The New York Times discovers the local (in San Francisco?!?) potentials of Twitter for small businesses. Yes, even street cart vendors.
I'm still waiting for AT&T to function well enough in my little backwater to make iPhones feasible... not to mention for 1/4 of the population to be internet-savvy (or have heard there is a "tech revolution").
If anybody wants to move to a high desert town with huge hours of sunshine per year (and in need of a revolution/awakening)... email me.
Heh, heh, I feel your pain buddy. I'm in the metro area now but i've traveled around CO enough to have pity on anyone doing tech work (that expects any local receptivity).
(But, sorry, that doesn't mean I'm interested in moving to your wasteland.)
Maybe less is sometimes more. Facebook serving 1B/month while Youtube serves 1.2B/day.
But, last I heard, Google is yet to make money off Youtube. Facebook may be finding that video can be an value-adding supplement to its business, not just a bandwidth-sucking enticement to the lowest-common-denominator of the masses. [ "not that there's anything wrong with the latter" - it just doesn't seem to make for a profit center, even for Google.]
You don't have to take the word of Techcrunch. I've been reading it regularly for a while now and like its stories and links enough that it has reduced my reliance of several feeds:
""Some percentage of the jobs actually performing infrastructure services, monitoring, and datacenter operations in-house will shift to cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and the telcos..."
But for start-up entrepreneurs, this can be the good news: that the creative work of assessing a consumer/business niche of need can move more quickly to the creative work of filling that niche need in better ways.
The cloud can really be the friend of our enterprising spirits.
Exactly. I see cloud computing as more enabling than disabling since people don't have to focus on the mundane as much as they can focus on the things that are unique to their idea. This is progress! Not something to be feared...
Okay, so I'm a student new to REST. Yet it seems obvious. And simple.
I would have found it helpful to see description of what behavior would constitute NONrestful behavior. POSTs? POSTs that are used for navigation instead of submitting information?
Anti-REST behavior is generally using POST exclusively. and using a contrived XML format instead of using ANY headers at all. All requests go to the same motherfucking URL, and all responses are "200 OK" with the same Content-Type. The only hypertext used is for XML schema definitions, all references are as magic strings.
For prominent examples see: SOAP, XML-RPC, and WS-*
Or even changed to "nibble away at browser share", considering the findings (even among zdnet.com.au visitors), given:
"For the month until 21 July, 5.2 per cent of ZDNet.com.au readers used Chrome, compared with 3.5 per cent for the same monthly period six months ago. 5.9 per cent used Safari, compared with 4.4 per cent six months ago. ZDNet.com.au generally receives several million page impressions each month."
"Internet Explorer lost 1.3 per cent to remain in the lead with 50.7 per cent, while Mozilla Firefox also sank 1.8 per cent to reach 37 per cent."
With a new admin (well, relatively now, now) that has (if memory serves) announced that it is "open to open source" this is prime time for such a concerted OS strategy.
If they can pull off a revolution in openness they just might make it attractive to work for federal agencies.
Although I find this fellow's blog has strings of provocative ideas, I have to throw a bit of coolish water on the significance of "cognitive dissonance." It's an old concept from social psychology - and it's just one way of looking at some behavioral phenomena.
For alternatives, study up on what social psychologists call "attribution theory."
As I remember, the main difference between "attribution theory" and "dissonance theory" is that dissonance theory postulates a motivation or drive to reduce dissonance between different types of information...
Whereas AT just postulates different information - something to think about for IT-type folks...
It's all new to me, a friend who graduated with a psychology degree quite a few years back pointed me to cognitive dissonance after I discussed my other post (Can Awareness of our Biases Clear our vision). After we talked, I decided it was definitely worth sharing.
After all is said and done, it's simply a model for behavior no more and no less. Thanks for pointing out attribution theory I'll give it a cursory read. It's liberating not being an professional in the field of behaviorial psychology, I haven't over indulged in preferred theories or been biases towards "current thinking".
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725691