Twitter / @ShamusTT: Cisco’s GM for core routin …
And he was the #2ish guy at Brocade for a while as well. It will be interesting to see what he can do with Avaya’s business.
Kempt - The Phone Stack
It’s called a phone stack, and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten.
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I love this Idea!
Brilliant
Units of computing devices (PC, Mac, iOS, Android etc) shipped per year, 1975-2011.
A second view into the history of personal computing.
via Horace Dediu
Seth’s Blog: The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer
As witnessed by this post, I go through cycles of being bad or decent at this. When I’m bad, it nags me right down to my core. Enough then.
Data.gov Goes Global | The White House
Nice.
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool
Feynman was the only one who could do it well apparently…The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is.
“Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down,” says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the University of Maryland.
But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say it’s a waste of time. Indeed, physicists have the data to prove it.
» via NPR
Director, Enterprise Marketing at LinkedIn in Mountain View, CA, United States - Job | LinkedIn
Interesting hiring going on at Linkedin.
As a security guy, authentication based on a moveable object gives me the jitters. The concept here is pretty cool. Ski areas are doing similar work with RFID tags that could be easily embedded in a phone. That said, I would be inclined to turn that function off, but I might opt-in to something like this.I saw this video from Matt Jones last week and I haven’t been able to shake his concept of the robot readable world.
Let the concept, it’s implications and opportunities, rattle around in your head for a bit this weekend
It’s a new year and I think it’s going to be much weirder and interesting than the last one.
Which is why Matt Jones discussing the opportunity of making the world more robot readable is required weekend viewing on BRYCE DOT VC.
