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Processing and Arduino in Tandem

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Processing and Arduino in Tandem
Create your own drawing and animation software – and learn basic programming and electronics skills at the same time. This engaging 5-week online course introduces you to two simple tools: Processing, a programming language for visual thinkers, and Arduino, a hardware platform for working with electronics. You'll learn how to use these tools together to build something useful right away. Learn more.

Augmented reality as etiquette coach

Alasdair Allan has a practical goal for AR: putting names to faces.

 
By Mac Slocum
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Augmented reality as etiquette coach
Alasdair Allen, author of Programming iPhone Sensors, says real-time facial identification -- the sort that pairs names and faces on the fly -- is closer than you might think. He expands on that topic and a number of others in this video interview. Read more.

Which social gaming companies are hiring

 
By Ben Lorica
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Which social gaming companies are hiring
Disney's announced purchase of Mountain View gaming startup Playdom, follows on the heels of EA's purchase of London-based Playfish last November. Based on active users, Zynga remains by far the biggest online social gaming company. But what other independent companies are growing? To see which companies are expanding, I used our data warehouse of online job postings to detect recent hiring. Read more.

Startup Showcase submissions at the Web 2.0 Expo NYC due 8/2

 
By Brady Forrest
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Startup Showcase submissions at the Web 2.0 Expo NYC due 8/2
We are looking for startups to show-off at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. We always find a place to showcase them and this year is no different. This year we're hosting our first ever Startup Showcase. Highlighting the startup ecosystem's creativity and variety, the Showcase will give you a chance to get in front of hundreds of potential users and a couple of high-profile investors. The submissions for the Startup Showcase are open until next Monday, 8/2. Let us know you are interested now. The Web 2.0 Expo runs from September 27-30th. Read more.

Another reason to build apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Testing

What's new in O'Reilly Answers: iPhone apps, ebooks on the iPad, CSS and JavaScript, Objective-C, SharePoint, and much more.

 

Another reason to build apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Testing
In a past interview with Jonathan Stark, author of Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, he noted that cross-platform availability and broad distribution are two reasons why HTML/CSS/JavaScript development is worth pursuing. During a recent interview at OSCON, Stark touched on a number of points from why developers should check out PhoneGap to why WebKit adoption is good for developers. Read more.

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Facebook Mountain ("I wish I knew how to quit you")

Why abysmal customer satisfaction levels won't stop the social giant.

 
By Mark Sigal
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Facebook Mountain (
Facebook is an unstoppable force, rocketing to 500 million users, building a breakout software platform and hardwiring the web with "Like" buttons and single sign-on via Facebook Connect. This piece looks at the reasons why, even in the face of abysmal customer satisfaction levels that rank below the airline industry, the social networking giant's reign is only getting started. Read more.

Data as a service

A look at how services and widgets are democratizing data and visualization.

 
By Mike Loukides
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Data as a service
With "data as a service" APIs like InfoChimps, and embeddable data components like Google Public Data Explorer and WolframAlpha Widgets, we're seeing the democratization of data and data visualization: new ways to access data, new ways to play with data, and new ways to communicate the results to others. Read more.

Jailbreaking your iPhone is legal: what changes?

 
By RJ Owen
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Jailbreaking your iPhone is legal: what changes?
Yesterday the U.S. Copyright office passed down new rules under the DMCA changing making Jailbreaking legal on iPhones. This is all good and nice, but is it going to result in any real change in the mobile phone market? While the new rules might at least incent Apple to play a little nicer, will consumers benefit in any way? Read more.

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