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Dan Ariely uses classic visual illusions and his research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions. Source: Ted : Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?

Update. I would like to congratulate Sir Brad Neuberg for the quality of the following HTML5 presentation. Due to the number of concepts presented in this video, I spent an hour gathering further details about these subjects. Please find here below, the links and summary, to plunge into the next dimension of the Internet content. Video timeline: - Technical History: 0 - Vector graphics: 6 -- SVG: 7:15 -- Canvas API: 10:15 - When Canvas or SVG : 17 - Video: 20:50 - Geolocation:27:25 - Application cache & database: 30:10 - Web Workers: 35:50 Update: Brad's slides are availabe here (PDF) . If you want to test the demos, help yourself. Humm, first of all, make sure you have a modern browser (e.g Firefox 3.5) : Vector graphic - 1st person gifter : walk in the game using your keyboard arrow keys, - SVG Web Toolkit : Animated Population Pyramid, - Bespin : web code editor. For further explanation watch the mozilla team at Qcon London 2009, uell : Ger...

For the last 20 years, many industries have been trying to apply Toyota's concepts to their fields of activity.  Based on Scott Killen agile's antecedents and a few other readings, I would like to built a sort of timeline up to the after agile/lean movement. Please add comments and recommencations. From the beginning. Anything from the ancient world? 1785 , Honoré Blanc , Mass production is beleived to be Eli Whitney's invention, but in fact he borrowed the concept from a gunsmith named Honoré Blanc. See, The investor's guide to nanotechnology & micromachines and Implementing Lean Software Development. 1866 , Samuel Smiles : Self Help with Illustrations of Character, Conduct and Perseverance. First edition 1859 (see wikipedia) . Why ? In The Toyota way (Jeffrey K. Liker) : Sakishi toyoda was significantly influenced by his reading of a book first published in England in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor : The Principles of Sc...

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: One: Those 20th century rewards those motivators we think are a natural part of business, do work, but only in a surprisingly narrow band of circumstances. Two: Those if-then rewards often destroy creativity. Three: The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive. The drive to do things for their own sake. The drive to do things cause they matter. I also recommend this second video from Dan Pink. It is short with a really clever white board drawing. History: 11/4/09 : First publish 05/29/10:  Add RSA video

Six months ago, I felt like I needed to step back from my current activity. It was time for me to ask others what they felt were the basic and reference books about product management. The result of the thread I initiated showed two books. One for a newbie and one as reference which receptively are: The Phenomenal Product Manager The Product Manager's Desk Reference After opening the delivery carton, I pulled out the books and held one in each hand. Their respected weight confirmed to me the one, I would read first. After reading the third chapter of the Phenomenal Product Manager, I told myself: "My god this is another book about leadership". By reading this book, I was looking for product management knowledge but here I found something that described how to collaborate with people. But I continued up to the end, because it is well written and also because its end was not so far. Despite my disappointment, I was astonished by the quality of each tip and I ...

Watching Steve Levin's talk on Infoq about multiple mobile platform development, I asked myself the average time I concentrate on each product management skill. Refering to the 280group manifesto ,I understand this talk will help me to improve my market and the technology knowledge. About platforms, I recorded the following remarks. Each platform has something annoying: The Iphone's black-boxed application validation process, Android UI which needs to improved, Windows mobile and its API, badly implemented by manufacturers, Blackberry's OS which is based on an old one. If you want to know more about one subject, go to the video and click on the question that is stir your interest. The video will be set to the question to which you need an answer. From the distribution point of view, I really agree with his remarks about the Apple Store, that I would summarize thus: Apple has a built-in store system and nothing more has to be done by the end user (e.g. adding a...

Probably due to the predominant position of a few actors (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.), I often feel that all I used to learn about small size systems will soon be obsolete. The current fashionable IT word is noSQL. If you don't have a minimum of IT culture and only read the buzzy articles you could think the SQL thing is dead. After a short analysis, I collected a few answers and mainly understood, both old and new technologies will have a long life, but their opposition really makes us step back and reconsider. First, there is ACID for atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability, the properties implemented by the Database management system (DBMS) to make sure the transactions proceed reliably. Most of the time we use databases of this type in our indoor computing system. But when it comes to distributed ones (many nodes) you've got to understand that a choice has to be made. In 2000, Eric Brewer made a keynote speech at the ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distr...