Today I went to "This Is It", Nice movie. A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Google Story
A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Participant Productions - Jeff Skoll (An Inconvenient Truth) talks about his film company,
Jeff Skoll was eBay's employee number 2 and president number 1. He left with a comfortable fortune and a desire to spend his money helping others.
The Skoll Foundation, established in 1999, invests in, connects and celebrates social entrepreneurs -- offering grants to people who build businesses, schools and services for communities in need. Every year, it presents the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford, and runs Social Edge, a networking site for social entrepreneurs.
His production company, Participant Productions, is what Skoll calls a "pro-social media company," making features and documentaries that address social and political issues and drive real change. His film North Country, for example, is credited with influencing the signing of the 2005 Violence Against Women Act. Participant's blockbuster doc, An Inconvenient Truth, is required viewing in classrooms around the world, and has unquestionably changed the debate around climate change. Upcoming for Participant are two films about Afghanistan, and a documentary about Jimmy Carter's controversial 2006-7 book tour.
Film producer Jeff Skoll (An Inconvenient Truth) talks about his film company, Participant Productions, and the people who've inspired him to do good.
The Web Spends 8 Billion Minutes Online Everyday Using Facebook
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering talked a bit about the infrastructure of the company.
Schroepfer’s mentioned that Facebook is not afraid to be bold and take risks to get done what it needs to from an engineering perspective. They’ve come up with a number of their own solutions to solve a massive scaling problem, and sometimes we (the users) see bugs as a result of that. But, Facebook’s relative stability is pretty impressive.
Schroepfer threw out some huge numbers. Among them:
* Users spend 8 billion minutes online everyday using Facebook
* There are some 2 billion pieces of content shared every week on the service
* Users upload 2 billion photos each month
* There are over 20 billion photos now on Facebook
* During peak times, Facebook serves 1.2 million photos a second
* Yesterday alone, Facebook served 5 billion API calls
* There are 1.2 million users for every engineer at Facebook
* Facebook connect is growing even faster than Facebook
* In over a year we went from 100 million daily actives to 300 million daily actives
* When Zuckerberg started the site, it was only Harvard, then more schools were added, but they were silos. Then we connected those schools, then in 2006 we opened it up.
* It’s way bigger than a single database, so you have to spread this data out.
* Rendering a homepage on Facebook, which do it a couple billion times a day, in a couple of seconds.
* We use something we built which we call “multifeed” which we use along with memcache to get data in milliseconds.
* 50 million operations a second via memcache
* We scaled memcache 5 X its original performance – we rewrote it
* Importance of our culture
* Move Fast – sometimes we push bugs, but that’s innovation
Be Bold – change something if we need to.
Source: Tech crunch
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Human Centric Design - Tim Brown [Design Thinking]
Tim Brown is the CEO of the "Innovation And Design" firm IDEO -- taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface.Having taken over from founder David E. Kelley, Tim Brown carries forward the firm's mission of fusing design, business and social studies to come up with deeply researched, deeply understood designs and ideas -- they call it "design thinking."
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking."
Human Centric Design - Tim Brown [Design Thinking]
Tim Brown is the CEO of the "Innovation And Design" firm IDEO -- taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface.Having taken over from founder David E. Kelley, Tim Brown carries forward the firm's mission of fusing design, business and social studies to come up with deeply researched, deeply understood designs and ideas -- they call it "design thinking."
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking."
Friday, October 9, 2009
UI Fundamentals for Programmers by Ryan Singer
A talk on “UI Fundamentals for Programmers” at WindyCityRails in Chicago last month by Ryan Singer. The talks covered modeling, breaking apps into screens, visual techniques, flows, and a few coding tips.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Awesome (Roger Federer).....
An astounding between the legs shot to set up match point at the 2009 U.S. Open Semifinals in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Awesome from Roger Federer.
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