by Brady Forrest
| @brady
| 20 August 2010
SimpleGeo, geo cloud services and data provider, and Stamen, creators of many beautiful data visualizations, have teamed up to release Polymaps. Polymaps is an opensource Javascript mapping framework. It's been on Github for a while, but they are finally announcing it. Out of the gate, Stamen has also launched a great example application, PrettyMaps, combining Natural Earth, OSM and...
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Why the "Hackers" thesis still holds. Plus: How links created new context in the ebook.
by Andy Oram
| @praxagora
| 17 August 2010
Spiffing "Hackers" up for the book version has paid off by delivering a new dimension to the book that readers are reporting back on favorably. Here I offer my reactions to re-reading the text after 25 years and a discussion of the links we added to the electronic version.
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"Being Geek" author Michael Lopp on job interviews, shady managers and knowing when it's time to go.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| 16 August 2010
Michael Lopp, author of "Being Geek" and a self-described "system thinker," understands that geeks and nerds face unique workplace pressures. In this Q&A;, he reveals key lessons he's picked up during his career. Those include: how geeks can communicate with non-geeks, why geeks and managers don't get along, and how to know when it's time to move on.
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Taking without giving isn't the problem. We need better open source contribution metrics.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides
| 13 August 2010
We need better metrics to adequately gauge corporate participation in open source. For example: How many companies have employees who work on open source projects on their own time or company time, unbeknownst to the managers who fill out surveys?
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The real value of the Watson supercomputer will come from what it inspires.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides
| 12 August 2010
While IBM's Watson supercomputer / Jeopardy contestant is a masterpiece of natural language processing, it's important to remember that it's just a learning tool that will help us solve more interesting problems.
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Robot Needs, Twitter Paper, Relationship Detection, and Doublesided Tablets
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 9 August 2010
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Robot Needs -- born to be a t-shirt. (via waxy)
- paper.li -- read Twitter as a daily newspaper. An odd mashup of the hot new tech and the failing old. Will newspapers live on with modern meanings, like "records" and "cab"?
- Eureqa -- software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Appears to be a free-as-in-beer service with open source client libraries. (via Pete Warden)
- Samsung Patents Tablet with Front and Rear Touch Input -- The idea is to let users control the device without touching the screen, and perhaps allow them to perform multi-touch inputs from the screen side and the rear side at the same time. (via azaaza on Twitter who says he worked on it at Samsung four years ago)
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