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• Architecture Maturity Models
  Organizations that can manage change effectively are generally more successful than those that cannot.
  (tags: architecture enterprise process CMM maturity)
• Should we collect metrics around EA?
  That could get some interesting answers
  (tags: architecture measurement)

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• Cursor*10 (nekogames)
  
  Fun game simple graphics
  (tags: games)

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• Resizing An Existing Partition On A Single Hard Drive
  
  good example on how to give yourself a bit more space…
  (tags: windows disk partitioning howto)

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• Question: Bobbie7: What is the IT spending–as a percent of revenue in these 3 industries?
  What is the IT spending–as a percent of revenue in these 3 industries?
  (tags: it spend analytics)

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• SIMILE Project
  Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments
  (tags: analysis api semanticweb web2.0 metadata ajax charts charting)

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I have long explained to people the value of the data corporations collect. I have seen first hand the value of large pools of correlated, linked, behavior generated data and as Tim O’Reilly points out in his post so does Google.

My favorite definition of Cognitive** is:

Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge.

The key part of the definition as it relates to Tim’s post and Google is “Having a Basis in or reducible to” . I also like “empirical”. Cognition requires data and lots of it. Algorithms are secondary to the data for without the data there is nothing.

Google is just a stalking horse for the coming cognitive economy, there are many other players less public and less chic that are working to exploit the coming opportunities.

**”cognitive.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 18 Dec. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/cognitive

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• Are Proprietary Databases Doomed? - Allan Packer’s Weblog
  
  Times of change are upon the database market. The major established database companies are being challenged by open source upstarts like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  (tags: dbms opensource)

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I am looking for a bag to carry my 15″ MacBook Pro. I really don’t like reading all the comments so I consolidated all the links I found on the web. The only commentary I have on all the bag makers below is, I have owned a Brenthaven bag for nearly 5 years and I give it very high marks.

http://www.spireusa.com/
http://www.pinderbags.com/
http://www.acmemade.com/
http://www.sfbags.com/
http://www.sjdesign.com/
http://www.booqbags.com/
http://www.timbuk2.com/
http://www.marware.com/
http://www.tombihn.com/
http://www.brenthaven.com/
http://www.mac-case.com/
http://store.mozilla.org/
http://www.ogio.com/
http://www.crumplerbags.com/
http://thenorthface.com
http://www.axio-usa.com/
http://www.tumi.com/
http://www.goincase.com/
http://www.be-ez.com/
http://www.radtech.us/
http://www.case-mate.com/
http://www.iskin.com/
http://www.pakuma.com/
http://www.keenfootwear.com/
http://www.jansport.com/
http://www.targus.com/
http://www.patagonia.com/ via Cote
http://www.acmemade.com/
http://alchemygoods.com/
http://www.freitag.ch/
http://www.boblbee.com/

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• Paglo - The Search Engine for IT
  
  Paglo is the world’s first search engine for IT. Think Google™ for IT. Use the open source crawler and discover everything about your computers, network
  and users. And then answer virtually any
  question before you’re running around
  like your hair’s on f
  (tags: network search paglo infrastructure opensource)

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