Google maps - now for indoors! - incredible.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/29/google-maps-6-0-hits-android-adds-indoor-navigation-for-retail/

Google Maps 6.0 hits Android, adds indoor navigation for retail and transit

By Joseph Volpe posted Nov 29th 2011 12:37PM

Google's already put its stamp on the great outdoors, what with its Street View fleet chronicling the well-trodden ways of our world for Maps. Which is precisely why Mountain View's turning its attention inward for that next, great navigation innovation, as it attempts to chart a course through the wilds of indoor spaces. Hitting the Android Market in the U.S. and Japan today, the company's ever-popular app gets a full version bump to 6.0, bringing with it the inclusion of retail and airport floor plans.

Siri: Why Apple will build, buy, or partner on a search engine

Siri: Why Apple will build, buy, or partner on a search engine

By Jason Hiner
Summary: Siri is emerging as Apple’s game-changer that could put serious pressure on Google. But, first Apple needs to figure out web search integration.
Apple’s iPhone 4S was a disappointment to all of those who were expecting a redesigned iPhone 5, but in the grand scheme of the things the launch of the iPhone 4S may turn out to be Apple’s Chamber of Secrets.
Forgive the Harry Potter reference, but Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the seven-book Harry Potter series, and while it’s generally the least favorite of the books among Potter fans, by the time you get to the final book you realize that Chamber contained critical plot information that foretold important future events.

Myth of Steve Jobs

In the age of push-button publishing and social networking, people


seem to have become de-humanised, not knowing what their true

emotions are. This became very clear recently in the wake of Apple

co-founder Steve Jobs’ demise. Tributes ranged from “hagiographic”

to “outright lame.” Nobody seemed to have put an effort. There was

no honesty nor any genuine feeling.

How is income inequality bad if US poor are obese, have cable TV, a car, and access to free education?

Income inequality isn't necessarily bad, but substantial income inequality can be. Growing income inequality can be problematical, depending on how and why it is growing. Worse yet, sustained acceleration of income inequality, which is what is happening in the United States, can be extremely problematic because it signifies a chronic flaw in the economic system.

Startups: 10 Things MBA Schools Won't Teach You

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/9928/startups-10-things-mba-schools-won-t-teach-you.aspx

Now that 3 years have passed since I got my graduate degree (and the founding of my current startup), I think I can make fun of it a bit. [Note: Only a moderate amount of harm was inflicted on MBAs — and investment bankers, in the making of this article].


10 Things Most MBA Schools Won’t Teach You About Startups

14 Reasons Why You Need To Start A Startup

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/24525/14-reasons-why-you-need-to-start-a-startup.aspx

14 Reasons Why You Need To Start A Startup

This post has been ruminating with me for a while. It's not a sudden "a-ha" moment that made it form, but a collective group of "a-has!" over the past few months. Consider this the uplifting post to counter last week's "The 11 Harsh Realities Of Entrepreneurship". Just because it's a harsh reality, doesn't mean you shouldn't be an entrepreneur. The best time to start a startup is not tomorrow, not next week, and certainly not next year. The time is right now, at this very second. Here's why:

Daniel Kahneman: Beware the ‘inside view’

In an excerpt from his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel laureate recalls how an inwardly focused forecasting approach once led him astray, and why an external perspective can help executives do better.

NOVEMBER 2011 • Daniel Kahneman

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In the 1970s, I convinced some officials in the Israeli Ministry of Education of the need for a curriculum to teach judgment and decision making in high schools. The team that I assembled to design the curriculum and write a textbook for it included several experienced teachers, some of my psychology students, and Seymour Fox, then dean of the Hebrew University’s School of Education and an expert in curriculum development.