Termite is a language and system offering a simple and
powerful tool for expressing distributed computation. It
is based on a message-passing model of concurrency inspired
by Erlang, and on a variant of the functional language Scheme.
via Bill Clementson
Joe Krause recently wrote that “Its a great time to be an entrepreneur“. Yes, it is. Joe talks about cheap hardware, free infrastructure software, cheap global labor markets, and search engine marketing. There is another reason that its a great time to be an entrepreneur – an excellent example of which is Joel Spolsky’s latest project: CoPilot.
David Weinberger: “On Wednesday, about 75 people crowded into a seminar room at Harvard Law to talk about H20 playlists, a Berkman project in beta that lets people build and share “lists” of online and offline resources. It grows out of projects started in 1998, including a structured forum (“Rotisserie”) for mutliple classes to discuss shared readings.”
Jill Yablonski: “You can support someone because you like them or because you don’t like their opponent. A new study published in the latest issue of Political Psychology examines this concept to find that people are less likely to change their preference when they cast their vote against the candidate they do not like rather than for the one they do.”
What’s the dancing bunnies problem?
It’s a description of what happens when a user receives an email message that says “click here to see the dancing bunnies”.
Keith Ferrazzi: “One of the coolest things about LinkedIn is how easy it is to reconnect with past colleagues. After you input your past employers’ names in your professional profile, every time you log in to LinkedIn’s main page you’ll be automatically notified of current and past colleagues who are LinkedIn members.”
Unlike many of the other inventors who were shoving their cards into our hands, this gentleman kindly requested one of our cards and said in passing he’d be happy to send along a free sample to us. “Sure,” we thought, “like he’s really going to even remember that he just said that.” But it was a kind gesture nonetheless.
Well, two weeks went by. We hadn’t heard a peep from the many inventors who had shoved their cards into our hands. And then a very heavy box arrived via FedEx.
quadspot >> waterloo: free classified listings for the waterloo community.
Update: Comment from Michael Hiemstra:
Everyone note that “waterloo community” means University of Waterloo community. Read more about the startup of quadspot here.
Jeffrey Moses: “Contacting a competitor may seem counterintuitive to your small business’s growth, but next to the technique described above, this is the best way for a company to take on new work at little cost. Who knows? The competitors you contact might have an overflow and be grateful for your call.”
Ken Dyck 