Virtuality » video http://idsvandermolen.com Real and virtual stuff from cyberspace Thu, 13 May 2010 21:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Strangled creativity http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/11/18/strangled-creativity/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/11/18/strangled-creativity/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:19:05 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/11/18/strangled-creativity/ You all knew this, of course, but the laws need to change to support the modern and digital ways of creativity. Larry Lessig is talking about the need to change (US) law, but it also applies to other countries, like the Netherlands. So go watch this TED talk from Mr. Lessig.

BTW. also check out his Free Culture book.

]]> http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/11/18/strangled-creativity/feed/ 2 History and architecture of Youtube.com http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/history-and-architecture-of-youtubecom/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/history-and-architecture-of-youtubecom/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:57:48 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/history-and-architecture-of-youtubecom/ Nice talk by Cuong Do about the history of developing a scalable architecture at Youtube.com. Proves again that you can do a lot with a few good men ™ and python.

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Also has some amazing “discoveries”, like people searching for “full moon” every 28 days…

]]> http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/mapreduce-bigtable-and-other-distributed-system-abstractions/feed/ 0 Accomplishing More By Doing Less http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/accomplishing-more-by-doing-less/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/accomplishing-more-by-doing-less/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:10:17 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/2007/08/10/accomplishing-more-by-doing-less/ Google coach Marc Lesser talks about accomplishing more by doing less. Seems to be a good motto :-) Some Zen-like stuff, which may help you getting more ideas and support innovation.

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