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First thoughts about the event...09 November, 2008
I went through the first morning of the event, and it was very inspiring. The speakers quality is very ok, and the event very well organized, but the catering service... Ok, we're surviving that and in the end, we came here for brain not stomach food. John Cleese mainly talked about ways of letting and incentivizing your creativity come out from your unconscious. Not a surprise to most of us, interrupting the cognitive process can be a disaster as he said. I believe that, and always tried to fi
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Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation08 April, 2008
This book was in my Wishlist for almost a year before I had the opportunity to acquire and read it. As I couldn't find it here in Brazil I had to wait for an opportunity to acquire it abroad or buy it from a foreign website. I did the first, and bought this book while travelling to USA for the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2007. Unfortunately, even with the book in my hands, I wasn't able to read it by that time and had to wait a little bit to delight myself reading it. As a Scientist, I'
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P2P: How Peer-to-Peer Technology Is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business29 March, 2008
Although it might not look like a must read book in a social network focused world, it was an interesting read for because of it's deep relation with my under graduation monography and the effort I've put studying that matter. Some may think that today, P2P is old fashioned while they relate the acronym with P2P networks of old days like Napster, Edonkey and Gnutella. Don't feel like that. P2P is not a acronym for file sharing. P2P is a acronym for new ways of making networks, sharing spare res
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The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time (Book review)25 March, 2008
A few weeks ago I have read the book "The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time" (Portuguese version) and later I decided to share my thoughts about that reading experience. The first bit about this book is that it has an easy language, and thus the book fits non-high tech readers. The second bit is that although it is a more interesting book for those of us interested on Google and high tech, it might be a good reading for those interested on gett
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Seeing What's Next25 January, 2008
This book features some in depth study of real world industry changes, and how they happened, explained from a point of view that most of us have never thought before. I found it very useful in several subjects of study. Seemingly "Crossing the Chasm", Geoffrey A. Moore, it's first chapter explains some qualities of consumers, and how to feed them with what they need. Actually, it takes a different approach when compared to Crossing the Chasm, because it preaches that some business have their ow
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Umit at "The Bourne Ultimatum"15 December, 2007
Look mom! Umit has featured "The Bourne Ultimatum" movie! Movie Directors are going to love UmitMapper and the NetworkInventory for their high-tech movies when we get it integrated into Umit. And we're going to love to see them using it. ;-)
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Google's Summer of Code Podcast and Umit@Nmap25 July, 2007
For those of you interested on taking a look (or should it be a "hear"?) on the podcast I had with my friend Leslie Hawthorn , here goes the link . Yeah... I was a bit nervous, and I missed some words... Also, we had a problem with skype at the time of the interview, and was kinda hard to come out with it. Anyway, hope you have good time with it! ;-) There is another post at Goo
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Game Theory and Summer of Code16 July, 2007
During my last year at University, I spent about the whole year studying economics game theory, in order to make my thesis about friend-to-friend networks and best practices for overlay and sharing networks. Game theory is a very interesting topic, and can lead us to choose better strategies based on the problem environment, rules and possible odds (or rewards) you can get from each possible strategy. Unfortunately, some games doesn't have good odds for every player in the game, and when we ca
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Software is not about code, but people and their desires10 July, 2007
Thinking that with a really optimized, organized and structured code you'll make your software the newest killer app ever? Been fast and stable is just a couple of the requisites users look for while choosing their software. Among all the requirements that users instinctively looks for in a software, usability is the most decisive of them. A software with poor usability makes user feel angry and disappointed about the software. Imagine that someone is trying to use your software in a low profil
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The Secret?16 May, 2007
Yes... That's the name of that almost best seller book (I said best seller, but I didn't mean best book), and I used it as this post's title. Actually, I don't mean to talk much about that book, neither I mean to read it. Most part of those who look forward to read that book, do that with the hope of finding the answer of how to have a money tree in the backyard. First, I would like to state that I believe that money doesn't come without hard work. You can work hard, and make something that giv
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Maemo25 April, 2007
So it came the time which I decided to dedicate my time on porting Umit to Maemo, and make a package for it. This is a long time history , which started about a year or so and which I want to see it concluded for two reasons: 1. I want to be able to run Umit on my Nokia770 (which is getting old now with the N800 release) 2. One of the Umit's mai
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The Awaited Result12 April, 2007
Finally I could release the list of selected students for this Summer of Code. Unfortunately, I couldn't select everyone I wanted, and I had to let go many talented students. I hope that the selected students have conscience of this matter, and work hard to show the world that they really deserved that slot in the Summer of Code, returning really good and useful stuff to the community. I really believe they're going to rock this Summer, and that's why I chose them. BTW, the list of accepted st
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