June 25, 2009
Youcalc - Custom analytics on live data from your SaaS systems

This looks really interesting. I need to find the time to check this out.

June 21, 2009
Saw this on Whidbey Island yesterday. If we hadn’t just had lunch I so would have stopped.

Saw this on Whidbey Island yesterday. If we hadn’t just had lunch I so would have stopped.

June 15, 2009

TweetPsych. Neat Idea

I tried out TweetPsych. It is an interesting idea but I’m not sure what the results below based on my tweets mean. It is good to see twitter analysis that goes beyond managing followers.

Cognitive Content

  1. Present tense
  2. Self reference
  3. Similes
  4. Senses
  5. Future tense
  6. Positive emotions
  7. Negative emotions
  8. Media, entertainment & celebrities
  9. Insight

Primordial, Conceptual and Emotional Content

  1. Abstract thought
  2. Visual sensations
  3. Affection
  4. Cold sensations
  5. Constructive behaviors
  6. Oral fixation
  7. Concreteness
  8. Moral imperative
  9. Order
  10. Anxiety

TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets.

June 11, 2009

Project Natal Demo on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (Sorry Canadians it’s Hulu)

Some mornings start off with just too much great stuff to read.

I won’t be able to read all these before Sadie finishes watching Super Why so I better write them down.

Information Aesthetics introduced me to Google Fusion Tables

The McKinsey Quarterly publishes Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers with audio.

Kate Niederhoffer writes consistency, connectivity, and consequences

Then there is a post on the IxDA discussion list on SharePoint & Semantic Web events. A topic very near and dear to me that is massively ignored. After all good search is magic not work.  Maybe if we started calling sharepoint metadata a name like SRO (SharePoint Results Optimization) then people would care.

Now all I have to do is find the time to read these sometime today :-)

June 7, 2009
rcoleman:

how to be happy in business - venn diagram (via kareem:)

rcoleman:

how to be happy in business - venn diagram (via kareem:)

May 27, 2009

from @snookca: Real life vendor/client relations. http://bit.ly/H9zm6 (via @jnunemaker)

May 14, 2009

I know I’ve posted a lot of videos but go see my friend Phil’s band at the Opera House tomorrow in TO.

I think I could totally do this… lookatthisfuckinghipster: “I call it the ‘Ewww Manchu.’”

I think I could totally do this… lookatthisfuckinghipster: “I call it the ‘Ewww Manchu.’”

I feel like: “Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot - No Remorse (I Wanna Die)”

Paul Pangaro at the first situate.us gathering in Toronto on May 6th, 2009 (Vimeo via @mmilan)

Importance of HTML Headings for Accessibility (youtube via @snookca)

May 13, 2009
Introductory video [Silverlight] to what I am currently working on for SQL.

This is an interesting riff on the Windows experience. I’d like to see a hybrid of this and some of the ideas in #Bumptop.

May 12, 2009

Pictures and panoramas from the family trip to Mount Rainer on May 10, 2009