Location adds a new twist to privacy debates.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| 9 November 2010
A recent back-channel conversation here at O'Reilly focused on the overlap between location, data, and privacy. It was an interesting and bewildering discussion that's worth opening up publicly. So that's what we're going to do.
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Yelp's MRJob goes open source, CODATA catalogues historical data, one more telecom lawsuit, and Expedia cleans up their UI
by Julie Steele
| @jsteeleeditor
| 4 November 2010
In the latest Strata Week: Yelp makes MRJob open source; CODATA wants to inventory "threatened data"; a visualization untangles a telecom lawsuit; and analytics and a simple fix nets $12 million for Expedia.
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The answer to a long-running problem lies in data, not an application.
by Terry Jones
| @terrycojones
| 28 October 2010
Given that so much diverse and overlapping information about each of us is spread between applications, why are simple actions -- like automatically reacting to known friend requests -- still not possible? The answer, notes Terry Jones, lies not with a new application, but in a ball of data. (Part 2 of a 2-part series.)
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Strata registration opens, making money with data, dolphins and cellphones, data in the dirt
by Edd Dumbill
| @edd
| 28 October 2010
In this week's look at the world of data, learn how to build a money-making data startup, register for Strata 2011, and hear of new developments in the mining of offline social networks.
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The benefits of information principles are revealed through education, so let's start with digital natives.
by Jon Udell
| @judell
| 26 October 2010
An efficient model of collective information management relies on principles like pub/sub, indirection and syndication. Translating these principles beyond computational thinkers is the tricky part. To pull it off we need to educate the kids we assume to be digital natives.
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Data from the Department of Energy's OpenEI platform is getting mashed up and put to use.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| 26 October 2010
The Open Energy Information (OpenEI) platform from the Department of Energy shows how government data can be mashed up to inform citizens. OpenEI got a moment in the sun at the recent National Science Festival in Washington, D.C.
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