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BlogsLinkedIn as publisherBy Joe WikertApril 29, 2013 I’m drawn to LinkedIn now more than ever before. The rate of connection requests I’ve been receiving there has also been accelerating over the past few months. Maybe it’s due to all the uncertainty of the publishing industry but I … White House Science Fair praises future scientists and makersBy Alex HowardApril 29, 2013 There are few ways to better judge a nation’s character than to look at how its children are educated. What values do their parents, teachers and mentors demonstrate? What accomplishments are celebrated? In a world where championship sports teams are … Pricing decisions are going to be made whether you have analytics behind it or notBy Janaya WilliamsApril 29, 2013 In his role as chief scientist at Atlanta-based consulting firm Revenue Analytics, Jon Higbie helps clients make sound pricing decisions for everything from hotel rooms, to movie theater popcorn, to that carton of OJ in the fridge. And in the … German digital publishing – the Berlin wayBy Ruediger WischenbartApril 29, 2013 My favorite number at the first TOC buchreport in Berlin on April 23rd was 20, as in 20% of the 2.4 million ebook buyers in Germany in 2012 had not bought any books in the previous twelve months, according to … Google Glass and the FutureBy Mike LoukidesApril 29, 2013 I just read a Forbes article about Glass, talking about the split between those who are “sure that it is the future of technology, and others who think society will push back against the technology.” I don’t see this as … Tech events you don’t want to missBy Jenn WebbApril 29, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and space. Have an event to share? Send us a note. IBM Impact Developer Unconference Date: April 28—May 2 Location: Las Vegas, NV Why you shouldn’t miss it: Tim … Go native, go big, and go deepBy Zigurd MednieksApril 29, 2013 Apps have to get bigger and more ambitious. A key question for the developer community is how do you create big, integrated, multi-functional, configurable apps for the mobile enterprise? Curiously, Facebook is providing some answers by not using HTML5 and … Upward Mobility: Should there be only one?By James TurnerApril 29, 2013 As long as most people can remember, the smartphone space has been a contested one. Before the iPhone became temporarily ubiquitous, RIM and Palm were fighting it out to own the market, and today you have a plethora of platforms … Tachyon: An open source, distributed, fault-tolerant, in-memory file systemBy Ben LoricaApril 28, 2013 In earlier posts I’ve written about how Spark and Shark run much faster than Hadoop and Hive by1 caching data sets in-memory. But suppose one wants to share datasets across jobs/frameworks, while retaining speed gains garnered by being in-memory? An … 10 Questions to Ask Yourself About IT EducationBy Kerry BeckApril 27, 2013 When you decide to enter the IT field or to fine-tune your skills so you’ll excel at the IT job you already have, there are some specific questions to ask yourself. Answering them will help you choose the right educational … Continue reading Strata Week: Revolutionizing human resource management with work-force scienceBy Jenn WebbApril 26, 2013 Big data replaces gut instinct in HR management In a post at the New York Times, Steve Lohr took a look this week at a new data discipline: work-force science. The field pairs big data with human resources to help … Publishing News: Our brains on screensBy Jenn WebbApril 26, 2013 Digital vs paper: ink on paper may still have the advantage In a recent edition of Scientific American, Ferris Jabr took a look at how technology is affecting the way we read and the differences between reading on screens and … Glowing PlantsBy Mike LoukidesApril 26, 2013 I just invested in BioCurious’ Glowing Plants project on Kickstarter. I don’t watch Kickstarter closely, but this is about as fast as I’ve ever seen a project get funded. It went live on Wednesday; in the afternoon, I was backer … A Day at the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits ConferenceBy James TurnerApril 26, 2013 The GET (Genomes, Environments and Traits) conference is a confluence of parties interested in the advances being made in human genomes, the measurement of how the environment impacts individuals, and how the two come together to produce traits. Sponsored by … IT and EngineersBy Jim StogdillApril 26, 2013 Jon Bruner and I got together last week in Cambridge, MA to have a cup of coffee and talk about the industrial internet. During this conversation we mused on the inevitable collision of cultures when Silicon Valley meets industrial heartland, … The makers of hardware innovationBy Dale DoughertyApril 26, 2013 Chris Anderson wrote Makers and went from editor-in-chief of Wired to CEO of 3D Robotics, making his hobby his side job and then making it his main job. A new executive at Motorola Mobility, a division of Google, said that … Weekly highlights and insightsBy Adam FlahertyApril 26, 2013 Stop standardizing HTML: Simon St. Laurent writes “HTML itself is still useful—many people and tools know how to read and write it—but there is less and less reason to let the HTML vocabulary be a cage limiting our possibilities.” His … Every leader has their “how I got here” storyBy O'Reilly StrataApril 25, 2013 On Goldstein, McCallum, and their upcoming book, Making Analytics Work: Case by Case By Alex Howard People have been crunching numbers to understand government since the first time an official used an abacus to compare one season’s grain harvest against … Do publishers have the right people on the bus?By Michael FoyApril 25, 2013 I know from talking to many of my clients that most have read Jim Collins’ book ‘Good to Great’. I have also been inspired by his research into what makes great companies great. Many of you will recall an article … A human approach to postmortem reviewsBy Jenn WebbApril 25, 2013 There is nothing pleasant about postmortem reviews following an outage, and many companies struggle to execute positive, effective reviews. In a recent interview, Dave Zwieback (@mindweather), head of infrastructure at Knewton, said that we often focus only on technical issues … How you can stop trashing PHP codeBy Rachel RoumeliotisApril 25, 2013 William Sanders (@williebegoode) is a Professor of Interactive Information Technology at the University of Hartford and author of over 40 technical books! His latest book with us is Learning PHP Design Patterns. We recently sat down to talk about design … Four short links: 2 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Metrico — puzzle game for Playstation centered around infographics (charts and graphs). (via Flowing Data) The Lease They Can Do (Business Week) — excellent Paul Ford piece on money, law, and music streaming services. So this is not about technology. … Four short links: 1 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Pin: A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Tool — a dynamic binary instrumentation framework for the IA-32 and x86-64 instruction-set architectures that enables the creation of dynamic program analysis tools. Some tools built with Pin are Intel Parallel Inspector, Intel Parallel Amplifier … Four short links: 30 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 China = 41% of World’s Internet Attack Traffic (Bloomberg) — numbers are from Akamai’s research. Verizon Communications said in a separate report that China accounted for 96 percent of all global espionage cases it investigated. One interpretation is that China … Four short links: 29 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Information Security Breaches 2013 Report (UK Gov) — over 80% of small UK firms reported a breach, and over 90% of large. (via The Register) Google Glass Forbids Resales (Wired) — leaving aside the braying naysayers with their “GLASS WILL … Four short links: 26 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 The Engagement Cliff — Gallup surveyed nearly 500,000 students in grades five through 12 from more than 1,700 public schools in 37 states in 2012 and found that by the time students get to high school only about 4 in … Four short links: 25 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Alcatraz — package manager for iOS. (via Hacker News) Scarfolk Council — clever satire, the concept being a UK town stuck in 1979. Tupperware urns, “put old people down at birth”. The 1979 look is gorgeous. (via BoingBoing) Stop Designing … Visualization of the Week: Every recorded U.S terror attack 1970-2011By Jenn WebbApril 24, 2013 The recent terror attack at the Boston Marathon prompted the Guardian’s Simon Rogers (who will soon be Twitter’s Simon Rogers) to look into the history of attacks on U.S. soil. Using data from the START Global Terrorism Database, Rogers mapped … Direct sales of ebooks in multiple languagesBy Joe WikertApril 24, 2013 O’Reilly has long been a leader in fostering community and building a direct sales channel. This week we took the next step in enhancing the customer’s direct buying experience by offering German editions for many of our ebook titles. Take … Social media’s 2.0 moment: Responsiveness beats planningBy Joshua-Michéle RossApril 24, 2013 In 2004, O’Reilly Media delivered a counter-cultural (at the time) message: The dot-com bubble had burst, but the web was here to stay as an economic and social force. The meme they coined was Web 2.0, and their manifesto was … Stop standardizing HTMLBy Simon St. LaurentApril 24, 2013 When HTML first appeared, it offered a coherent if limited vocabulary for sharing content on the newly created World Wide Web. Today, after HTML has handed off most of its actual work to other specifications, it’s time to stop worrying … Four short links: 24 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Solar Energy: This is What a Disruptive Technology Looks Like (Brian McConnell) — In 1977, solar cells cost upwards of $70 per Watt of capacity. In 2013, that cost has dropped to $0.74 per Watt, a 100:1 improvement (source: The … Pre-publication samplesBy Joe WikertApril 23, 2013 This one has been nagging at me for years and I’m amazed none of the major ebook retailers offer a solution. I’m talking about the ability to pre-order an ebook sample prior to publication. Yesterday I received a bulk email … Four short links: 23 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 23, 2013 Drawscript — Processing for Illustrator. (via BERG London) Archive Team Warrior — a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive. (via Ed Vielmetti) … Yet another JavaScript book?By Elisabeth RobsonApril 23, 2013 Eric Freeman and I are writing a new book: Head First JavaScript Programming, and to go along with it, we’re creating a series of teaser videos to give you a taste of what’s coming in the book, and a chance … Tech events you don’t want to missBy Jenn WebbApril 22, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology space. Have an event to share? Send us a note. The Best of Fluent: Maintainable JavaScript webcast Date: 5 a.m. PT, April 24 Location: Online webcast Why … Betting on the future of the bookBy Daniel JamesApril 22, 2013 Visiting London Book Fair last week, many of the stands offered ebook technology or outsourcing for legacy format conversion services. Ebooks might seem a seductive bet to the publisher looking anxiously towards the all-digital future, but I find it hard to imagine … Why Paperight should be distributing your contentBy Joe WikertApril 22, 2013 The opening statement on Paperight’s “about” page says it all: Paperight turns any business with any printer and an Internet connection into a print-on-demand bookstore. This isn’t just about distributing content through copy shops though. Paperight helps make content available in the … Agile in Name OnlyBy James TurnerApril 22, 2013 In politics, the term RINO is used to refer to a candidate who is “Republican in Name Only,” i.e., claiming the mantle of the party, but not conforming to the platform or belief system. In software development, there’s a similar … Twisted Python: the engine of your InternetBy Jessica McKellarApril 22, 2013 I want to build a web server, a mail server, a BitTorrent client, a DNS server, or an IRC bot—clients and servers for a custom protocol in Python. And I want them to be cross-platform, RFC-compliant, testable, and deployable in … Four short links: 22 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 22, 2013 Meshlab — open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. HTML5 Video on iOS (Steve Souders) — While it’s true that Mobile Safari on iOS doesn’t buffer any video data as a … The Persistence of PlasticBy Edie FreedmanApril 22, 2013 For Earth Day, a look at the gift that keeps on giving. “Plastics.” That famous line from The Graduate has stuck with us for many years—and so, for better or worse, have plastics themselves. Today, plastics are in just about … The post The Persistence of Plastic appeared first on Animals. Simpler workflow tools enable the rapid deployment of modelsBy Ben LoricaApril 21, 2013 Data science often depends on data pipelines, that involve acquiring, transforming, and loading data. (If you’re fortunate most of the data you need is already in usable form.) Data needs to be assembled and wrangled, before it can be visualized … A different take on data skepticismBy Beau CroninApril 19, 2013 Recently, the Mathbabe (aka Cathy O’Neil) vented some frustration about the pitfalls in applying even simple machine learning (ML) methods like k-nearest neighbors. As data science is democratized, she worries that naive practitioners will shoot themselves in the foot because … Publishing News: Crowdfunding, the new way to raise money for newsBy Jenn WebbApril 19, 2013 Fundraising for news Mathew Ingram reports this week on one entrepreneurial blogger and journalist who, finding local news coverage of his home town lacking, crowdfunded his own hyper-local news blog. Ingram notes that Joey Coleman does not have a journalism … Strata Week: Movers and shakers on the data journalism frontBy Jenn WebbApril 19, 2013 Reuters launches Connected China, Pew instructs on downloading its data, and Twitter gets a data editor Yue Qiu and Wenxiong Zhang took a look this week at a data journalism effort by Reuters, the Connected China visualization application. Qiu and … Four short links: 19 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 19, 2013 Bruce Sterling on Disruption — If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re living in a Depression. Slow first 25% but then it … Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweetsBy Alex HowardApril 18, 2013 Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying his skills to telling data-driven … Commerce Weekly: Amazon patent indicates its interest in the payments spaceBy Jenn WebbApril 18, 2013 Editor’s note: This will be the final installment of our Commerce Weekly series. Mobile payments security, privacy concerns rise; Amazon may have a solution The race is on to democratize mobile payments, to create a solution that improves the payment … What is probabilistic programming?By Beau CroninApril 18, 2013 Probabilistic programming languages are in the spotlight. This is due to the announcement of a new DARPA program to support their fundamental research. But what is probabilistic programming? What can we expect from this research? Will this effort pay off? How long … 101 to 150 of 11242 Prev Next |
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