Maker Tribe, Concept Mapping, Magic Wand, and Site Performance Matters
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| +Nat Torkington | 24 May 2012
- Last Saturday My Son Found His People at the Maker Faire -- aww to the power of INFINITY.
- Dictionaries Linking Words to Concepts (Google Research) -- Wikipedia entries for concepts, text strings from searches and the oppressed workers down the Text Mines, and a count indicating how often the two were related.
- Magic Wand (Kickstarter) -- I don't want the game, I want a Bluetooth magic wand. I don't want to click the OK button, I want to wave a wand and make it so! (via Pete Warden)
- E-Commerce Performance (Luke Wroblewski) -- If a page load takes more than two seconds, 40% are likely to abandon that site. This is why you should follow Steve Souders like a hawk: if your site is slower than it could be, you're leaving money on the table.
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Tracking health data to maintain awareness and intention.
by Jim Stogdill
| @jstogdill
| +Jim Stogdill | 22 May 2012
I'm trying to walk the line between obsessive tracking and an open ended approach to motivation.
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Code isn't just for programmers. It's a part of the world we live in.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides
| +Mike Loukides | 16 May 2012
The judge presiding over the Oracle/Google case learned Java, and that skill came in handy when coding specifics arose during the trial. It's proof that coding is a part of cultural competence, even if you never do it professionally.
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Are solution vendors waiting for broad Hadoop adoption before jumping in?
by Jim Stogdill
| @jstogdill
| +Jim Stogdill | 16 May 2012
So, here we are with all of this disruptive big data technology, but we seem to have lost the institutional wherewithal to do anything with it in a lot of large companies, at least until package solutions come along.
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We're on a path toward personalized learning.
by Marie Bjerede
| @mbjerede
| +Marie Bjerede | 15 May 2012
Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are showing us what's possible when learners, not institutions, own the education that will define their lives.
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MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop is coming May 15-16 at PARC.
by Dale Dougherty
| @dalepd
| +Dale Dougherty | 11 May 2012
Being held May 15-16, MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop is an intensive introduction to the business of making and the makers who are creating these businesses.
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