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Daily Reading from June 25, 2011
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25 Jun 2011
Links to what I’ve been reading recently.
- Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard - Continuations — ""As it turns out though, listening to customers is a lot easier said than done." "
- Front Channel: Our Micro Business Model - — Uncover and stream the backchannels of a conference
- Jeffrey Zeldman: Stick out your tongue — "After the shoot was completed, the client told our account executive that the product did not exist and the commercial was never going to run."
- Boarding Pass and iPhone — "I asked the gate agent if he thought the PDF of my boarding pass would scan. He said, 'I don’t know. Let’s try it.'"
- Enterprise 2.0: Where the f$#@ is my market? — "You can approach this problem 2 ways. The first is to offer a solution that solves a basic need across a host of industries."
- Sacramento DUG meetup, April 17th —
- Knight Drupal Initiative | groups.drupal.org —
- We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?
- Activity Stream — "Bring all your activity on the web into Drupal. Activity Stream builds a lifestream for you by aggregating your social activities all in one place."
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- Scaling it up — "BarCamp talk from a Yahoo engineer on scaling web services with database clusters, load balancing and performance monitoring. Suggests a Nagios script to spin up EC2 instances when load spikes. "
- Creative lineups — How batting the pitcher 8th can increase run production.
- Baseball Geography and Transportation — "New modes of transportation have affected far more in baseball than how the players travel. They have influenced the shape of the field of play itself and made possible one of the most heartwrenching moves in baseball franchise history."
- Statistics in the Outfield | Wired Science — "Creating a [statistical] model that accurately reflects the fielding performance of individual players."
- Better Than Free — "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."