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Better is better: improving productivity through programming languages
I think the move to better languages, and letting developers use the best tools for the job will herald an economic boom, one that is sustainable and wealth-creating because it represents...
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http://www.dehora.net/journal/2004/04/better_is_better_improving_productivity_through_progra...
The Computer as Tool: From Interaction To Augmentation
Computers pervade our lives but they do so in an intrusive way. We see them as a flaky friend who can do some cool things for us as long as we accept their fickle moods and interact with ...
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http://www.burningchrome.com:8000/~cdent/arts/my/1.1.wiki
The Interface is Where Innovations Find Value
Some of the most valuable services out there really aren’t that amazing technologically. My current favorite application, Del.icio.us, is something even I could have implemented given t...
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http://bokardo.com/archives/the-interface-is-where-innovations-find-value
Collaborative Filtering Workshop
[Collaborative filtering] is really about trying to make systems smart enough so that they really know you as an individual; so you are empowered to navigate effectively.
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http://sims.berkeley.edu/resources/collab/collab-report.html
Web Content by and for the Masses
The Internet's new phase will shift power away from old-line media and software companies while rapidly bringing about an age of computerized "augmentation" by blending the skills of tens...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/29content.html
More Developers, Less Code
For internal software, roll-your-own is almost always superior to shrinkwrapped. Internally developed software is better suited to the problem than anything you can buy, and it humanizes ...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/14/more-developers-less-code
Disposable Software
It is becoming more and more clear that delivering huge, bulky, all-things-to-all-people software applications is simply not the way to go. We are now ushering into an era of disposable s...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/16/disposable-software
Web 2.0 - Your Technology is in my Experience
[There's a] challenge for designers to make technologists understand that Web 2.0 isn't interesting because it makes "the Internet useful for computers," (as Jeff Bezos said), but that it...
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http://www.peterme.com/archives/000572.html
Dream Machines
The Internet has morphed what we used to think of as a fancy calculator into a fancy telephone with email, chat groups, IM, and blogs. It turns out that we don't use computers to enhance ...
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/wright.html
Will Social Bookmarking Pay Dividends with Search Result Augmentation? - ReadWriteWeb
It is not yet ready to make a significant impact on search, but that ther are still ways in which social bookmarking data can be used to improve how search engines work.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_bookmarking_search_augmentation.php
Clipmark: The Transhumanist Declaration
The manifesto of the World Transhumanist Association
augmentation, biotechnology, clipmarks, enhancement, evolution, modification, technology, transhumanism saved by: deusdiabolus more details ...
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/770DA658-CA0C-4CC7-8B97-BA197B04A018