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BlogsStrata Week: Real-time HadoopBy Jenn WebbOctober 26, 2012 Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Cloudera’s Impala takes Hadoop queries into real-time Cloudera ventured into real-time Hadoop querying this week, opening up its Impala software platform. As Derrick Harris reports … Publishing News: Amazon gets a brick-and-mortar bookstore, sort ofBy Jenn WebbOctober 26, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. U.K. bookstore teams up with Amazon Charlotte Williams and Lisa Campbell report this week at The Bookseller that Waterstones bookstore in the U.K. launched its … Four short links: 26 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 25, 2012 BootMetro (github) — website templates with a Metro (Windows 8) look. (via Hacker News) Kenya’s Treasury to tax M-Pesa — 10% tax on mobile money-transfer systems. M-Pesa is the largest mobile money transfer service provider in Kenya, with more than … Direct channels and new tools bring freedom and flexibilityBy Joe WikertOctober 25, 2012 Earlier this week I wrote about why I’m bullish on publishing’s future. I talked about two areas that are ripe for change: ebook prices and formats. In the second and final part of this discussion I share the other two … Commerce Weekly: Square’s big movesBy Jenn WebbOctober 25, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Square gets international, plans major growth; PayPal Here hits retail Square made a couple of big move announcements this week. First, the company literally will … Four short links: 25 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 25, 2012 Big Data: the Big Picture (Vimeo) — Jim Stogdill’s excellent talk: although Big Data is presented as part of the Gartner Hype Cycle, it’s an epoch of the Information Age which will have significant effects on the structure of corporations … CSS keeps growingBy Simon St. LaurentOctober 24, 2012 Eric Meyer, the author of CSS: The Definitive Guide (and much more) has taught thousands of people CSS through his books, his talks, and his articles. I’ve always enjoyed hearing his take on the state of CSS, as he manages … Three questions for…Kevin Franco of EnthrillBy Joe WikertOctober 24, 2012 This short interview with Kevin Franco of Enthrill is a preview to the Books in Browsers event this Thursday and Friday. If you’re unable to attend the event be sure to follow along with the livestream offered right here on … Visualization of the Week: Visualizing D.C. homicidesBy Jenn WebbOctober 24, 2012 Residents in Washington D.C., or citizens considering a move to D.C., have a new tool to assess the city’s homicide rate. As part of a 15-month investigative study, The Washington Post has created an interactive map of the homicides in … Industrial Internet linksBy Jon BrunerOctober 24, 2012 By mayoral proclamation this is NYC Data Week, featuring lots of events that bring together innovators who work with data in any capacity. To see the industrial Internet as it’s being approached by entrepreneurs and hackers, be sure to stop … Four short links: 24 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 24, 2012 Restoration of Defocused and Blurry Images — impressive demos, and open source (GPLv3) code. All those blurred faces and documents no longer seem so safe. Peter Molyneux Profile in Wired — worth reading for: (a) Molyneux’s contribution to the genre; … Two Books, One Goal 
By William StanekOctober 24, 2012 As the author and series editor of the Pocket Consultants, I've poured my many years of hands-on experience with advanced systems management, programming and development into every book. Currently, Microsoft Press and O'Reilly Media are preparing to release my newest... The complex world of copyright, licensing, and piracyBy Joe WikertOctober 23, 2012 Our TOC theme this month is “legal” and I thought it would be interesting to have a conversation with Bill Rosenblatt covering a variety of topics in the legal realm. Bill is a recognized authority on intellectual property in the … A novel approach to going DRM-freeBy Joe WikertOctober 23, 2012 I had a very enlightening conversation today with a small publisher who shall remain nameless for the time being. More on their secrecy in a moment… They’re thinking of going DRM-free but with a couple of twists. First of all, … Four short links: 23 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 23, 2012 Getting Started with Software-Defined Radio (ThePowerBase) — Now, anyone with about $20 USD to spare can tune into everything from police and fire transmissions to the International Space Station. We were talking about this on the Radar mailing list, and … Now available: Big Data Now 2012 EditionBy Mac SlocumOctober 22, 2012 In the first edition of our free Big Data Now anthology, the O’Reilly team tracked the birth and early development of data tools and data science. Now, with the second edition, we’re seeing what happens when big data grows up: … What I learned about #debates, social media and being a pundit on Al Jazeera EnglishBy Alex HowardOctober 22, 2012 Earlier this month, when I was asked by Al Jazeera English if I’d like to be go on live television to analyze the online side of the presidential debates, I didn’t immediately accept. I’d be facing a live international audience … The future is bright for ebook prices and formatsBy Joe WikertOctober 22, 2012 I typically get a sympathetic look when I tell people I work in the book publishing industry. They see what’s happened with newspapers, they realize many of their local bookstores have disappeared, and most of them have heard about the … The horrors of renting vs. owning ebooksBy Joe WikertOctober 22, 2012 Here’s a story that ought to raise your blood pressure. It brings to life the worst fears of anyone who’s amassed a large collection of ebooks. Linn, an Amazon Kindle customer, suddenly discovered her entire collection has been wiped clean. … Four short links: 22 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 22, 2012 jq — command-line tool for JSON data. GAFFTA — Gray Area Foundation For The Arts. Non-profit running workshops and building projects around technology-driven arts. (via Roger Dennis) Power Pwn — looks like a power strip, is actually chock-full of pen-testing … Thin walls and traffic camerasBy Alistair CrollOctober 19, 2012 A couple of years ago, I spoke with a European Union diplomat who shall remain nameless about the governing body’s attitude toward privacy. “Do you know why the French hate traffic cameras?” he asked me. “It’s because it makes it … How to open an industry: data points from Strata RxBy Andy OramOctober 19, 2012 O’Reilly’s first conference devoted to health care, Strata Rx, wrapped up earlier this week. Despite competing with at least three other conferences being held on the same week around the country on various aspects of health care and technology, we … Strata Week: Data mining for votesBy Jenn WebbOctober 19, 2012 Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Presidential candidates are mining your data Data is playing an unprecedented role in the US presidential election this year. The two presidential campaigns have access … TOC Trifecta: This week’s must-reads (10/19/12)By Joe WikertOctober 19, 2012 Talking ’bout a reformation — Colin Robinson offers 10 ways to save publishing. Humble ebook Bundle – Only four days left to name your price and grab a virtual stack of ebooks. 70K+ buyers can’t be wrong. Where’s Marco? – Instapaper founder … Three Strategies for Content Monetization: Part 3 of 3By David MarlinOctober 19, 2012 In my previous post, I wrote about a technology platform that allows reference book publishers to transact in backlist content. Today, I present yet another strategy publishers can use to monetize content: thinking beyond the written word. Let’s look at … Publishing News: Two publications shift focus from print to digitalBy Jenn WebbOctober 19, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. Navigating the print to digital shift After 79 years of print production, U.S. weekly news magazine Newsweek will be shutting down its printing presses and … San Francisco looks to tap into the open data economyBy Alex HowardOctober 19, 2012 As interest in open data continues to grow around the world, cities have become laboratories for participatory democracy. They’re also ground zero for new experiments in spawning civic startups that deliver city services or enable new relationships between the people … Four short links: 19 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 19, 2012 Home-made 3D-Printed Drones — if only they used computer-vision to sequence DNA, they’d be the perfect storm of O’Reilly memes :-) Hacking Pacemakers For Death — IOActive researcher Barnaby Jack has reverse-engineered a pacemaker transmitter to make it possible to … The new New TypographyBy Adam HydeOctober 18, 2012 In the 1920s and 1930s in Europe there was a movement known as the New Typography. It was a movement that rejected traditional type set in symmetrical columns and instead treated the printers block as a blank canvas to be … Commerce Weekly: Targeting AmazonBy Jenn WebbOctober 18, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Strategic maneuvers aimed at Amazon Retail competition against Amazon is starting to heat up coming into the holiday shopping season. On the heels of Wal-Mart’s … Three questions for…Christophe Maire of txtrBy Joe WikertOctober 18, 2012 1. Ebook adoption in Europe is lagging what we’ve seen in the U.S. What do you feel should be done to increase demand in Europe: Better reading devices, lower prices, something else? There is no doubt that the demand is … Four short links: 18 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 18, 2012 Let’s Pool Our Medical Data (TED) — John Wilbanks (of Science Commons fame) gives a strong talk for creating an open, massive, mine-able database of data about health and genomics from many sources. Money quote: Facebook would never make a … Tools for test-driven development in ScalaBy Andy OramOctober 17, 2012 Scala, a language designed for well-structured and readable programs, is richly provisioned with testing frameworks. The community has adopted test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) with zeal. These represent the baseline for trustworthy code development today. TDD and BDD … Startup Showcase: And the finalists are …By Alistair CrollOctober 17, 2012 We had a wide range of startups apply for a slot in the Strata Conference + Hadoop World Startup Showcase. Our selection committee, which included investors, entrepreneurs, and executives from SAP — which is sponsoring the event — whittled these … Three Strategies for Content Monetization: Part 2 of 3By David MarlinOctober 17, 2012 In my last post about content monetization for book publishers, I introduced the strategy of “chunking” in which a publisher takes its licensed content and breaks it up into resellable, reusable pieces. Today I examine the model of Credo Reference, … Data from health care reviews could power “Yelp for health care” startupsBy Alex HowardOctober 17, 2012 Given where my work and health has taken me this year, I’ve been thinking much more about the relationship of the Internet and health data to accountability and patient-driven health care. When I was looking for a place in Maine … Visualization of the Week: Forecasting the US presidential electionBy Jenn WebbOctober 17, 2012 The US presidential election is just weeks away, and there is no shortage of polls and collected indicators — in the US and around the world — being used to predict the outcome. Polling aggregation website FiveThirtyEight has made a … Amazon’s Kindle Whispercast serviceBy Joe WikertOctober 17, 2012 Earlier today Amazon announced an interesting and important enhancement to the Kindle platform. It’s called Kindle Whispercast and on the surface it might seem pretty ho-hum. But when you think about the long-term possibilities it’s clear Whispercast could help establish … Three questions for…Richard Lang of DemocrasoftBy Joe WikertOctober 17, 2012 1. Democrasoft offers a WeJIT platform. What exactly is a WeJIT? A WeJIT is a “portable” collaboration unit. It is a self-contained collaborative discussion about a singular topic, which lives on a one-page website dedicated to that discussion topic (the … Four short links: 17 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 17, 2012 Beyond Goods and Services: The Unmeasured Rise of the Data-Driven Economy — excellent points about data as neither good nor service, and how data use goes unmeasured by economists and thus doesn’t influence policy. According to statistics from the Bureau … Happening now: Strata Rx ConferenceBy Mac SlocumOctober 16, 2012 The intersection of big data and health care is being explored this week at the O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference. Watch live keynotes from the event below (the conference schedule is available here). Related O’Reilly report: Solving the Wanamaker problem for … Open health data in practice: Increase your access to lab resultsBy Tim O'ReillyOctober 16, 2012 I’m convinced that there’s a wave of innovation coming in healthcare, driven by new kinds of data, new ways of extracting meaning from that data, and new business models that data can enable. That’s one of the reasons why we … Spark 0.6 improves performance and accessibilityBy Ben LoricaOctober 16, 2012 In an earlier post I listed a few reasons why I’ve come to embrace and use Spark. In particular I described why Spark is well-suited for many distributed Big Data Analytics tasks such as iterative computations and interactive queries, where … Information wants to be…sharedBy Joe WikertOctober 16, 2012 Joshua Gans is the author of a new ebook from Harvard Business Review called Information Wants to Be Shared. The title is provocative enough but what makes it particularly interesting is that it’s not written by a publishing veteran. Gans is an … Publishing’s “open” futureBy Joe WikertOctober 16, 2012 If I had to summarize the future of publishing in just one word, I’d say “open.” We’re living in a very closed publishing world today. Retailers use tools like digital rights management (DRM) to lock content, and DRM also tends … Four short links: 16 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 16, 2012 cir.ca — news app for iPhone, which lets you track updates and further news on a given story. (via Andy Baio) DataWrangler (Stanford) — an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing … Open health data in practice: Increase your access to lab resultsBy Tim O'ReillyOctober 16, 2012 I’m convinced that there’s a wave of innovation coming in healthcare, driven by new kinds of data, new ways of extracting meaning from that data, and new business models that data can enable. That’s one of the reasons why we launched … Industrial Internet linksBy Jon BrunerOctober 16, 2012 Here’s a broad look at a few recent items of interest related to the industrial Internet — the world of smart, connected, big machines. Smarter Robots, With No Wage Demands (Bloomberg Businessweek) — By building more intelligence into robots, Rethink … How we can consumerize health careBy DJ PatilOctober 16, 2012 Recently I wrote about one of my key product principles that is particularly relevant for designing software for the enterprise. The principle is called the Zero Overhead Principle, and it states that no feature may add training costs to the … New ethics for a new worldBy Alistair CrollOctober 15, 2012 Since the first of our ancestors chipped stone into weapon, technology has divided us. Seldom more than today, however: a connected, always-on society promises health, wisdom, and efficiency even as it threatens an end to privacy and the rise of … 1 to 50 of 10454 Next |
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