This weeks visualization comes from John Nelson of IDV Solutions, who has taken data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to map tornado paths and F-Scale frequencies. Nels...
Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the publishing space this week: The shortest link between content and revenue may be HTML5 A couple weeks ago, MIT Technology Reviews editor in chie...
Oracle has come up empty-handed in its fishing expedition for a big damages settlement against Google. The jury has ruled against patent infringement, a charge that was far-fetched, to say the least....
BeWell App (Google Play) -- continuously tracks user behaviors along three key health dimensions without requiring any user input — the user simply downloads the app and uses the phone as usual...
The 8th Annual OReilly Open Source Awards will be hosted this July at OSCON 2012 in Portland, OR. These annual awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, c...
Here are a few of the big data stories that caught my attention this week. MIT makes a big data push MIT unveiled its big data research plans this week with a new initiative: bigdata@csail. CSAIL is ...
Heres what caught my attention this week in the commerce space: Apple, Bluetooth and the path of least resistance The road to mobile payments, especially in the U.S., is mired with speed bumps in ter...
Mary Meekers Internet Trends 2012 (PDF) -- what caught my eye: a Japanese games company with USD418 ARPU via in-game currency sales; she has a fantastic array of "technology has changed everythin...
Python is a tremendous asset when youre trying to classify images, track changes in scenes, search for items within images, implement augmented reality, or do the myriad other things that fall under ...
In this new Velocity Podcast, I had a conversation with Kate Matsudaira (@katemats), Vice President of Engineering at Decide.com. This conversation centers mostly on the human side of engineering and...
Wide Open Future of the Art Museum (TED) -- text of an interview with curator at the Walters Art Museum about CC-licensing content: reasons for it, value to society, value to the institution. What I ...
In the 21st century, federal government must go mobile, putting government services and information at the fingertips of citizens, said United States Chief Technology Officer Todd Park in a recent wi...
This post originally appeared on Joe Wikerts Publishing 2020 Blog ("Why Advertising Could Become Amazons Knockout Punch"). This version has been lightly edited. It all started harmlessly enou...
South Korean Kinect+RFID Augmented Reality Theme Park -- Sixty-five attractions over seven thematic stages contribute to the experience, which uses 3D video, holograms and augmented reality to immers...
Canada Wages War on Knowledge -- Library and Archives Canada is ending acquisitions, not digitizing material, dispersing its collection to underfunded private and public collections around Canada, an...
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...
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