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October 27, 2009

Blogs says users have no idea about how/why to use #GoogleWave, Think Different ! Look at SAP

Instead supporting users about new technologies and new way to collaborate and develop the future, or killer apps...

Most blogs act like snail newspapers about news and inventions... Telling that they cannot understand (and sometimes the users too): how to use Google Wave and which goals they can achieve with Google Wave.

Probably they and their users didn't realized what Collaboration means and how the world of Web 2.0 & Collaboration is changing !

Probably talk about beta/alpha or open-source projects cannot offer a full perspective about what Google Wave can do for killer apps...
Looking about the dark side... like SAP could leverage the System Architects to think different and see Google Wave from a different perspective.
SAP is a "proprietary" software company that reached interesting results adopting Web 2.0 and have a great example about what you can do with Google Wave. 

Have fun !!

     
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October 26, 2009

2 incredible weeks: speaker at IASA Conf in NY + member of the Google GTAC2009 community in Zurich !!

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October 21, 2009

Google GTAC 2009: Niklaus Wirth and favorite quotes from the live Google Wave of GTAC

"Testing can only show the existence of errors, but never their absence." E.W.Dijkstra

"I don't know what to do, this is Windows" --- Nicolas Wettstein, Google

"If you don't like the tools in the software world, then I advise you to dive into the hardware world for a few days and you will come back happier" Prof. Niklaus Wirth

"Universities are not good places to learn programing." Prof. Niklaus Wirth (PS: a few professors here at the GTAC become very nervous)

"If the system gets complicated, automate it" - Niklaus Wirth (PS: I love this one, this is THE reason that pushed me to present my speech at the IASA Conference in New York. Techies love to repeat tasks... instead of creating automations, components or processes... they repeat like monkeys !!!)

"Testing is debugging until it runs" Niklaus Wirth (PS: That was true in the past, we learned the lesson: debugging is not testing ! Remember the monkeys)

 

       
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October 21, 2009

Goggle GTAC 2009: What is and How to use Google Wave

Great, like in GTAC 2007, 2008... also GTAC 2009 offer to us new way to enjoy innovation and technology. I'm a Google Wave tester since early days like for other stuff like Google Voice... but before GTAC I never realized how much powerful could be Google Wave.

I went to Google I/O in San Francisco and I met the Google Wave developers a few time but this time we are the building a new way in creating contents, participating at the conference without any perspective about each other role, amazing.

Look at the screenshot, multiple wave, anyone can create wave and at run time everyone see them and can collaborate.
Building conference, contribution and new sessions at run time,
have fun !!!

Sorry, don't ask me for Google Wave invitations !
Sold out 

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October 21, 2009

GTAC 2009: Introduction, a great speech by Niklaus Wirth

I could never believe to listen Niklaus and learn from him the history
of Testing and Debuging software and hardware. We used to develop software and system to achieve stupid business processes and we can use multi-core and gigabytes...

Niklaus and his staffs invented languages to program and to address mathematical computation that was impossible to solve at his time.

Thanks Google to make this possible !!!

I'll add as soon as possible some pictures,

I'm sorry but I'm listend Niklaus... Great, hehe:

"More effective, because available now, would be simpler,, less baroque languages" by Niklaus Wirth

"Universities is not the best place where to learn programming, the professors stopped to developer programming..." Niklaus Wirth

Unbelievable

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October 20, 2009

Updates about GTAC

Already in Zurich for the Google GTAC 2009

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October 14, 2009

Updates about New York

IASA ITARC in New York, I'm ready for my speech about "Embedding Infrastructure". Why do I have to talk after Grady Booch ?

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October 11, 2009

I'm ready for the next conference, I think that the IASA conference in New York is the most important IT event of the year, See you soon there !!!

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October 10, 2009

Profiles? Hey Googler why an important stuff is so fluky ?

Why the most important tool that everybody use to converge all Web 2.0 tools, presence, availability... and not only for all the wonderful Google services but also for any other type of Internet Web 2.0 sites is so mistreated ?

Very often happens what is happening now: it's more than 4 days that the Google Porfiles cannot support PHOTOS integrations. Usually when Google Profiles has some bugs you need to change, update, apply multiple time changes to solve issues...

But now neither tricks work anymore. Incredible, but think that one of most incredible fact is that the integration between PICASAWEB and Google Profiles stopped to work.

I had the opportunity to know well their effort in testing, thousands of testers, incredible investments on automated testing and they cannot:
- avoid to fail about simple bugs with Google Profiles...
- avoid to be informed when it become fluky...
- avoid that people stop to use Google Profiles and go back to other Web 2.0 profiles services...

Make available your presence and details for the Internet users in the Web 2.0 era is the most important feature and service of all Social Networking websites. Googler think that profiles could be used like "Single Point of Contact" for all users of your Social Networking competitors.

There's no other bugs that make your user frustrated or #$^#&*$^*#$#*
I'm an Google Apps user and customer but... Google your are missing points !!!

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October 3, 2009

By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain

By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain...

...or at least that's what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we're on the brink of a new age – the 'singularity' – when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as fast as Usain Bolt (for 15 minutes) – and even live forever. Is there sense to his science – or is the man who reasons that one day he'll bring his dad back from the grave just a mad professor peddling a nightmare vision of the future?

By Mike Hodgkinson

Sunday, 27 September 2009

Standing up for GM: Kurzweil believes that opposition to advances such as genetic modification harm humankind

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Standing up for GM: Kurzweil believes that opposition to advances such as genetic modification harm humankind


Should, by some terrible misfortune, Ray Kurzweil shuffle off his mortal coil tomorrow, the obituaries would record an inventor of rare and visionary talent. In 1976, he created the first machine capable of reading books to the blind, and less than a decade later he built the K250: the first music synthesizer to nigh-on perfectly duplicate the sound of a grand piano. His Kurzweil 3000 educational software, which helps students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, is likewise typical of an innovator who has made his name by combining restless imagination with technological ingenuity and a commendable sense of social responsibility.

However, these past accomplishments, as impressive as they are, would tell only half the Kurzweil story. The rest of his biography – the essence of his very existence, he would contend – belongs to the future.

Following the publication of his 2005 book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Kurzweil has become known, above all, as a technology speculator whose predictions have polarised opinion – from stone-cold scepticism and splenetic disagreement to dedicated hero worship and admiration. It's not just that he boldly envisions a tomorrow's world where, for example, tiny robots will reverse the effects of pollution, artificial intelligence will far outstrip (and supplement) biological human intelligence, and humankind "will be able to live indefinitely without ageing". No, the real reason Kurzweil has become such a magnet for blogospheric debate, and a tech-celebrity, is that he's convinced those future predictions – and many more just as stunning – are imminent occurrences. They will all, he steadfastly maintains, happen before the middle of the 21st century.

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