Category Archives: innovation

Greetings Officefighter

Posted on March 26, 2009 by jay

In the beginning you were a Starfighter, recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada… well, actually the beginning was something much simpler, something more like Space Invaders. Space Invaders was a classic, … Continue reading →

Posted in hacks, hardware, innovation, iobridge | 107 Comments

How traditional IT skills are becoming irrelevant

Posted on June 4, 2008 by jay

I hope those who know me wouldn’t peg me as an alarmist. So take my title with a grain of salt but also, because of that same optimism, with a sense of sobriety. I’ve followed “cloud computing” for a while … Continue reading →

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Life, Love and Personal Fulfillment in the Amazon

Posted on March 20, 2008 by jay

No, this has nothing to do with strange anthropological experiences it’s even more fascinating… I watched a great video from iTunes U (my new favorite pastime) and it made two (of many) interesting points; Wal*Mart, which would be China’s 8th … Continue reading →

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iPhone’s Safari – not for geeks

Posted on February 3, 2008 by jay

I was watching a presentation on my iPhone on implementation of MapReduce for multi-core and multi-processor systems… You can find out more about it at the project’s website. Before you go.. note the “~christos” part of the URL. In UNIX-speak … Continue reading →

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Quick Inspiration for Apple

Posted on December 20, 2007 by jay

Just a quick post before the holidays, I’ll be traveling quite a bit so we’ll see how everything holds up. While planning out this trip, I was thinking about making a “My Maps” Google map. I tried this technique while … Continue reading →

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The Next Social Network: WordPress – GigaOM

Posted on December 13, 2007 by jay

I really appreciated the thoughts in The Next Social Network: WordPress – GigaOM. I’ve been on Facebook for a while now (and prior to that LinkedIn) and despite my initial misgivings, I’ve been surprised at how much value social networks … Continue reading →

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The Exuberance of Avarice

Posted on December 4, 2007 by jay

I intended to try my hand at making some videos for this post, but it didn’t happen after a day and I’d rather post out the experience while it’s fresh, then wait. It’s likely a benefit for you as well … Continue reading →

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If I could change the world…

Posted on November 15, 2007 by jay

I often think I have good ideas, but I tend to be a “thinker” and have problems “doing”. It’s not that I can’t “do” it’s usually the familiar feeling of saying “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” quickly followed by “yea, … Continue reading →

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GFUBU

Posted on November 5, 2007 by jay

So it’s probably not catchy enough to be a clothing line but I really agree with the proposed concept of an “opensource community grid”, or “grid for us, by us”. Groups like Folding@Home, SETI or other distributed computing activities are … Continue reading →

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