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Soobrosa's Bookmarks: technology

Todd Hoff: How Will Memristors Change Everything?
Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale
2010-07-06 to bestof, breakthrough, future, innovation, memristor, technology
Julia Ioffe: Roulette Russian
The teen-ager behind Chatroulette.
2010-06-28 to bestof, media, product, psychology, technology
Joe Weinman: Lazy, Hazy, Crazy - The 10 Laws of Behavioral Cloudonomics
Lazy, as in minimizing physical, cognitive, emotional and real dollar costs; hazy, as in using heuristics or rules of thumb rather than precise calculations; and crazy, or, as MIT’s Dan Ariely says in his book of the same name, “Predictably Irrational
2010-06-28 to bestof, business, it, product, psychology, technology
Justin Lahart: Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
Maybe it's time to bring my old white board out of retirement, and rethink some of those old projects.
2010-06-24 to bestof, business, diy, society, technology
Prevelakis-Spinellis: The Athens Affair
How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever.
2010-06-15 to bestof, espionage, greece, hacking, mobile, story, technology, vodafone, wiretapping
Sir Clive Sinclair: "I don't use a computer at all"
The entrepreneur and innovator tells about inspiration, determination and why he doesn't do email.
2010-05-03 to bestof, portrait, profile, technology, uk
Sally Singer: Machine Dreams
At 34, Marissa Mayer is possibly the world's most poised and powerful information guru. What makes this woman click?
2010-01-02 to bestof, business, portrait, profile, technology
Hadley Leggett: Baby-by-Number: Parents’ New Obsession With Data
What parents need is a good inoculation of common sense and some self-esteem, to realize that they can do this without a tool. Just because we have computers and hand-held devices, doesn’t mean we need a tracking device.
2010-01-02 to bestof, child, childrearing, children, data, obsession, parenting, technology
Cody Brown: MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______
Addressing what’s wrong with Twitter isn’t going to come from thin air. It’s going to take a lot of time, development, and platform competition.
2009-08-25 to bestof, business, development, evolution, media, online, society, technology
Allen Salkin: No Twittering Allowed
"It’s nice to keep something off the record. It’s kind of fun.”
2009-08-25 to bestof, media, realtime, technology, twitter

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