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BlogsTags > businessFour short links: 23 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 23, 2013 Kindle Worlds Fine Print — Amazon’s fanfic publishing system has a few flaws: no pr0n, no slash (crossovers), and Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright. I can’t … Four short links: 21 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 21, 2013 Hyperinflation in Diablo 3 — interesting discussion about how video games regulate currency availability, and how Diablo 3 appears to have messed up. several weeks after the game’s debut a source claimed that there were at least 1,000 bots active … Four short links: 20 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 20, 2013 Our Fair Deal — international coalition (EFF, InternetNZ, Demand Progress, Creative Freedom Foundation, many others) raising awareness and petitioning lawmakers to reject copyright proposals that restrict the open Internet, access to knowledge, economic opportunity and our fundamental rights. (via Susan … Six disruptive possibilities from big dataBy Jeff NeedhamMay 15, 2013 My new book, Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything, is derived directly from my experience as a performance and platform architect in the old enterprise world and the new, Internet-scale world. I pre-date the Hadoop crew at Yahoo!, but … Four short links: 15 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 15, 2013 Facial Recognition in Google Glass (Mashable) — this makes Glass umpty more attractive to me. It was created in a hackathon for doctors to use with patients, but I need it wired into my eyeballs. How to Price Your Hardware … Four short links: 6 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 6, 2013 Nautilus — elegantly-designed science web ‘zine. Includes Artificial Emotions on AI, neuro, and psych efforts to recognise and simulate emotions. A Short Essay on 3D Printing — This hands-off approach to culpability cannot last long. If you design something to … 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: 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: 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 … Four short links: 15 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 15, 2013 Know Your HTTP Posters (GitHub) — A0-posters about the HTTP protocol. Crowdserfing — when a large corp uses crowd-sourced volunteering for its own financial gain, without giving back. It offends my sense of reciprocity as well, but nobody is coerced … Four short links: 12 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 12, 2013 Wikileaks ProjectK Code (Github) — open-sourced map and graph modules behind the Wikileaks code serving Kissinger-era cables. (via Journalism++) Plan Your Digital Afterlife With Inactive Account Manager — you can choose to have your data deleted — after three, six, … Four short links: 11 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 11, 2013 A General Technique for Automating NES Games — software that learns how to play NES games and plays them automatically, using an aesthetically pleasing technique. With video, research paper, and code. rietveld — open source tool like Mondrian, Google’s code … Four short links: 9 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 9, 2013 Automated Essay Grading To Come to EdX (NY Times) — shortly after we get software that writes stories for us, we get software to read them for us. AMD Calls End of Moore’s Law in Ten Years (ComputerWorld) — story … Four short links: 8 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 8, 2013 mozpay — a JavaScript API inspired by google.payments.inapp.buy() but modified for things like multiple payment providers and carrier billing. When a web app invokes navigator.mozPay() in Firefox OS, the device shows a secure window with a concise UI. After authenticating, … Four short links: 28 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 28, 2013 What American Startups Can Learn From the Cutthroat Chinese Software Industry — It follows that the idea of “viral” or “organic” growth doesn’t exist in China. “User acquisition is all about media buys. Platform-to-platform in China is war, and it … Four short links: 26 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 26, 2013 Patent on Medical Trial Design to Reduce Placebo Effect — drug companies say these failures are happening not because their drugs are ineffective, but because placebos have recently become more effective in clinical trials. [...] The whole idea that placebo … Four short links: 22 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 22, 2013 Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards (EFF) — W3C is there to create comprehensible, publicly-implementable standards that will guarantee interoperability, not to facilitate an explosion of new mutually-incompatible software and of sites and services that can … Four short links: 21 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 21, 2013 The Obfuscation of Culture — Tumblr and LJ users sep ar ate w ords thr ou gh o dd spacin g in o rde r to fo ol sea rc h en g i nes. Chinese users hide political messages … Four short links: 20 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 20, 2013 Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data (Scribd) — The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European … Four short links: 22 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 22, 2013 Indiepocalypse: Harlem Shake Edition (Andy Baio) — After four weeks topping the Billboard Hot 100, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop” was replaced this week by Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” the song that inspired the Internet meme. SplinterNet — an Android … Four short links: 20 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 20, 2013 The Network of Global Control (PLoS One) — We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. [...] From an empirical point of … Four short links: 18 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 18, 2013 crowy — open source social media aggregator. Raytheon makes Social Media Tracking Software (Guardian) — the technology was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national … Four short links: 14 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 14, 2013 Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex (MIT) — brilliant phrase, sound analysis. Stupid Stupid xBox — The hardcore/soft-tv transition and any lead they feel they have is simply not defensible by licensing other industries’ generic video or music content because those … Get the best start for data in your businessBy Edd DumbillFebruary 6, 2013 In a world where technology and business are evermore intertwined, IT leaders aspire to key roles in their organizations. Sadly, industry conferences can lag behind, assuming IT is all about making the right buying decisions. Not so at Strata. Our … Four short links: 5 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 5, 2013 toolbar — tooltips in jQuery, cf hint.css which is tooltips in CSS. Security Engineering — 2ed now available online for free. (via /r/netsec) Economics of Netflix’s $100M New Show (The Atlantic) — Up until now, Netflix’s strategy has involved paying … The business singularityBy Alistair CrollJanuary 31, 2013 Exponential curves gradually, inexorably grow until they reach a limit. The function increases over time. That’s why a force like gravity, which grows exponentially as objects with mass get closer to one another, eventually leads to a black hole. And … Four short links: 30 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 30, 2013 Chinese Attack UAV (Alibaba) — Small attack UAV is characterized with small size, light weight, convenient carrying, rapid outfield expansion procedure, easy operation and maintenance; the system only needs 2-3 operators to operate, can be carried by surveillance personnel to … RFP-EZ: Making it easier for small companies to bid on government contractsBy Tim O'ReillyJanuary 18, 2013 A few years ago, when I was doing the research that led to my work in open government, I had a conversation with Aneesh Chopra, later the first Federal CTO but at the time, the Secretary of Technology for the … Four short links: 16 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 16, 2013 Things Users Don’t Care About (Pete Warden) — every day we relearn these lessons. How great it will be once all their friends are on it. Tracer FIRE 5 — online workshop and game that teaches network security. [A] week-long … Four short links: 15 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 15, 2013 Electronic Gadgets in the NZ Consumer Price Index — your CPI is just as bizarre, trust me. (via Julie Starr) Captive Audience: Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Gilded Age (Amazon) — Foo camper and former Washington insider, now … Four short links: 11 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2013 How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off (Anil Dash) — the basic straightforward stuff that gets your users on-side. Anil’s making a career out of being an adult. Clockwork Raven (Twitter) — open source project to send data … Four short links: 7 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 10, 2013 DroneNet: How to Build It (John Robb) — It’s possible to break the FAA’s “line of sight” rules regarding drones right now and get away with it to enable fast decentralized growth. This strategy works. e.g. PayPal flagrantly broke banking … Four short links: 7 January 2012By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 7, 2013 DroneNet: How to Build It (John Robb) — It’s possible to break the FAA’s “line of sight” rules regarding drones right now and get away with it to enable fast decentralized growth. This strategy works. e.g. PayPal flagrantly broke banking … Four short links: 2 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 2, 2013 2013 Spring PenApps — a student-run hackathon held at the University of Pennsylvania, biggest university hackathon in the world. (via Jim Stogdill) uncrustify — Source Code Beautifier for C, C++, C#, ObjectiveC, D, Java, Pawn and VALA. Mirror of 28C3 … Four short links: 31 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 31, 2012 Wireless Substitution (BoingBoing, CDC) — very nice graph showing the decline in landlines/growth in wireless. Maker’s Row — Our mission is to make the manufacturing process simple to understand and easy to access. From large corporations to first time designers, … Four short links: 28 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 26, 2012 Kenyan Women Create Their Own Geek Culture (NPR) — Oguya started spending some Saturday mornings with Colaco and other women, snipping code and poring through hacker cookbooks. These informal gatherings became the Akirachix. Oguya graduated and turned her mobile phone … Four short links: 27 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 26, 2012 Improving the Security Posture of Industrial Control Systems (NSA) — common-sense that owners of ICS should already be doing, but which (because it comes from the NSA) hopefully they’ll listen to. See also Wired article on NSA targeting domestic SCADA … Four short links: 26 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 26, 2012 Arduino IR Remote Control — control your Arduino project via your TV’s remote control. (via Arduino) holler — WTFPL-licensed Javascript library for real-time in-app notifications via the commandline (uses node). (via Javascript Weekly) First Tweets — numbers of “first tweet … Four short links: 21 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 21, 2012 Amazon’s Product Development Technique — the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Iterating on a press release is a lot less expensive than iterating on the … Four short links: 19 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 19, 2012 10 Trends That Are Changing Cities Forever (Business Insider) — the only one of these “The n (Massive|Coming|IBM|Important|Critical|Deadly|Brobdignagian) Trends That Will Transform <noun> Forever And Herald The End of Days So Grab Your Ankles And Kiss Your Ass Goodbye Sinners … Four short links: 7 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 7, 2012 AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames (IEEE) — how awesome is a contest where a group who taught a drone to behave itself on the end of a leash, constantly taking pictures and performing facial recognition, … Four short links: 6 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 6, 2012 You’re Saving Time — can you explain what you do, as well as this? Love the clarity of thought, as well as elegance of expression. Related Content, by Wordnik — branching out by offering a widget for websites which recommends … Four short links: 5 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 5, 2012 The Benefits of Poetry for Professionals (HBR) — Harman Industries founder Sidney Harman once told The New York Times, “I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers. Poets are our original systems thinkers. They look … Four short link: 27 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 27, 2012 Statistical Misdirection Master Class — examples from Fox News. The further through the list you go, the more horrifying^Wedifying they are. Some are clearly classics from the literature, but some are (as far as I can tell) newly developed graphical … Four short links: 26 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 26, 2012 High Levels of Burnout in US Drone Pilots (NPR) — 17 percent of active duty drone pilots surveyed are thought to be “clinically distressed.” The Air Force says this means the pilots’ stress level has crossed a threshold where it’s … Four short links: 21 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 21, 2012 gboom — commandline tool for making gists. Pixel Based Websites — great collection of Javascript tools for working with sprites and backgrounds. Indie Game The Movie: Case Study — lessons learned, lots of detail, about the self-publishing crowdfunding success story … Four short links: 19 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 19, 2012 Wing Man — Mac app for source control management with git, implements workflow rather than simply being a wrapper for git commandlines. CodeKit — Mac app for web developers, automates (invisibly, thanks to watching filesystem changes) much of the web … Four short links: 9 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 8, 2012 Helping Drones Play Nice With Other Aviation — The U.S. airspace is quickly being filled with simultaneously flying drones. To such an extent, unmanned aircraft could soon become a nightmare for the ATC controllers. The ADS-B will improve Predator B’s … Square Wallet, the Apple Store, and Uber: Software Above the Level of a Single DeviceBy Tim O'ReillyNovember 8, 2012 Back in 2003, Dave Stutz, in his parting letter to Microsoft, wrote a prescient line about the future of technology: “Useful software written above the level of the single device will command high margins for a long time to come. Stop … Four short links: 8 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 8, 2012 Closely — new startup by Perry Evans (founder of MapQuest), giving businesses a simple app to track competitors’ online deals and social media activity. Seems a genius move to me: so many businesses flounder online, “I don’t know what to … 1 to 50 of 307 Next Stay Connected
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