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Facyla ~

Management lessons from dancing guy - 5 views

www.youtube.com/watch

social networks fun video management twitter following followers

shared by Facyla ~ on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Facyla ~ on 03 Mar 10
     
    I felt like posting this in HBSN would be a bit too random.. ..though it's somehow appropriate^^
  • Jack Logan on 03 Mar 10
     
    Cool! Cool! Cool! Thanks, Facyla!
  • François Dongier on 04 Mar 10
     
    Hey Facyla, feel like a lone nut today?
fishead ...*∞º˙

Clever folds in a globe give new perspectives on Earth - tech - 10 December 2009 - New ... - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...new-perspectives-on-earth.html

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 01 Jan 10 - Cached
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 01 Jan 10
     
    "Video: A new way to unfold the Earth's surface produces a new kind of map A new technique for unpeeling the Earth's skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the continents for easy comparison, or lump together the world's oceans into one huge mass of water surrounded by coastlines. See a gallery of the new maps "Myriahedral projection" was developed by Jack van Wijk, a computer scientist at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. "The basic idea is surprisingly simple," says van Wijk. His algorithms divide the globe's surface into small polygons that are unfolded into a flat map, just as a cube can be unfolded into six squares. Cartographers have tried this trick before; van Wijk's innovation is to up the number of polygons from just a few to thousands. He has coined the word "myriahedral" to describe it, a combination of "myriad" with "polyhedron", the name for polygonal 3D shapes. Warping reality The mathematical impossibility of flattening the surface of a sphere has long troubled mapmakers. "Consider peeling an orange and trying to flatten it out," says van Wijk. "The surface has to distort or crack." Some solutions distort the size of the continents while roughly preserving their shape - the familiar Mercator projection, for instance, makes Europe and North America disproportionately large compared with Africa. Others, like the Peters projection, keep landmasses at the correct relative sizes, at the expense of warping their shapes. An ideal map would combine the best properties of both, but that is only possible by inserting gaps into the Earth's surface, resulting in a map with confusing interruptions. Van Wijk's method makes it possible to direct those cuts in a way that minimises such confusion. Maps of significance When generating a map he assigns a "weighting" to each edge on the polyhedron to signal its importance, influencing the pl
fishead ...*∞º˙

Illustrated Look At What Motivates Us - 7 views

www.geeksaresexy.net/...ated-look-at-what-motivates-us

makes you think

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 27 May 10 - Cached
  • frank smith on 28 May 10
     
    WOW!! thanks Fishman!! i reposted to FB
fishead ...*∞º˙

Favorite colors test shows CEOs are different; take the test - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...010-02-08-ceocolors08_ST_N.htm

makes you think

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 09 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Ask CEOs to pick their favorite color and what they select will often be very different than what most people would pick. For example, when 877 members of USA TODAY's CEO panel took an online personality color test, they were three times more likely to favor magenta than the public at large, three times less likely to select red, and 3½ times less likely to choose yellow.
fishead ...*∞º˙

How Tech Will Change Our Future - Forbes.com - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...lligent-technology-future.html

makes you think interesting predictions

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 09 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • Globalization and the rise of China owe much to undersea fiber optics and computers capable of managing complex supply chains.
  • The most exciting part of this phenomenon is that it is just starting. Broadband is beginning to become pervasive in the developed world. Moore's Law will keep crushing the price of computation, communication, transmission and storage. And cheap sensors are about to be thrown on to everything. If it seemed like this already changed much of the world as we know it, get ready for what is coming.
  • Privacy: By 2020, you will have to go to a museum to understand what it meant. Privacy eroded, due to cameras everywhere and increasing sophistication of data analysis. Most people, considering themselves good at heart, traded it away for the sake of better search results.
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  • Puppies jumping in your lap, sunrise, old friends, whitewater, fresh baked bread: Still very good, worth having more of.
fishead ...*∞º˙

Evri Ties the Knot with Twine - Twine CEO Comments and Analysis « Nova Spivac... - 0 views

www.novaspivack.com/...evri-ties-the-knot-with-twine

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis March 11th, 2010  Share Today I am pleased to announce that my company, Radar Networks, and its flagship product, Twine, have been acquired by Evri. TechCrunch broke the story here. This acquisition consolidates the two leading providers of semantic discovery and search. It is also the culmination of my long and challenging venture to pioneer the adoption of the consumer Semantic Web.
  • The Twine team is joining Evri to continue our work there. Twine.com’s data and users are safe and sound and will be transitioned into the Evri.com service over time. This process will be done in a manner that protects privacy and data, and is minimally disruptive. I have great faith in the team at Evri and believe they will handle this with great care and respect for the Twine community.
  • Twine was well-received by the press and early-adopter users.
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  • At the time of beta launch and for almost six months after, Twine was still very much a work in progress. Fortunately our users and the press were fairly forgiving as we worked through evolving the GUI and feature set from what was initially just slightly better than an alpha site to the highly refined and graphical UI we have today. During these early days of Twine.com we were fortunate to have a devoted user-base and this became a thriving community of power-users who really helped us to refine the product and develop great content within it.
  • These losses meant we could no longer create compelling content or to manage the Twine community. So we put Twine.com on auto-pilot and let the traffic fall off. While painful to watch, this at least had the benefit of reducing the pressure to scale the system and support it under load, giving us time to focus all our energy on getting T2 finished and raising more funds.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 11 Mar 10
     
    no direct mentions, but at least some recongition
fishead ...*∞º˙

Official Google Blog: Collaborative bookmarking with lists - 0 views

googleblog.blogspot.com/...ve-bookmarking-with-lists.html

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Today we’re debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps you easily share those sites with friends.Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of your favorite content across the web and we want to help you share them with your friends. To use lists, visit Google Bookmarks at google.com/bookmarks or by clicking “Manage all” in your Google Toolbar. From there, select the links you want to share and click “Copy to list.” Lists are private by default, but once you’ve created one you can share it with specific friends or even publish it to the web. For example, if a friend of yours is visiting Seattle for the first time and you have some local attractions bookmarked, you might want to create a new list for “Seattle attractions” and share it with your friend.
  • Google will algorithmically analyze your list to identify other potentially relevant links, such as the Seattle Aquarium. Similarly, when we detect that a list is relevant to a specific region, we provide a map of those places and relevant info for each place, such as addresses, hours and reviews.
fishead ...*∞º˙

Evil Clown hired for stalking, threats and a pie in the face | Metro.co.uk - 0 views

www.metro.co.uk/...-threats-and-a-pie-in-the-face

evil clown hired

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
  • ‘The clown’s one and only aim is to smash a cake into the face of his victim, when they least expect it, during the course of seven days.’If the boy or girl manages to avoid the ‘hit’, they are given the cake as a birthday present. Well, that’s alright then. The frightening fun can be stopped at any time, which is handy for parents who have second thoughts and don’t fancy the cost of child therapy.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 13 Apr 10
     
    coulrophobia--I has it.
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