Peter Collingridge (@gunzalis), cofounder of Enhanced Editions says digital books are requiring a new style of data-driven marketing and promotion that publishers arent yet implementing. He also says...
Lets say you need to understand thousands or even millions of rows of data, and you have a short time to do it in. The data may come from your team, in which case perhaps youre already familiar with ...
Namebench (Google Code) -- hunts down the fastest DNS servers for your computer to use. (via Nelson Minar) Primer on Macroeconomics (Jig) -- reading suggestions for introductions to macroeconomics su...
Valentines Day turned out to be a good time to discuss data crunching of online dating. Kevin Lewis, a PhD candidate in sociology and Berkman Center Fellow, drew an overflow room today for his talk M...
The United Nations Global Pulse initiative is an effort to harness the power of big data and analytics to better understanding how the world is changing. The video embedded below, released today, exp...
Two dramatically opposed announcements put the textbook publishing industry on notice recently that it could be facing rapid disruption. Apple announced its iBooks Author app and invited authors to c...
While reporters and editors have been the traditional vectors for information gathering and dissemination, the flattened information environment of 2012 now has news breaking first online, not on the...
Why I Hate The STOCK Act (Clay Johnson) -- an attempt to reform insider trading within government, but because Congress exempts itself from substantial penalties then it has little effect where its n...
President Barack Obama named Aneesh Chopra as the nation’s first chief technology officer in April 2009. In the nearly three years since, he was a tireless, passionate advocate for applying tec...
Over the last few years Ive created a few popular visualizations, a lot of duds, and Ive learned a few lessons along the way. For my latest analysis of where Facebook users go on vacation, I decided ...
If I accept conventional wisdom, Apple is getting into the TV-making business because: The living room is the last consumer segment that Apple has yet to completely remake in its image. Apple creates...
We need a word that captures the specific sort of pain entrepreneurs feel when their carefully developed startup ideas are met with blank indifference. All that time. All that effort. And it adds up ...
Rise of the Independents (Bryce Roberts) -- companies that dont take VC money and instead choose to grow organically: indies. +1 for having a word for this. The Performance Golden Rule (Steve Souders...
I am very happy to be attending the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference this year. We are at a pivotal moment in the history of healthcare in this country and hea...
Below youll find the script and associated links from the February 10, 2012 episode of OReilly Radar. An archive of past shows is available through OReilly Medias YouTube channel and you can subscrib...
Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week. The NoSQL movementA relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise of the NoSQL movement ...
This week, as I do occasionally, I want to focus in on one specific topic. For regular readers, the topic of technology innovation and patents is nothing new; its a problem that is frequently covered...
Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my eye this week. The booksellers cold war rages on Two weeks ago, Amazon made a move that might have landed it access to B&N brick-an...
Hundreds of storm chasers and scientists are active during the spring and summer, the months when tornadoes are most likely to form over the Great Plains. Tim Dye at Data Tech Art has created the fol...
Here are a few items that caught my eye this week. How will Facebook cash in on mobile? With Facebooks public filings ahead of its imminent IPO, we know now that advertising accounted for 83% of its ...
Monki Gras 2012 (Stephen Walli) -- nice roundup of highlights of the Redmonk conference in London. Sample talk: Why Most UX is Shite. Frozen -- flow-based programming, intent is to build the toolbox ...
As Joe Mullin reported at Wired earlier tonight, a Texas jury has struck down a companys claim to own the interactive web. The decision in this case comes after more than a decade of legal wrangling ...
Earlier this week, we at OReilly regenerated all of our ebook-bundle Mobi files, upgrading them to meet the specifications for Amazons latest ebook format, KF8. These files are now available for down...
Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week: Wolfram|Alpha Pro: An on-call data scientist The computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha unveiled a pro version this week. ...
This post originally appeared on Publishers Weekly. Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. A new BMW, for example, that only runs on BMW gas. There are plenty of BMW gas stations...
We just released "Best of TOC 2012," a free anthology that brings together key interviews and analysis from Radars publishing area. The material in Best of TOC falls into four sections: The a...
Weave -- web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. GPL and MPL-licensed. (via Flowing Data) Flotr2 -- MIT-licensed Javascript ...
This post is part of the TOC podcast series. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes. I follow dozens of publishing blogs and tweet streams, but theres one that always rises abo...
In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; Ive never been comfortable talking about No...
Mavuno -- an open source, modular, scalable text mining toolkit built upon Hadoop. (Apache-licensed) Cow Clicker -- Wired profile of Cowclicker creator Ian Bogost. I was impressed by Cow Clickers [.....
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