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The Wall Street Journal on DIY

Make Magazine Grows with America's Renewed Interest in Tinkering

 

The Wall Street Journal on DIY
Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis — "Make magazine, with articles on building items such as solar hot tubs and autopilots for robots, has grown from 22,000 subscribers in 2005 to more than 100,000 now. Its annual "Maker Faire" in San Mateo, Calif., attracted 75,000 people this year," writes reporter Justin Lahart in the Wall Street Journal. Indeed, he continues, "the American tradition of tinkering--the spark for inventions from the telephone to the Apple computer--is making a comeback, boosted by renewed interest in hands-on work amid the economic crisis and falling prices of high-tech tools and materials." Read more.

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Tokyo Cabinet in One Hour

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Tokyo Cabinet in One Hour
Tokyo Cabinet is a fast, synchronous key/value database library with support for several major languages, including Ruby. We will look at both its benefits and its problems, and work through several examples that demonstrate its capabilities, ease of use from Ruby, and performance potential. At the end of the talk there will be a question and answer session. Attendance is limited, so register now!

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Four short links: 13 November 2009

Open Source Design, Interesting NoSQL Use, Copyright Documentary, Location Intelligence

 
Four short links: 13 November 2009
Open Source Enters The World of Atoms -- An academic statistical analysis of open design. We indicated that, in open design communities, tangible objects can be developed in very similar fashion to software; one could even say that people treat a design as source code to a physical object and change the object via changing the source. This and more in today's Four Short Links. Read more.
Quarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?
Loren Feldman. 1938 Media. Audience Conference. That’s about as much of a summary as you’ll find about the Audience Conference held in New York last Friday. That’s because there were no open laptops allowed during the performances. There was also no Wi-Fi, no video streaming, no tweeting, and no blogging. I disagree with the notion that everything needs to be live streamed, live blogged, and live tweeted merely because we can. Read more.

Counting Unique Users in Real-time with Streaming Databases
As the web increasingly becomes real-time, marketers and publishers need analytic tools that can produce real-time reports. As an example, the basic task of calculating the number of unique users is typically done in batch mode (e.g. daily) and in many cases using a random sample from relevant log files. If unique user counts can be accurately computed in real-time, publishers and marketers can mount A/B tests or referral analysis to dynamically adjust their campaigns. Read more.

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Announcing O'Reilly Answers
We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Read more.

Smartphone Data Dependency--Is It Good for Us?

Joshua-Michele Ross Predicts Changes in Products and Services

 

Smartphone Data Dependency--Is It Good for Us?
When Your IPhone Knows Everything--"We are becoming accustomed to using our phones in-the-moment to answer all manner of questions (from nearby movie times to the name of the last Steven Soderbergh film)," writes Joshua-Michele Ross in a new O'Reilly Insights column on Forbes.com. "This small behavioral change has enormous consequences as more and more of our physical world finds its "data-doppleganger" online." Ross thinks products and services will change with data available to consumers nearly 24/7. See if you agree with his predictions.
Converting to Electronic Health Records: fits and starts
Data and communications are critical contributors to health care. I recently attended a forum on how my state, Massachusetts, is facilitating the move to Electronic Health Records, a prerequisite for many things doctors, patients, and insurance companies can do to improve health. It's notable that the chief sponsor of the event, the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, was largely set up by insurance companies. Lots of invective has been thrown at these companies recently, but the questions of technology can pull together the insurers, providers, and patients in a common quest. My own understanding of the progress and frustrations in deploying heath care technology was enhanced by the conversations I had that day and the statistics bandied about. Read more.

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