The Yelpification of IT: Let the People Tell You What Tech You Need By Klint Finley, wired.com Ayan 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 … Continue reading Yelp applied to IT
The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com In 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. http://flip.it/I1CvM Related articles … Continue reading Changing the IT department from gatekeepers to curators
Why Cognition-as-a-Service is the next operating system battlefield Nova Spivack, Bottlenose, gigaom.com The 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… http://flip.it/AEsmh Related articles Why Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS) is … Continue reading Cognition as a service is the next OS
MintyBoost USB Charger Kits v3.0 makershed.com With 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 … http://flip.it/lxFL0 Related articles In the Maker Shed: MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v2.0 … Continue reading Build your own mini USB charger
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 Related articles The World's … Continue reading 10 Tips for Picking the Best Tech Tools for Your Next Virtual Meeting
Why Your Startup Org Chart Is Pointless BY Marc Barros, inc.com The 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… http://flip.it/cyE5L Related articles What … Continue reading Why org charts may damage your startup
B-School for Hackers BY Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, inc.com Cornell 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… http://flip.it/y22Ya Related articles B-School for Hackers (inc.com) Cornell's New MBA … Continue reading Cornell launches b-school for hackers
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… http://flip.it/waJER Related articles MDMA Could … Continue reading DIY drug design
$700 wheel gives bicyclists a battery boost by Stephen Shankland, cnet.com The 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… http://flip.it/Y1yd8 Related articles $700 wheel … Continue reading Copenhagen Wheel from startup Superpedestrian boosts your bike
The 3D Scanner for Your iPad Will Digitize Reality By Alexander George, popularmechanics.com Technology 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… http://flip.it/d6HvI Related articles Structure Sensor. A … Continue reading Structure sensor turns any iPad into a 3d scanner
People in New York are living in RVs to get around astronomical rents slaskow, grist.org In 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 … Continue reading New Yorkers sleep in RVs to avoid high rents
New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers 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… http://flip.it/hxozG … Continue reading Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride
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