Reblogged from VentureBeat: Ben Savage is the founder of Spaceport.io, a platform for mobile game developers. The stage was set with an expected one billion HTML5 phones sold by 2013. Facebook was ready to pave the way. I could repeat…
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Mac et al. annoyances
The last few days I am under a spell of bad luck: a near the elbow left-arm fracture, an old spine hernia that came back with a vengeance, confining me to bed the past two days, and, today, a Macbook Air…
Big leap in bio-engineering: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever
Reblogged from VentureBeat: Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute — remember the Human Genome project — have simulated an entire organism in software for the first time ever. Using a 128-node computing cluster, a team of…
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Check out this phone-controlled robot from a Twilio/Node.js hacker
Reblogged from VentureBeat: An aspiring hardware hacker at Twilio has used his company’s own telephony APIs as well as Node.js and Arduino to build the charming robot you see in the clip above. We just about overloaded on developer buzzwords…
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Simon & Schuster is adding QR codes to all its print books. Will readers bite?
Reblogged from paidContent: Simon & Schuster is adding QR codes to the back jackets of all its hardcover and trade paperback titles starting this fall. The publisher hopes to use the the codes to build direct-to-consumer relationships, but will readers…
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Reviews: most popular type of blogpost?
I was looking for new blogs to follow and I turned to wordpress “Explore Topics” (http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/) which is nothing more than a tag cloud, obviously aggregated from all the wordpress.com blogs. Now, the tag with the bigger size is “Reviews” which is an interesting insight. Are reviews really the top reason why people blog or is the bigger proportion of blog posts about reviews? This means that out there a treasure of data mining is awaiting to be discovered.
Who's connected to whom in Hadoop world [infographic]
Reblogged from GigaOM: To say there are a lot of companies involved in the Hadoop ecosystem would be an understatement. To say partnership strategies are broad would be one, too. The folks at Datameer created this infographic to show just…
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Snap Snare by Snare Complex
Reblogged from 4pocketsaudio: An addictive track from Snare Complex written on 4Pocket’s Aurora Sound Studio HD. Guitar recorded and processed in Ablton Live Lite 8. This is my first wordpress reblog. It’s so tumblrish! I thought to make it a…
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The Nigerian scam goes to Korea
If you love spam ‘literature’ like I do, here is the latest of the Nigerian sequel. Your Active E-mail made you a Beneficiary Dear Sir/Madam, This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the seven-member committee to…
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