The Yelpification of IT: Let the People Tell You What Tech You Need
By Klint Finley, wired.comAyan Barua was caught in IT hell.
He was working as a software developer for an IT consultant shop called Sapient, and the company had assigned him to a client who needed help with a piece of business software he was intimately…
The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department
Marcus Wohlsen, wired.comIn the brave new world imagined by four Silicon Valley startups — Evernote, Box, GitHub, and Asana — the role of IT is changing. Instead of the people who say no, they will be the people who say yes.
Why Cognition-as-a-Service is the next operating system battlefield
Nova Spivack, Bottlenose, gigaom.comThe Semantic Web may have failed, but higher intelligence is coming to applications anyway, in another form: Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). And this may just be the next evolution of the operating system.
CaaS will enable every app…
MintyBoost USB Charger Kits v3.0
makershed.comWith the MintyBoost USB Charger Kits v3.0 you can charge on the go! Build your own small and simple (but very powerful and very MAKE-like) USB charger for your iPod or other MP3 player, your ca …
Nancy Settle-Murphy, guidedinsights.com
With so many ways to connect virtually, you’d think we’d all be experts by now. In fact, the opposite may be true: Because we have so many choices, finding the best combination of virtual …
10 Tips for Picking the Best Tech Tools for Your Next Virtual Meeting
Why Your Startup Org Chart Is Pointless
BY Marc Barros, inc.comThe minute you start drawing lines and boxes, you’re instituting an “us versus them” mentality. And that’s the last thing you want at a start-up.
Organizational charts are pointless.
First, they cause you to waste too much time in Excel…
B-School for Hackers
BY Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, inc.comCornell is taking a gamble that a new program will help bring its business-school curricula into the information era. Only, do great programmers really need business degrees?
If digital and data are the future of business, science and…
How To Make Your Very Own Legal Drug
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com“You can ban drugs, but you can’t ban chemistry,” Mike Power, author of Drugs 2.0, explains in this talk at the HIT Hot Topics Conference. And he gives a personal, investigative story to prove it.
Governments can legislate…
$700 wheel gives bicyclists a battery boost
by Stephen Shankland, cnet.comThe Copenhagen Wheel from startup Superpedestrian helps accelerate a cyclist going uphill, charging its battery with energy stored while braking and descending.
The Wheel is ridden like a normal bicycle — users pedal and the motor phases in and…
The 3D Scanner for Your iPad Will Digitize Reality
By Alexander George, popularmechanics.comTechnology
Structure Sensor plugs in to any iPad and makes a detailed 3D image of your surroundings.
First outfit your iPad with this smooth and appropriately futuristic-looking appendage. Then point your tablet in any direction an…
People in New York are living in RVs to get around astronomical rents
slaskow, grist.orgIn New York City, car owners complain all the time about parking. (Like, bike lanes are making for less of it, boo hoo!) And while there is a fair bit of competition for these public and often free resources, it can’t be that bad, because there ar…
New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive
Derrick Harris, gigaom.comResearchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland have developed algorithms they say are the best yet for determining how mobile phone users are getting around town — walking, driving, taking the subway or otherwise — by…
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