July 2011
42 posts
Strata Week: Google Plus focuses on data control →
Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week.
Your data and Google+
It’s hard to ignore the big story of the week: the launch of Google+, Google’s latest…
June 2011
15 posts
We’re stuck in a cycle of government control followed by hacktivism. Loz Kaye says we need a new approach http://bit.ly/jauJpf
School district first to permit cell phone use... →
Source: Green Onion News Network The Harper Valley School Board recently adopted a new policy that allows students to use their cell phones to search for answers on state-mandated standardized…
Why Clojure is catching on http://oreil.ly/kCJqxQ Interview with @stuartsierra #OsconJava
From app to meetup: A new kind of running route →
More and more online communities are forming around social apps — from foodies to readers to gamers to shoppers to just about anything else you can imagine. RunKeeper is taking a note…
Best practices for evaluating #Hadoop and setting up an initial cluster http://oreil.ly/l20oEC
Open source personal health record: no need to... →
The news went out Friday that Google is shutting down Google Health. This portal was, along with Microsoft HealthVault (which is still going strong) the world’s best-known place for people to…
Simon Prince is writing his textbook “Computer Vision Models” publicly, publishing chapters and updates as he goes http://bit.ly/lTbnKo
Anyone can build music fingerprinting with Echoprint’s open source music identification system http://bit.ly/l5Gtgb
Strata Week: Data Without Borders →
Here are some of the data stories that caught my attention this week:
Data without borders
Data is everywhere. That much we know. But the usage of and benefit from data is not evenly…
“Whenever users have to open 10 browser tabs, there are interesting opportunities to build businesses” http://bit.ly/lPkZpH via @brady
Developer Week in Review: Start your lawyers! →
Summer is here, so it’s time to hit the beach and soak up some sun. You know, sun? That bright yellow ball that blinds you whenever you go out for Doritos and Mountain Dew in the middle of a…
Bagel is an implementation of the Pregel graph processing framework on Spark http://bit.ly/l1mQ2E
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Flurry: Time Spent On Mobile Apps Has Surpassed... →
Two big things from Flurry’s latest mobile app report:
According to Flurry, daily time spent in apps has passed web consumption. (That’s likely not a spike or an anomaly. This is happening now. Even if you question the underlying metrics — and since Alexa is involved, you should — the usage trajectory is what’s really important here.)
People are popping into apps, not staying...
Give your mobile app a better shot at success by avoiding these 10 common mistakes http://oreil.ly/kSbBHy
