10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. The flow of information at the Googleplex
Earlier on this blog, we shared some exciting early results from our firm's implementation of prediction markets. At last Friday's meeting of the American Economic Association, we shared the results of a deeper study, "Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence From Google," that uses prediction markets to show how organizations process information and respond to external events.
More @ Googleblog
2. How Should We Teach Computer Science?
Deployment is a huge hurdle. It's a challenge even for the best software development teams, and it's incredibly important: if users can't get past the install step, none of the code you've written matters! And yet, as Greg notes, existing software engineering textbooks give this crucial topic only cursory treatment. Along the same lines, a few weeks ago, a younger coworker noted to me in passing that he never learned anything about source control in any of his computer science classes. How could that be?
More @ CodingHorror
Deployment is a huge hurdle. It's a challenge even for the best software development teams, and it's incredibly important: if users can't get past the install step, none of the code you've written matters! And yet, as Greg notes, existing software engineering textbooks give this crucial topic only cursory treatment. Along the same lines, a few weeks ago, a younger coworker noted to me in passing that he never learned anything about source control in any of his computer science classes. How could that be?
More @ CodingHorror
3. Mozilla Takes on Microsoft in China
Like most Chinese Internet users, Chengdu native Gang Lu for years used Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer for his Web browsing. He switched to Firefox, the open-source browser, six years ago only after going to Britain for graduate school and finding most of his friends and colleagues using it.
More @ Businessweek
Like most Chinese Internet users, Chengdu native Gang Lu for years used Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer for his Web browsing. He switched to Firefox, the open-source browser, six years ago only after going to Britain for graduate school and finding most of his friends and colleagues using it.
More @ Businessweek
4. USB Transferer (AKA USB gameboy card interface)More @ HackaDay
5. MacBook Air
A few things have been coming in that prove this is either the real name/product or a purposeful hoax from either Apple or by someone with knowledge of the Macworld posters.
More @ 9to5mac
6. Asus Eee PC Breaks Rules, and That's Good
In the month I've owned an Eee, I've used it to watch movies on an airplane, read my favorite blogs and news articles -- archived automatically -- and update my online calendar while on the road. Its quick boot-up has made it perfect for writing quick e-mails (and this review) whenever I had a moment of inspiration.
More @ LinuxInsider
A few things have been coming in that prove this is either the real name/product or a purposeful hoax from either Apple or by someone with knowledge of the Macworld posters.
More @ 9to5mac
6. Asus Eee PC Breaks Rules, and That's Good
In the month I've owned an Eee, I've used it to watch movies on an airplane, read my favorite blogs and news articles -- archived automatically -- and update my online calendar while on the road. Its quick boot-up has made it perfect for writing quick e-mails (and this review) whenever I had a moment of inspiration.
More @ LinuxInsider
7. Researchers create beating heart in lab
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The research will be published online in the January 13 issue of Nature Medicine.
More @ ScienceBlog
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The research will be published online in the January 13 issue of Nature Medicine.
More @ ScienceBlog
8. Intempo reveals kinda sexy Daisy portable internet radioMore @ Engadget
9. Netflix Expands Internet Viewing Option
Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections.
More @ AP
10. How To Have A Relationship That Will Last
Yes, Opposites Attract—
But Will The Attraction Make A Relationship Endure To The End?
More @ BoSanchezBlog
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