IDSVANDERMOLEN.COM » innovation http://idsvandermolen.com Real and virtual stuff from cyberspace Thu, 13 May 2010 21:18:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action http://idsvandermolen.com/2010/05/13/simon-sinek-how-great-leaders-inspire-action/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2010/05/13/simon-sinek-how-great-leaders-inspire-action/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 21:17:31 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/?p=36 Another inspiring video from TED.com. Very interesting point of view. Focus on the why, then how and last what you do or create:

]]> http://idsvandermolen.com/2010/05/13/simon-sinek-how-great-leaders-inspire-action/feed/ 0 Got Google Wave invite http://idsvandermolen.com/2009/12/09/got-google-wave-invite/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2009/12/09/got-google-wave-invite/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:44:48 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/?p=33 Yes, finally!

just scored a Google Wave preview invite, from a colleague at work. I just have to find some time to experiment with it ASAP. I’m very curious about the possibilities and hope to also try out the iPhone app.
Hopefully Google or someone else will make it possible to run a Wave server within intranets (corporate or private). Would be even more beautiful if a “standalone” server could connect to the intertubes… Maybe finally also an opportunity to try out my VMware server farm :-)

Mmm, too many fun things to do, try and think about :-D

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At about 1:12 there is a really amazing demo of real-time language translation (English-French)… And the stuff is even going to be open source! More info at wave.google.com, code.google.com/apis/wave, and www.waveprotocol.org.

]]> http://idsvandermolen.com/2009/06/05/google-wave/feed/ 0 TED.com http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/09/29/tedcom/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/09/29/tedcom/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:15:48 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/09/29/tedcom/ Thanks to David Ascher I rediscovered TED, with just amazing stuff like this acrobatic dance “Symbiotic“. While I have seen the site before, for example with the famous demo of multi touch displays from Perceptive Pixel by Jeff Han, it is just fun to watch videos and find intriguing ideas.

]]> http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/09/29/tedcom/feed/ 0 MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/mapreduce-bigtable-and-other-distributed-system-abstractions/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/mapreduce-bigtable-and-other-distributed-system-abstractions/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:41:54 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/mapreduce-bigtable-and-other-distributed-system-abstractions/ A talk by Googler Jeff Dean on various Google technologies (incl. some history) used in their scalable infrastructure. For more, search for “Seattle conference on scalability” on video.google.com.
Also has some amazing “discoveries”, like people searching for “full moon” every 28 days…

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