Originally posted on Becoming Cliche:
A few weeks ago, I got the most exciting email from Emily at The Waiting. Maybe you know her. She’s been Freshly Pressed a time or three. Anyway, she said she was coming to my town and wondered if we could meet. Um, yeah! So exciting. I’ve never met up with…
Category Archives: Technology
July
30
How To Meet A Fellow Blogger In Real Life
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
July
19
Fictional Engineers in Popular Culture
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
Originally posted on Blue Pigeons:
Recently, my little 10 year old cousin Olivia asked me what I was studying at university and I promptly told her engineering. She looked at me and said that that was really boring because it just made her think of a car mechanic. I rolled my eyes, this of course…
July
15
Famous First Landing Pages
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
Famous First Landing Pages When we think about successful companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, we tend to forget the modest beginnings from which they came. As Paul Graham recently wrote, “Think of some successful startups. How many of their launches do you remember?” Well in celebration of modest beginnings, here’s a dose of reality: […]
July
04
Mark Zuckerberg Marched At San Fran Gay Pride
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg led 750 of his colleagues at San Francisco Gay Pride. Zuckerberg’s participation in the parade came after he posted a Facebook status last week lauding the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages, was […]
June
10
Horses, Buggies and SSDs
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
Posted via Demartek. As the calendar turned to the year 1900, horses were a part of everyday life and a familiar site in both urban and rural settings. The wagon, carriage and buggy business was doing well. Horse-drawn vehicles were common and were the predominant form of personal transportation for people and small amounts of […]
June
04
On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
Originally posted on Slackpropagation:
To many people, “geek” and “nerd” are synonyms, but in fact they are a little different. Consider the phrase “sports geek” — an occasional substitute for “jock” and perhaps the arch-rival of a “nerd” in high-school folklore. If “geek” and “nerd” are synonyms, then “sports geek” might be an oxymoron. (Furthermore,…
December
30
Built in IBM Labs: IBM Launches New Database for Big Data
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
IBM announced new DB2 database software, DB2 10 and InfoSphere Warehouse 10 to help customers tame big data environments. IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new software to provide clients with a better way to handle the data deluge and speed up business processes, making it easier for decision makers to gain insights from data. The […]
December
29
Google and the Wisdom of Clouds
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
via BusinessWeek. A lofty new strategy aims to put incredible computing power in the hands of many. One simple question. That’s all it took for Christophe Bisciglia to bewilder confident job applicants at Google (GOOG). Bisciglia, an angular 27-year-old senior software engineer with long wavy hair, wanted to see if these undergrads were ready to […]
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The Facebook Generation
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
The Facebook Generation. I’m 28 years old, and Facebook belongs to my generation. I joined Facebook as a college student, when it truly was ours and only ours. All the youth growing up now constantly connected to the internet are following in our footsteps. In high school, we chatted on AOL Instant Messenger late into […]