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Imagining A “Post-PC” World

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an...
The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ...
However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ...
The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ...
... suffere

By Nick Heath, 1 November 2010 16:15
NEWS
Online travel firm Expedia has found that data analytics ...
Facebook
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There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
If the bene

Journal of Cosmology, 2010, Vol 12, 4034-4050.
JournalofCosmology.com, October-November, 2010
Sex On Mars:
Pregnancy, Fetal Development, and Sex In Outer Space
... n, Testes, Ovaries, Radiation, Gravity, Sexual Conflicts

Facebook's latest acquisition is the cloud-based media s... drop.io, which offered a quick and versatile way to uplo... kinds of files, from pictures to videos to documents. Ac... post from drop.io, the service will be shutting down Dec...
According t

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of inform... portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framewo... “batteries included” philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encoura... development and clean, pragmatic design.
Developed four years ago by a fast-moving online-news op ...

Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In ... restricted the visibility of a user's personal informati... friends and their "network" (college or school). Over th...
This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a bri ...
Let me be c

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha... question. Here’s what I do in no particular order, wha...

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an edu ...
Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitall ...
This site contains all of the books (about 400) that hav ...

A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

RGraph is a HTML5 canvas graph library. It uses features... available in HTML5 (specifically, the CANVAS tag) to pro... variety of graph types: bar chart, bi-polar chart (also ... frequency chart), donut chart, funnel chart, gantt chart... chart, LED

n GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters,
direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations.
It's easy, fun and free!

The growing popularity of connected devices – especial... tablet computer, the iPad – are starting to change the... media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a ... otherwise lackluster holiday shopping season, everyone, ...
The Nielsen

In a paper presented recently at the WWW2010 conference ... group of researchers from Yahoo pointed out that before ... construct an accurate picture of a social network, resea... a better job of defining what it takes for two people to... Should two

Content API
Select and collect content from the Guardian for reuse. ...

Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished... first-time, small African farmers have been properly con... solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their a... directly repudiate a massive international effort to lau...
Instead of

MILAN - This venerable city, long known for savory saffr... leggy models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish its... else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies.

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

Most of the people I know, friends or students, are too ... they prefer to not even try. They spend their lives tryi... and thinking that this is “success”. They can go on ... know what they are capable of or how unique they are jus... unfriendly

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
This is sim

Over the past few years, one of the most important shift... world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semicl... that use the Internet for transport but not the browser ... It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model ... computing,

When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th...
So when App

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

Last week I realised the internet wants to kill me. I wa... script in a small room with nothing but a laptop for com... conditions for quiet contemplation – but thanks to the... connection, I may as well have been sharing the space wi... marching ba

Broadband is the most modern of communication means, whi... date back to Roman times.
But on Thursday, a race between the two highlighted the ...