Idea of a Mobile app providing faster content loading from partner websites. (more)

Business Week produced an entire issue based on a 38,000 word essay by Paul Ford called "What is Code?" The online version is the "real" thing. (more)

Microsoft Digital Identity platform. (more)

Carlota Perez disagrees with the popular Silicon Valley belief that we’re at the beginning of a new golden age of prosperity driven by technological innovation. (more)

author of Technological Revolutions And Financial Capital

Patrick Hogan converted his teenage-years chat logs into a Markov Chain-based ChatBot. (more)

Kevin Dewalt thinks Every Entrepreneur Should be Learning Programming. *I started programming computers when I was 12 years-old, more than 30 years ago. Unfortunately for most of my career I didn’t do much programming except for hobby Side Project-s.... When I started my first company in 1999 I raised Venture Funding and hired programmers – I never wrote a single line of code and would have never dreamed I’d be writing software in my 40s. In retrospect, this was a big mistake – I wish I had always kept coding. Fortunately in 2008 I started coding again and plan on doing it forever. Here are some reasons why. (more)

Gap between what Women get paid vs men for doing the "same job". (more)

payment transaction handling/clearing (more)

term often used for Teenager Market, esp in Book Publishing (more)

Simplest Thing's Business Model will be to charge a subscription/membership fee to users (probably quarterly, since the price will be low enough that monthly seems pointless). (more)

Google and Twitter are working together to help publishers show “InstantArticles” to people who use their services on mobile phones... the cached Web pages will display the original ads the publisher sold next to the story, says a person who has discussed the idea with Google. (more)

Patrick McKenzie gives an annual update on his progress/earning with Bingo Card Creator, Consulting, and his new Appointment Reminder app. Things I noted: (more)

Marc Canter is moving to Cleveland Oh to launch his DigitalCities meme. I'm focusing on innovating in the area of workforce development (Economic Development), we're going to use our People Aggregator platform and live Video Help to get people comfortable using computers and learning the job skills they'll need - in the future (Education)... Oh yah - we'll also help build out a software infrastructure that will enable a NEO wide alliance of cities, municipalities and neighborhoods to have their own Platform-s, dashboards, etc. - and mesh us all together. He'll be teaching a course at Case Western and trying to get grants. (more)

Alan Cabal gives a short profile of the NYC Occult/Magick crowd from the 70s to the 90s. Herman Slater had vigorously encouraged and supported the creation of the Schlangekraft Necronomicon, edited by "Simon." No doubt he'd grown weary of explaining to customers that H P Lovecraft's fabled forbidden tome was a fiction, a plot device for great horror stories and nothing more. He was savvy enough to sell leftover chicken bones as human finger bones to wannabe necromancers, so he surely knew that the market for a "genuine" Necronomicon could be huge-with the right packaging. In 1977, the book made its debut in the window of Herman's little shop of horrors in Chelsea. It generated a scene of its own, a scene bursting with mad, unfocused creativity and slapstick mayhem. Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea had just published their Illuminatus Trilogy, and interest in secret societies and occult lore was sweeping through counterculture circuits. Grady Mc Murtry was attempting to jumpstart the long-dormant OTO in California and had just succeeded in having Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot deck published.

Writer of Robot Wisdom (more)

Ex-GooGle person (more)

GitHub, Inc., wrote the first version of Hubot to automate our company chat room (CampFire). Hubot knew how to (Robot) deploy the site, automate a lot of tasks, and be a source of fun (ChatBot) in the company. Eventually he grew to become a formidable force in GitHub. But he led a private, messy life. So we rewrote him. Today's version of Hubot is open source, written in Coffee Script on NodeJs, and easily deployed on platforms like Heroku. More importantly, Hubot is a standardized way to share scripts between everyone's robots. https://hubot.github.com/ (more)

Intelligent Software Assistant AIML Android app from Pandora Bots. (more)

AIML server/service run by AIML creator Richard Wallace. (more)