Here is something that touched and moved every geek out there: Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9-year-old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away. I think the following comment does the … Continue reading Ultimate geek respect for Adrian Hands
I’ve heard plenty of rumors about an upcoming Google social network. Â I have no idea if they are true, and really I don’t care. Â I have enough social networks as it is. Â But what I haven’t heard about until now is Google +1 – a new recommendation engine that Google is trying out. At first, … Continue reading Recommendation engine that finally makes sense – Google +1
Download Squad suggests that group messaging is going to be the next big thing in mobile communications: The next big thing in mobile communications seems to be group messaging, and that’s no real surprise. If we take a look at the currently entrenched communication platforms, not many of them do more than messaging one-to-one or one-to-a-few … Continue reading Group messaging is the next big thing
Big Picture continues the series on Japanese disaster. Â As on of the comments says: It’s just incredible how tragedy is heaping upon tragedy – the earthquake, then tsunami, then reactor problems, volcano – and now frigid weather. Love and strength to the people of Japan – your grace through fire is an inspiration to all. … Continue reading Japanese tragedy continued
Here is an interesting New York Times article about Google’s Project Oxygen, which is, in essence, an initiative by the company to improve management. In Project Oxygen, the statisticians gathered more than 10,000 observations about managers — across more than 100 variables, from various performance reviews, feedback surveys and other reports. Then they spent time coding … Continue reading Google is building a better boss