Archive for Jan 2014

5 entries

Using jQuery Mobile and Backbone

Fri Jan 31 15:40:00 2014

I've updated a jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js tutorial I found online to use the latest versions of jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js.
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Auto Industry is Ground Zero in Technology Disruption

Fri Jan 31 08:36:00 2014

Chris Dixon and Marc Andreessen with Eric Ries talk about startups in this video from the Lean Startup Conference last December. They get into connected cars about 9 minutes in. They get into a discussion of industries being disrupted by technology. Marc calls the auto industry "ground zero" in this disruption cycle. Well worth watching.
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Complex Pico Structures: Guard Tours

Fri Jan 17 15:26:00 2014

We've recently been working on a large project that we architected using picos, CloudOS, and the Personal Cloud Application Architecture. I'm pleased with how this turned out and the lessons that we learned.
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Life Simplified with Connected Devices

Thu Jan 16 17:26:00 2014

Kelly Flanagan's lab at BYU did a concept video to show how connected devices simplify life. My son Bradford did the screen writing.
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Bitcoin isn’t Money—It’s the Internet of Money

Sat Jan 11 10:15:00 2014

If you've ever wondered why everyone's making such a fuss about Bitcoin, this is worth reading: Bitcoin isn't Money--It's the Internet of Money. Here's the money quote (no pun intended): Bitcoin is a new transport layer for finance that allows decentralized, disruptive, permissionless development of applications on a separate layer. It has the capability to do for finance what the Internet did for communication. People have a hard time understanding decentralized systems and they don't always get the power of a platform. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are both.
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