- You Are Solving The Wrong Problem « Aza on Design
Brilliant story… "MacCready’s insight was that everyone working on solving human-powered flight would spend upwards of a year building an airplane on conjecture and theory without the grounding of empirical tests. Triumphantly, they’d complete their plane and wheel it out for a test flight. Minutes latter, a years worth of work would smash into the ground. [...] The problem was the problem. Paul realized that what we needed to be solved was not, in fact, human powered flight. That was a red-herring. The problem was the process itself, and along with it the blind pursuit of a goal without a deeper understanding how to tackle deeply difficult challenges. He came up with a new problem that he set out to solve: how can you build a plane that could be rebuilt in hours not months." (inspiration design learning )
- Hollywood Starts to Worry as 3-D Fizzles in U.S. – NYTimes.com
"Ripples of fear spread across Hollywood last week after “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which cost Walt Disney Studios an estimated $400 million to make and market, did poor 3-D business in North America. While event movies have typically done 60 percent of their business in 3-D, “Stranger Tides” sold just 47 percent in 3-D." (financials 3d film )
- Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation
"According to several sources Airbnb is in the process of closing a whopper of a funding round: $100 million or more at a $1 billion-plus valuation." Nope, not a bubble. Nothing to see, move along now… (bubble investment airbnb )
- How to Ensure Business Continuity in the Cloud Cloud Computing News
"Protecting your organization from unplanned downtime is widely dependent on building redundancy and diversity directly into your disaster recovery and business continuity systems. Business systems need to be able to run on a number of different infrastructures — whether they be public clouds such as Amazon or Rackspace, or private clouds using traditional on-premise hardware — and be able to fail over between them quickly and efficiently as necessary." (business_continuity cloud_computing )
- Silicon Milkroundabout: How London startups took hiring back into their own hands
"Sunday 15th May was a significant event for the London start-up community. 45 start-ups from across London gathered in one room with a single purpose – preventing banks and consultancies hiring the best UK engineering and computer science talent." (recruitment startups london )
- Look Out, Future: Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman Joins Locker Project & Singly
"After seven years as the Chief Technology Officer of the world's leading Linux distro Ubuntu, Matt Zimmerman announced today that he's leaving that position to join a technology project we said was "aimed directly at the future of the web" when we wrote first about it earlier this year: open source personal data locker platform The Locker Project and its corporate counterpart, Singly. [...] Called The Locker Project, the open source service will capture what's called exhaust data from users' activities around the web and offline via sensors, put it firmly in their own possession and then allow them to run local apps that are built to leverage their data." (personal_data open_source jobs )
- Facebook Still Has No iPad App But They’re Building A Desktop Software Team?!
"Facebook has no iPad app. It’s ridiculous. Their iPhone app is the most downloaded app in the history of apps. And third-party iPad apps (many of which aim to trick users) constantly dominate the top 10 lists for both free and paid apps. And yet, Facebook doesn’t seem to care at all about the device. Because they’re all about HTML5, right?" (facebook software ipad employment )
- Twitter unmasks anonymous British user in landmark legal battle | Technology | The Guardian
"The social network has passed the name, email address and telephone number of a south Tyneside councillor accused of libelling the local authority via a series of anonymous Twitter accounts. South Tyneside council took the legal fight to the superior court of California, which ordered Twitter, based in San Francisco, to hand over the user's private details." (twitter privacy legal )
- Children don’t need Brain Gym to spot nonsense | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian
"This week I got an email from a science teacher about a 13-year-old pupil. Both have to remain anonymous. This pupil wrote an article about Brain Gym for her school paper, explaining why it's nonsense: the essay is respectful, straightforward, and factual. But the school decided they couldn't print it, because it would offend teachers in the junior school who use Brain Gym." (education science children censorship )
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