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Mac Slocum is O'Reilly's Online Managing Editor. He's worked as an online editor/producer/writer at a variety of outlets, and he's taught Web journalism and technology courses at the university level. His fascination with publishing and technology started in college when he put the student newspaper online (fortunately, that early effort has been expunged from the Internet record). Mac holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Richmond and a master's in journalism from Emerson.
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July 01 2010
Data science has utility -- and repercussions -- well beyond data scientists. New tools are making it easier for non-programmers to tap huge stores of information. read moreCan privacy, social media and business get along?
June 10 2010
"New Community Rules" author Tamar Weinberg discusses Facebook's relationship with privacy and the broader implications of privacy's adaptation in this Q&A.; She also offers privacy tips for businesses entering the social media fray. read moreJune 03 2010
In mid-1980s, Steven Levy wrote a book that introduced the term "hacker" to a wide audience. In the ensuing 25 years, that word and its accompanying community have gone through tremendous change. In this Q&A;, Levy discusses the book's genesis, its influence and the role hackers continue to play. read moreHow Facebook satisfied a need for speed
June 03 2010
Robert Johnson, Facebook's director of engineering and a speaker at the upcoming Velocity and OSCON conferences, discusses an in-depth optimization and rewrite project that boosted Facebook's speed 2x. read moreData and simplicity can build the government platform
May 28 2010
Tim O'Reilly and Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer, had a wide-ranging discussion at this week's Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington D.C. Here's archived video and a breakdown of key insights from their chat. read moreThe solutions to our big problems are in the network
May 21 2010
Massive issues around the environment, social change, and worldwide economies feel intractable, but "Sustainable Network" author Sarah Sorensen sees solutions to our biggest problems in something many of use every day: the global communications network. read moreWhat is Gov 2.0? Come find out this afternoon
May 11 2010
Tim O'Reilly will host a free webcast to examine the concept of Gov 2.0 and how technologists can play key roles in government's transformation. He'll also field questions from the audience. Registration is free but slots are limited, so be sure to sign up here. read morePreparing for the realtime web
April 22 2010
The stream of updates and links that powers the realtime web is giving static websites a run for their money. In this Q&A;, "Building the Realtime User Experience" author Ted Roden discusses the impact of the realtime web on developers and users. read moreWhere do developers draw the line with Apple?
April 21 2010
Dan Grigsby and Dan Pilone have both developed iPhone applications. Both have concerns about development restrictions, too. But only one remains within Apple's ecosystem. Here, the developers examine the App Store from two viewpoints: one that's in and one that's out. read moreWhat will the browser look like in five years?
April 20 2010
The web browser was just another computer application five years ago. Now, it's become not just a portal to the Internet, but an application hub as well. In this Q&A;, Opera's Charles McCathieNevile looks ahead to the web browser's next five years. read moreEbook annotations, links and notes: Must-haves or distractions?
April 15 2010
Should ebooks be chock full of links, annotations, and sharing tools? Or is a quiet and disconnected experience the way to go? O'Reilly editors recently tackled these questions in a great back-channel discussion. We decided to share a handful of notable excerpts read moreThe missing link in Twitter's ad program
April 13 2010
It's early and I'm undoubtedly jumping the gun, but Twitter's clever Promoted Tweets program is missing one key component: the user base. If Twitter really wants to emulate Google's ad success, it'll need to empower users and developers. read moreThe iPad as a "bedtime computer"
April 02 2010
The online story-recording service A Story Before Bed has already reduced the distance between digital content and the book experience. Now, the company's new iPad app could close that gap completely. Co-founder Hillel Cooperman talks about his company's app and the broader implications of tablet computers in this short Q&A.; read moreThoughts from the front lines of payment's big shift
March 31 2010
By nature of his company's first-place win in the PayPal X Developer Challenge, Rentalic CEO Punsri Abeywickrema has a unique vantage point in the payment world. In this short Q&A;, Abeywickrema discusses the current and future state of payment and the role startups will play in shaping that landscape. read moreWeb-TV convergence is already here, just not the way we expected
March 25 2010
While manufacturers continue to pursue the super box -- a mythical device that combines the best of television and web -- consumers have already adopted a simple form of convergence: they're surfing the web while watching TV. There's lessons to be learned here for software and hardware companies. read moreTrapping content on the iPad won't work, even if it's pretty
March 19 2010
Wired is leading the magazine-to-iPad charge with a great looking app, but it's also reverting to some back lock-in habits. Instead of trapping content and readers within a space -- a true exercise in futility -- Wired and other publishers should go the other way with their iPad offerings: create… read moreGoogle Buzz and hybrid blogging
March 17 2010
A couple Google Buzz experiments with long-form posts hint at a new use for the service. It's emerging as a hybrid option in the social/publishing space; a spot that's well equipped for deeper inquiry and conversation. read moreMarch 15 2010
HTML5 vs. Flash debates are engaging. No doubt about that. But if you strip away the bombast, you'll find that HTML5 also offers an interesting feature set that's worth investigating. In this Q&A;, HTML/CSS expert and author Eric A. Meyer explains why HTML5, CSS and JavaScript are the "classic three"… read moreWe're about to scratch the real-world data itch
March 10 2010
Folks in the web world are accustomed to granular information, yet brick-and-mortar businesses are still largely in the dark on the data front. But what if business owners could gather hard data? What if they could use that information to entice customers and adapt their offerings? Mobile location tools are… read moreThe state of open government in Canada
March 09 2010
David Eaves, a public policy entrepreneur and a speaker at this week's Gov 2.0 International online conference, discusses the rise of open government in Canada's cities. He also looks at the country's federal inertia, and he explains how a beta mindset could benefit government projects. read moreMobile phones and smartphones are not the same thing
March 08 2010
Comparing a basic mobile phone to a spiffy new smartphone is like comparing a circa-1993 desktop computer to a Macbook Pro. They're related in a basic sense, but the... read moreThree lessons from the Chipotle iPhone app
March 08 2010
The iPhone app from Chipotle, the restaurant chain best known for its burritos, is an interesting mix of simple design, e-commerce functionality and location tools. Digging into the app's development reveals three aspects that could prove useful for businesses and programmers pursuing their own mobile paths. read moreMySQL migration and risk management
March 05 2010
Ronald Bradford has been guiding DBAs through key aspects of database integration for years. In this Q&A;, he discusses the pros and cons of migrating from Oracle to MySQL (hint: it's not just about cost savings). He also weighs in on how Oracle's acquisition of Sun will shape the future… read moreThe implications of a money-making Android app
March 03 2010
Success stories were an important (if overblown) part of the iPhone App Store's development. Now that one developer brought in more than $400 per day with his Android app, it looks like the Android Market could be following a similar path. read moreFoursquare wants to be the mayor of location apps
March 01 2010
Dennis Crowley cut his teeth on location services at mobile pioneer Dodgeball. Things didn't work out there, but he used his Dodgeball experience to shape Foursquare, an on-the-rise app that blends mobile, location awareness and a clever points system. In this Q&A;, Crowley discusses Foursquare's revenue streams, its unexpected adaptations,… read moreFebruary 26 2010
It's interesting to chart technical developments in the publishing industry against TOC's brief history. As Andrew Savikas notes in the following video, things like ebooks and mobile have evolved... read moreAn expert view of unicorns and digital rights management
February 25 2010
Kirk Biglione, principal at Oxford Media Works, was tracking the Apple tablet / iPad way before other analysts. I believe he was one of the first to dub it... read moreAuthor, sell thyself (but in a good way)
February 24 2010
Authors who want to jump into Twitter, Facebook and all the rest should pay heed to Chris Brogan. He's spent years -- more than a decade -- carrying on... read moreWeb community is messy in all the right ways
February 23 2010
When you run into Richard Nash, founder of Cursor, you're encountering the embodiment of TOC enthusiasm. He's the anti-curmudgeon. As you'll see in the following interview, Nash is passionate... read moreThe chaos and the opportunity in Arab publishing
February 23 2010
Egyptian publishing is far more chaotic than its Western counterparts. ISBNs are used fleetingly and book rights are a moving target. But that same chaos also breeds opportunity, particularly in... read moreThe e-reader growth spurt of 2010
February 23 2010
As TOC 2010 is held this week in New York, it's clear e-reading devices are hitting their stride. This once-niche category is growing quickly. Publishing expert Liza Daly discusses the current e-reader market -- Apple vs. Amazon, iPad vs. Kindle, etc. -- in this video interview. read moreThe future of publishing lives on and around the web
February 23 2010
Richard Nash is passionate about the web's ability to connect audiences and authors with the topics that excite them. Connections can be fleeting and the revenue model is in flux, but there's a lot of opportunity in this model. What Nash discusses in this short video interview could very well… read moreSearch is the Web's fun and wicked problem
February 19 2010
We may think of search as static and mature, but it's a tool in flux. Developments in mobile, augmented reality, and social graphs signal big changes ahead. In this Q&A;, "Search Patterns" author Peter Morville shows how experiments at the periphery and weird ideas will shape search's future. He also… read moreLiving Stories can reinvent the article
February 18 2010
Article-based content is limiting. It's static and can't capture the energy surrounding newsworthy events or interesting topics. That's why Google's Living Stories format -- released this week as an open source project -- holds so much promise. It can reinvent the form in a way that works with the web,… read moreAugmented reality and the ultimate user manual
February 17 2010
The ARMAR augmented reality project out of Columbia University offers an intriguing glimpse into how AR and education may soon intersect. Instead of rifling through a manual or looking up information, an AR layer could guide you through a task. The creators of ARMAR talk about their work and its… read moreCyber warfare: don't inflate it, don't underestimate it
February 11 2010
Jeffrey Carr, author of "Inside Cyber Warfare," discusses the current state of cyber attacks -- the major players, the hot spots, the huge problems, and the realistic solutions. He also reveals the one target that keeps him up at night. read moreWhy does Facebook keep redesigning?
February 10 2010
Facebook is rolling out yet another redesign, which will surely inflame a portion of its committed user base. I checked in with E. A. Vander Veer, author of "Facebook: The Missing Manual," to get her take on Facebook's redesign frequency, its dominant position, and the willingness of users to "retrain"… read moreFeedback and analysis: the missing ingredients in local's recipe
February 08 2010
There's plenty of enthusiasm for local / hyperlocal projects, but the sweepstakes has yet to be won. So many of these local efforts rely on traditional information delivery through news articles or databases. That material has use, no doubt. Yet few projects take the extra step and put that data… read moreApple vs. Adobe vs. Content Creators
February 04 2010
Publishers may have gotten ahead of themselves when they rolled out pre-iPad tablet demos. At least one relied on Adobe Air, which the iPad won't support. And the ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe could soon influence publishers' decision making. read moreWhat Facebook's HipHop means for developers and businesses
February 03 2010
Facebook claims to have reduced CPU usage by 50 percent with its HipHop for PHP project, and now it's releasing the code as open source. O'Reilly author and PHP expert Kevin Tatroe digs into HipHop's applications beyond Facebook. read moreForget Google, social search is all about mobile
February 02 2010
A new research report from social answering service Aardvark finds that social search is more popular with mobile users. It begs the question: will the mix of social search and mobile apps catalyze search's next evolution? read moreFebruary 01 2010
The Open Luna Foundation has a $500 million plan to build a moon outpost, and it's going to rely on open source to make it happen. Question is: does the distributed nature of open source lend itself to complex, mission-critical ideas? Take a look at key elements of the Open… read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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The iPad's first 48 hours: impressions and reactions
April 05, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The iPad has finally gone from mythical dream device to an actual product. Join us for a roundtable video discussion where we'll weigh in on features we like and dislike, look at surprising functions...
Take the Pain Out of Saving Money
April 01, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free In this live event, Mac Slocum, online editor for O'Reilly Media, will conduct a video interview with J.D. Roth, financial expert and author of Your Money: The Missing Manual. Roth will discuss practical...
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