So, I was alerted to Crystal (https://www.crystalknows.com/) by a coworker. I'm always interested in where machine learning is headed. I'll admit, I was a little skeptical at first and the app kind of makes me sound like a jerk, but the more I read it, the more I think it's pretty accurate. The value that Crystal promises is insight into an individual's communication style … [Read more...]
“If all you have is a hammer…
... everything looks like a nail." - Abraham Maslow I ran into a colleague earlier today. While we were sharing war stories, he brought up a time that he was working at a defense contractor. He was working with IT to solve an issue where they were trying to get a particular piece of data out of a legacy system and have it appear in a widget on a dashboard. Nothing they … [Read more...]
Neil Gaiman’s Kicking My Ass (On Twitter) [infographic]
I decided to check out Visual.ly to see what kind of job it did creating infographics automatically. I decided to compare myself to @neilhimself, Neil Gaiman... I probably should have picked on someone my own size. … [Read more...]
Evernote for iOS 4
I love my iPhone. I love Evernote. Being an early adopter by nature and a member of the iPhone dev program, I jumped at the chance to install iPhone OS 4 betas on my phone. The downside was that Evernote didn't work and, for me, that's a big downside. I've been holding my breath for them to update the app to work with the new OS and I am finally able to exhale today. If … [Read more...]
HTML5 & CSS3 Readiness
This afternoon, a friend of mine posted a link to the HTML5 Readiness visualization. I am a bit smitten with this tool - for a number of reasons. It is useful, usable, and compelling. First off, it effectively communicates which browsers are capable of which "new world features." You can use this to plan which features to use when developing your site because it's easy to … [Read more...]
One Card (App) to Rule Them All
A while ago, I got tired of fishing through my wallet for any of the myriad rewards program cards that I have. I also started leaving them at home to prevent my wallet from turning into a meatball in my pocket. That got me thinking: Wouldn't it be great to have just one card to carry around with you?I started sketching out architecture diagrams - a central repository where all … [Read more...]
WolframAlpha update
So, WolframAlpha has been out a while now and I've had several chances to use it. Occasionally, I've used it when I needed it. It always takes a while for a tool to take root in my psyche. Occasionally, a tool proves itself so useful that it takes root quickly (like Google, back in the day). WolframAlpha has proven itself to be that useful. The power is that you ask a … [Read more...]
CIO Twitter Dashboard
Chris, the CIO/CTO of my day job brought his blog in-house. He is active on Twitter and wanted to provide a resource for other CIOs to find each other on Twitter. So, the concept for the CIO Twitter Dashboard was hatched. The idea is to consolidate on one page as many CIOs using Twitter as possible.We decided to leverage TwitStamp to create a grid of CIOs. TwitStamp offers … [Read more...]