Deviant Abstraction

I think now everybody know what is discussed on this subject.

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(From a Web based config)

I went last Friday to a Barcamp in Salzburg, Austria. I have taken some pics: here they are.

A lot of really neat project, really great people,… I highly recommend it.

The event was organized by Subnet.

Update Other photos are here. Of course on Flickr.

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How to hire people for a startup position? Here is I think the definitive reference.

Those advices are excellent for startups. Less for companies having passed that stage.

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Funny and concise article. Of course behind the rhetoric, nobody seems to address the real issue. This issue is simple though:

A lot of Internet users share copyrighted material. We cannot send so many to jail. But creators need to pay their rents. What do we do?

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An interesting report from the excellent Read/Write Web blog on an interesting conference.

Two different but interesting thread of ideas have emerged at this conference:

1) Future of Web

• Deportalization or SOA for consumer (remember the original Web services vision?)
• Personnalization (actually those two ideas are deeply coupled)

(source: Flickr)

2) European start-up

• Be ambitious
• Fail if needed
• Think big

(Same remarks those three ideas are corollaries of the think big meme)

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If it makes you laugh you are a geek.

Via Boing Boing