You know the business lore joke. The departing CEO meets his successor and hands him three envelopes to be opened in the prescribed order when trouble strikes. First crisis, the message in envelope #1 says: Blame your predecessor. Easy enough. Another storm, the the CEO opens the second envelope: Reorganize. Good idea. And when calamity […]
How does Google’s unchallenged domination of Search shape the way we retrieve information? Does Google flatten global knowledge? I look around, I see my kids relying on Wikipedia, I watch my journalist students work. I can’t help but wonder: Does Google impose a framework on our cognitive processes, on the way we search for and […]
I’m Christian Kamm, one of the developers responsible for the Qt Simulator that celebrated its debut with the release of the Nokia Qt SDK beta last month. In this article, I will introduce this new tool, explain how it works and how to get involved. Qt Simulator is a fast and lightweight simulator for Qt […]
WaveOne, the new wave server developped by ProcessOne, has been demoed at Google I/O. ProcessOne has been invited to join the Wave area in Google Developer Sandbox at Google I/O 2010 in San Francisco. Mickaël Rémond, the founder of ProcessOne, has been invited by Google in the context of the Google I/O event, to write […]
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“Today’s xkcd comic introduced an unusual word — malamanteau — by giving its supposed definition on Wikipedia. The only trouble is that the word (as well as its supposed wiki page) did not in fact exist. Naturally, much ado ensued at the supposed wiki page, which was swiftly created in response to the comic. BBC […]