http://billday.com Thoughts on software development and mobility Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:59:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Birthday USA! # ShareThis http://billday.com/2008/07/04/notes-from-2008-07-04/ How gun control lost http://tinyurl.com/6s5xh4 # Thomas Jefferson once wrote, pessimistically, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." # But as Jefferson knew, America was founded to reverse that process. # ShareThis http://billday.com/2008/07/01/notes-from-2008-07-01/ I'm preparing to deliver a Partner Preview briefing on a major initiative we're announcing soon...very exciting, more asap! # O'Reilly news on the ebook front http://tinyurl.com/672p8s # ShareThis http://billday.com/2008/06/30/notes-from-2008-06-30/ Google Docs slideware team needs to be taken out back behind the woodshed and forced to enjoy its terrible instabilities... # ShareThis http://billday.com/2008/06/27/notes-from-2008-06-27/ US Supreme Court reaffirms 2nd Amendment http://tinyurl.com/6hovfv # Analysis of the Supreme Court Heller case 2nd Amendment ruling http://tinyurl.com/5ghzoc # Heller 2nd Amendment majority decision quotes http://tinyurl.com/67qlma # Kevin Kelly's "One Machine", especially its implications, would be a fab-o ETech 2009 topic IMO # Pining for the day Google buys Xobni and does GMail ... http://billday.com/2008/06/26/notes-from-2008-06-26/ Handicapping Apple's back bench http://tinyurl.com/67lae2 # Coverage of GigaOm's cloud computing confab, Structure08 http://tinyurl.com/4a4hyo # ShareThis http://billday.com/2008/06/25/notes-from-2008-06-25/ Excellent post by Om Malik on "Symbian, iPhone & the New Mobile Reality" http://tinyurl.com/622kr3 # ZDNet coverage of the announcement of Symbian Foundation http://tinyurl.com/6y4d7t # CloudStatus dashboard launch http://tinyurl.com/5pv9w6 # Wired reports on how the Petabyte Age is different http://tinyurl.com/5sduxw # Googlicious spin on "All models are wrong, but some are useful" http://tinyurl.com/3tg7c9 # Peter ... http://billday.com/2008/06/24/notes-from-2008-06-24/ Peter Mancini has posted his second blog entry on quality of analytics. (Click here to read his first post, "The Problem of Quality Assessment of NLP Tools".) In this post, he details how we define Associative Network (AN) and previews how he is solving our problem of measuring and improving ... http://billday.com/2008/06/24/measuring-associative-networks/ Service Monitoring Dashboards mandatory http://tinyurl.com/56tosg # ShareThis http://billday.com/2008/06/23/notes-from-2008-06-23/ Hacking TCP/IP to support location-aware services http://tinyurl.com/5h7km5 # Fast Company special report on China's power in Africa http://tinyurl.com/4rxqgv # F.C. China-in-Africa report: "The sub-Sahara is now the scene of one of the most bare-knuckled resource grabs the world has ever seen" # ShareThis http://billday.com/2008/06/19/notes-from-2008-06-19/