Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:32:00 GMT
A lot of wise people are blogging about the political conventions, who said what about what when and why, how this person or another is lying and distorting the truths that should be self-evident and so on.
A friend just sent me a link to the film below. I LOVE a good crazy conspiracy theory. But… pay attention. Watch it through the closing credits.
Watch it here: Dark Side of the Moon
And remember to do your own thinking in the months ahead.
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:23:00 GMT
“OK, everybody back from vacation?”
“Hit the button! Hit the button now!”
I’ve been working on the JS UI for the facial recognition and tagging system in Picasaweb since early this year. Hope you like it!
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:37:00 GMT
Slides and examples for my second OSCON 2008 talk “CSS for High Performance Javascript UI” are now available.
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:47:00 GMT
Just finishing my talk with Andrew Hyde on Startup Weekends. Links to the slides and some resources here: oscon2008.html
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:24:00 GMT
I’ve created a minimal Google AppEngine example project for an upcoming workshop. Here it is:
http://code.google.com/p/aeshell/
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:54:00 GMT
Today, Picasa posted about its “Teddy Bear” Easter Egg.
The Picasa 1.0 Easter Egg was a pink pig, this one, in fact, as an homage to Invader Zim, which we watched riotously during late-night debugging sessions.
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:28:00 GMT
Eugene and I worked together on the original dojo.gfx project, and he's gone and written a
significant post on functional programming which Javascript developers must read and understand thoroughly if they want to move ahead in their technical abilities.
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:16:00 GMT
So, I was just double-checking for my own Googlegänger, and found that I had a game credit on Uru, but my fave is my Hollywood Credits at the New York Times.
I especially like that I’ve “worked with” Bruce Willis, et. al.
The information is all “true” but doesn’t promote a lot of understanding about who I am. (I did update my profile on MobyGames, though.)
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Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:06:00 GMT
In The
Innovator’s
Dilemma
and The
Innovator’s
Solution, Clayton Christensen talks about how
disruption in a market can come from a low-quality, low cost provider
nibbling away at the lowest margin business of an established
company. That company is almost happy to lose some of this business,
as it can focus on its more profitable higher-end offerings. Goodness
knows it’s not going to squander its potential profits in a race to
the bottom. Often a company won’t consider the techniques and
technologies of its downmarket competitor until time is running out,
and its competitors are gobbling up ever higher-end bits of what it
considers its prime domain.
Today’s meta-market question: What’s at the low end of this, the value-creation market?
Let’s take a look at some data points along the curve…
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Netscape, founded with 1994 with money from well-known VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, blazingly fast to market with a beta product release in 7 months and an IPO less than a year and a half after being founded.
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Idealab!, which began incubating Bill Gross’s brainchild startups in 1996. The idea was to create economies of (infrastructure) scale so that starting companies, particularly web and software companies, could be launched in a few months for a couple hundred grand.
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YCombinator, Paul Graham’s 2005 angel group, which mini-funds mini-teams of just a few people to build earliest stage companies in a summer.
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and, this year: startupweekend.com, which turns a weekend and a roomful of people into a launched web company (sometimes). It’s like the web startup version of National Novel Writing Month, but can the single-person, spare-time, 1-month startup be far behind? Sometimes, one person with an an idea and some time can create a lot of value.
So here’s the ultimate disruption, aided by the open web, open source,
open exchange of ideas: you’re the link at the start of the value
chain, innovating with leverage in a loose affiliation with other
folks doing the same thing, enabled by technology that nobody owns
enough to take away from you.
What are you going to do now?
Posted by Gavin Doughtie
Thu, 17 May 2007 23:41:00 GMT
Jill and I were married this morning in the quaint little hamlet of Beverly Hills. I’m dancing on the ceiling.
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