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Toward a local syzygy: aligning deals, check-ins and places

Check-ins are only the beginning. Here's what lies ahead for local.

The check-in is hardly the apogee of the local consumer experience. It works, for now, but it won't be the long-term solution for customer/business relationships and physical point of presence. So what will replace it? Here's a look at the local sector's near-term future. Read more.

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Net neutrailty: What scares you most

It all depends on what you fear.

Behind the principles on both sides of the net neutrality debate lie three sets of fears: competition, censorship, and creativity. In a new O'Reilly Insights column on Forbes, O'Reilly editor Andy Oram discusses and illuminates each fear, each side, and what's at stake. Read more.

Which Perl XML module should I use?

What's new in O'Reilly Answers: Choosing a Perl XML module, unstructured data, update databases with Access forms, and much more.

There are many XML modules on CPAN. Which ones should I use for which tasks? Answer the poll but also reply with anything else that you want to share. So far XML::LibXML has 42.86% of the vote, and the O'Reilly Answers community is contributing their favorites. Read more.

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Data Week: Becoming a data scientist

Data Pointed, CouchDB in the Cloud, Launching Strata

By Edd Dumbill
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Data Week is a new series that brings together notable stories and developments from the data world. Links in this edition include: the connection between visualizations and art, advice on becoming a data scientist, BigCouch goes open source, and more. Read more.

Points of Control: The Web 2.0 Summit Map

Internet companies are jockeying for positions that will benefit them for years to come.

By Tim O'Reilly
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Points of Control: The Web 2.0 Summit Map

In our planning for this year's Web 2.0 Summit, John Battelle and I have expanded on the metaphor of "the Great Game," as we explore the many ways Internet companies at all levels of the stack are looking for points of control that will give them competitive advantage in the years to come. Read more.

What we can learn from data, 3-D and a globe

IBM's Julia Grace on social media shifts and why 3-D and data are made for each other.

By Mac Slocum
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What we can learn from data, 3-D and a globe

IBM researcher and Web 2.0 Expo speaker Julia Grace spends her days digging into data. Her tools are a little unusual, though. Instead of spreadsheets and bar graphs, she uses visualizations and a seven-foot-tall, three-dimensional globe. Grace discusses life with a giant globe and explores her recent findings in this Q&A. Read more.

The New Yorker Praises Cooking for Geeks

Taking Jeff Potter's Book for a Spin

"In a new cookbook, Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food, Jeff Potter, a software engineer, takes a look at what's really going on in your sautée pan, with the intention of helping even the most hapless chef master some of the magic" writes New Yorker reviewer Monica Racic. Indeed, Monica took the book for a spin, and wound up feeling much more confident in the kitchen. Read the review.

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News & Commentary

Toward a local syzygy: aligning deals, check-ins and places

Check-ins are only the beginning. Here's what lies ahead for local.

Make Magazine Weekend Project: LED Light Brick

Net neutrailty: What scares you most

It all depends on what you fear.

Which Perl XML module should I use?

What's new in O'Reilly Answers: Choosing a Perl XML module, unstructured data, update databases with Access forms, and much more.

Data Week: Becoming a data scientist

Data Pointed, CouchDB in the Cloud, Launching Strata

Points of Control: The Web 2.0 Summit Map

Internet companies are jockeying for positions that will benefit them for years to come.

What we can learn from data, 3-D and a globe

IBM's Julia Grace on social media shifts and why 3-D and data are made for each other.

The New Yorker Praises Cooking for Geeks

Taking Jeff Potter's Book for a Spin

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