The Discovery Channel HD is showing a very cool series (Sundays 9 EST) called When We Left Earth – The NASA Missions; Part 1 ran today. Great images/video clips and historical information… The series is available on DVD and Blue Ray.
So Twitter is down, again. Twitter, a great idea, but terribly designed and implemented… Twitter is a great case study: for what a badly designed piece of software is all about, for what not do, or what to avoid, or how NOT to…
“Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure.” — MartinFowler in RefactoringImprovingTheDesignOfExistingCode. Refactoring automation is to S/W developers what spreadsheets are to…
I find Banksy’s work and messages very interesting… Camera Girl: (Click to Enlarge) Soldier, Beth: (Click to Enlarge) Pilton Frisk: (Click to Enlarge) Window Lovers: (Click to Enlarge) More at Banksy’s website. ceo
Dear MoMobilists – I haven’t been able to organize a MobileMonday event for this month of June; my apologies. Between eZee inc. product development, go to market and investor-related stuff, plus family and other, I just have had next to zero time to…
A beautiful and perfect Space Shuttle launch, in support of the International Space Station (ISS); STS-124/Discovery carrying Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the Station: After STS-124, there are 9 more missions to go to complete the ISS. See NASA’s Space Shuttle website. ceo
Great set of slides by Jason Calacanis — the three most important factors in predicting the next big thing. | View | Upload your own
NFC is a technology that not only is being deployed today, but that will be found on mostly every mobile phone in the future. And with this comes security and hacking concerns. I just found an interesting presentation by Collin Mulliner titled Attacking…
If you see a flashing light while looking at the moon, it might not be an optical illusion but an meteoroid impact; from 100 Explosions on the Moon (NASA): Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon…
Josh Kopelman (Redeye VC blog and managing Director of First Round Capital) wrote a piece titled Depending on pending… where he argues about the importance of patents w.r.t. barriers to entry vs. focusing on going to market first: Most people don’t realize that…
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