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Douglas Engelbart’s Vision

Forty years ago, a Silicon Valley engineer named Douglas Engelbart made a presentation so influential that computer scientists now call it “the mother of all demos.”

More than a mere product demo, it was a down payment on an ambitious idea: that networked computers could help groups of people work together more effectively, raising the collective intelligence of the human race and making it possible to solve some of our most pressing problems, including pollution, famine, disease, and war. More…

(Source: http://blog.wired.com)

Giving Capitalism Its Due

Carl Schramm on the importance of entrepreneurship.

Carl Schramm doesn’t buy the idea that some businesses are “too big to fail.” That notion, says the president of the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation, only creates obstacles for entrepreneurs. Instead, he sees the failure of big companies as the “moment when 1,000 flowers can bloom.”….

A great article in the Wall Street Journal - Check it out.

(Source: online.wsj.com)

50 (+2) Resources for Facebook Application Developers

Came across this great blog post by Derek Collins, at KissMetrics.com

Its a great resource, and some of the linked resources will help with other things not just Facebook apps. It covers:

Planning & designing your Facebook application
Marketing your Facebook application and User Acquisition
Monetizing your Facebook application
Plus a couple of extra designer focused links attributed Erik Giberti

Check it out here.

Twenty Years Later, The Web Is Finally Turning Into a Computer

(Source: TED.com)

Build Facebook Apps Without the Code - Use Zembly

Interested in creating a Facebook app but don’t want to worry about hosting plans, marketing your app, or even writing the code?  A new service funded and developed by Sun Microsystems might be a solution for you.

Zembly is a new tool that allows anyone to easily create and host social applications that target the most popular social platforms like Facebook, Meebo, OpenSocial, iPhone, and Google Gadgets.  By reusing UI and back-end code and encouraging the crowd-sourcing of app components, Zembly markets itself as a sort of free library for social applications — live and editable code that can grow as users decide to contribute. For those who need a really simple solution, Zembly could be well worth the few minutes it takes to look around.

To start, there’s no downloading or learning of a new language - just go to Zembly’s website and you can start creating an app in your browser immediately.  Zembly already shows results from component providers like Amazon, Flickr, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo as well as pieces of code created by other Zembly users.  All you have to do is click to add one of these elements.

If you’re worried that Zembly may not be robust enough for your needs, try out a sample app called Capital Punishment that shows how Zembly apps look when published. Zembly and its hosting services are free for now and has recently been launched as a public beta. Click here.

(Source: InsideFacebook.com)