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June, 2007

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    Mono Moonlight - Silverlight on Linux is near

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    Technorati Tags: Silverlight , moonlight , linux , UX , User Experience Just saw this from Jesse Ezell: Mono is expected to release an alpha version of Moonlight later this week at the Paris MIX.  This will let users running browsers on Linux clients...
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    Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 3: Strategies for Reinforcing Loops and the Hive Mind

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    Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg Here's a conundrum: if knowledge is personal, how do I benefit from what you "know"...
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    Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 2: Knowledge is personal

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    Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg In the natural world, few (if any) things grow without limits.  In the case of information...
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    Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 1: Education Inflation

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    Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg Education Inflation   Most of us are familiar with the rising cost of education/tuition...
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    Build to last is dead, speed rules, competency is currency. Resistance is futile.

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    Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , adaptive , change , decision making , learning , context aware , cyborg An email exchange with a few colleauges last night, including Chris Bernard and Josh Holmes , got me thinking about the network as...
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    Learning to thrive in times of accelerating change

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    Technorati Tags: continuous learning , systems thinking , adaptive , change , learning Over the last couple of years I've often heard about the need for a "sense and respond" capability -- to sense what's happening in our businesses and to respond...
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    A GREAT collection of Lean Software Development Info

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    Technorati Tags: systems thinking , lean manufacturing , lean , six sigma , learning , software development methods I just stumbled across Brad Appleton's fantastic collection of resources on Lean and Agile software development .  Books, presentations...
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    Acropolis Lives!

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    Acropolis is CTP! The WindowsClient.net site says: Acropolis builds on the rich capabilities of Microsoft Windows and the .NET Framework, including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), by providing tools and pre-built components that help developers...
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    2-D Barcodes: Siren Song or Beach Party?

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    Jon Box posted some about 2D barcodes a couple weeks back. In that post he threw down the gauntlet, challenging me to identify a set of business scenarios -- beyond the great examples he already listed -- that could leverage this technology to create...
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    What is Surface?

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    Well, by now I imagine many folks may have heard a little bit about Surface -- Microsoft's latest computing innovation. There's a reason Surface is getting a lot of buzz: it really is ground breaking! For those who haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself...
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    Want more info on Popfly?

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    I recently got into the Popfly alpha, and have been playing around with it off and on for the last week or two. Here's a screenshot of a simple, compact News Reader that pulls in RSS feeds from the blogs of the members of the Microsoft's DPE team that...
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