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Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

An interesting metaphor, and it certainly fits with the way I’ve looked at Google, Amazon, and Apple’s strategies.

Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

Here’s the frame that I use: Apple sells systems. Google sells services. Amazon sells content. Microsoft, in general, sells software, although that’s changing now.

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The Things You Must Not Tell Anyone At Work (Or should you?)

For some medical conditions, telling the people around you is actually a safety concern. I’ve got severe food allergies. I can’t join coworkers for Thai food. If an event is catered, I need it to include something I can eat, and I need to be able to trust that my coworkers aren’t mixing up the food I can’t eat with the food I can. If I go into anaphylactic shock, it would be helpful if someone knew what to do while waiting for the paramedics to arrive. I certainly don’t make it the subject of every conversation, but when food is involved, it comes up…and frankly, it *has* to.

Warning! The Things You Must Not Tell Anyone At Work

There are some things we shouldn’t tell anyone at work. Sharing the ‘wrong’ things with co-workers can quickly backfire and leave us exposed, vulnerable or side-lined.

Moving Seasonal Businesses to the Cloud

It’s sort of an ad for the particular provider, but it makes a good point: If your computing needs fluctuate significantly (by season, by time of day, by event, etc.), it’s better to have a system that will adjust to changing demand instead of wasting resources (and money) by always running at maximum capacity.On a small scale, that might be adding/subtracting memory from a VPS. On a larger scale, it might be creating extra servers as they’re needed and letting them vanish when they aren’t.

Moving Seasonal Businesses to the Cloud

This article presents a case study on how seasonal businesses can leverage and gain advantage by using cloud technology.

I remember learning about the OSI seven-layer network model in college…

OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t

How TCP/IP eclipsed the Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for computer networking

I remember learning about the OSI seven-layer network model in college, but OSI it was already more or less irrelevant as anything but a way of conceptualizing networking. The main thing that sticks in my head is an analogy to the Taco Bell seven-layer burrito, with each ingredient mapping to one of the layers.

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Interesting research on one possible cause of food allergies.

Faulty genetic pathway is a potent player in many types of allergies, say researchers

A report on the study’s findings, published July 24, 2013 in Science Translational Medicine, shows that aberrant signaling by a protein called transforming growth factor-beta, or TGF-beta, may be responsible for disrupting the way immune cells respond to common foods and environmental allergens, leading to a wide range of allergic disorders.

Interesting research on one possible cause of food allergies.

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ShareThis: Mobile vs Desktop: A Cross Device User Study

Interesting analysis. For one thing, people share a *lot* more on mobile devices than on desktops or laptops. For another, Apple users on any device share a lot more than PC, Android or Blackberry users. But the really interesting thing is where you find different services on different classes of devices. iPhones are dominated by Facebook. iPads, however, are dominated by Pinterest.

ShareThis: Mobile vs Desktop: A Cross Device User Study

Put sharing to work with innovative sharing tools. Turn sharing behavior into value with share buttons, plugins and analytics for publishers, and media solutions for advertisers.