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    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | visualization, wordle, ibm, pageforest
    Many Eyes: Pageforest ToDo List

    A Wordle visualization of my "todo" list for pageforest...just for fun

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    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | visualization, graphs, ibm, nyt
    Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com

    This sounds like a very cool visualization site - can't wait to try it.

    Quoted: An experimental Web site allows users to upload the data they want to visualize, then try sophisticated tools to generate interactive displays.
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    The Many Eyes site, begun in January 2007, offers 16 ways to present data, from stack graphs and bar charts to diagrams that let people map relationships. TreeMaps, showing information in colorful rectangles, are among the popular tools.

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    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2007 | ibm, computers, vintage, history
    IBM Archives: IBM 5100 Portable Computer

    I have an IBM 5100 in my garage. It still works! This $20,000 personal computer was something I drooled over when I was in high school in 1977.

    Quoted: IBM Archives: Exhibits: IBM Personal Computer: IBM 5100 Portable Computer

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    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2006 | software, programming, excel, microsoft, ibm, google, apple, klunder, simonyi
    The Greatest Software Ever Written

    Charles Babcock, of InformationWeek picks the greatest softare ever written.

    12. The Morris worm
    11. Google search rank
    10. Apollo guidance system
    9. Excel spreadsheet (wow - I got on the list!)
    8. Macintosh OS
    7. Sabre system
    6. Mosaic browser
    5. Java language
    4. IBM System 360 OS
    3. Gene Sequencer - Genomic Research
    2. IBM System R
    1. BSD Unix 4.3

    Quoted: With great insight, I've assembled this, my list of the greatest software ever written, from Colossus to the present. I've consulted software guru James Rumbaugh; Stuart Feldman, president of the Association of Computing Machinery; venture capitalists Ann Winblad and Gary Morgenthaler; Web site scripting software (PHP 3.0) authors Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans; and my little brother, Wally.
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    That axiom certainly applies to VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software. It's great because it demonstrated the power of personal computing. The software put the ability to analyze and manipulate huge amounts of data into the hands of every business. But VisiCalc itself, despite representing a breakthrough concept, wasn't great software. It was flawed and clunky, and couldn't do many things users wanted it to do. The great implementation of the spreadsheet was not VisiCalc or even Lotus 1-2-3 but Microsoft Excel, which extended the spreadsheet's power and gave businesspeople a variety of calculating tools. Microsoft's claims that it makes great software are open to dispute, but the Excel spreadsheet is here to stay. Nearly everyone is touched by it.

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    0 starsmike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2006 | ibm, thinkpad, laptops, computers
    Lenovo - ThinkPad Z Series - United States

    Widescreen models

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