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BlogsTags > ebookFour short links: 10 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 10, 2013 The Remixing Dilemma — summary of research on remixed projects, finding that (1) Projects with moderate amounts of code are remixed more often than either very simple or very complex projects. (2) Projects by more prominent creators are more generative. … 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 … Numbers never lie…unless you’re talking social mediaBy Rob EagarApril 30, 2013 Back in college, I took a class on statistics and never forgot the first lesson my professor taught us, which was, “Anyone can manipulate numbers to make them mean whatever they want.” I see this point magnified today by the … 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 … Digital publishing and the loss of intimacyBy François Joseph de KermadecApril 9, 2013 Reading used to be an intimate experience. Even Amazon, the pioneer in digital publishing, branded its Kindle with a child reading alone under a tree. Books were specially designed to disappear into the background as much as possible, helped by … The book as a standard of qualityBy François Joseph de KermadecMarch 13, 2013 Publishers have long commandeered respect for the quality of their work. Traditional processes may be cumbersome, reliant as they are on an infinity of minute, specialised steps, but they have helped maintain consistently high standards, at ever-lower prices. Authors may … If followers can sponsor updates on Facebook, social advertising has a new horizonBy Alex HowardMarch 7, 2013 This week, I found that one of my Facebook updates received significantly more attention that others I’ve posted. On the one hand, it was a share of an important New York Times story focusing on the first time a baby … How can we redefine the book?By François Joseph de KermadecMarch 4, 2013 A book may no longer be a physical object, but its ordinary definition remains straightforward as a “written composition that is intended for publication”. Traditional or digital, we feel confident in our ability to recognise a book. We barely remember … Losing the book as a symbolBy François Joseph de KermadecFebruary 20, 2013 Transitioning the publishing industry to digital technologies involves lifting the words out of printed pages, and pouring them into the amorphous containers we call ebooks. Books are no longer the tangible, brick-shaped presence they were: they must, instead, be stretched … Money matters most in book marketingBy Rob EagarFebruary 19, 2013 A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that four out of five Facebook users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site. In addition, researchers at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute found that … Ebooks and the future of researchBy François Joseph de KermadecFebruary 6, 2013 Knowledge cannot progress unless it is aware of its past: a knowledge-seeker must reference the works of previous generations. Literary scholars return to manuscripts, musicians to partitions, artists to museums… The continued availability of reference works underpins our entire research … Selling direct starts with communityBy Kaushik SampathFebruary 5, 2013 “Why would I need to know who buys my books?” — some publishers have asked (and still are asking) this question. “I have my distribution channels and am quite happy to give them my ebooks too.” If this statement surprises … PDF is still “better”By Nellie McKessonJanuary 30, 2013 A few weeks ago, I surprised myself. I had decided to learn a new code language, and O’Reilly of course has a great little book about this particular language, so I pulled up the eBook files, and almost without thinking, … Visualization of the Week: Identify your insiders, outsiders, connectors and gatewaysBy Jenn WebbJanuary 30, 2013 WolframAlpha announced an upgrade to its Personal Analytics for Facebook platform that allows users to visualize a number of aspects of their Facebook ecosystem. John Burnham outlines the updates on the WolframAlpha blog, noting that the popular visualization from the … Four short links: 9 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 9, 2013 BitCoin in 2012, By The Numbers — Over the past year Bitcoin’s value when compared to the US Dollar, and most other currencies, increased steadily, though there was a large spike and subsequent dip in August. Interestingly, the current market … Why isn’t social media more like real life?By Jim StogdillDecember 19, 2012 I finally got around to looking at my personal network graph on Linkedin Labs the other day. It was a fun exercise and I got at least one interesting insight from it. Take a look at these two well defined … Four short links: 13 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 13, 2012 Top 10 Chinese Internet Memes of 2012 — most are political, unlike Overly Attached Girlfriend. Evaporative Cooling — thoughtful piece about the tendency of event quality to trend down unless checked by invisible walls. (via Hacker News) What Was It … Books as apps deserve serious considerationBy Chris RechtsteinerDecember 6, 2012 While following FutureBook 12 recently (#fbook12) a topic came to mind that I feel needs to gain additional traction: Books as apps play an important role vs. existing ebook platforms. This is a frightening future for many in publishing (and for many … Four short links: 12 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 12, 2012 Teaching Programming to a Highly Motivated Beginner (CACM) — I don’t think there is any better way to internalize knowledge than first spending hours upon hours growing emotionally distraught over such struggles and only then being helped by a mentor. … Four short links: 7 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 7, 2012 A Slower Speed of Light — game where you control the speed of light and discover the wonders of relativity. (via Andy Baio) Facebook Demetricator — removes all statistics and numbers from Facebook’s chrome (“37 people like this” becomes “people … Strata Week: A realistic look at big data obstaclesBy Jenn WebbOctober 12, 2012 Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Big obstacles for big data For the latest issue of Foreign Policy, Uri Friedman put together a summarized history of big data to show “[h]ow … Commerce Weekly: Will NYC taxis get Square?By Jenn WebbOctober 11, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Square may be courting cabs Square not only is gearing up to launch in Starbucks stores in November — it may also be looking to … New life for used ebooksBy Joe WikertJuly 31, 2012 This post originally appeared on Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog (“The Used Ebook Opportunity“). This version has been lightly edited. I’ve got quite a few ebooks in two different accounts that I’ve read and will never read again. I’ll bet … You still need your own websiteBy Mac SlocumJuly 3, 2012 Brett Slatkin's hope for a federated social web hasn't worked out as expected, so he's shifting perspective from infrastructure to user behavior. Here he explains why you shouldn't abandon your website for third-party platforms. You still need your own website 
By Mac SlocumJuly 3, 2012 Brett Slatkin's hope for a federated social web hasn't worked out as expected, so he's shifting perspective from infrastructure to user behavior. Here he explains why you shouldn't abandon your website for third-party platforms. Commerce Weekly: Streamlining Facebook's ads June 21, 2012 Payvment launches a one-click Facebook ad service, PayPal revamps its website with consumers and mobile in mind, and a Best Buy exec says in-store mobile use has a scale issue. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) Four short links: 18 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 18, 2012 What Facebook Knows (MIT Tech Review) -- Analyzing the 69 billion friend connections among those 721 million people showed that the world is smaller than we thought: four intermediary friends are usually enough to introduce anyone to a random stranger. and our close friends strongly sway which information we share, but overall their impact is dwarfed by the collective... Visualization of the Week: 30 years of tech IPOs May 25, 2012 This week's visualization comes from The New York Times and compares the last 30 years of tech IPOs (hint: watch for the big blue dot). Visualization of the Week: 30 years of tech IPOsBy Audrey WattersMay 25, 2012 This week's visualization comes from The New York Times and compares the last 30 years of tech IPOs (hint: watch for the big blue dot). Four short links: 25 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 25, 2012 Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss -- transcript of a thoughtful music industry insider considering the effect of the net on the business. The other problem? I’ve been expecting for years now to see aggregate revenue flowing to artist increase. Disintermediation promised us this. It hasn’t happened. Everywhere I look artists seem to be working more... Commerce Weekly: Facebook continues its mobile acquisition spreeMay 24, 2012 Facebook puts its IPO money to use, seven strategies to help retail businesses survive "showrooming," and grocery shopping sans checkout lines. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) Four short links: 14 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 14, 2012 Shiri = Japanese Robotic Ass (YouTube) -- I couldn't watch after 2m30s or so when he starts slapping the robot ass. I never imagined a butt as UI. I eagerly await the hobbyist version, the Arduino Ass Shield. (via Ed Yong) Facebook Tests 'Pay to Promote' Tool (BBC) -- pay to raise prominence of your message, feature being tested... Four short links: 7 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 7, 2012 Liquid Feedback -- MIT-licensed voting software from the Pirate Party. See this Spiegel Online piece about how it is used for more details. (via Tim O'Reilly) Putting Gestures Into Objects (Ars Technica) -- Disney and CMU have a system called Touché, where objects can tell whether they're being clasped, swiped, pinched, etc. and by how many fingers. (via BoingBoing)... Four short links: 27 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 27, 2012 The Third Industrial Revolution (The Economist) -- A number of remarkable technologies are converging: clever software, novel materials, more dexterous robots, new processes (notably three-dimensional printing) and a whole range of web-based services. The factory of the past was based on cranking out zillions of identical products: Ford famously said that car-buyers could have any colour they liked, as... Commerce Weekly: Facebook's shopping spree continuesApril 19, 2012 Facebook buys into e-commerce, Jason Calacanis opines on Apple's entry into mobile payments, and survey results look good for mobile commerce. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) The sorry state of ebook samples, and four ways to improve themBy Joe WikertApril 13, 2012 Joe Wikert: "My gut tells me the revenue missed by not converting samples into sales is a much larger figure than the revenue lost to piracy. And yet, the publishing industry spends a small fortune every year in DRM but treats samples as an afterthought." The sorry state of ebook samples, and four ways to improve themBy Joe WikertApril 13, 2012 Joe Wikert: "My gut tells me the revenue missed by not converting samples into sales is a much larger figure than the revenue lost to piracy. And yet, the publishing industry spends a small fortune every year in DRM but treats samples as an afterthought." Visualization of the Week: Clustering your social graph April 6, 2012 This week's visualization clusters your Facebook friends based on shared education, location, occupation, and interests. Visualization of the Week: Clustering your social graphBy Audrey WattersApril 6, 2012 This week's visualization clusters your Facebook friends based on shared education, location, occupation, and interests. Commerce Weekly: The do's and don'ts of geo marketingApril 5, 2012 Placecast's CEO describes layers of context that make for rich, geo-targeted messages. Also, talent flees Google Wallet, and Facebook's IPO may make life harder for mobile carriers. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) Four short links: 4 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 4, 2012 Typing Club -- lessons to improve your touch-typing, building you up letter by letter to speed and mastery. Like how I learned, only without the typewriters and the bibs and the roomful of girls. It wasn't easy being the only boy in typing class, but somehow I managed. (via EdTech ideas) SQL Injection via HTTP Headers -- excellent introduction... Passwords and interviews March 26, 2012 A candidate that forks over a social media password during an interview could become an employee that gives out a pasword in other situations. Employers aren't making that connection. Four short links: 23 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 23, 2012 Cache Them If You Can (Steve Souders) -- the percentage of resources that are cacheable has increased 4% during the past year. Over that same time the number of requests per page has increased 12% and total transfer size has increased 24%. Natural -- MIT-licensed general natural language facility for nodejs. Tokenizing, stemming, classification, phonetics, tf-idf, WordNet, string similarity,... Four short links: 7 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 7, 2012 Government Agencies and Colleges Demand Applicants' Facebook Passwords (MSN) -- "Schools are in the business of educating, not spying," he added. "We don't hire private investigators to follow students wherever they go. If students say stupid things online, they should educate them ... not engage in prior restraint." Hear, hear. Reminded me of danah boyd on teen password sharing.... Commerce Weekly: The mobile payment system that's ready nowFebruary 23, 2012 Direct billing stretches beyond its gaming roots, social commerce disappoints, and a refresher on how to dial a phone. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) Four short links: 20 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 20, 2012 University Copyright Fail -- This week, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto signed a deal with the licensing group Access Copyright that includes: provisions defining e-mailing hyperlinks as equivalent to photocopying a document; a flat fee of $27.50 for each full-time equivalent student; and, surveillance of academic staff email. (via Fabiana Kubke) Peanutty -- I'm... How to create a visualizationBy Pete WardenFebruary 13, 2012 Creating a visualization requires more than just data and imagery. Pete Warden outlines the process and actions that drove his new Facebook visualization project. How to create a visualization February 13, 2012 Creating a visualization requires more than just data and imagery. Pete Warden outlines the process and actions that drove his new Facebook visualization project. Commerce Weekly: Facebook finds a mobile commerce partnerFebruary 10, 2012 Bango will run Facebook's mCommerce platform, Google Wallet hacked, and PayPal pilots shopping walls. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.) It's time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRMBy Joe WikertFebruary 9, 2012 The music industry has shown that you need to offer consumers a universal format and content without rights restrictions. So when will publishers pay attention? 1 to 50 of 260 Next Stay Connected
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