Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week. White House launches new digital government strategy The nations new strategy for digital government is built on data, shared...
This weeks visualization comes from The New York Times, which tries to shed a little light on Facebooks initial public offering by showing how it compares to the 2,400 technology IPOs that have occur...
Heres what caught my attention this week in the publishing space: Kindle Fire home screen may be for sale Rumors flew this week saying Amazon plans to launch an ad campaign in which it will sell ads ...
Ive been taking the opportunity this week to do some spring office cleaning. Unfortunately, I clean my home office infrequently enough that at a certain point, cleaning it becomes more an exercise in...
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 yea...
Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week: Visualizing a better life How do you compare the quality of life in different countries? As The Guardians Simon Rogers points ou...
Every day, the public hears more about technology and media entrepreneurs, from when they started in the garages and the dorm rooms, all the way up until when they go public, get acquired or go spect...
Here are the commerce stories that caught my attention this week. Facebook acquires social gift-giving app Karma The media focus on Facebooks IPO might be missing the point — as Michael V. Cope...
Last Saturday My Son Found His People at the Maker Faire -- aww to the power of INFINITY. Dictionaries Linking Words to Concepts (Google Research) -- Wikipedia entries for concepts, text strings from...
After finishing the second edition of "Version Control with Git," author Jon Loeliger talked to me about some of the advice he offers and how to use Git effectively as changes to code pile up...
Chas Emerick (@cemerick) is the co-author of "Clojure Programming" along with Brian Carper and Christophe Grand. He maintains a busy blog at cemerick.com and he also produces "Mostly Lazy...
Theres a long history of people who have tried to transform the United States federal government through better use of information technology and data. It extends back to the early days of Alexander ...
In this new Velocity Podcast, I had a conversation with Schlomo Schapiro (@schlomoschapiro), a Systems Architect at ImmobilienScout24, and a Velocity Europe committee member. This conversation center...
Tale of Two Pwnies (Chromium Blog) -- So, how does one get full remote code execution in Chrome? In the case of Pinkie Pie’s exploit, it took a chain of six different bugs in order to successfu...
In the following interview, "Playful Design" author John Ferrara (@PlayfulDesign) explains what he sees as the real gaming revolution — not "gamification," or the application of...
Successfully applying data science to the practice of journalism requires more than providing context and finding clarity in vasts amount of unstructured data: it will require media organizations to ...
For some reason I have an aversion to the quantified self terminology. I guess Im suspicious of excessive overt tracking of stuff that I hope to make into unconscious habit. It probably goes back to ...
New Zealand Government Budget App -- when the NZ budget is announced, itll go live on iOS and Android apps. Tablet users get details, mobile users get talking points and speeches. Half-political, but...
Objectivist C -- very clever. In Objectivist-C, each program is free to acquire as many resources as it can, without interference from the operating system. (via Tim OReilly) Zynga and Facebook Stock...
This post is part of the TOC podcast series. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes. Social reading is gaining momentum. There are quite a few startups involved in this space, ...
(Background: Most government advisory committees are stocked with representatives of corporations and special interest groups who distort government policies, sometimes unconsciously and with good in...
Were living through one of the most dynamic periods in healthcare in our collective history. Earlier this year, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator of health IT, highlighted how the web, ...
Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week. A federal judge learned to code The judge presiding over the Oracle/Google case learned Java, and that skill came in handy wh...
This week brought a couple of important updates in the lawsuits against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin. First, the antitrust lawsuit filed by 16 States Attorneys General saw 17 more states jump in, and...
This weeks visualization comes from PhD candidates David Quinn and Daniel Wiesmann, whove built an interactive web-mapping tool that lets you explore the "urban metabolism" of major U.S. citi...
OReilly GM and publisher Joe Wikert (@jwikert) wrote recently about how he cant shake his ereader. I read his story with interest, as I cant seem to justify buying one. I was gifted a second-generati...
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 ...
Here are a few stories from the commerce space that caught my attention this week. Isis prepares its mobile wallet rollout Isis Mobile Wallet had some big news this week. First, American Express offi...
Heres what caught my attention in the data space this week. Googles Knowledge Graph "Google does the semantic Web," says OReillys Edd Dumbill, "except they call it the Knowledge Graph....
The Mythology of Big Data (PDF) -- slides from a Strata keynote by Mark R. Madsen. A lovely explanation of the social impediments to the rational use of data. (via Hamish MacEwan) Scamworld -- amazin...
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