Monthly Archives: August 2008
Install Solar Panel: Done
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 … Continue reading
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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 ( ) … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
