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Boost Your Brainstorming Session With MindMeister

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Jotting a simple list is a great way to brainstorm, but when you want to visualize, organize, and untangle a deep set of ideas, you want a mind map. Web-based mind mapping tool MindMeister offers a simple interface to create mind maps collaboratively or on the go. We’ve mentioned a few mind mapping apps in the past, and showed you how to mind map meetings as an alternative to linear note-taking. But if you haven’t tried mind mapping yet, MindMeister is a great place to start. Let’s dive into MindMeister to give mind mapping a go without downloading a thing.

Link: Lifehacker

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10 Skills You Need To Succeed At Almost Anything

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Here is a list of general skills that will help anyone get ahead in practically any field, from running a company to running a gardening club. Of course, there are skills specific to each field as well – but our concern here is with the skills that translate across disciplines, the ones that can be learned by anyone in any position.

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25 Internet Startups That Bombed Miserably

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

If the Internet could speak with one voice, it would probably groan “oh, not again!” That’s because every raving success story about Internet startups is tempered by dozens more that crashed and burned in a sea of wasted money, bad ideas, or unfulfilled hype. As venture capitalist Paul Graham writes, most of these failures are never written about. No one knew about them, so they were never really expected to go anywhere. But a select few had very public flame-outs – what Graham calls “the elite of failures.”

The list below celebrates not the failure of these companies, but presents us with a conservative reminder of a not so distant past and the lessons we can learn from it.

Link: Business Pundit

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Alice: Object-Oriented Educational Programming Language

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Alice is a free and open source object-oriented educational programming language with an associated development environment (IDE). It is developed over Java. Alice uses a drag and drop environment to create computer animations using 3D models. The software is developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, including Randy Pausch. Alice was developed to address three core problems in educational programming:

1. Most programming languages are designed to be usable for “production code” thus introducing additional complexity. Alice is designed solely to teach programming.
2. Alice is conjoined with its IDE. There is no syntax to remember. However, it supports the full object-oriented, event driven model of programming.
3. Alice is designed to appeal to specific subpopulations not normally exposed to computer programming, such as middle school students, by encouraging storytelling through a simple drag-and-drop interface.

Links: Wikipedia (text) | Alice

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