Comment on News Flash: Twitter Doesn’t Make You Smart or Stupid by ronald

It's not that simple: It's just not what Bill Keller thinks it is, they really need to read up on modern information theory, see links post. Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds[1] “Opinion polls and the mass media largely promote information feedback and therefore trigger convergence of how we judge the facts,” they wrote. The wisdom of crowds is valuable, but used improperly it “creates overconfidence in possibly false beliefs.” 1. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/wisdom-of-crowds-decline/

Comment on News Flash: Twitter Doesn’t Make You Smart or Stupid by ronald

Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2011/05/18/news-flash-twitter-doesnt-make-you-smart-or-stupid/#comment-625212

Comment on The Application Is Dead; Long Live the App by ronald

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. [1] Then along came, cpio,find, vi, emacs .... Let's see if history repeats itself, since it seems like design history is already forgotten. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Comment on The Application Is Dead; Long Live the App by ronald

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Comment on My Web Without Facebook Connect by ronald

Sorry to hear that Om. Might consider: There is not only the problem of a single point of failure there is also the the problem of to many moving parts. In other words weigh your options carefully. I think there is no one size fits all, but in case of a "public" figure, diversification might be good thing. I think Ken Thompson once pointed out you can not trust your own application if you haven't analysed the compiler code with which your app is generated and that's just the SW site of the picture. Now to rub it in: What does TechCrunch now know we do not know? :-)

Comment on My Web Without Facebook Connect by ronald

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Comment on Why Nokia, Microsoft Tie-Up is Good For Developers by ronald

This sounds to me like the year of the Linux [Desktop] will be 20xx. Take your pick. No strategy no year of XXXX. If we look at WinP7 their tiles could easily be context containers. We talk on this blog about context since at least 2006 (did a quick look up). If they would do that the assumption of who/what is a developer would change. UI habits are really hard to change ask anybody from ex. SUN (NeWS) or Steve Jobs (NeXT) or as other countless research projects have proven. If you want lots of new developers the assumption of who is that developer has to change, ask Microsoft (VB). So far Microsoft has shown no clue. They sound like they are the top dog, in reality they are a flea on the top dog.

Comment on Why Nokia, Microsoft Tie-Up is Good For Developers by ronald

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Comment on (Less Than) A Month In The Life of Tech by ronald

Hey welcome back, hope everything is ok. Now back to: Is Google to fix their search problem. Is it just me or is there no definition of what web spam is. Nor Information ... In other words "Combined with our own scientific evaluations" they are always right and it's us, since we have no clue what web spam is. Same goes for content farm content.

Comment on (Less Than) A Month In The Life of Tech by ronald

Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2011/01/21/a-month-in-the-life-of-tech/#comment-579124

Comment on Why Google and Demand Media Are Headed for a Showdown by ronald

Didn't you forget about the content scrapers? If I would know that the content originated at a certain point I would look around more, since I found something interesting to begin with. If one looks around on a content scraped site its just noise. So what Google needs is a Context driven system. But unlike many Journalist who think Google spreads itself to thin with autonomous cars I'm not sure. I studied vision too, for my foray into a Context Orientated language. I mean any vision system organizes more data into context with a ?Mhz system than most data centers can do with TFlops systems. Why? Certainly there must be something better than OO for that kind of modeling, which [not] surprisingly has got some attention from other companies working in that field. Either Google is up to something, or they are just a big company not knowing how to use [their] research to improve their own main product. In other words I find it curious that they research autonomous cars. If they build a context driven evaluation system the content farm problem solution will be a fallout. Another fallout is identifying the originator of a given text, given some previous/other texts. But on the other hand they are not comparing ideas with other people, there are only very few people working on context without statistics (see above) for modeling as an example. So either Google will surprise us or they will be in for a surprise. Based on how long it took to get here it's most likely the later, but who knows.

Comment on Why Google and Demand Media Are Headed for a Showdown by ronald

Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2011/01/07/why-google-and-demand-media-are-headed-for-a-showdown/#comment-571695

Comment on Can Mobile Phones Think? by ronald

Thinking != following pre-defined rules only Context != programmed categories with pre-defined attributes What you describe is just location based categorization. No thinking from the app required, nor context. In a simple case context augments data to make them useful, not required here since it's pre-defined.

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Former Northrop Grumman CEO Ronald Sugar Joins Apple’s Board Of Directors

Apple is announcing a new board member today—Dr. Ronald Sugar, the former chairman of the board and CEO of the Northrop Grumman, a U.S. defense company. According to a release Dr. Sugar will serve as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee. Dr. Sugar was Chairman and CEO at Northrop Grumman from 2003 until his retirement in 2010. Prior to working for the defense company, he held positions at Litton Industries and TRW Inc., where he served as chief financial officer.

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Apple adds Ronald Sugar, formerly chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman, to its board of directors.

Apple adds Ronald Sugar, formerly chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman, to its board of directors.

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