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Ben Shoemate

I design corporate intranets, portals, and web strategies. Co-founder of Base22. Amateur philosopher and science enthusiast.

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Feb 16, 2011

All the world’s computers equal to one human mind

The time may come when a computer will be able to out-compute a human, but not yet. According to a recent study, adding up all the computation power in every laptop, server, mainframe, cell phone, and digital processors of all kinds, everywhere…

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Dec 9, 2009

Time to take another look at GWT

Cody Burleson and I looked at Google’s Web Development Toolkit (GWT) when it cam out in 2007. We even build some small applications to test it. We liked it because it seemed like a good bridge between the enterprise world of J2EE development and the lightweight, web 2.0…

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Feb 16, 2009

A primer to communication — 1953 film

The basics of communication presented in this 1953 introduction to “the era of communication” (aka the information age) are still true in 2003. Transmission, noise, redundancy, distortion… misunderstanding. Charles and Ray Eames were husband and wife, not…

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Feb 12, 2009

Kindle + MacbookAir = What I really want for Christmas

Kindle is Amazon’s eBook reader. It uses epaper. The difference between it and a normal device is that the words stay on the screen even when the device is “off”. So it only uses power to “change” the page.

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Jan 17, 2009

Twitter: 140 reasons it’s worth your time

If someone at your company is not watching your brand on Twitter (website: Twitter.com wikipedia: Twitter) you could be missing out on valuable market intelligence and an opportunity to interact with your customers in a way that makes your brand more…