Check-ins are only the beginning. Here's what lies ahead for local.
by Tyler Bell
| @twbell
| 2 September 2010
The check-in is hardly the apogee of the local consumer experience. It works, for now, but it won't be the long-term solution for customer/business relationships and physical point of presence. So what will replace it? Here's a look at the local sector's near-term future.
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Data Pointed, CouchDB in the Cloud, Launching Strata
by Edd Dumbill
| @edd
| 2 September 2010
Data Week is a new series that brings together notable stories and developments from the data world. Links in this edition include: the connection between visualizations and art, advice on becoming a data scientist, BigCouch goes open source, and more.
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IBM's Julia Grace on social media shifts and why 3-D and data are made for each other.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| 1 September 2010
IBM researcher and Web 2.0 Expo speaker Julia Grace spends her days digging into data. Her tools are a little unusual, though. Instead of spreadsheets and bar graphs, she uses visualizations and a seven-foot-tall, three-dimensional globe. Grace discusses life with a giant globe and explores her recent findings in this Q&A.;
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by Ben Lorica
| @dliman
| 31 August 2010
Measured in terms of (U.S.) job postings, Amazon's Cloud Computing platform is still larger than Google's App Engine. What's interesting is that the gap has closed over the past year.
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Internet companies are jockeying for positions that will benefit them for years to come.
by Tim O'Reilly
| @timoreilly
| 31 August 2010
In our planning for this year's
Web 2.0 Summit, John Battelle and I have expanded on the metaphor of "the Great Game," as we explore the many ways Internet companies at all levels of the stack are looking for
points of control that will give them competitive advantage in the years to come.
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H.264 Patents, Pakistan Flood Crowdsourcing, YouTube to MP3, Bloom Filter Tips
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 30 August 2010
- Free as in Smokescreen (Mike Shaver) -- H.264, one of the ways video can be delivered in HTML5, is covered by patents. This prevents Mozilla from shipping an H.264 player, which fragments web video. The MPEG LA group who manage the patents for H.264 did a great piece of PR bullshit, saying "this will be permanently royalty-free to consumers". This, in turn, triggered a wave of gleeful "yay, now we can use H.264!" around the web. Mike Shaver from Mozilla points out that the problem was never that users might be charged, but rather that the software producer would be charged. The situation today is just as it was last week: open source can't touch H.264 without inviting a patent lawsuit.
- Crowdsourcing for Pakistan Flood Relief -- Crowdflower are geocoding and translating news reports from the ground, building a map of real-time data so aid workers know where help is needed.
- Dirpy -- extract MP3 from YouTube. Very nice interface. (via holovaty on Delicious)
- Three Rules of Thumb for Bloom Filters -- Bloom filters are used in caches and other situations where you need fast lookup and can withstand the occasional false positive. 1: One byte per item in the input set gives about a 2% false positive rate. For more on Bloom Filters, see Maciej Ceglowski's introduction. (via Hacker News)
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