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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

May 24, 2010 Posted by: Corey Recvlohe video talks No Comments

This animated sequence is a talk by Dan Pink (Wikipedia Google Twitter) discussing human drives and motivations at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (Wikipedia RSA Website). It’s a great all around introduction to some newly minted economic research from the top tier of the profession (MIT, U of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon — sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank), and should be interesting for anyone, not just business folks. I’ll let Dan explain:

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June 15, 2010

We caught this great video and would like to share it. It’s an awesome visualization of the space taken up by our mobile devices. From RFID, to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, we see how they integrate and overlay across our urban landscape. This project was produced by Timo Arnall, who is also known for other visualizations. [...]

It’s All About Scalability

May 8, 2010

One thing we know about here at XZ Backup, and that is scaling. You need ways of managing your infrastructure so you can optimize your work accordingly. Bottlenecks must be addressed, code breaks, hardware dies, new storage is brought online; when building to support SMB and Enterprise customers, you need to work on a global [...]

Inside A Google Data Center

May 3, 2010

Hat-tip to datacenterdesign.blogspot.com for this video. Google provided a look inside its data center operations at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday in Mountain View, Calif. The presentations included a video tour of a Google data center, which showcased the companys use of shipping containers to store servers and storage. Each of these [...]