Over the past several months, my 10 year old has been spending his free time teaching himself advanced math — thanks in part to Salman Khan, who has published 1,200 educational videos on YouTube. Salman quit his job as a hedge fund manager and donated his time to the cause of educating the world. Every day there are 10,000 students watching these videos [...]
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Stephen Arnold makes some great observations on his blog frequently. Here he is trying to explain why Apple, Microsoft and Cisco have a hard time fathoming the “Open Approach” that pervades almost all Google undertakings: The problem is perspective. Google is not in a fish bowl. Google owns a fish bowl. Getting creatures into the fish bowl [...] Open systems appear to have a huge advantage over traditional, closed systems. Witness Firefox 3.5 ascending to the most used Web browser, or Wikipedia revolutionizing the world of online encyclopedias. The folks at Google recently outlined their understanding of the meaning of open. This paragraph stood out: Open systems have the potential to spawn industries. They harness the intellect of [...] Over the summer the NY times blogged about strong SharePoint sales during the recession. SharePoint is already the biggest selling server product ever for Microsoft, it is no stretch to consider that it has the potential to one day become Microsoft’s next big operating system. Cloud operating system, that is. The latest version of SharePoint arrives in [...] The State of Michigan is planning to build a huge data center using green technology. The new system “would cut the cost of running government by reducing the number of duplicate computer systems operated by cities, counties and state agencies. The plan envisions a public-sector cloud that would offer application hosting and managed services to any [...] I’m looking forward to reading Leap, based on what I’ve read so far at the Blog of Tim Ferriss. According to Leap, Bill Gates and many other seemingly crazy entrepreneurs didn’t really risk much at all when they started their companies. They took calculated risks and leveraged opportunities while simultaneously working their arses off. I never new that Mary [...] Eric Schmidt of Google recently gave a speech at the New America Foundation (a post-partisan think tank) in which he outlined the need for an innovation bailout for the US. Instead of simply bailing out failing institutions, we need to take this opportunity to revolutionize our economy, particularly our energy and transportation infrastructures. Detroit needs an [...] Can we all agree that the culture of waste, excess, and inefficiency in America needs to die quickly? Becoming more efficient with our use of energy is critical to breaking the cycle of debt. Energy is at the root of our wealth creation system. I like where Google is going with this: In particular, [...] MIT scientists have developed a revolutionary process to store solar energy, inspired by the photosynthesis performed by plants. This process allows the sun’s energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. The oxygen and hydrogen are then recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power your house or your electric car, day or night. According [...] Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which hack the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen, and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008. These hacks are potentially very disruptive (in a good way). Think cheap educational tools for classroom interactivity. Similar forms of touch/interactive screens require a special surface that [...] |
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