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Chroma-Hash Demo - http://foxxtrot.github.com/Chroma-...
cool password confirmation
- Nick Boucart
How Nokia Learned to Love Openness - Community - ComputerworldUK - http://www.computerworlduk.com/communi...
Example of explicitly managing art of openness
- Nick Boucart
10/GUI on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/6712657
New way of interacting with your desktop computer. Inspiring.
- Nick Boucart
Google Sidewiki - http://www.google.com/sidewik...
Comment on any website, share your comments with others.
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Google wave Extension List - Google Docs - http://docs.google.com/Doc...
Google doc with tons of wave extentions.
- Nick Boucart
quick video showing 3.5% of the functionality of wave.
- Nick Boucart
en wie mag er mij uitnodigen?
- Tom Tourwe
“We are in a major paradigm shift” | InnovationManagement.se - http://www.innovationmanagement.se/index...
Internview with Von Hippel
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Private Equity, Most Successful Venture Capital Investment - River Cities Capital Funds - http://www.rccf.com/entrepr...
Links to report on SAAS
- Nick Boucart
The Ultimate Productivity Blog - http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
Björn Brembs, Mickey Schafer, Vladimir Blagojevic and 4 other people liked this
Surprisingly good.
- Michael Nielsen
Works for me ;)
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My new home page!
- Vladimir Blagojevic
YouTube - Front 242 - Headhunter - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Tom Tourwe liked this
Golden oldie, man, still shivers after all these years
- Nick Boucart
egghunter volgens anton korbijn ... hahahaha
- Tom Tourwe
lol. Deze morgen no shuffle op stubru, heb dan maar de hele front 242 geschiedenis via youtube aan ons kato verteld. Ze was behoorlijk onder de indruk. En nog meer als ik daarna kaatje opzetten ;)
- Nick Boucart
bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online - http://www.bubbl.us/
Online mind mapping
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FeverBee: Essential Reading For Building Online Communities - http://www.feverbee.com/2009...
10 pointers to books on building online communities.
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Building Web Reputation Systems: The Blog - http://buildingreputation.com/
Blog that accompanies upcoming book about web reputation systems.
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Uploaded at GPSies: Zonienwoud 25km http://www.gpsies.com/map...
Tom Tourwe liked this
Met de fiets er naar toe of is dat te ver?
- Tom Tourwe
Met de auto tot aan station Groenendaal. Maar dat zou best te doen zijn om tot daar te fietsen, via Hallerbos - Dworp - 7 Bronnen
- Nick Boucart
Change Is Hardest in the Middle - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - HarvardBusiness.org - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/kanter...
the miserable middles of change.
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Spigit Blog - http://blog.spigit.com/permali...
#1: Innovation benefits from a range of perspectives, #2: Four of the most damaging words an employee can say: "Aww, forget about it", #5: Focus employees' innovation priorities, #7: Establishing a common platform for innovation is a revolutionary step forward
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Inspiration on innovation by Stefan Lindegaard | Stefan Lindegaard: Leadership+Innovation - http://stefanlindegaard.com/2009...
Some nice innovation related lists.
- Nick Boucart
Hands-on: Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
Novell has launched a new service called SUSE Studio that makes it easy to build software appliances. Ars gives it a spin and find it's an excellent tool for building virtual appliances.
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trustedsignal -- blog: Feldman's product or idea maturity model - http://trustedsignal.blogspot.com/2008...
Feldman's model has five levels so they can be tracked on one hand. Here it is: 1. You have a good idea. 2. You can make it work. 3. You convince a gullible friend to try it. 4. People stop asking why you're doing it. 5. People start asking others why they aren't doing it.
- Nick Boucart
mattt's Chroma-Hash at master - GitHub - http://github.com/mattt...
JQuery plugin to visualize passwords.
- Nick Boucart
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps - http://www.alistapart.com/article...
Clear introduction to "the map stack".
- Nick Boucart
mental_floss Blog » 10 Ways to Learn Stuff While Procrastinating Online - http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs...
Features cool "how to talk like a pirate" video.
- Nick Boucart
15 kick-ass retweet tips for writers | Blog | Econsultancy - http://econsultancy.com/blog...
Vladimir Blagojevic liked this
Good tips on giving headlines
- Vladimir Blagojevic
We have to keep this in mind for our sinnoblog.
- Nick Boucart
so don't call it sinnoblog
- Vladimir Blagojevic
from IM
PyGoWave Blog - http://pygowave.p2k-network.org/blog...
google wave implementation in python
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Eternal moonwalk - A tribute to Michael Jackson. - http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/
Jan Aerts, Pierre Lindenbaum, Sarah Kendrew and Nick Boucart liked this
An eternal user-generated moonwalk from around the world. Lots of people do a surprisingly good one.
- Michael Nielsen
This site is made by Belgium national radio station "studio brussel", a radio station targetting an audience of people ranging 15-35 with slightly more alternative music. Their main site is http://www.stubru.be
- Nick Boucart
StuBru is such a great radio station - I've never found anything like it in other countries...
- Sarah Kendrew
@Sarah: that's been my feeling as well: not in the Netherlands, France, Scotland or England at least. Have had to stream it over the web since we moved abroad.
- Jan Aerts
Jumper - Enterprise Bookmarking - http://www.jumpernetworks.com/index...
Jumper is an Enterprise Bookmarking engine that allows you to discover distirbuted data in any format. It is a social search engine that pulls data from multiple locations to display on the same results page with powerful features that add knowledge to search results.
- Nick Boucart
How do people find Google Docs?
Mike Chelen, Ricardo Vidal, Seb Paquet and 14 other people liked this
I've only fooled around with it on test files, but am considering using it for a large project. Anybody have any major gotchas to report? Or does it work well?
- Michael Nielsen
I really like it. I use it almost exclusively for word processing, although I haven't used it for a large project yet. Detailed formatting can be a bit wonky and largish files can be slow to load. The sharing and collaborative features also work very well.
- John Dupuis
Thanks, John. How large can the files get before you start to notice the speed?
- Michael Nielsen
Search the web? Oh right, I see what you mean :) I like it a lot, my colleagues at work hate it. One of their issues is lack of features - especially citation/bibliography - as compared with their word processors. Their other issues are too numerous and depressing to mention :)
- Neil Saunders
Install Gears so you can have offline access too.
- Paulo Nuin
Neil: heh. (And thanks for the comments, they're very helpful!) The spectrum of opinions on Docs online seems to range from utter hatred to thinking Docs is the greatest invention in the history of humanity. Tough work slogging through that.
- Michael Nielsen
Paulo - Thanks for the suggestion. I'll hold off a bit, and try it out online first, to see what I think, and then install Gears if it works well. I must admit I'd be happier having local control over my data.
- Michael Nielsen
I am using for grant writing and people are liking it. Of course it lacks a lot of features but it can be a good start for collaborative work.
- Paulo Nuin
Michael, I've only seen it be slow on large spreadsheets -- maybe several hundred rows. As for lack of feature, yeah, it's pretty minimalistic that way. However, they did just add a bare-bones footnote feature which I haven't had a chance to play with yet.
- John Dupuis
Very nice to get an initial draft of a multi-person paper or grant going - in the end it needs to go out to Word to get formating etc correct. If only they could include bib mgmt via Google
- Rajarshi Guha
On the feature issue: I'm happy enough (for now) with a pretty minimal feature set. My testing shows it's got most of what I need, although the lack of bibliography management will be a bit of a pain. I'll give it a real go.
- Michael Nielsen
Thankyou, everyone, for the feedback. I put this up 28 minutes (!) ago, figuring I'd go to bed, and with luck a few people would comment by morning. Little did I know :-) So thankyou all - I'm going to head off to bed in a few minutes, but if anyone has more comments, I'll read and reply in the morning. Cheers!
- Michael Nielsen
Agree with Rajarshi. It works really well for collaborative drafts. As you approach the final version, you need to go to a local copy to clean it up and format. The problem I have is that my peers (at work) can't get past the unfamiliarity, need to sign up, login, learn something new etc. etc. to see the collaborative benefits.
- Neil Saunders
Like said above, very useful to collaborate with, my wife and I organized our wedding basically using google docs. Only downside is when you need proper formatting for printing. If you are happy with rough formatting, that's fine, but precision printing (like address labels) is very hard, much better to export to word or excel.
- Nick Boucart
agree with what everyone else has said. Just to add it seems to scale well to large numbers of authors in a way that wikis do not - at least with simultaneous editing. In my experience tech phobic people prefer it to wikis but formatting has to be done elsewhere. Bibliography is a major weakness
- Cameron Neylon
from fftogo
I've only used it for small things where I want my doc in the cloud.
- Richard Akerman
Thanks for all the extra comments, especially the comments on how it compares to wikis, and the limitations with formatting.
- Michael Nielsen
Kambiz - That's a really interesting idea, which I may play with. How well do you find it works with large documents?
- Michael Nielsen
Spreadsheets are nice but not for massive datasets - the formatting issue for the text docs is annoying and puzzling as to why it hasn't been solved - also strange that GoogleDocs don't tend to show up on Google searches
- Jean-Claude Bradley
using Gdocs last 2 years, can't live without it today, amazing tool, but Presentations part still bad tho
- Alexey
I've only used the forms part to develop a survey. The forms feature is extremely limited. No edit after submission, no complex field types, no skinning, editing the form rearranges fields etc. But it does have nice features for doing stuff with the data once collected, so it's a tradeoff.
- Todd Hoff
I have been using it to draft papers, and bibliography works fine if you use BibTeX and have different documents for the .tex and the .bib files. Problem for some collaborators (and for chasing bugs introduced by them): TeX syntax highlighting is not available, and compiling has to be done offline.
- Daniel Mietchen
I have a comment on the presentation module -- I first used it about a year ago for a fairly important presentation that I was collaborating on with someone from the other side of the continent. The collaborative parts worked very well, but the presentation module itself was barely adequate for even a simple presentation. They have improved it quite a bit since then including being able to export to PowerPoint format.
- John Dupuis
I have used to collaborate on draft documents. It works much better than emailing around a copy of a document to different authors. The problem is usually more getting other people to use it. The spreadsheets are not useful enough for what I need. The presentations app is nice but so far I use it mostly to hold backup copies of presentations in case all else fails.
- Pedro Beltrao
John - Does the presentation module support basic animations? I'd be pretty tempted to try a collaborative presentation, which I've never done before.
- Michael Nielsen
Michael. I recently blogged about my in context usage of Google Docs here:- http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2008...
- Graham Steel
Thanks for the pointer, Graham. I've got about a thousand unread blogposts in Google Reader, and I guess yours is in that batch...
- Michael Nielsen
I have used Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets for a large collaboration on a book, with five authors. The book was done in LaTeX with BibTeX, so compiling the files had to be done on a local machine. However, the ease of simultaneous editing by many people was very useful. Also very useful for us was the addition of the "upload-and-share--PDF" feature to Google Docs, which happened near the end of our project. I used this feature to upload the compiled document to share with all coauthors.
- Dimitrios Diamantaras
Google Docs is a better notepad than Yahoo Notepad, plus is helpful in data spreadsheets that go everywhere.
- Mike Reynolds
Dimitrios - it's very helpful to know it can be used for a very large project like that.
- Michael Nielsen
More: we also used Google Spreadsheets to do a collaborative proofreading exercise, for which Spreadsheets was fine. I can suggest zoho.com as an alternative, with even more features, such as a graphical front-end for equations, which then runs LaTeX on the server that makes a beautiful equation graphic. It is a graphic, though, and its alignment with text presents problems. I have not checked out bib management on Google Docs or Zoho, as I don't need it.
- Dimitrios Diamantaras
They did just implement something called "incremental reveal" but AFAIK nothing beyond that.
- John Dupuis
Yet one more note: we also used a wiki in the early stages of the project, and kept using it for activity updates. However, had we started on Google Docs from the beginning, there would have been little reason to use a wiki.
- Dimitrios Diamantaras
Oh yes, if you post a PDF file with more than 100 pages, Google Docs will only display the first 100. However, if you share it, those you share it with will be able to download the whole file.
- Dimitrios Diamantaras
Very irritating. I use it mainly because I have no better option. Printing is a poorly-integrated joke, I can't get the stupid thing to write in one font, and Google Gears never quite works right with it.
- i80and
I see Google Docs as a gateway drug to wikis. I felt the word processor starting to slow down around 10k words. My main beef with it is that while my kids use it routinely, several of my colleagues apparently can't figure it out. But I've used it successfully with several clueful collaborators. The Table of Contents feature rulez.
- Seb Paquet
For small informal text docs it seems to work reasonably well. There's a limit on the length / size of individual documents, which can be a pain if you're writing something big. 'help' tells you the details. Also, if you export to WORD you get a bunch of embedded styles that are tricky to get rid of. Collaborative editing of spreadsheets whilst on the phone trying to agree budget details for proposals works effectively.
- hardisty
I rather like the non-fancy look of simple programs like this. If I can only write in arial with minimal formatting, I tend to focus on what I'm saying more than if I have formatted the text to look fancy. Once colleagues and I are happy with the words, then export to Word and prettify. Used it to write the main text of several grant apps in recent months, including Bjoern's. Insertion of pictures is the only annoying thing that came up - has to be of specific formats and small-ish.
- Matthew Todd
I've found it easier to move the docs to Word by exporting to RTF. Etherpad.com has to be mentioned in this thread; it's useful for people who want up-to-the-second sync between editors.
- Seb Paquet
I use GDocs quite a bit. As Pedro said it's great to do collaborative work but usually that hard part is getting the collaborators on board with the idea. The spreadsheets are OK, but anything a little more complex and it becomes a bit of an ordeal to work with. Specially with very large and complex spreadsheets that pan over multiple sheets. Although I love the graphs :-)
- Ricardo Vidal
Spreadsheet features are useful when pulling XML or CSV data from other websites, and for making the results easily accessible online in multiple formats. Performance suffers relative to standalone programs, although FF 3.5 and Chrome help a bit.
- Mike Chelen
Recently coauthored a paper using Google Docs: http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0910
- Daniel Lemire
I use Docs as my lab notebook. Of course, I also back up all my docs to my hard drive with a nightly script. As I've said before, use the cloud, love the cloud, just don't trust the cloud.
- Chris Miller
I like Google Docs mainly because of the integration with Gmail. I use it for reading Microsoft Word .doc email attachments. Reading in Google docs is just one click away and is much simpler than downloading the attachment. As a Mac user with no Microsoft products installed it is a godsend, as I no longer have to send annoying emails to people reminding them to send .rtf, .pdf or plain...
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- Matt Leifer
Same here, Matt, though I write collaborative TeX documents in Google Docs, too.
- Daniel Mietchen
Life with First-Person Shooter Disease – The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
First person shooter disease
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StackExchange™—The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform - http://www.stackexchange.com/
The engine that powers stackoverflow.
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thinking about writing post today on tips people share about balancing home/family with work in tech. got any to share?
Kol Tregaskes, Daniel Rowley, Robert Scoble and 4 other people liked this
Social media like friendfeed and twitter soften the line between work and home, at least for me.
- Nick Boucart
Allow a specific time each day (or evening) for your family/spouse when you are not online and are focused on sharing with them.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Create a doggie day care in or next to your offices. That's what I'm going to do, anyway. :)
- Dawn
Take retreats from media & computers to go somewhere fun w/spouse & family, one Sat. or Sun. a month. Could be a free activity.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Get out of the house. Go somewhere, do something together. Alternatively, turn your kids into geeks. That has worked for me. 2 younger kids are bigger techheads than me. It works well for us. :)
- Karoli
I like the doggy day care idea. @ Dawn
- Amani
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