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The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul
Already well-respected among a fringe group of bleeding-edge geeks, we hope that Warden's work on social graph analysis will end up impacting a far larger number of people than may ever know his name.
Youth social networking researcher dana boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. "I I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men," she says . "I
ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, February 8, 2010
Remains of the Day: Netflix Streaming's 1080p Upgrade Edition [For What It's Worth]
Pretty snazzy if you're on the bleeding edge. [gHacks] A 1080p streaming upgrade is on its way for Netflix users later this year, Adobe is promising faster Flash for Macs, and boredom can kill you.
ANI 'Boredom can kill you'
According to a study at University College London, extremely bored people are 37% more likely to have died a year after their boredom was measured for the
Lifehacker
- Monday, February 8, 2010
Poster-Size Heroin Stamps Bring Awareness to Public Health Issues
GOOD Magazine alum Liza Vadnai has teamed with the Stamp Collective to gather photos of heroin stamps (branded stamp-sized bags of heroin) , blow them up to poster size, and eventually show them in an exhibit entitled "Edge Markets: Heroin Use, Stamp Aesthetics, and HIV".
Heroin, like any product, relies on branding to tell its story. According to the Collective: Blown up larger than life, these beautiful, fascinating and unsettling images of the stamps hint at a complex chain from supplier to dealer, the dynamics of drug markets and the story of the marketing of addiction on the streets
Fast Company
- Monday, February 8, 2010
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What Will Change Everything?
As each year winds to a close, John Brockman, a literary agent representing some of the finest minds in science and technology and the founder of Edge (a 501c3), poses a provocative question to an international community of physicists, psychologists, futurists, thought leaders and dreamers. This year’s annual Edge question, What will change everything? , generated responses from Freeman Dyson, Danny Hillis, Martin Seligman, Craig Venter, and Juan Enriquez, to name a few. Regular Radar contributor Linda Stone sent this in to be posted today.
What What game-changing
OReilly Radar
- Thursday, January 1, 2009
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Innovation on the Edge
I’ve played on the edge throughout most of my professional career, whether it was doing deals in the Sultanate of Oman back in the 1970s, building a start-up around a new technology called the microprocessor in 1980, building a new Internet-focused practice for McKinsey in 1993 or spending more time in places like Bangalore, Shenzhen and Shanghai in the early part of this decade (my first visit to Shenzhen was actually in 1982 when I led a major manufacturing offshoring initiative there).
Instinctively, I have been drawn to various edges because of the opportunity and challenge they
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YC-Funded Directed Edge Sees A Post-Search Web Where Recommendations Rule
That quote, by Greg Linden, the man behind Amazon’s recommendation system, is the dogma of Directed Edge , a new Y Combinator -backed startup in the recommendation space. And while there are no shortage of companies out there that focus on some of these different fields specifically, Directed Edge has developed a system that can be plugged into all kinds of different sites.
Most recommendations “ Whoever manages to change the nature of content display on the Web from a search problem to a recommender problem will reap tremendous rewards. ” 8221;
TechCrunch
- Thursday, August 6, 2009
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Bring Power to the Edge
The four fundamental principles of the agile, "edge-based" organization are situational awareness, skills, values, and decision rights.
This thinking has been articulately documented in many places including the excellent book Power to the Edge by David Alberts & Richard Hayes.
What we need is a modular, self-synchronizing system to deal with crises at the edges — as they happen. For instance, special forces teams are able to deal effectively with the most complex and dynamic situations because they have been designed to be able to be extremely agile.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
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Acquiring a natural edge
The Boston Globe has an interesting article on how we interact with urban environments and discusses research suggesting that contact with nature has significant cognitive benefits.
It's a fascinating article that touches on studies that have found a range of benefits for having contact with a natural environment:
Studies have demonstrated, for instance, that hospital patients recover more quickly
Mind Hacks
- Monday, January 5, 2009
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Cutting-Edge Robots Show Off in Japan
ICRA 2009 will showcase everything from tree-climbing machines to robots that politely ask for directions.
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The U.S. Is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
David B. Today, many people are looking to high technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives the U.S. economy and gets it back on track.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
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Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day
Tags: Company & Product Profiles bump technologies dailybooth directed edge fanchatter flightcaster highlightcam jobpic jobspice listia mixpanel olark renthop rethinkdb Y-Combinato I’m here at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, where the latest batch of the incubator program’s startups are showing off the fruits of their labor to a room of press and VCs from around Silicon Valley. The turnout today is huge — VCs representing billions of dollars in managed funds are here, with investors from US Venture Partners, XG Ventures, Founder’s Fund, Greylock Ventures, First Round
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Innovation from the Edges: PayPal Taps the Developer Community to Build Next-Gen Payment Apps
Two enduring tenets of Web 2.0 are "A platform beats an application every time" and "All the smart people don't work for you." Companies that take those bits of wisdom to heart find ways to engage developer communities to extend their products--and the result can be creative, surprising new applications that would never have been developed from within. Online payment giant PayPal recently announced the PayPal X APIs, a new group of
OReilly Radar
- Monday, December 14, 2009
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Office on the Forest's Edge [Featured Workspace]
This stand up desk is a piece of cedar with its live edge intact. Include some details about your setup and why it works for you, and you just might see it featured on the front page of Lifehacker. Office on the Forest's Edge [Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool]
...Tags: The only thing today's featured office shares with your average office is the fact that it has a roof and a floor. Beyond that it's quite a different space than most of us spend our days in.
Lifehacker
- Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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