Tag: innovation
Just Give the One Finger Salute and Keep Going
In many ways this story illustrates the spirit of America. Unfortunately, I think today we have alot of people that have gotten the “salute” part down perfectly, but missed the part about making something happen! BTW, you’ll also learn a bit trivia. Name the only man to go supersonic not in a vehicle? I guess […]
Posted: May 21st, 2007 under General.
Tags: blog_entry, innovation, life, tim_oreilly
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RIP – John Backus
We have lost another computer software pioneer with the passing of John Backus. An entire generation of engineers and most of the early computer industry is based on the work of John and his small team at IBM. His team of about 10 misfit IBMers developed the FORTRAN language. John W. Backus, who assembled and […]
Posted: March 20th, 2007 under General.
Tags: breakthrough_ideas, hall_of_fame, innovation
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Find Web Mashups?
Ever interested in the creative ways people are using available web API’s? Need to find an API? or mashup? Well, the ProgrammableWeb provides a searchable database of web mashups that they find. From their web stats they list (as of 2/20/2007) over 1500 mashups and 382 API’s!! Some are really creative. BTW, they have an […]
Posted: February 20th, 2007 under General.
Tags: breakthrough_ideas, innovation
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