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54,202 | dpapathanasiou | 2007-09-13T13:48:01 | Low-cost Personal DNA Readings Are on the Way | http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19526203.900-lowcost-personal-dna-readings-are-on-the-way.html | 5 | 12 | [
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54,203 | josefresco | 2007-09-13T13:49:26 | Yahoo! Shopping is a Steaming Pile of Crap | null | http://www.josiahcole.com/2007/09/13/yahoo-shopping-is-a-steaming-pile-of-crap/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,208 | ivankirigin | 2007-09-13T13:58:13 | Fair Redistricting. | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/fair_redistrict.html | 1 | 1 | [
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54,216 | vlad | 2007-09-13T14:17:33 | ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up | http://www.waxy.org/random/arsdigita/ | 13 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,218 | ivankirigin | 2007-09-13T14:23:45 | What's wrong with the standard undergraduate computer science curriculum | null | http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/undergrad-cs | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,223 | jdavid | 2007-09-13T14:32:31 | How do you answer, when are you going to get a real job? | i have my own answer, to this question that is just asked all to much, and usually if someone seriously asks me this i just stop talking to them. but, in all seriousness i thought it would be fun to hear how the rest of you have answered this question.<p>for me, i never earned as much working as i did through investment activity, and so i got this question a lot from mom, girlfriends, and well generally people i just do not talk to any more. | 8 | 17 | [
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54,224 | jdavid | 2007-09-13T14:38:15 | Prize economics? | how many of you follow the growing prize economy?<p>if you do, how large do you think it can scale? | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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54,231 | nickb | 2007-09-13T15:16:47 | Microsoft updates Windows without users' consent | null | http://windowssecrets.com/2007/09/13/01-Microsoft-updates-Windows-without-users-consent | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,234 | nickb | 2007-09-13T15:21:36 | What Not To Do When Writing Python Software | null | http://plope.com/Members/chrism/now_not_to_write_python | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,235 | transburgh | 2007-09-13T15:21:40 | Free Labor Isn't Free at All (Part One of Two) | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/9/13/free-labor-aint-free-at-all-part-one-of-two/10194/view.aspx | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,237 | nickb | 2007-09-13T15:23:40 | Bugs Are Magic Tricks | null | http://stevenf.com/2007/09/bugs_are_magic_tricks.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,238 | nickb | 2007-09-13T15:25:38 | MS-DOS 5 Upgrade Video | null | http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1774935 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,239 | nickb | 2007-09-13T15:26:28 | A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition (watch out for these when sending marketing material) | null | http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/04/a_guide_to_css_support_in_emai_2.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,242 | donna | 2007-09-13T15:35:26 | Robot Maker Builds Artificial Boy | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/13/financial/f043643D82.DTL&type=business | 3 | 1 | [
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54,244 | mattculbreth | 2007-09-13T15:39:08 | Anybody here use Source Code Escrow? | Hello All,<p>A potential customer is interested in having us save versions of our application in escrow. In the event we go under they'd like some protection on their investment.<p>So I'm in the mood of pricing out some services that do these things. I've also asked our attorneys if they do it. Anybody here have a service they've used? | 1 | 4 | [
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54,245 | charzom | 2007-09-13T15:45:06 | 9 Habits to help you write a book | null | http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/09/complete-your-first-book-with-these-9.html | 8 | 3 | [
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54,246 | charzom | 2007-09-13T15:46:19 | Boldly going where no mass spectrometer has gone before | http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/sep/06/research.gadgets | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Boldly going where no mass spectrometer has gone before | 2007-09-06T11:41:41.000Z | Michael Pollitt | Any Star Trek fan can tell you at once what a tricorder is: a portable scanning device that can analyse atmospheres and objects in an instant. One of the (fictional) versions works like a sophisticated chemical laboratory, identifying the unknown on strange planets. Another scans patients for an instant medical diagnosis, useful for helping an injured crew member on a mission.However for Graham Cooks, professor of analytical chemistry at Purdue University in the US, the reality doesn't match the TV series. "We're quite a long way away from that. There are some handheld detectors which do very specific sorts of chemical analyses," says Cooks. Nevertheless, he's working on a sensing system which he boldly goes as far as comparing to the tricorder.Cooks' expertise lies in mass spectrometers, large laboratory instruments that measure the mass to charge ratio of ions. Material for analysis is placed in a vacuum, where the instrument is able to discriminate between different ions produced from the sample. Using an ionisation process, a mass spectrometer can help identify performance-enhancing drugs or unknown white powders that arrive in the mail.Faster sample testingMaking a portable mass spectrometer is only part way towards a tricorder; smaller doesn't necessarily mean faster. Normal mass spectrometry in the laboratory takes hours to produce results, thanks to lengthy sample preparation. "We'd like to point and shoot, and get the answer," says Cooks. "We really want to know within five seconds." Cooks has therefore developed a fast shoebox-sized mass spectrometer alongside a desorption electrospray ionisation (DESI) technique to perform the sample ionisation step in the air or directly on surfaces outside a vacuum chamber. No preparation is required, making sample testing 1,000 times quicker.Using the DESI method, a charged mist of water droplets is fired towards the sample and then pulled back into the vacuum system of the mini mass spectrometer. If Cooks were looking for drugs on your fingers, the most you'd feel is a slight dampness. It's also very fast, able to check for the presence of cocaine on bank notes in less than one second.Although not a tricorder by Star Trek standards, the portable instrument could be programmed to recognise 100 different compounds. And that opens up the possibility of new generation of handheld detectors for explosives, food contamination, drugs of abuse and other biomedical applications."What we could call a tricorder is not commercialised yet, but we are close," Cooks says. "We like to compare it to the tricorder because it's a handheld instrument that yields information about the chemical composition of samples in minutes without harming the samples."Developing a medical tricorder is far more difficult. Nevertheless, Dr Ian Stockford and Dr Stephen Morgan from Nottingham University's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering are taking some small steps. They're researching the way polarised light can be used to image skin, revealing information about cancer or wound healing. "The fact that polarisation is changed by properties of tissue is established," says Morgan, who is an associate professor in biomedical optics.Rotated viewIf you look through two pairs of polaroid sunglasses and slowly rotate one pair 90 degrees, the view through the lenses darkens. In the same way, the polarisation (alignment) of light reflected from skin is subtly changed by fibres in the tissues and blood cells. Small differences in polarisation - how much the light is rotated - can discriminate tissues very close to the skin surface.Morgan's medical tricorder (which he unromantically calls a "rotating orthogonal polarisation imager") uses visible red light and is benchtop-sized for research. Being tested using artificial samples, he soon hopes to move on to real skin. "If we can prove this principle works, then we'll miniaturise it," Morgan says. "We've had some interest from dermatologists for looking at melanoma [skin cancer] detection."Such a device may help image skin diseases, monitor blood disorders or aid in the assessment of wound and burn healing. As glucose molecules also rotate polarised light, a needle-free blood sugar check may be possible too. "If you could develop a non-invasive glucose monitor, that would be fantastic. It's one of the holy grails of biomedical research," Morgan says.Creating a proper tricorder would be an even bigger challenge as, to succeed, several detection systems need combining into a single handheld device. Perhaps the most we can expect is portable, faster and more rugged versions of existing analytical techniques rather than an all-in-one solution.But for hardened Star Trek fans, comparing mass spectrometers or rotating orthogonal polarisation imagers to the fictional tricorder doesn't feel right. It's a tricorder, Jim, but not as we know it. | 2024-11-08T09:04:29 | en | train |
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54,252 | donna | 2007-09-13T15:53:30 | Who Needs Hackers? | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/technology/techspecial/12threat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,257 | edu | 2007-09-13T16:03:49 | Ashely Qualls is not allowed to touch her assets | http://www.ontopresults.com/blog/2007/09/13/17-year-old-myspace-millionaire-ceo-not-allowed-to-touch-assets/ | 10 | 3 | [
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54,259 | nreece | 2007-09-13T16:08:14 | Ten secrets about working in IT | http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/0,1000001991,39289094,00.htm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,260 | tomh | 2007-09-13T16:08:41 | ArsDigita University, five years later | null | http://aduni.org/~tomh/rants/aduni_five_years_later.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,261 | nreece | 2007-09-13T16:11:18 | Introducing iPoor - The Real iPhone Killer! (parody) | http://ipoor.org/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,263 | nickb | 2007-09-13T16:13:51 | Ajax application security critical, experts warn | null | http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid92_gci1270910,00.html | 2 | 1 | [
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54,265 | nickb | 2007-09-13T16:16:24 | Getting Started with Cocoa: a Friendlier Approach | http://andymatuschak.org/articles/2007/09/09/getting-started-with-cocoa-a-friendlier-approach/ | 9 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,266 | dherman76 | 2007-09-13T16:18:01 | Ideas are a Commodity - Entrepreneurship is about Execution | null | http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/09/13/ideas-are-a-commodity/ | 1 | 1 | [
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54,279 | colortone | 2007-09-13T16:43:45 | Music industry doing something smart (A&R social net) | Complete with "2.0" name: Scoutr<p><a href="http://www.scoutr.co.uk/home/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scoutr.co.uk/home/</a><p>I registered and reviewed a track; pretty smart implementation... | http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2167618,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=4 | 1 | 1 | [
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54,283 | thehigherlife | 2007-09-13T16:53:18 | WIRED 1997: "101 ways to save Apple" | http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html?apple | 10 | 7 | [
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54,291 | dpapathanasiou | 2007-09-13T17:07:15 | Changing One Species to Another | http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/venter.boot07/venter.boot07_index.html | 1 | 1 | [
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54,294 | nickb | 2007-09-13T17:10:44 | Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright, CCIA Says | null | http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805939 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,295 | danw | 2007-09-13T17:14:27 | Jeff Barr: Kidnapped By Hackers | http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=1194 | 10 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,300 | omouse | 2007-09-13T17:25:41 | Linux.com:Hosting multiple projects with DrProject | http://www.linux.com/feature/119072 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,312 | mtw | 2007-09-13T17:58:25 | Introducing handbag rentals with StillChic, a la Netflix | http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/09/13/luxury-handbag-rentals-with-stillchic/ | 1 | 1 | [
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54,318 | whacked_new | 2007-09-13T18:09:11 | Oohs And Aahs: Vowel Sounds Affect Our Perceptions Of Products | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070912130815.htm | 12 | 4 | [
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54,320 | vlad | 2007-09-13T18:19:49 | How to Trim Your Bacon with Google Mail | http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/gmail-eats-your-bacn.html | 1 | 1 | [
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54,322 | jkush | 2007-09-13T18:22:50 | Google is backing private moon landing contest | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6993373.stm | 13 | 14 | [
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54,324 | pg | 2007-09-13T18:24:52 | 10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead) | http://www.bnet.com/2403-13070_23-160571.html | 40 | 20 | [
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54,331 | danw | 2007-09-13T18:45:47 | Flirtomatic Reports Surge in WAP Impressions | null | http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2007/09/flirtomatic-rep.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,338 | kkim | 2007-09-13T19:03:34 | Yahoo! MapMixer | http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer | 9 | 3 | [
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54,354 | ivankirigin | 2007-09-13T19:16:28 | How MRI works. Fun safety video with simple explanation. | null | http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/13/mri-machines-going-b.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T00:46:40 | null | train |
54,360 | transburgh | 2007-09-13T19:26:21 | Mechanical Turk Officially Closed Outside of the US | null | http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/09/13/mechanical-turk-officially-closed-outside-of-the-us | 9 | 4 | [
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54,362 | jyrzyk | 2007-09-13T19:27:25 | Fight For Kisses | null | http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/new-wilkinson-c.html | 5 | 2 | [
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54,369 | ivankirigin | 2007-09-13T19:37:41 | The Lunar Lander Prize. Probably more useful than Google's. | http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19374/?a=f | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,375 | AZA43 | 2007-09-13T19:47:43 | New Environmentally-Friendly PC is the Size of a Phonebook | The tiny, "green" ThinkCentre A61e desktop PC from Lenovo can save users up to 50 percent in annual energy costs--and it can even be powered by a small solar panel. | http://www.cio.com/article/137850 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,376 | dawie | 2007-09-13T19:49:49 | Happy Programmer's Day | http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/if-date-09-13-2007-engadget-write-happy-programmers-day/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,379 | jkopelman | 2007-09-13T19:56:06 | "We're now at a point that business plans really don't matter.." - Kleiner Perkins | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/09/13/amazon-web-services-start-ups/ | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,392 | ivankirigin | 2007-09-13T20:31:28 | Creating your own language. For example, Toki Pona has just 120 words. | null | http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/09/the-origin-of-l.html | 1 | 1 | [
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54,398 | nickb | 2007-09-13T20:44:39 | How a Millionaire's Brain Works | http://www.fortunewatch.com/how-a-millionaires-brain-works/ | 40 | 24 | [
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54,411 | nreece | 2007-09-13T21:33:28 | The Global Map of Broadband Services | http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2007/st_atlas_1509 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,413 | nickb | 2007-09-13T21:41:39 | Social Networks: Your online friends aren't real | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/social-networks/your-online-friends-arent-real-299646.php | 5 | 8 | [
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54,414 | nickb | 2007-09-13T21:42:17 | Social networking: Is social networking changing the face of friendship? | null | http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/FestivalofScience/FestivalNews/_Socialnetworking.htm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,417 | comatose_kid | 2007-09-13T21:56:45 | How a quantum computer factorizes numbers | http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/09/how-quantum-computer-factorises-numbers.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,418 | thehigherlife | 2007-09-13T21:59:34 | Google SMS Adds Location-Based Personalization | http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-sms-adds-personalization.html | 1 | 0 | [
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Google SMS is a very useful service that lets you text your query and receive instant answers. In addition to web search results, you can find local businesses, get directions, check the weather and use it for unit conversions. The problem is that Google doesn't know your location, so all your messages have to include information about your location, especially for local searches.Now you can save your location by sending a SMS that contains:set location [city, zip code, address]To check the weather you only need to send "weather" instead of "weather 90210". This minimizes the text you need to type, so it saves time and effort.Google SMS is available in the US, Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain at google.com/sms, but this new feature works only in the US. Google Maps also has an option to set a default location, which is used to personalize your search results. "For those users who have provided a default location in Google Maps, Google will personalize results based on that location. For example, if a user has entered a default location into Google Maps and types in library, the results will bring up the user’s local library."
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54,420 | akkartik | 2007-09-13T22:18:22 | Bringo: Stop talking to machines and talk to a real human | null | http://www.nophonetrees.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,421 | bootload | 2007-09-13T22:30:19 | Entrepreneurialsm as a Darwinian phenomenon | http://broadstuff.com/archives/417-Entrepreneurialsm-as-a-Darwinian-phenomenon.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,427 | davezirk | 2007-09-13T22:58:32 | Free idea. Is it worth more than that or has it been done already? | I'm working on an easier to use database for my school district. I was watching my son play The Sims and was wondering if anyone has adapted this concept as the front end to a database. I'm visualizing our superintendent sitting at his desk where he sees a map of the city and can scroll to the building or classroom and then click on a hyperlinked object to get information about that place. The principals would see their buildings, the teachers would see their student's faces, etc.<p>This might speed up the decision making process - if it were networked the stakeholders could meet virtually.<p> | 1 | 2 | [
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54,436 | nickb | 2007-09-13T23:20:42 | Entrepreneurs to VCs: Stop sharing my ideas! | http://valleywag.com/tech/venture-capital/entrepreneurs-to-vcs-stop-sharing-my-ideas-299717.php | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,443 | amichail | 2007-09-13T23:49:02 | My Facebook News Prediction Game App (beta, feedback wanted) | http://apps.facebook.com/newspredictiongame/ | 1 | 1 | [
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54,449 | jraines | 2007-09-14T00:14:23 | Demo of Photosynth from TED conference - mind blowing | This is some really awesome technology. Lots of cool stuff here, but at one point he demos a 3D metaverse created from scraped Flickr photos. Worth y of the multiple standing ovations he gets. Apparently this was bought by Microsoft about a year ago. | http://youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0 | 11 | 3 | [
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54,452 | transburgh | 2007-09-14T00:25:29 | Google To Present At TechCrunch40 | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/13/google-to-present-new-product-at-techcrunch40/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,453 | transburgh | 2007-09-14T00:26:59 | Valley morale continues to sag | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/the-chart/valley-morale-continues-to-sag-299756.php | 1 | 3 | [
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54,454 | brett | 2007-09-14T00:33:51 | The ass won't kick itself - Jeremy Zawodny on staying at Yahoo | null | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/009493.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | The ass won't kick itself (by Jeremy Zawodny) | null | null |
Ryan Kennedy, a fellow Yahoo, recently wrote about an experience I've had more than a few times: interviewing with another company, receiving a good offer, and ultimately deciding to stay at Yahoo.
I hadn�t really set out to look for a new job, but the idea was enticing. A healthy company, good environment, smart people, fun products. The choice ahead of me was pretty obvious. So obvious that I threw caution to the wind, declined the offer and stayed at Yahoo!
If I'm counting right, that's happened to me roughly five times in the last 6 or 7 years. It's not that I was dying to get out of Yahoo, but I was certainly curious to see what else the world had to offer. And then there are the dozen or so other companies I've casually talked to without going through a formal interview process.
Like Ryan, many of my "job shopping" experiences happened during times that things felt rather down around here. He describes the current situation thusly:
I�m not going to lie to you, it�s rough going right now. We get smacked around by the media. It�s been a while since we had a really big, notable win. I think morale at the company is low, the future uncertain and the food still sucks (although, I�ve had worse). But despite that, we had a record turnout for our last internal hack day. We had so many people with ideas that we had to completely change the format of the event because the campus could no longer scale to meet our demands. There is still plenty fight in this company and we have no shortage of asses to kick. So lace up all you Yahoo!�s... the ass won�t kick itself.
I couldn't agree more. The ass certainly won't kick itself.
I've been involved in a lot of ambitious discussions in the last few weeks. They're all about aspects of Yahoo's future and how to get more of that ass kicked. I don't claim to know what the future holds, but I'm still here.
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54,458 | nickb | 2007-09-14T01:02:49 | End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise | http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/embassy_hacks?currentPage=1 | 17 | 2 | [
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54,463 | rms | 2007-09-14T01:17:06 | Social Media for Firefox extension: monitors digg/reddit/delicious to help you detect rising stories | http://www.97thfloor.com/social-media-for-firefox/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,465 | falsestprophet | 2007-09-14T01:20:02 | Reverse Engineering the Human Diet | http://www.earth360.com/diet_paleodiet_balzer.html | 14 | 29 | [
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54,466 | jkopelman | 2007-09-14T01:22:32 | Viral marketing, randomness and the difficulty of controlling growth in social media A | http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/viral-marketing-randomness-and-the-difficulty-of-controlling-growth-in-social-media/ | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | no_error | Viral marketing, randomness and the difficulty of controlling growth in social media | 2007-09-13T04:00:42+00:00 | null |
Posted by jeremyliew in communities, Consumer internet, social media, social networks, viral, viral marketing.
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I recently met the CEO of a company who claim to be one of the most popular social networks in Turkey with several million monthly visitors from Turkey. This happened by accident – the founders are Americans who have no prior connection to Turkey.
This is just one of many examples of how difficult it can be to predict or control the growth of viral social media. Google’s Orkut, is a better known example – a social network started by a Turkish engineer working in the US that now dominates in Brazil and India. Friendster and hi5 fall into this bucket as well. As I’ve noted before, the online advertising market in the US is bigger than that in the rest of the world combined. The senior management of these companies know this, and all would love to see more US traffic, but it is now beyond their control.
The reason is the mathematics of viral growth. If the viral coefficient (the number of additional members a new member brings) in a population is less than one, it grows but eventually hits a ceiling. But if the viral coefficient is greater than one, it grows unbounded. Although your social media property may start in many different populations, it will come to be dominated by those with the highest viral coefficients.
This is best demonstrated by example. Consider a new social media property with 30 members, 10 each from three distinct populations; call them Pinks, Purples and Greens. Suppose that by luck and because of the initial users, the viral growth coefficient for the Pinks is 0.6, for the Purples is 0.9 and for the Greens is 1.2. Watch what happens to the populations over time:
All three groups are initially equally represented, But already by time period 4 the population is more than 50% Green. By time period 10 it is more than 75% Green and probably considered a “Green social network”. By time period 16 less than one member in 10 is not Green. For Green now substitute whatever national, language based, religious, racial or other demographic grouping that you choose.
These evolutions can happen very fast since a time period is the time it takes for a new member to invite more members. 2-8 weeks might be a reasonable assumption.
This example is vastly simplified, of course. Viral coefficients vary over time within and between groups. Viral coefficients also don’t vary quite as much between groups; the same underlying feature set is being exposed to all groups. But it illustrates the point that randomness can play a significant role in the eventual makeup of a social media property’s user base.
I posted about a similar finding in May, how you don’t necessarily get the wisdom of crowds, but sometimes just the crowdiness of crowds. It was based on a NY Time’s article that showed how randomness can have a big impact on the most popular songs for a crowd when popularity information is public.
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54,474 | mhb | 2007-09-14T02:33:40 | Conlangs - Constructed languages designed by language inventors | http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/columnone/la-sci-conlang24aug24,1,6245830.story?coll=la-headlines-columnone&ctrack=1&cset=true | 2 | 1 | [
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54,482 | hhm | 2007-09-14T03:11:04 | The YouTube of Games: Microsoft Game Studio's Shane Kim on XNA Studio Express | http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070321/sheffield_01.shtml | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,491 | ptn | 2007-09-14T03:43:53 | Farewell, ogre | http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,494 | brett | 2007-09-14T03:51:49 | Vinod Khosla: Hybrid-electric cars won't make a difference | http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/13/vinod-khosla-hybrid-electric-cars-wont-make-a-difference/ | 9 | 10 | [
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54,504 | hhm | 2007-09-14T04:46:39 | "On Albert Einstein", by Robert Oppenheimer: innovation and tradition | http://www.nybooks.com/articles/12538 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,506 | brett | 2007-09-14T04:56:17 | Verizon unhappy with 700MHz open access requirements, sues FCC | null | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070913-verizon-unhappy-with-700mhz-open-access-requirements-sues-fcc.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,510 | nsimpson | 2007-09-14T05:12:22 | If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten... | http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/but-weve-always.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,513 | nickb | 2007-09-14T05:25:39 | Google releases new Moon map | http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-13-n71.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Generate Content API requests per minute' and limit 'GenerateContent request limit per minute for a region' of service 'generativelanguage.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:854396441450'. | New Google Moon | null | null | Thursday, September 13, 2007New Google Moon
Google has revamped their Google Moon maps site. It’s not loading too well here, but maybe you’re more lucky. You can now see little astronaut icons with info bubbles for specific moonlanding sites. Also, as Pau in the forum notes, the “cheese surface” easter egg (it was showing for the highest moon zoom level) has been removed. In its place, Google says they’ve added “Street View-style panoramas of the moon’s surface, taken by the Apollo astronauts.”
In other space news, Google is sponsoring the Lunar X-Prize with $30 million to push private moon landings (update: ... of a robot, that is), they say, and according to several other sources, is using a NASA-owned runway to land their private jet nowadays. (Google by and large is pretty space-obsessed: they also have a SpaceShipOne replica hanging in the stairwell of Googleplex building 43, celebrating the first privately funded human spaceflight.)
[Thanks Pau, Manoj Nahar and Alek!]
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54,515 | rainsill | 2007-09-14T05:56:13 | Google's Acquisition Strategy | How does Google makes it acquisitions? | http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/13/googles-acquisition-strategy/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,516 | jlhamilton | 2007-09-14T05:58:29 | Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets? | http://reason.com/news/show/122423.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,524 | neilc | 2007-09-14T06:50:41 | A "Lucky" Building in Palo Alto for Startups | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/technology/14landlord.html?ex=1347508800&en=9103aea64cfcff99&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink | 18 | 2 | [
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54,533 | rms | 2007-09-14T08:34:19 | MS-DOS 5 Upgrade Promo Video | http://www.videosift.com/video/MS-DOS-5-Upgrade-Promo-VideoSweet-Jesus | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,534 | dfens | 2007-09-14T08:36:33 | Zeno Could Be Next Robot Boy Wonder | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2179047,00.asp | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,539 | nreece | 2007-09-14T09:38:35 | 7 Ways to Make Your Own Good Luck (applies to startup hackers) | http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/7-ways-to-make-your-own-good-luck/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | 7 Ways to Make Your Own Good Luck | 2007-09-13T10:45:22+00:00 | Posted on | When I look back at the last 45 years, I feel the greatest factor in any success I have had, as a university student, diplomat or businessman, has come mainly from being lucky.When Napoleon was asked if he preferred courageous generals or brilliant generals, he replied neither. He preferred lucky generals.So, how do you get lucky?These are seven habits that brought me luck.1) Be adventurous but do not bet the farm.Every thing that I achieved came from taking risks. I left the comfort of my hometown university to study abroad. I confronted my boss on something that really mattered to me. I quit the company and started out on my own. I lent money to a supplier against very little security, and on and on. These were the moves that brought me the greatest rewards. But in all cases, I could afford to lose. I was not going to be exiled to Elba if I lost. I did not always develop a business plan, or do a detailed ROI analysis. I followed my gut feel, but I knew that I could cope with failure.2) Start by trusting people.You cannot do it alone. You will only achieve your goals with the help of others: friends and family, colleagues, employers and employees, suppliers and customers. If you are suspicious by nature, or if you like to do everything yourself, your chances of getting lucky are diminished. Because it’s usually others that bring you luck.3) Play your strong cards.Know your strengths and try to use them. Know your weakness and try to avoid having to use them. Don’t pretend to have strengths that you don’t have. You can develop strengths and overcome weaknesses. But make sure you identify your specific skills, aptitudes, knowledge, and contacts and use them wherever you can. This will increase you chances of getting lucky.4) Give more than you take.If you want to attract lucky people to your campaign, be prepared to give. You need to go the extra mile for others without worrying too much about keeping score. In my experience the old saying “what goes around comes around” is definitely true in business and in life, and “it” comes around when you least expect it, believe me.5) Get and stay fit.I am not referring to only to physical fitness. I mean your overall mental, physical and psychological well being. Eat right and stay active. Keep learning and improving yourself. Look on the bright side. Not everything is going to go your way. Believe in your chances of success, even in the face of difficulties. Never deal with tough problems at night when you are tired. Health and energy will bring you luck, and the strength to rebound from reverses.6) Be a good communicator.You have to communicate who you are and what you want. Work on your language skills. I mean your use of words, your ability to speak and write clearly and simply but forcefully. If you have the time, learn another language. Knowing many languages has greatly increased my luck and business opportunities. In our global village, the importance of languages will only increase. Japanese is now the biggest blogging language on the web!7) Be true to your craft and trade.An accountant can write a good business plan and do the ROI analysis, but is unlikely to make a good shoemaker. Every start-up, every enterprise, every venture, is based on a craft or specialized field of knowledge. Be true to the Hippocratic Oath of your chosen field of activity. People will know if you are for real and then you will start to get lucky.Give luck a chance to happen! Practice these seven habits. You can start as a student or any time you want, but there are no guarantees.Steve Kaufmann is a former Canadian diplomat, who has had his own company in the international trade of forest products for over 20 years. Steve founded The Linguist Institute Ltd. in 2002 to develop a new approach to language learning using the web. The new LingQ system for learning multiple languages is now available in Beta. Steve speaks nine languages fluently and is currently learning Russian using LingQ. Steve maintains a blog on language learning.GET THE BOOK BYERIN FALCONER!Erin shows overscheduled, overwhelmed women how to do less so that they can achieve more. Traditional productivity books—written by men—barely touch the tangle of cultural pressures that women feel when facing down a to-do list. How to Get Sh*t Done will teach you how to zero in on the three areas of your life where you want to excel, and then it will show you how to off-load, outsource, or just stop giving a damn about the rest.ORDER YOURS TODAY! | 2024-11-07T23:15:20 | en | train |
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54,540 | rms | 2007-09-14T09:41:31 | Paul Graham's (defunct) Blog | http://web.archive.org/web/20070608081258/http://paulgraham.infogami.com/blog/ | 13 | 5 | [
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54,542 | nreece | 2007-09-14T10:12:40 | One of My Competitors Owes Me A Favor | http://microisvjournal.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/one-of-my-competitors-owes-me-a-favor/ | 9 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | One of My Competitors Owes Me A Favor | 2007-09-12T15:27:49+00:00 | null |
I run a small business which sells software over the Internet to people who need to create bingo cards, typically parents and teachers. Today I got a nice, polite email from someone who had lost the code which unlocks their software. (I sell the codes, and having one makes the software more useful than the free trial version.)
Unfortunately, my customer wasn’t really sure she was my customer. She wasn’t sure exactly what software she had purchased, but “Bingo Card Creator” sounded pretty close when she found me on Google. She said she really wanted to use the paid version but didn’t want to purchase it again, and asked if I could please check to see if she had bought from me before.
Well, of course I checked. As it turns out, she probably bought from one of my competitors. Most of us have quite similar names. Rather than having her contact the Bingo Card Maker, Printer, Butcher, Baker, and Candlestick Maker, I sent her an email substantially similar to the following:
“I’m afraid it wasn’t me, ma’am, but have a copy free with my thanks for your continued support of small businesses.”
Now, I can hear the skeptics going “Alright, when a small businessman starts giving his only product away for free as thanks for patronizing his competitors, he has finally gone off the deep end”. That is not true — I’ve been off the deep end for years, and I love it, the water is fine.
As much as this sounds like a very mushy lets-get-together-and-sing-kumbaya moment, I think it defensible from a cold dollars-and-cents calculus. (And, if I’m wrong, I get to pull this trump card that says “It doesn’t matter if I’m wrong, there is nobody around to fire me for a kumbaya moment here and there”. God, I love being my own boss.) Let’s talk about those reasons for a moment.
Three Totally Heartless & Mercenary Reasons For Treating Your Competitor’s Customers Like Your Own
1) It costs me nothing. One of the beauties of the software business is that serving your 307th customer is, quite literally, free. (Its that first customer who costs you millions… or in my case, about sixty bucks.) All I had to do was copy/paste her email address into the website of my partner which sends out the purchased CD keys, mark her for a free copy, and tell her that I did so. The action took less than a tenth of the time it will take to actually blog about it.
2) It saves me from having to write additional emails to the lady, who I predict will require just one additional email (a quick reply to the thank you note I’m sure she’ll send), as opposed to the possibility of having to write several of the “Could you check under my husband’s name?” “No, ma’am, it doesn’t appear to be there either.” “Oh, I’m sorry for wasting your time.” “Its no problem, ma’am, have a nice day.” variety. I do love writing emails to bingo players, don’t get me wrong, but the cold dollars-and-cents calculus says “End conversations as quickly as practical” and making people deliriously happy works wonders for doing that.
3) I just made a passionate advocate for me (and did I mention it cost me nothing)? Within the last twenty four hours alone, I spent ten whole dollars (half a sale!) bribing Google to pay the likes of myspaceglitter.com (and other, more relevant sites who are escaping my memory at the moment) to show wee little unemotional, unobtrusive text advertisements. The goal of the ads is to convince largely uninterested folks to trust me enough to click on a link and give me five seconds of their time. 99.4% of the people who saw one of these advertisements weren’t even willing to part with the five seconds! And it was still a smart business decision to do it. Despite the fact that after literally 199 gratuitously unmotivated partially attentive listeners turned me down, there was one who said yes. That one person doubled my investment.
Why wouldn’t I do something which is much cheaper than $10 to achieve something which is much more valuable than catching the corner of the eyeball of a disinterested MySpace browser? I just, in all probability, made myself a passionate advocate for life. Whenever she thinks of bingo cards, she’ll think of Bingo Card Creator, and whenever someone around her talks about bingo cards, she’ll talk about Bingo Card Creator. Basically, she’ll be like my own personal Apple fan. (And I didn’t even have to call it iCreateBingoCards. Take that, Steve Jobs.)
At the very least I made someone’s day. The story will rate a mention to whoever she talks to about her day today. The chance of this getting mentioned at the dinner table or in the staffroom asymptotically approaches 100%. Wouldn’t you mention it? When is the last time anybody you did business with gave you what you wanted, for free, without you having to ask for it, and without expecting anything in return?
This is what Seth Godin calls a “purple cow” — would you talk about a purple cow if you saw it? Of course! Its a purple freaking cow. A purple cow is remarkable (in both the “wow” sense and in the “I am going to talk about that” sense) just by virtue of its rare charm and charming rarity. Heck, its probably even remarkable if it didn’t happen to you! (“Guys, you won’t believe what I just saw — a purple cow!” is a fun story to tell. “Guys, you won’t believe what Jimmy nearly ran into today — a purple cow!” still beats talking about the weather.) Purple cows are basically designed to go viral. (Well, you know the cow caught something, otherwise why is he purple? Ba-dum-bum. Sorry, I used to be an English teacher, we have to surrender our sense of shame to learn the secret mysteries of the subordinate clause.)
Two More Touchy-Feely Bits (Indulge Me)
1) Karma. Now, I’m Catholic and I don’t do karma, but I find the word karma helpful for shortening the thought that some combination of cosmic justice, happenstance, and community causes good things to happen to people who do good things.
2) I really do believe that folks who support small businesses, like my fellow software authors (and most of my competitors are individual authors — you think IBM is going to develop synergistic practices for best-of-breed bingo solutions anytime soon?), deserve a pat on the back when possible. There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing business with big business, don’t get me wrong. I have unrestrained admiration for several billion dollar a year businesses. That said, there is something just a wee bit noble about helping the little guy when that is an option, and noble acts should be rewarded. (I mentioned karma, right? Karma, like charity (and forest fires) begins with you!) Besides, any taste on the part of customers to buy from small businesses is a rising tide that lifts all our boats. I don’t care whether its bingo cards or wedding seat planners or superhero novels, every little marginal step that gets taken to make Joe and Jane Consumer more willing to trust their credit card details with an anonymous little shop on the Internet helps all of us move our conversion rates to the next level. Everybody wins.
And I really love when everybody wins. Doesn’t everybody?
[P.S. If you liked my approach here, you’ll probably get a kick out of my other articles about customer service.]
[P.P.S. This article has been edited since it was first posted, so that it relies less on you knowing me to make sense of. I also fixed some spelling mistakes and eliminated a run-on or three. Professional pride, what can I say.]
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54,543 | robg | 2007-09-14T10:20:32 | At Least on Wall Street, Wages of Sin Beat Those of Virtue | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/business/14vice.html?ex=1347422400&en=084ed93c655e9530&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | 5 | 15 | [
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54,549 | charzom | 2007-09-14T11:11:29 | ONLamp.com -- An Introduction to Erlang | http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/13/introduction-to-erlang.html | 25 | 9 | [
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54,550 | aswanson | 2007-09-14T11:15:40 | Most important VCs | http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2007_09_14/caredit_a0700131 | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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54,551 | tojileon | 2007-09-14T11:40:56 | How Windows Update Keeps Itself Up-to-Date | null | http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/2007/09/13/how-windows-update-keeps-itself-up-to-date.aspx | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
54,552 | charzom | 2007-09-14T11:45:16 | Dubai tower now world's tallest building (planned height still secret) | http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiQiltnYt9bxz4sUq-3qEIm5oXBw | 5 | 5 | [
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54,556 | ulfstein | 2007-09-14T12:24:00 | 3 Serial founders share their 'Success Hacks' | http://www.foundread.com/view/3-serial-founders | 24 | 5 | [
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54,562 | brlewis | 2007-09-14T13:09:56 | Google Presently Powerpoint Clone (based on Zenter) Could Be Days Away | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/14/google-presently-powerpoint-clone-could-be-days-away/ | 21 | 6 | [
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54,563 | mattculbreth | 2007-09-14T13:11:15 | Salesforce Enters Custom Application Market ("potentially game ending for...a slew of startups") | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/13/salesforce-enters-custom-application-market-with-forcecom/ | 14 | 7 | [
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Salesforce will enter the custom software market next week with the launch of Force (site will go live Monday morning), a new platform that will allow developers to create database driven applications and deploy them as services. So if Salesforce doesn’t offer what you are looking for, and no one has built it for you on Salesforce’s AppExchange, you can simply build it yourself using the Apex framework.
At its core Force competes as a development platform with .NET, Java, etc. But there are also a slew of startups that have focused on allowing people to easily create and deploy database driven applications – DabbleDB, Zoho Creator, LongJump, Coghead and WyaWorks, among others. All will take a hit from Force. In fact, this may be sort of game ending for them. Salesforce has its eyes on much bigger fish than those startups.
Any internal process or function that requires custom software may be a candidate for Force. Disney, which has been testing the platform, is using it to manage character (Mickey Mouse, etc.) appearances. EA has built a recruiting application. Bronx School is using Force to manage attendance, performance, etc. Salesforce says they can actually manage the entire school on Force.
Salesforce is also announcing VisualSource, a set of tools that allow developers to build applications for multiple devices (tablets, iphone, etc.) and add HTML, AJAX and Flex to Force applications (making for much nicer looking and more user friendly applications). See the screen shot below for an example user interface.
Pricing is a flat $25/month/user.
Salesforce has always said its about software as a service. Next week, they say they’re deploying the platform as a service with Force. I imagine they’ll find a receptive customer base.
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