Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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3DMojo – taking more swipes at PLM marketing
.!. Well a few weeks ago it the guys over at 3DMojo had a problem with “express”. Now they have a problem with “turnkey “. While I’ll give them that the use of the word turnkey is definitely a flash to the past, I’m not so sure I agree with the key part of their…
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This is good to hear
Especially from the heart of what many see as the opposite of a manufacturing based economy (no, not the IFTF…Silicon valley): The book starts with one vast insight about the nature of technology. This is it: manufacturing isn’t boring. Figuring out how to produce thousands or millions of units of complicated, high-performance components requires as…
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My personal army
This in via Boing Boing today. An interesting application of build to order concepts. Imagine this taken one step further: users could upload body, clothing and weapon designs and Vicale could manufacture them. If a user thought they had done something really cool, they could open up a shop on Vicale and sell their action…
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The 20 smartest companies to start now – September 1, 2006
While I applaud the journalists for getting this story, I have to ask what in the h*ll the VC’s were thinking? They are going to get hammered with every hair brained scheme ever conceived. Their motivations aside, I found this one of the more interesting articles from CNN in a while. After all who doesn’t…
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What digital divide?
When I see sites like this start up (and gain even a modicum of success) it really makes me question the concept of the digital divide existing at all. The target audience of Jackass (and now the internet equivalent) is not exactly the white collar crowd. Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Darejunkies Is A Social…
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Beam me up
.!. It’s not quite the replicators that we were promised in Star Trek, but I for one am planning on building one of these to help me build my flying car. On a serious note this is another step in the direction of social production. As the “diminishing cost” trend that has been driving IT…
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WorldCAD on Geolus
Thanks for the mention Ralph. Geolus continues to be one the moves we’ve made in the past year that continues to excite me. Every time I talk with a customer about it they (a) “get it” in about 5 minutes and (b) come up with at least 3 applications or scenarios that I never thought…
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The artist's view of co-creation
Rod has an interesting take on how the co-creation that artists strive for when producing a play or a film relates to enterprise IT projects. I think the same thing is true of products. The best ones are made with users not just for them. The question I have been batting around for the past…
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Porn for the product developer
Although Engadget editor Peter Rojas‘s site often talks about “gadget porn” when showing off the latest unboxing shots of the newest gadget or pics from every conceivable angle of some unreleased gizmo from a trade show, I think his latest venture with Dave Winer and Jason Calacanis may be the closest thing yet to true…