Nothing Ever Happens

Finally I can say: “Nothing ever happens, without someone making it happen.”
It’s 4:42 a.m. Friday night (Saturday morning) and I’m just back from office.
I’ve been working with different teams on three parallel projects the whole day (they are still at the office!); came back home to see my son and put him to bed; drove […]

Microsoft has recently been carrying out a quiet campaign through its execs and PR lobbyists to convince internet companies, advertisers, and regulators to oppose Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick (see article from WSJ).
NewsVisual has created a social graph of connections of related companies and people. (done with Intellect Space).
Check other stories on NewsVisual, […]

Isn’t it high time someone got negative about negativity?
Yes it is.
Look around. The world is full of things that, according to nay-sayers, should never have happened.
“Impossible.”
“Impractical.”
“No.”
And yet “yes.”
Yes, continents have been found.
Yes, men have played golf on the moon.
Yes, straw is being turned into biofuel to power cars.
Yes, yes, yes.
What does it take to […]

..When you are a dad home alone with your baby. Our son Jun is very attached to us, especially to his mother, which is partly a consequence of the natural parenting style we are following (attachment parenting), which help raising your children into self-confident and emotionally developed adults.
Attachment Parenting is a philosophy based in the […]

How did a small Finnish company create Habbo Hotel an online world which now boasts the largest current active user base in Europe and North America (6.5 million), far larger than World of Warcraft (around 4.5 million, without its Chinese audience)?
Lessons?
Read a great report on the creating of Habbo Hotel.
With 18 offices, 300 employees, and […]

The Evolution Of An Interface
Excellent speech by Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP Search Products & User Experience, on scaling Google, user behaviour research and testing, and the engineering of the interface. Especially important is the section from minutes 8:00-12:00, where Marissa talks about a mathematical approach to user experiments and achieving scale (split A/B testing, paradox […]

What was Doug Engelbart to the 20th century (see my post on Prof. Engelbart), is Jeff Han to the 21st.
After years of research on touch-driven computer displays at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
Jeff invented a revolutionary high-resolution multi-touch computer screen that may herald the end of the point-and-click computer mouse. His spinoff company is […]

An older BUT really inspiring talk from TED on the future of brain studies and real artificial intelligence by Jeff Hawkins who pioneered the development of PDAs with the Palm and Treo. Now, he’s cofounded Numenta focused on HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Modeling) - based on a theory of neocortex. Watch video or download a PDF […]