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Rethinking the Knowledge Economy

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: December 5, 2009

During the few ‘off hours’ I have, I love thinking about innovation and technological change in the grand scheme of things. In fact, a couple of weeks ago I did a weekend trip to New York on my own budget to attend the Singularity Summit 2009 – a conference of futurists. In my recent thinking [...]

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The Synaptic Web

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: November 8, 2009

The Real-time Web (RTW) is buzzing all over the place, but I’m amazed by the amount of different interpretations of it. The RTW – or better said: large scale activity streams – are indeed reshaping the entire business and technology landscape, but how? This will be the first post of a series of articles that [...]

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A Twitter Bot in One Line of Code

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: September 25, 2009

Yep! It really IS possible with only one line of BASH (Terminal) code using the new Twitter Streaming API. Using a series of chained commands, this Twitter Bot listens for occurrences of ‘one line’ in the Twittersphere and will follow that person. Here’s a version with some extra space for readability (does not really work [...]

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5 Short Sci-fi Art Videos

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: September 17, 2009

Some nice arty technology clips that I’ve collected from my attention trail. Artificial Paradise Inc By Jean-Paul Frenay (via Humanity+). A good Nano-tech teaser. Uploaded Companies By Jean-Paul Frenay As One By Makoto Yabuki What’s in the Box? This short clip got a lot of attention, because it’s made by a young Dutch physics student named Tim Smit, with a budget of 125 [...]

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Cutting Your Losses Early

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: September 15, 2009

My little pet-project Kakuteru.com (lifestreaming service) is hereby declared dead. Over the last months, I have put effort in rewriting the core architecture of Kakuteru, the activity stream aggregation framework, but I’m aborting it now for several reasons. To my dear alpha users: I sincerely apologize and thank you for your support over the last quarters. [...]