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O'Reilly Week in Review for April 20th, 2009
April 22 2009
This week, we have an extended conversation with Googler Andy Hertzfeld about his latest Google Labs creation, the News Timeline. And, as usual, the O'Reilly Podquiz, that can win you a free O'Reilly Book.... read moreWhere 2.0 Preview - DARPA's TIGR Project Helps Platoons Stay Alive
April 21 2009
Soldiers on the ground need to know the territory they patrol like the back of their hand. Knowing where insurgents like to plant IEDs or that an important political leader lives in a certain house can prove the difference between success and failure. But what happens when a platoon transfers… read moreO'Reilly Week in Review for April 13th, 2009
April 15 2009
This week, we have interviews from Yahoo! and MIT, both previewing talks at Where 2.0. There's also a new podquiz, this week dealing with Microsoft's poor sense of direction, literally...... read moreWhere 2.0 Preview - Building the SENSEable City
April 15 2009
A lot of information we have about cities comes through direct and intentioned observation and study, but could a lot of the time and expense spent on this research be garnered just as well by mining the data that citizens generate in their day-to-day lives through cell phone traffic and… read moreWhere 2.0 Preview - Tyler Bell on Yahoo's Open Location Project
April 14 2009
Location can be a vague concept to pin down. To a surveyor, location means latitude and longitude accurate to a few millimeters, while to a cab driver, a street address would be much more useful. If you're German, I can tell you that I live in the United States. To… read moreWhere 2.0 Preview - Pelago's Jeff Holden on Creating Stories Out of Your Life
April 10 2009
Tools like Twitter and Facebook have let people share in near real-time what they are doing. Now with a new generation of location aware mobile devices, you can tell your friends or the entire world where you're doing it. Jeff Holden's company, Pelago, is one of many trying to come… read moreO'Reilly Week in Review for April 6th, 2009
April 08 2009
This week, we hear from two of the speakers who will be talking at Where 2.0, one on alternative means of sensing our environment, one on telling stories through mobile devices. There's also the answer to last week's quiz, and... read moreWhere 2.0 Preview: Eric Gunderson of Development Seed on the Promise of Open Data
April 03 2009
When we think about how government uses geographic information, we tend to think about USGS maps or census data, very centralized and preplanned projects meant to produce a very specific set of products. But Development Seed believes that there are a lot more that could be done if these types… read moreO'Reilly Week in Review for March 29th, 2009
April 01 2009
This week, we talk to Eric Gunderson about opening up access to government data, and the mashups you can create once you do. Editor Andy Oram discusses what open Cloud Computing might look like. And, of course, we have last... read more"Mastering cat", the newest O'Reilly title
April 01 2009
We've been very hush-hush about it, but someone spilled the beans about an upcoming title in the 'Mastering' series (Mastering Perl, Mastering Regular Expressions). Evidently, an unscrupulous site hacked into our content management system and nabbed the transcript of an... read moreBrian Aker: What Would an IBM Buyout of Sun Mean for MySQL?
March 26 2009
MySQL has had a long and sometimes strange journey from an independent database project to being commercialized; then brought to Sun and now possibly moving to a new home again. Brian Aker is the director of technology for MySQL with Sun Microsystems and probably is familiar as anyone with the… read moreO'Reilly Week in Review for March 23rd, 2009
March 25 2009
This week's podcast features a chat with Brady Forrest, who organizes conferences for O'Reilly, about the upcoming Where conference, and what's happening with geo-aware technology in general. Brian Aker, MySQL guy for Sun, talks about the possibility of MySQL becoming... read moreO'Reilly Week in Review for March 16th, 2009
March 18 2009
This week's roundup include discussion of the Sun/IBM rumors, the future of newspapers, Microsoft and Science Commons teaming up, and the weekly podcast quiz.... read moreMicrosoft and Science Commons Team Up To Add Semantic Content to Online Science
March 11 2009
John Wilbanks, VP of Science for Creative Commons, gave O'Reilly Media an exclusive sneak preview of a joint announcement that they will be making with Microsoft later today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. According to John, who talked to us shortly after getting off a plane from Brazil, Microsoft… read moreO'Reilly Week in Review for March 9nd, 2009
March 10 2009
This week's show features a followup with Andrew 'bunnie' Huang about factory conditions in China, the O'Reilly editors talk about jailbreaking iPhones, and this week's podquiz, your chance to win a free O'Reilly book.... read moreRecent Posts | All Posts

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