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BlogsTags > spaceFour 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, … Masking the complexity of the machineBy Jon BrunerFebruary 15, 2013 The Internet has thrived on abstraction and modularity. Web services hide their complexity behind APIs and standardized protocols, and these clean interfaces make it easy to turn them into modules of larger systems that can take advantage of the most … …and along with EPUB 3: New CSS!By Nellie McKessonFebruary 11, 2013 Hopefully you all read Sanders Kleinfeld’s great writeup about O’Reilly’s move to EPUB 3, and the changes and challenges that brings. Along with updating our toolchain, we also revisited our EPUB design and took a stab at improving the user … Strata Week: AWS and Rackspace, comparedBy Jenn WebbNovember 2, 2012 Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Rackspace vs Amazon As Rackspace continues to ramp up its services to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) — this week, announcing a partnership with … They promised us flying cars
By Alasdair AllanAugust 3, 2012 We may be living in the future, but it hasn’t entirely worked out how we were promised. I remember the predictions clearly: the 21st century was supposed to be full of self-driving cars, personal communicators, replicators and private space ships. … Four short links: 18 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 18, 2012 Overlapping S-Curves of Various Products (PNG) -- product adoption speed over time. (via Beta Knowledge) High School Makerspaces Q&A with Dale Dougherty (Radioshack) -- Experimentation is one of the things we’re trying to promote. If you do experiments, a number of them fail and you learn from that failure and say, “Gee, I could have done that differently.” It’s... Top stories: February 27-March 2, 2012 
By Mac SlocumMarch 2, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: Mike Loukides examined the clumsy state of human connections in our tech products, Dale Dougherty made the case for Maker-friendly cities, and we looked at key shifts in publishing's business models. Creating Maker-friendly cities 
By Dale DoughertyFebruary 27, 2012 Governments, particularly local governments, need to do more to understand and adapt to what might be called DIY citizenship. OpenStack Foundation requires further definition
By Andy OramOctober 7, 2011 The thinness of detail about the Foundation is probably a good sign, because it means that Rackspace and its partners are seeking input from the community about important parameters. OpenStack Foundation requires further definitionBy Andy OramOctober 7, 2011 The thinness of detail about the Foundation is probably a good sign, because it means that Rackspace and its partners are seeking input from the community about important parameters. Developer Week in Review: Would your passcode pass muster? 
By James TurnerJune 30, 2011 A weekly lawsuit update, MySpace is purchased for a bargain price, and your darkest suspicions about the stupidity of passcode selections is confirmed. The quiet rise of machine learning April 11, 2011 From Goodreads to Google to Orbitz, machine learning is slowly becoming part of everyday life. Alasdair Allan discusses current uses and how machine learning factors into his own robotic telescope network. The abandonment of technology
By Alasdair AllanMarch 3, 2011 We face a choice between a future of accelerating technological progress and an age of declining possibilities and narrowing horizons. That choice depends on the problems we choose to solve. The NASA Make Challenge
By Dale DoughertyMarch 1, 2011 Makers can participate in a new kind of space program, one that expands beyond NASA to include commercial space collaboration. Open sourcing space
By Dale DoughertyNovember 3, 2010 The space race has been reignited, but in a much different way. With off-the-shelf components and your own initiative, you can now launch a satellite or weather balloon. Dale Dougherty looks at this new wave of roll-your-own exploration. Space IT, the final frontier
By Alex HowardAugust 20, 2010 The first NASA IT Summit showcased the technology of today and the potential of the future. We take an in-depth look at the event and discuss NASA's IT shifts with NASA CTO for IT Chris Kemp and NASA CIO Linda Cureton. OpenStack offered as Rackspace's answer to calls for an open cloud
By Andy OramJuly 20, 2010 When Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack, I thought of it as either a PR or yet another attempt to impose some pet project on the world as a standard. But it may actually a newsworthy intervention into the furiously evolving cloud industry. Open space data can improve lives (and save birds)
By Alex HowardMay 21, 2010 Jeanne Holm, the former chief knowledge architect at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses her efforts to build an an international ontology for space data. The Watering Hole - Forget the Women, Mars Needs Tow Trucks!
By James TurnerFebruary 5, 2010 Next time, JPL should make sure to get the towing package with their rover insurance. Can open source guide a moon mission?
By Mac SlocumFebruary 1, 2010 The Open Luna Foundation has a $500 million plan to build a moon outpost, and it's going to rely on open source to make it happen. Question is: does the distributed nature of open source lend itself to complex, mission-critical ideas? Take a look at key elements of the Open Luna project and share your thoughts. The Watering Hole - And You Thought the LHC Was Dangerous?
By James TurnerJanuary 28, 2010 The world will end, not with a bang, but with a Tweet Time Lapse of Galactic Center of Milky Way rising over Texas Star Party 
By Jesse RobbinsMay 21, 2009 Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman. According to William Castleman: The time-lapse sequence was taken with the simplest equipment that I brought to the star party. I put the Canon EOS-5D (AA screen modified to record hydrogen alpha at 656 nm) with an EF 15mm f/2.8 lens on a weighted tripod. Exposures were... Space Shuttle Atlantis during Solar Transit
By Jesse RobbinsMay 17, 2009 In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault) Thierry made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D... 2 Years Later, the Facebook App Platform is Still Thriving
By Ben LoricaMay 13, 2009 In a few weeks, the Facebook application platform will mark its second anniversary. While it garnered lots of press coverage in the months after it launched, the arrival of the iTunes app store shifted attention away from Facebook's vibrant ecosystem. The media glow is understandable: among other things, the younger iTunes platform is adding apps at a much faster rate... NASA's Kepler Promises to Irreversibly Alter Humanity's Relationship to the Cosmos 
By Timothy M. O'BrienMarch 7, 2009 NASA's just launched Kepler Mission promises to dramatically expand the catalog of known exoplanets from a few hundred to a few thousand. This post assembles some information about the mission and man this mission was named after Johannes Kepler. In the words of Sagan, "Kepler was the first person in the history of the human species to understand correctly and quantitatively how the planets move, how the solar system works." Facebook is Growing Fast in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
By Ben LoricaMarch 5, 2009 With Facebook recently passing 175 million users, I decided to update my analysis of its user base. The weekly growth in number of users has remained steady, with the last 5 weeks being exceptionally strong: Facebook added over 25 million users since early February. The share of U.S. users inched up slightly from 30% to 31%. The company added users... Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing
By Tim O'ReillyOctober 26, 2008 A couple of months ago, Hugh Macleod created a bit of buzz with his blog post The Cloud's Best Kept Secret. Hugh's argument: that cloud computing will lead to a huge monopoly. Of course, a couple of weeks ago, Larry Ellison made the opposite point, arguing that salesforce.com is "barely profitable", and that no one will make much money... Perl on App Engine?By Artur BergmanJuly 23, 2008 I am a Perl hacker. I have written parts of the core, created CPAN modules and written tons of perl code. In fact I am addicted to it ; or rather, CPAN. I have been wanting to play around with Google App Engine, but I haven't had time to get up to speed in Python. Today at OSCON I met up with Brad Fitzpatrick, who told me he had permission from Google to talk about and work on a Perl on App Engine project. He makes it clear that, I'm happy to announce that the Google App Engine team has given me permission to talk about a 20% project inside Google to to add Perl support to App Engine. To be clear: I'm not a member of the App Engine team and the App Engine team is not promising to add Perl support. They're just saying that I (along with other Perl hackers here at Google) are now allowed to work on this 20% project of ours out in the open where other Perl hackers can help us out, should you be so inclined. The plan is to harden Perl (one layer of defense in App Engine's hardened environment); implement Protocol Buffers and stubs of the backend services, so people can write App Engine applications on their local servers. There is more information at Brad's LiveJournal, as well as the the Perl-AppEngine project. Capturing the creative spirit here at OSCON, Brad and I hacked together a new module that emulates a protected environment, Sys::Protect (generally good idea for any web application). Facebook Growth By Country and the Slowdown in App Usage
By Ben LoricaJuly 21, 2008 With the Facebook Developers conference slated for later this week, I thought it would be a good time to give a brief update of a previous post on Facebook demographics. What follows are recently published number of users by country and region, along with growth rates for select regions and countries. Over the last four weeks, the fastest growing regions were South America, Central America and the Carribean: BarCampBank is spreading
By Jesse RobbinsJune 12, 2008 When Ben Black and I organized the first BarCampBank in North America last year, we hoped that it would spread. According to William Azaroff's post on NetBanker, the movement is there and growing: What's all this about BarCampBanks? From a North American premiere in Seattle almost a year ago, we've witnessed two more in the last few months, and eight... Where Does Facebook Grow From Here
By Ben LoricaMay 27, 2008 Facebook publishes demographic data through its advertising platform. Potential advertisers can obtain estimates for the number of Facebook users by age group, gender, education, country, and even relationship status! While the estimates most likely rely on user supplied data, they provide the best publicly available numbers on the Facebook user base. Facebook currently has about 75M users spread across more... Myspace/Facebook App Platforms & Total Installs
By Ben LoricaMay 19, 2008 Within a few months, Myspace has quietly built an application platform with over twelve hundred applications. I previously posted a graph for Facebook app categories, in which I compared the categories using the number of active users. Unlike the older Facebook platform, Myspace only provides the number of installs: It took a few months before Facebook started publishing active usage... MySpace's Data Availability is not Data PortabilityBy David RecordonMay 9, 2008 Arguably vaporware, yesterday MySpace, Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News Corp), and Twitter announced the Data Availability Initiative. While I could write at length about how this shows the big companies have already realized how to diminish the DataPortability group's brand by linking anything they do "data portability", that isn't the point of this post. The crux of the... Open Source "Social App Server" Might Crack Garden Walls?By Jim StogdillMarch 26, 2008 New social application server space may crack social network garden walls. Sneaking Around With Other People's Platforms ... and a Countdown to Graphing Social Patterns WestBy Dave McClureFebruary 27, 2008 Multiple Platforms, One Geek. What's a man to do? Microsoft Office Live Workspace and Macs
By Todd OgasawaraDecember 20, 2007 Microsoft's Office Live Workspace stores, shares, and displays Microsoft Office documents on the web. And, it works with Firefox on a Mac. 1 to 36 of 36 Stay Connected
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