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Nathan Myhrvold on geo-engineering to combat global warming

Great interview on CNN — video. He also talks about “investing in inventions”.

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CrowdCast wanna hire “kick ass Ruby engineers”.

I saw that on Mat Fogarty’s LinkedIn page. Contact CrowdCast, if you feel your IT ass is “kicking”. [List of their competitors.]

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Enterprise prediction markets give voice to serious, technology-minded professionals who really know their vertical (engineers, analysts and contractors) —and reveal how frivolous and unpertinent most horizontal managers are.

- Via prediction market pioneer Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures [*], the New York Times (2 pages): At InterContinental Hotels, Zubin Dowlaty, vice president for emerging technologies, decided to create an online market last fall to “harvest and prioritize ideas” from … Continue reading

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