- At last an IT supplier that tells it like it is – The Tony Collins Blog
I don't agree with everything Martin Rice said to the Public Administration Select Committee, but most of it is very incisive: “If a systems integrator puts in what is called a 'non-compliant bid' to Government, they are discarded. It is not listened to. So if the Government asks for something and you do not comply with that bid, as an SI [systems integrator], you will not be considered because if you start saying, “we think it is flawed”, you will not get the work…” (government agile open_source business procurement )
- eModeration Blog: Color me stupid – has photo sharing just gone too far?
eModeration is not impressed with Color… "And just imagine the unflattering and potentially compromising shots you took at the party last night being broadcast to your boss (you spend a lot of time standing near him, right? You must be friends)." (startups app sharing )
- Why Color Matters: Augmented Reality And Nuanced Social Graphs May Finally Come of Age – John Battelle’s Searchblog
John Battelle likes the promise of Color (even though he adds and errant s): "In short, Colors combines the public social graph and instant sharing of Twitter with the "capture the moment" feel of an Instagram or Path. But the real twist is in the service's approach to location. To my mind, Colors has the opportunity to be the first breakout application fueled by the concept of "augmented reality." [...] what Colors does is offer up a visual public timeline of any given location, in real time. Every single image captured at any given location is instantly "placed" at that location, forever, and is served up as an artifact of that location to anyone using the Colors application." (startups augmented_reality location app )
- 41,000,006 reasons why I think we’re in a bubble | jacquesmattheij.com
"Right now, I think it is safe to conclude we're in a bubble, even if some experts are pretty outspoken in stating the opposite." (startups investment bubble )
- True Startup Competition
"I believe a startup only has one real competitor, indifference. People not caring enough about your product is your true competition, not some other startup." (startups competition )
- Kathryn Schulz on ‘Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World’ by Tina Rosenberg — New York Magazine Book Review
Sadly, negative reviews are often the best ones… "Big Idea tomes typically pull promiscuously from behavioral economics, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology. They coin phrases the way Zimbabwe prints bills. They relish upending conventional wisdom: Not thinking becomes thinking, everything bad turns out to be good, and the world is—go figure—flat. (With Gladwell’s Blink, this mania for the counterintuitive runs top-speed into a wall, crumples to the ground, and stares dizzily at the little birds circling overhead. This is, let me remind you, a best-selling book about the counterintuitive importance of thinking intuitively.)" (book review ideas )
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