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Google is joining the Open edX platform
Posted by Dan Clancy, Director of ResearchA year ago, we released Course Builder, an experimental platform for online education at scale. Since the...
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Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs
Picture by Scott Vandehey This morning I ran across a wonderful open source project called “Crime doesn’t climb”, analyzing how crime rates vary with altitude in San Francisco. Th…
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PhpMyAdmin Turns 15
The phpMyAdmin project was “born” on the 9th of September, 1998, when Tobias Ratschiller released version 0.9.0. The project has grown to be one of the primary tools for administering MySQL and MySQL-like databases, with over 200,000 direct downloads per month (and countless more users who use a prepackaged…
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How we got to $1,000 in recurring revenue
Here are 3 tips on how to get your first $1,000 in recurring revenue: have a straightforward value proposition, sell before you build, and monetize.
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ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru
Read the latest news and technical tips about Source Code Management, Source Code Hosting, Perforce, SVN and Git.
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Doing Good in the Addiction Economy
The world is becoming ever-more addictive and distracting, showering us with short-term rewards. But we can still take control of those mechanisms in order to do good in the world, and make ourselv…
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Why I hate funnels.
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A new breed of Chrome Apps
Editor's note: Today marks the 5th birthday of Chrome, a project we started to push the web platform forward. From a humble beginning of s...
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Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned
Note: I was holding off on posting this because I wanted to wait for our redesign to be finished…but alas, it is taking much longer than we thought it would…so as promised a while back, here is our story. Our Story: 10 Years of Bootstrapping In 2002, after several years of running a small but […]
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Yahoo showed us 30 days of logos. Here’s the one consumers liked best
With a new CEO last summer and a $1b acquisition this spring, Yahoo has been changing significantly. Next up is its iconic logo: Tomorrow Yahoo will unveil a new logo to signify the new era. To draw attention to the change, Yahoo has been displaying a different logo every day for the last month. We were … Yahoo showed…
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Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…
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How much it's worth to be #1 on Hacker News for a day
Last Tuesday my blog post about using a standing desk for 2 years shot to number 1 on Hacker News for a brief but glorious 10 hours. Below I’ll explain how this impacted my traffic and sales.kamagra acheter Here’s my setup. My blog is of low-to-medium popularity, with wildly varying...
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Adventures in Self Publishing
My journey from an empty text file to a successful book launch, including pretty graphs!
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The Deal That Makes No Sense
Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for €3.79 billion (plus €1.65 billion for patents). It is a deal that makes no sense. While industry observers love to pontificate about mergers and acqu…
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Nokia acquired by Microsoft
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Microsoft to acquire Nokia
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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A horrifying startup accelerator story
Recently, I wrote a post called “Entrepreneurs Deserve Full Transparency” for my WSJ series. Several entrepreneurs wrote me, but this story really stands out as a warning to do your diligence and demand full transparency. Not all accelerators are created equal. I’ve posted the following email by permission of the…
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Cannot Measure Productivity
It is impossible to measure the effectiveness of tools and techniques in software development because we have no way of measuring our output, and thus our productivity.
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Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
Our curriculum is designed with one goal in mind: to help you launch your career in technology. As a global leader in curriculum development, our programs meet — or exceed — the hiring requirements of the technology jobs you want, empowering you with Day-1 Skills. WOZ technology training features in-browser coding…