An article on the wired suggests that besides scalability, AJAX was the major culprit behind Frienster flop clipped from www.wired.comAbrams: Of course. Another thing is that I think some of the ways people are using Ajax now actually makes the user experience worse, rather than better. There are so many sites where you click on something and they use that thing where the background fades and then this window pops up in a sort of modal dialog, and it's completely intrusive.

Wow! This is something..I have always imagined Solar power extraction with the help of solar panels etc..But using roads !! that’s something clipped from www.fastcompany.comSheep gave Henk Verweijmeren his epiphany. The flocks--warming themselves on a stretch of Scottish road--inspired him to create Invisible Heating Systems, which today looks to transform every stretch of asphalt into a solar cell. Cool water pumped through a grid of pipes beneath the road is warmed by the sun and, in turn, warms the surrounding gravel and sand--which stores it, Verweijmeren says, with around 95% efficiency.

Hackers tend to think business is for MBAs. But business administration is not what you’re doing in a startup. What you’re doing is business creation. And the first phase of that is mostly product creation– that is, hacking. That’s the hard part. It’s a lot harder to create something people love than to take something people love and figure out how to make money from it.

That is one of the key tenets of professionalism. Work and life are supposed to be separate. But that part, I’m convinced, is a mistake - Paul Graham

An innovative company called BandMerch crafted a remarkable promotion for the rock group Linkin Park. Buy a CD, put it in your computer, go online, and you can buy one of three thousand pairs of collectible Linkin Park sneakers, made by hip shoe brand DC Shoes. This works at so many levels, it’s scary. First, it makes it worth buying the CD instead of listening to a friend’s. Second, it takes a sonic idea and adds the visual (sneaker).