems rather than lengthy RFPs. The obvious problems of confidentiality are mitigated if there is no immediate agenda and the posts are initially anonymous. I.e. both sides are invite only and problems are posted anonymously. The identity of the poster is revealed to people offering suggestions/solutions if the poster wants them to follow up. Too much of the enterprise arena is still hamstrung by a lack of transparency and reliance on anachronistic ways...

Adam Michela is cooking up a new project which will take some of the UI developments from Ajax, the goodness of Rails, 43things style serendipitous networking and weblog style publishing to create a new way to look at travel. Knowing Adam, it will surely rock.link »tags: [tools] permamark in: Wists

My favorite thing about the new Technorati is that it now differentiates between links to a blog from an actual post and persistent links from a Blogroll or sidebar. Would be interesting to see the top 100 blogs ranked separately by number of posts and number of sidebar links.link »tags: [tools] [news] permamark in: Wists

The Register reports that it will ship in the UK this fall. I'm not particularly a gadget freak, or an early adopter, but damn I want a WiFi cellphone combo, since although the US is very good for most services, its cellphone services suck. Will the Universal work in the US?link »tags: [gadgets] [wishlist] permamark in: Wists

In response to China and Iran's censorship of bloggers, have done a quick logo for Bloggers Without Borders to post on weblogs. It has no anti-aliasing, using only black lines and a transparent background, so should place on most sites without dithering problems. The font is Kottke's Silkscreen, which seemed appropriate. The icon shows an arrow bursting out of a box, to symbolize free speech using an image which is often used to indicate opening a link in a new window. link »tags: [blogs] [censorship] permamark in: Wists [Update: as Sean points out, I am a moron. The whole Bloggers without borders thing has been done - and I didn't even Google it before pontificating.]

A new project we're working on will be launching shortly.link »tags: [tools] permamark in: Wists

I've been reading an unhealthy amount about entropy lately, and one of the best explanations of something that was confusing me is in Roger Penrose's new book, which doesn't shy away from the math. One normally associates a high entropy thermodynamic state with randomly distributed matter within a system. The opposite is true for large bodies where gravitational forces mean that the highest entropy state is where matter aggregates e.g. in a black hole. Except that the ultimate aggregation of matter, the big bang, must have had an extremely low entropy state, so I am still confused.link »tags: [entropy] permamark in: Wists

TagCloud launches. Looks pretty cool - creates tagclouds from an RSS reading list. One more component of 2.0link »tags: [tools] [wists] permamark in: Wists

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Blogebrity is obviously a fake, but even though that that is fairly widely known, it still spreads. A magazine that launches it's site as part of a competition to create the best meme, where the only content not 'coming soon' is a list of the people most likely to help drive this particular meme, bloggers, oh cummon. The wonderfully sarcastic strapline, worthy of Andrew Orlowski "isn't it about time that someone talked about bloggers" will make any blogger gullible enough to believe it, regret having been so vain. Regardless of the scam, Blogebrity is really, really interesting: it's a weblog with ZERO content which has grown faster than almost any other. This is not a case of the Emperor's New Clothes, here the Emperor knows he is naked but the people cannot see it. Strip away the graphics and rearrange the content and what do you have: A two column...

Imagine if someone sailed up the Hudson and made off with the Statue of Liberty's crown. The marble frieze, hacked from the Parthenon, Greece's greatest treasure, is 'owned' by the British museum. And now, a moron of a judge, (vice chancellor Andrew Morritt) has ruled that: the British Museum Act - which protects the collections for posterity - cannot be overridden by a "moral obligation" to return works known to have been plundered. " In effect this means that museum pieces are protected by the law, even if the law was broken to acquire them. It means that museums can receive stolen goods, something which is illegal for everyone else. This creates a moral justification for the Greeks to plunder the UK at some point in the future, I guess. But it gets worse. This ruling was based on: Four drawings that "were stolen from the home of Dr Arthur...

If it is clear, Manhattan will flood dramatically with sunlight just as the Sun sets precisely on the centerline of every street. Usually, the tall buildings that line the gridded streets of New York City's tallest borough will hide the setting Sun. This effect makes Manhattan a type of modern Stonehenge. Via Nick Dentonlink »tags: [architecture] [nyc] permamark in: Wists