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Links: 6-30-2008

• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Dark Launches, Gradual Ramps and Isolation: Testing the Scalability of New Features on your Web Site
  dark launch: the feature is enabled on the site but not actually shown in the user interface. gradual ramp up: you release the feature set to small groups of users so you can see how users actually interact with the feature for real.
  (categories: deployment development performance process scalability testing )

Links: 6-29-2008

• camping hacks | Ask Metafilter
  Great camping tips, best one: use reese’s instead of regular chocolate in your smores.
  (categories: adventure outdoors hiking camping kids )

Links: 6-27-2008

• Main Page - MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
  Handbook of Collective Intelligence.
  (categories: collectiveintelligence collaboration analytics analysis algorithms complexity mit )

Links: 6-25-2008

• Davenetics* : Do What You’re Great At
  Quote: Be the place I browse for news, search for news, share news, annotate news, IM news, SMS news, listen to and watch news, eat and drink news, shoot news into my veins, snort news off the tits of more news. News goddammit, news.
  (categories: news yahoo strategy business )

Links: 6-24-2008

• Books That Changed My Life
  Cool list of books to read.
  (categories: toread books reading )

Links: 6-23-2008

• Slashdot | A Home Lab/Shop For Kids?
  Notes on building a workshop for kids.
  (categories: children kids parenting slashdot science )

• Managing Product Development » Handoffs Don’t Work
  Totally agree. Currently feeling this pain.
  (categories: management process engineering software productmanagement )

Links: 6-20-2008

• An Insurgency of Quality - Brightcove
  Alan Cooper’s keynote at iXDA.
  (categories: development engineering management alancooper interaction usability video )

• timoni.org - Notes On "An Insurgence Of Quality"
  Best to market trumps first to market.
  (categories: engineering entrepreneurship innovation business design )

Links: 6-19-2008

• On A Scale of 1 to 5 - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  Quote: "So, when we think about rating and reputation systems, the first question to ask is not, ‘Am I using stars, bananas, or chili peppers?’ but, ‘what risk is being managed?’"
  (categories: reputation ranking ratings risk )

Links: 6-17-2008

• massless.org: Four Firsts for Feeds
  Good stuff in here from one of the original Google Reader guys. Two things: a) Attention data changes attention and b) the Reader Trends stuff was done by someone in their spare time.
  (categories: googlereader feeds rss social attentionstream attention atom feed )

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