This is definitely part of a larger post I need to explore, but came across a link that got me thinking. Came across a link via GigaOm about FileBrowser.io, a new open source file browser to help manage the issues of online data repositories – or what I’m calling the ‘Data Deluge’. Fascinating. I wonder…
Image courtesy Sebastien Fuss via Flickr I wrestle with how much to code. I don’t code, but I think about it – and even in it, sometimes, even if it’s just basic front end ‘stuff’. Every time I’m updating WordPress and a theme, I think about the code. And when I design, I don’t…
Apologies for the problems hyperlinking – I’m undergoing some renovations to this WordPress version. Visiting the Design Thinking Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/301603971905/), I saw a familiar Venn Diagram of business, users and tech, and a question about where innovation and sustainability would live in that diagram. At the heart of the diagram would work –…
Analysis pieces of paper on SILICON. Atomic amount 14 Atomic size 28.0855 g.mol -1 Electronegativity according to Pauling 1.8 Solidity 2.33 g.cm -3 at 20 °C Melting point 1410 °C Cooking level 3265 °C Vander waals radius .132 nm Ionic radius .271 (-4) nm ; .041( 4) Isotopes 5 Automated shell Ne 3s23p2 Vigor of…
Over on the PwC Emerging Tech blog, Daniel Eckert talks about how we’re in an era of ‘context aware computing’ – where “situational and environmental information is used to anticipate immediate needs and proactively offer enriched, situation-aware responses”. This has largely come about at this point in time because of four disruptive technologies…