book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch: APE Author Publisher Entrepreneur - How To Publish A Book ISBN:0988523108 (Self Publishing) (more)

Customer Relationship Management (more)

Apple Computer's cloud Data Synch/Back Up/Sharing service (more)

was head of Xerox PARC 1990-2000 (more)

The Lively Kernel is an open source web programming environment. It supports desktop-style applications with rich graphics and direct manipulation abilities, but without the installation or upgrade troubles of conventional desktop applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lively_Kernel (more)

Some people are scared of "organizing" a TeamWiki. I've never understood this, since some big benefits of a Wiki are: (more)

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes.[2] It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on intelligence and behaviour, especially focusing on how information is represented, processed, and transformed (in faculties such as perception, language, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion) within nervous systems (humans or other animals) and machines (e.g. computers). Cognitive science consists of multiple research disciplines, including psychology, Artificial Intelligence, philosophy, NeuroScience, linguistics, and anthropology.[3] It spans many levels of analysis, from low-level learning and decision mechanisms to high-level logic and planning; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization. The fundamental concept of cognitive science is that "thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist (Cognitive Science) in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MITs) AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky

Really enjoyed PandoLand, though not sure I learned anything actionable...

Open Source/hybrid-license CRM system (more)

idea of supporting HTTP protocol over XMPP to get P2P features (more)

PyRo stands for Python Robot-ics. The goal of the project is to provide a programming environment for easily exploring advanced topics in artificial intelligence and robotics without having to worry about the low-level details of the underlying hardware... Currently, the robots supported include the Pioneer family (Pioneer, Pioneer2, People Bot robots), the Khepera family (Khepera, Khepera 2 and Hemisson robots), the AIBO, the Intelli Brain Bot, and the Room Ba. (more)

Amy Jo Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Shuffle Brain, an American author and researcher on the subject of online communities. She has a background in neuroscience, computer science, and psychology; making her a game designer and web community architect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Jo_Kim (more)

Concept used by Paul Virilio in comparison to Simple War and Total War. (more)

Robin Sloan: Writing with the machine (more)

Venkatesh Rao: How to Take Your Brain Off-Road (more)

Ralph H. Abraham (born July 4, 1936, Burlington, Vermont) is an American mathematician. He has been a member of the mathematics department at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1968... Abraham has been involved in the development of dynamical systems theory in the 1960s and 1970s. He has been a consultant on Chaos Theory and its applications in numerous fields, such as medical physiology, ecology, mathematical economics, psychotherapy, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham

One of the Things I Love, esp Dark Chocolate (more)

Barack Obama is taking lots of heat for his remarks at a "private fund-raiser" Apr06. But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Bill Clinton administration, and the George W Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. (Red Vs Blue? Update: Actually, I call this the Clinger Party.) (more)

Most Important Task (more)