Archive for Jan 2014


Using jQuery Mobile and Backbone

I've updated a jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js tutorial I found online to use the latest versions of jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js.
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Auto Industry is Ground Zero in Technology Disruption

Chris Dixon and Marc Andreessen with Eric Ries talk about startups in this video from the Lean Startup Conference last December. They get into connected cars about 9 minutes in. They get into a discussion of industries being disrupted by technology. Marc calls the auto industry "ground zero" in this disruption cycle. Well worth watching.
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Complex Pico Structures: Guard Tours

We've recently been working on a large project that we architected using picos, CloudOS, and the Personal Cloud Application Architecture. I'm pleased with how this turned out and the lessons that we learned.
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Life Simplified with Connected Devices

Kelly Flanagan's lab at BYU did a concept video to show how connected devices simplify life. My son Bradford did the screen writing.
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Bitcoin isn’t Money—It’s the Internet of Money

If you've ever wondered why everyone's making such a fuss about Bitcoin, this is worth reading: Bitcoin isn't Money--It's the Internet of Money. Here's the money quote (no pun intended): Bitcoin is a new transport layer for finance that allows decentralized, disruptive, permissionless development of applications on a separate layer. It has the capability to do for finance what the Internet did for communication. People have a hard time understanding decentralized systems and they don't always get the power of a platform. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are both.
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