april 2008

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You have to focus on the underlying substance. There's just no way to disguise poor performance.

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The advice was, first, always ask for the order, and second, when the customer says yes, stop talking.

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What makes some people rebound from defeats and go on to greatness while others throw in the towel? Psychologists call it "self-efficacy," the unshakable belief some people have that they have what it takes to succeed.

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Is it just me? Tell me if this happens to you more off late.Happened to me 11 out of 15 times at Web 2.0 Expo. Meet a person on the Expo floor. Showing the demo of a product (Big company IBM, Microsoft, - these

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If you have a  Internet / Web / Software startup and are looking to either a) raise money or b) hire people or c) sell to your customers or pretty much do anything "normal" any other startup would do you've heard this question before: "But I do this right now with (a) + (b) + (c) + cut and paste..."Lets say you answer that question with something that buys you 30 seconds from your audience and you get to a demo or better you have an alpha product that you'd like some feedback from potential customers on. Here are some new barriers to adoption that you'll face.1.

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A great book has the power to move, inspire or even change lives. From adventure tales of the Arctic to the ultimate in quantum weirdness, here are the books that have left a lasting impression on some of the world’s top scientists, including Oliver Sac

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list of parties at the Web 2.0 Expo, but couldn't find one so I decided to gather the ones that I know here. If you know others, leave a comment or send me an email to juhani(at)xihalife.com and I will add them to the list!

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Google excels at IT and business architecture, experimentation, improvisation, analytical decision making, participative product development, and other relatively unusual forms of innovation. It balances an admittedly chaotic ideation process with a set o

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Caja stands for Capabilities JavaScript, and is an open source project based at Google (more about that later). It applies an advanced security concept, capabilities, to define a version of JavaScript that can be safer than the sandbox, while allowing hig

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Google's data centers are the object of great fascination, and the intrigue about these facilities is only deepened by Google's secrecy about its operations. We've written a lot about Google's facilities, and thought it would be useful to summarize key in

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Nearly half of a recent class could not name a single country that bordered Israel. In an introductory journalism class, 11 of 18 students could not name what country Kabul was in, although we have been at war there for half a decade. Last fall only one i

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From what I can tell (TweetClouds)1. I talk a lot about twitter (that's to be expected from 50% of twitter users)2. I spend a lot of time thinking (is that a good thing?)3. I am always going someplace4. Life's great5. I like peopleOr something else altogether.

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Below is a collection of Twitter apps that . This is in no way comprehensive .

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Perhaps for just an hour a week in high school. It would probably be useful for many students and on a larger scale quite helpful for society in general. So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about

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It seems like such a trivial component, but so much of a company’s success rides on its name. Starting a business with a weak company name is kind of like driving a car — without an engine, it probably isn’t going to go

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Good products solve a single, focused problem. People use them because they understand what it is that they’re using. Every feature, every UI decision, every aspect of the design is crafted to make some part of their lives easier to manage.

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I am purposely coming to his thread late. Figured this way, I'll avoid being the yet another techmeme link. Jason Calacanis posted a while ago about how twitter can be a billion dollars.

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You gotta love social networks. I especially LOVE facebook. Unlike Linkedin its very useful to me. I just connected with Oliver Marks, whose blog you should read. Its a real world, deep in the trenches perspective from Sony. He's been there and going through it. Head over to grab a feed. He's just starting so cut him some slack on the frequency of posting. Facebook rules.