Sunday, June 27, 2010
The Economics of Cloud Computing: Live Webcast on ZDNet Highlights Microsoft's Approach
This might be a useful webcast for people interested in keeping up the changes in "cloud computing". If you aren't very familiar with the term, cloud computing refers to
Live Webcast: The Economics of the Cloud
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM GMT
http://www.zdnet.com/
"The shift toward cloud services is reaching across application development, deployment and delivery, and impacts virtually every aspect of how people and businesses use technology."
Google Tech Talk: Faculty Summit 2009 - good overview
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
More TED Talks: Chip Conley's discussion about measuring what makes life worthwhile
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein
The above quote was used during Chip Conley's 2010 TED Talk about measuring what makes life worthwhile.
Chip Conley is a hotelier who focuses on creating habitats of happiness. In this talk, Conley discusses how he adopted the psychologist Mazlow's hierachy of needs and applied it to create a business model that focuses on intangible higher needs of his companies employees, customers, and investors. He also shares how he gained insight about metrics and happiness during a trip to Bhutan to study the Gross National Happiness Index (GNHI), which is something he recommends that business leaders and governments to focus on. He points out how the metrics behind the GDP may not be sufficient for monitoring or measuring the state of today's complex world.
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Direct link to Chip Conley's TED Talks video, with an interesting discussion.
Note: During the weeks of my summer break, I thought I'd catch up on some of the TED Talks that I missed, and I'll share a few of my favorites on this blog.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Updated: (Long Post) The Celestial Economic Sphere, DataViz for the Finance Biz, Truthiness, Behavioral Finance, Gordon Gekko, Quants...
I'm hoping to revisit this topic to create a dynamic, interactive time-line of the history we are living through right now, whatever the outcome. This post has been sub-divided and incorporated into the Economic Sounds and Sights blog, where resources for the time-line will can be found.
The full post can be found by following this link:
The Celestial Economic Sphere, DataViz for the Finance Biz, Truthiness, Behavioral Finance, Gordon Gekko, Quants...
