Exclusive: Former Googler Cassidy Steps Down as Polyvore CEO (Kara Swisher/BoomTown) At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs. That's far too much for any reader to follow. Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input. Agenzia SEO | Seo Agency | Posizionamento sui Motori di Ricerca INVEST (mnemonic) One of the characteristics of Agile Methodologies such as Scrum or XP is the ability to move stories around, taking into account their relative priority - for example - without much effort. If you find user stories that are tightly dependent, a good idea might be to combine them into a single user story. The only thing that is fixed and set in stone in an agile project is an iteration backlog (and, even then, it can be broken). While the story lies in the product backlog, it can be rewritten or even discarded, depending on business, market, technical or any other type of requirement by team members. The focus here is to bring actual project-related value to the end-user. If a user story size cannot be estimated, it will never be planned, tasked, and, thus, become part of an iteration. Try to keep your user story sizes to typically a few person-days and at most a few person-weeks. Bear in mind that a story should only be considered DONE, among other things, if it was tested successfully.
Yahoo! Pipes Yahoo! Pipes is a web application from Yahoo! that provides a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. The application works by enabling users to "pipe" information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified (for example, filtering). A typical example is New York Times through Flickr,[1] a pipe which takes The New York Times RSS feed and adds a photo from Flickr based on the keywords of each item. History[edit] Yahoo! Purpose[edit] The purpose of Yahoo! Creating and editing a Pipe[edit] To create or edit a pipe, user has to sign up with a Yahoo! The Canvas[edit] Canvas is the main pane where the editing of pipes is done. The Library[edit] The Library is the place where the modules are selected to be dragged on the Canvas. Sources[edit] User Inputs[edit] Operators[edit] URL[edit] String[edit] Date[edit] Location[edit]
Klash • Challenge accepted. INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks | XP123 (French) In XP, we think of requirements of coming in the form of user stories. It would be easy to mistake the story card for the “whole story,” but Ron Jeffries points out that stories in XP have three components: Cards (their physical medium), Conversation (the discussion surrounding them), and Confirmation (tests that verify them). A pidgin language is a simplified language, usually used for trade, that allows people who can’t communicate in their native language to nonetheless work together. User stories act like this. But what are characteristics of a good story? I – IndependentN – NegotiableV – ValuableE – EstimableS – SmallT – Testable Independent Stories are easiest to work with if they are independent. We can’t always achieve this; once in a while we may say things like “3 points for the first report, then 1 point for each of the others.” Negotiable… and Negotiated A good story is negotiable. Valuable A story needs to be valuable. This is especially an issue when splitting stories.
Pasha Sadri (Yahoo!'s Pipes) Who is AD60? Our Company company AD:60 is a close-knit team of advertising, media and interactive experts based in New York with 10 years of award-winning experience. Formed out of a shared desire to create products worth believing in, we value collaborative, meaningful working partnerships that result in quantitative success that can be integrated across projects. Launched in 2009, we specialize in web product development to help companies get their digital projects off the ground quickly. We are a relatively young company for a reason - we have a lot of experience working in the industries we serve. This makes for a potent talent pool that is able to quickly understand your project needs and priorities. leadership thick-skinned, super talented, with a spectacular ability to collaborate - our people are our biggest asset. Alex Matjanec Partner, CMO Alex is co-developer and business partner in the creation of social networking sites targeting the finance and banking industries. Jason Reposa Partner, CTO Tadas J.
An E-Commerce Study: Guidelines For Better Navigation And Categories Open Libraries – "… are signs of life and hope: They are the cornerstone of democracy" Not for the first time, the glut of incoming information threatens to push out useful knowledge into merely a cloud of data. And there’s no doubt that activity streams and linked data are two of the more interesting things to aid research in this onrushing surge of information. In this screen-mediated age, the advantages of deep focus and hyper attention are mixed up like never before, since the advantage accrues to the company who can collect the most data, aggregate it, and repurpose it to willing marketers. N. Does data matter? In use, semantic differentiation gives striking information gains. Since MESUR is pulling information from CalTech and Los Alamos National Laboratory’ SFX link resolver service logs, there’s a immediate relevance filter applied, given the scientists who are doing research in those institutions. Hunch, a web application designed by Caterina Fake, known as co-founder of Flickr, is a new example of machine learning.
100 Incredible Things I Learned Watching 70 Hours of TED Talks Last Week The other week I watched 70 hours of TED talks; short, 18-minute talks given by inspirational leaders in the fields of Technology,Entertainment, and Design (TED). I watched 296 talks in total, and I recently went through the list of what I watched, weeded out the crappy and boring talks, and created a list of the 100 best things I learned ! This article isn’t entirely about productivity, but I guarantee you’ll learn a thing or two. Productivity 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Here are three other productivity experiments I’ve done recently: Meditating for 35 hours over 7 days; using my smartphone for only an hour a day for three months; living in total reclusion for 10 days. More TED Talks lessons: Speak like a Pro- 15 lessons learned from watching TED TALKS Becoming a better human 23, 24, 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39. 40, 41. 42. People 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59, 60. 61.
Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD Yahoo’s top mobile exec, Marco Boerries, is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to some staffers on Sunday. I have also confirmed Boerries’s departure with company insiders familiar with the situation. In a post Monday on a management restructuring at Yahoo (YHOO) that new CEO Carol Bartz is likely to unveil to the company this week–sources tell me it is now set to be announced internally tomorrow–I noted that Boerries was one of the more likely high-level execs to go. He has been the EVP for the Connected Device Division at Yahoo for four years, coming to the company in 2005 with the acquisition of VerdiSoft. Nonetheless, many inside Yahoo expected him to go with the changing of leadership recently, after almost two years of turmoil at Yahoo. I wrote: Boerries, a talented but more freewheeling exec under Yang, is another question all together. In his email, Boerries did not mention Bartz, but did indeed mention his personal issues. Team, Marco