aka Experiential Teaching On Line (more)

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics[1] and 3D computer animation,[2][3] which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a Robot's human likeness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley (more)

Thread of discussion about a topic that runs across multiple postings on multiple WebLog sites. (more)

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organization typically granted a Monopoly to provide some Public Service, justified as being a Natural Monopoly. (more)

aka Great Britain (more)

I ran my MoinMoin-file-purge script to keep my file-count down at Blue Host. Then MoinMoin wouldn't run anymore! (more)

On Aug27, Paul Graham tweeted Convertible notes have won. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note. (Y-Combinator, Convertible Debt) (more)

Braintree is an American company that helps online businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway (Payment Processing), recurring billing and Credit Card storage. Braintree is a Level 1 PCI-DSS compliant service provider.[2]... Braintree was founded in 2007 by Bryan Johnson.... In 2012, Braintree acquired Ven Mo for $26.2 million[9] that had been founded by Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail[10] and expanded its payment platform to Australia, Canada, and Europe... On September 26, 2013, it was announced that EBay/PayPal had acquired Braintree for US $800 million and would continue to run it as a separate service... On January 31, 2013 Venmo Touch was launched. This was the first product developed jointly with Venmo. Venmo Touch allows consumers to checkout with One Touch across multiple mobile applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braintree_(company)

Mark Suster is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and investment partner at UpfrontVentures (until June 2013 known as GRP Partners).[1] He is a prominent blogger in the Start Up Venture Capital world[2] and mentor at TechStars (a mentorship-driven seed stage investment fund). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Suster

BBC designer/engineer (until 2005) (more)

A summary of the "From Push to Pull" paper by John Hagel and John Seely Brown. Network Economy. From Push to Pull identifies and explains the core differences between traditional business practices established and fine-tuned during the command-and-control industrial era of the 20th Century and the new world of business being created in the connected information-centric era of the 21st Century. The following table provides some of the examples and additional observations...

Google TextAd implementation - self-service, CPC (Cost Per Click) (more)

Venture Capital-ist, ex-EntreprenEur (more)

Denise Caruso on on Daniel Sarewitz's (and Richard Nelson's) research on the effectiveness of Human Action. KnowHow is more than knowledge. It puts knowledge to work in the real world... In a yet-unpublished essay, they contrast the know-how behind vaccinating children for measles and the know-how behind teaching first graders to read... In that case, today's know-how on vaccination is far more robust than that on teaching a child to read. When know-how is robust, it has a quality that the two men have called the "go" - or a core of reliable action. In their theory, any technology, object or practice that can be reliably standardized and improved over time, like vaccines or software or automobile emissions, has a "go".... But the "go" enables more than just the right tool for the job. It can provide a vital Convergence point for Stakeholder-s with very diverse agendas. Once they find common cause in a reliable technological solution, they have something to rally around so that all their interests can be advanced.... Can the "go" teach us something about those problems where there is "no go?" After all, the fact remains that "it's really hard to make progress where you don't have a "go" or a technology" to solve the problem at hand, Professor Sarewitz said... The professors stress that their work is still in progress. But they hope that their work may reframe how we think about our "no go" problems and help us find new ways to deploy human know-how and effectiveness beyond the comparatively low-hanging fruit that technological solutions provide (Technological Determinism). This ability would signal an important change in how societies approach and address their most pressing issues.

Ram Charan's book KnowHow defines 8 skills needed for effective Leadership. How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important. But something big is missing: the know-how of running a business—the capacity to take it in the right direction, do the right things, make the right decisions, deliver results, and leave the people and the business better off than they were before.

author of UnderstandingComics (Comic Book) and ReinventingComics (more)

Venkatesh Rao has come to recognize the ubiquitous applicability of Hacking (Reality Hacker). *I now believe that the term hacking is not over-extended; it is actually under-extended. It should be applied to a much bigger range of activities, and to human endeavors on much larger scales, all the way up to human Civilization. (more)

Dave Winer [has](http://littlecard.smallpict.com/2014/07/01/welcomeToLittle CardEditor.html) launched a Little Card editor that lets you post a text-over-picture to Twitter. (more)

I really want my Web Browser to have the concept of Window Group-s, kinda like MacOs X Spaces. (more)