Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new businesses, fueling innovation and creativity.
All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.
Next to the available versions of Ubuntu for the Desktop, Server and the Cloud, Mark Shuttleworth announces a new version of Ubuntu for the Internet of Things. Snappy Ubunutu Core aims to provide a common firmware for “Smart, connected things” on ARM and x86, that introduces a new standard for update-ability and security.
via Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Smart things powered by snappy Ubuntu Core on ARM and x86.
@amcafee: Technology is not our destiny. We shape our destiny.
"Technology is not our destiny.
We shape our destiny."#dld15 @amcafee pic.twitter.com/bs4vCqivnk— Antonio Vieira Santos (@AkwyZ) January 18, 2015
via Twitter.
Uber has been debated emotionally in multiple geographies, with broad media coverage. Lot’s of people made up their opinion, here are Richard M. Stallman’s Reasons not to use Uber.
I found the fact(?) that Uber is capable of tracking one night stands most intriguing.
Eine Reaktion der Netzgemeinde zur digitalen Agenda der deutschen Regierung, via netzpolitik.org: Die Hymne ‘Cyber, Cyber!’
Security is hard. Visualization may help understanding what is going on a lot easier and better. Raffael Marty presents ideas and visualizations to improve security through graphs.
So does DDoS become cheaper to pay for and easier to access. See Fivverr.
Via
DDoS attacks are getting cheaper and cheaper to order: http://t.co/UdSRlRpA19
Cc: @fiverr— @mikko (@mikko) August 26, 2014
Titelseite der heutigen Süddeutschen. Man fragt sich in der Tat.
email is one of my favorite topics when it comes to modern ways of working. There were a few articles on this blog concerning email to be abolished by major organizations in favour of social media (which won’t solve the underlying problem…)
Communication is essential to most jobs, but so is productivity. Claire Diaz Ortiz wrote a nice comment on why it is both work and why it ain’t at the same time.
This is the opinion that I tend to prefer, coming from an engineering education. email will distract anybody trying to focus on some real problem, will create an obligation to do something non-productive. email can be considered something additional, that should not become the majority of the actual work. To send designs, architecture, plans or status updates, but it is for sure outside the scope of engineering centric job descriptions.
The situation is much different should you work in customer support, service, sales or even product marketing or management. These roles live off the conversation with customers, clients, partners and peers, sometimes even competitors. These roles need to know what others, the market, wants to see as a product or a service, and this is something you can get off a drawing board.
After all, email has a very different meaning, depending on the role someone is in. Still the medium itself is very difficult to handle and too time consuming, even for roles depending on communications. Just imagine all the (obvious) spam, newsletters, notifications and so on. Not to say about the increasing practice to CC everybody and his brother. This is what makes email an ultimate productivity killer for everybody.
In response to: Why Email Isn’t Work. (And Why It Is.).
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