Every man has to build a house, plant a tree, raise a kid and install a solar panel on the roof once in his live. I can strike througth the fourth item. I did it on a roof in the Ticino sun. It is model TSM 220 PC05 by Trina Solar with the following specs: [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 27, 2008
Always Handy: The SSSF
The Standard Spam Solution Form (SSSF) to turn down the next Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam (FUSSP). I actually don’t know where it originates from, so I cannot give credit. Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not [...]
August 27, 2008
Does Serios Solve Information Overload in Offices?
Yesterday I stumbled upon this software called “Attent™” by Seriosity. Main feature is a virtual currency for emails. It lets workers in a company attach value to their email by adding an arbitrary amount of a limited virtual currency called “Serios” to their emails. Email receivers can collect the amount and put it on their [...]
August 25, 2008
Attention Payments in the Office
Are there too many people in the office that pop up at your desk to ask you something stupid, that send mails distracting you from your work or invite you to completely wasteful weekly meetings? Just charge them for your attention. An attention market will flourish within the company that successfully allocates scarce attention and [...]
August 25, 2008
You Are Welcome to Spam Me If You Buy Interrupt Rights
Scott E. Fahlman tackles in this paper (pdf) one of todays greatest pains in the ass: Unwanted calls by telemarketers and unsolicited e-mails by spammers. They demand too much of our valuable attention. Fahlman’s solution is easy: Let’s make them pay for it. More precisely Fahlman suggests that the spammers have to make a binding [...]
August 23, 2008
Real World Social Graph
Short link: Benjamin Waber from MIT’s Human Dynamics Group logs conversations and locations of office workers by using specially equiped cell phones. The data allows him to analyse how information flows in real world social networks. more: Reality Mining
August 23, 2008
Mine 100’000 human genomes and phenomes
Sequencing the genomes of 100’000 volunteers and relate them to respective phenomes by massive data crunching: A promising way of decoding some of the last mysteries of human beeing. What genetic disposition is responsible for lung cancer, where does lactose intolerance come from, why do my feet stink after hiking? The effort is undertaken by [...]
August 23, 2008
Julia Allison – How to become famous
This is my contribution to add to Julia Allison’s fame for beeing famous. I did not know the name before reading this month’s Wired issue, where she is featured on the cover. According to wired her path to infinite stardom for not singing, acting or beeing rich was threefold: First, she got noticed by annoying [...]
August 22, 2008
How do Spamfilters Compare to the Cocktail Party Effect?
The cocktail party effect is an amazing feature of our auditory system. We can hang out at loud places, like cocktail parties, where a lot of people talk very loud and still very successfully filter out unwanted noise while talking with a person we are interested in. However, if someone across the room mentions our [...]
August 21, 2008
Hot Air! Why $0.00 is not the Future of Business
Wouldn’t it be nice if everything was free? Free travel, free food, free iPhones?. In a much acclaimed piece Wired’s editor in chief Chris “The Long Tail” Anderson brings forward this utopia of the free (as in free beer) economy to be coming soon (Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business). Anderson is already [...]
