one route to InterOp - documented (well-specified so there's a Rule Of Law) data formats (more)

Andrew Stephen ("Andy") Grove (born 2 September 1936), is a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author. He is a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States where he finished his education. He later became CEO of Intel Corporation and helped transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove

System with flows (of energy) between "inside" and "outside" the system (in either direction) (more)

Moreover, the evolution of the global ecosystem and the emergence of modern industrial society are studded with striking parallels. Briefly stated, information is the essence of both systems. from the Bionomics preface (more)

In comparing the IPhone to the GPhone, Clay Shirky and Alan Patrick note how Apple Computer cycles between opened EcoSystem-s and closed platforms over and over again. This fits right into Clayton Christensen's Innovators Solution work. See 2006-01-10-ChristensenIpodDisruptionProprietary.

term from Jean Russell - going beyond Sustainable/Resilience/Anti-Fragility? (more)

interoperation, interoperate (more)

We propose a trade group of social software developers and other interested parties who work together to create and promote open standards for the social software community. (more)

protected by trade barriers (quotas) and subsidies (more)

Get Satisfaction is a customer community software platform for Technical Support (User Support) based in San Francisco, California, United States.[3] It was founded on January 31, 2007, by several people, including Lane Becker,[4] Amy Muller, Thor Muller,[3] and Jonathan Grubb. It publicly launched in September 2007.[5] In April 2015, Get Satisfaction was acquired by Sprinkl R, a Social Media management company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Satisfaction (more)

All the sudden this afternoon my Nexus Six lost CellCo use, both voice and data. Rebooting multiple times didn't help. WiFi still works fine. (more)

variation, variegation (more)

Catch-all term for Data Store-s that are not Relational Data Base-s. (more)

Amazon Web Services supporting MySQL hosting. (more)

XML recently "turned five". Some links: (more)

Graphical User Interface. (more)

part of Jerry Weinberg cabal (more)

process of humans reviewing code with person who wrote it, to reinforce cultural norms of coding style, organization, documentation, logic....

PhoneGap is a development tool that allows web developers to take advantage of the core features in the IPhone, Android, and Blackberry SDK using JavaScript. Mobile Web goodness! (more)

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