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AP Takes A Stake In Bambuser, The Real-Time Mobile Video Service That Helps Eyewitnesses Tell T(...)
Bambuser, the upstart mobile video service that has carved out a name for itself as a crucial tool for eyewitnesses to record and transmit footage
Zuckerberg Replies To His Facebook Commenters' Questions On Immigration
If its just about tech wanting to hire more people, not as impressive commented one of Mark Zuckerbergs 18 million Facebook followers.
Live From Facebook's ‘New Product' Mystery Announcement
Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox.A small
Rad, A Parisian Hipster Fashion Portal, Gets $3.3M Led By Index To Go International
Because fashion never goes out of style, fashion portals continue to bring in the money not just from consumers looking for the next big thing
LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking
LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to a DNS issue.
Rocket Internet's Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The “Amazon Of Southeast Asia”
Lazada, the e-commerce site founded by Rocket Internet in a bid to build the Amazon of Southeast Asia, announced today that it has landed
30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seastea(...)
As has been written ad nauseam, weve seen a lot of activity in the wild and whacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to
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9 Neat Ways to Make Coffee on the Go
A decent cup of coffee is undoubtedly one of lifes simple pleasures. We have found nine nifty gadgets that will make sure you get your caffeine
10 Google Earth Tips for Power Users
Google Earth is a free program that lets you explore the globe (and a few other parts of the galaxy) via satellite imagery. Street maps, terrain,
Cultivate Your Creativity With These 4 Fair Use Libraries
Looking for creative content that is also free can be taxing. And when overused, Creative Commons becomes a bore of stock photos and MIDI jingles. Especially
Vine Videos Give Sneak Peek at New Features
One day before rival Facebook is rumored to announce a Vine competitor, employees of Twitters video-sharing service teased several of its new features. Co-founders Dom Hofmann
Watch Right Now: Andrew W.K. Playing Drums for 24 Hours Straight
Andrew W.K., the man known for his music but also for his crazy affinity for partying, is playing drums right now. Hes been doing it for
LinkedIn Recovering From Outage Due to Possible DNS Hijack
LinkedIn is recovering from a DNS issue that sent visitors to a different web site for an hour Wednesday nightThe issue, which is now resolved for
1,556 Instagrams Make 1 Incredible Stop-Motion Video
Rumors are floating around that Instagram intends to jump into the world of video-sharing, but the creative duo FriendsInFaux have made their own video from Instagram
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Xbox One Eighty: Why Microsoft Still Needs Gamers To Sell Gaming Consoles
Apparently, Microsoft has just remembered that it needs gamers to sell a gaming console. In a complete and humiliating reversal, Microsofts next-gen console just dropped some of the contentious bits that had formerly loyal gamers shouldering pitchforks and heading to
Microsoft Nearly Bought Nokia - WSJ
Technology pundits have long speculated that, one day, Microsoft would buy its way into manufacturing of its own mobile phones. Apparently that day came a lot closer to fruition than people had thought.According
Qvivo Might Just Be The Cloud Media Service You've Been Waiting For
Editors note: This post was originally published by our partners at Gear Patrol.The early years of the digital media revolution promised an unprecedented era of media freedom. Consumers had the power to play
Ouya Is A Tiny Box Open To Many Game Possibilities
A few weeks before our Ouya arrived in the mail, my husband was having second thoughts. Like 63,416 others, he’d eagerly parted with his cash (in his case, a cool $225 for the limited edition color and name plate etching),
5 Games That Make Sony And Microsoft's Console War Meaningless
After last weeks Electronic Entertainment Expo, the console war drums are now beginning to beat in a frenzy. Microsoft and Sony have unveiled details of their next-generation video-game consoles, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.Which one should you buy?
AMD Stiff-ARMs Intel By Offering ARM Server Chips
AMD is pushing its chips in on its commitment to ARM-based server technology, announcing the new Seattle ARM processor for launch in the second half of 2014.The release of an ARM-based processor built specifically for servers, instead of the smartphones
Instagram Videos Could Spell A Billion Dollars Worth Of Magic For Facebook
Facebook is widely expected to announce Thursday a video feature for Instagram, the photo-sharing service it bought for $1 billion last year.Some are speculating that this is a competitive response to Vine, Twitters clever short-video app. But what if Facebook
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Verizon: That peering flap (about Netflix) is Cogent’s fault
The peering flap between Verizon and Cogent is shaping up to be a classic he said, she said. Cogent pointed the finger at Verizon and now Verizon is doing the same. And we are not done just yet.
German researchers make progress on a long-lasting battery for electric cars
A German research center claims to have produced a high-power battery for electric cars with an unprecedented 27-year lifetime.
Caregivers love the web but developers could do more to engage them
Data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that caregivers in the U.S. are the most connected healthcare consumers, but the industry could still do a lot more to reach them.
Picking the cloud’s winners and losers: From SaaS to SDN
At Structure, a panel of IT execs and investors discussed the enterprise IT winners and losers of the past few years. Heres what they had to say.
Open Compute is bringing the maker movement to the enterprise
Building boards and designing circuits are all the rage in the consumer gadget world, but Facebook and the Open Compute Project are trying to bring that spirit to the enterprise.
How streaming can fit into the big data toolbox
While Hadoop and relational databases have their purposes, SQLstream thinks companies can also benefit from analyzing data as it comes in.
Vogels: Everyone wants Amazon cloud everywhere
More gated Amazon Web Services mini-clouds could pop up outside the U.S. going forward.
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India’s new surveillance program tracks phone calls and texts, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn(...)
Despite the ongoing furore surrounding the various data gathering programs employed by the National Security Agency (NSA) in America, the
India to become the next destination for Google’s Android Nation brick-and-mortar stores
In a push to spread its mobile operating system throughout Asia, Google will open a set of brick-and-mortar
France orders Google to amend policy on Internet users’ data in 3 months or face fines
Google has been ordered by France to make changes to its policy regarding Internet users’ data within
Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer is now available to download in beta
The developers behind the popular Adblock Plus browser extension that blocks online advertisements has just released the first version compatible with Internet
AP buys minority stake in Bambuser, the ‘citizen journalist’ video service it partnered wit(...)
The Associated Press (AP) is furthering its relationship with Bambuser, the mobile-based service that helps mobilize citizen journalists,
Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer is now available to download in beta
The developers behind the popular Adblock Plus browser extension that blocks online advertisements has just released the first version compatible with Internet
Soundwave is a new take on sharing your music taste on the go, and lets you discover what other(...)
Last.fm has fallen from favor in recent years. That’s a
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Google uses Big Data to prove hiring puzzles useless and GPAs meaningless
The New York Times has a fascinating interview about using Big Data to guide hiring and management techniques with Google’s VP of people operations, Lazlo Bock. Two things in particular stood out.First, “On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers
The Starter League launches Starter School
About two years ago, The Starter League set out to teach absolute beginners how to code. Since then, they’ve expanded their offerings to include HTML, CSS, and design.To date they’ve graduated over 600 students from all over the world. A
Building Know Your Company
Today our first five customers started using Know Your Company, our newest product. We’re hoping to roll out around five new customers every Monday for the foreseeable future.I thought this was a great time to talk a bit about how
VIDEO: Steve Jobs: The Most Important Thing (via…
Steve Jobs: The Most Important Thing (via Farnam Street). A simple reminder that each of us has the ability to shape life into whatever we can dream up.
INSIGHT: The first exception should be the hardest…
The first exception should be the hardest one to make. Once you’ve made one, each additional exception gets exponentially easier. Beware that first exception.
Apple: The organizational Rorschach
As we watched Apple unveil iOS7, the 37signals Campfire room quickly turned to awe of what they had achieved. A redesign so shocking and deep bestowed upon a product so popular left many mouths agape. Whether you happened to like
Beyond the default Rails environments
Rails ships with a default configuration for the three most common environments that all applications need: test, development, and production. That’s a great start, and for smaller apps, probably enough too. But for Basecamp, we have another three:Beta: For testing
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Four short links: 20 June 2013
Wormhole — Facebook’s pub/sub system. Wormhole propagates changes issued in one system to all systems that need to reflect those changes – within and across data centers.Nanocubes — Fast Visualization of Large Spatiotemporal Datasets.Sean Gourley on Relevance (YouTube) — Is
Four short links: 19 June 2013
Multithreading is Hard — The compiler and the processor both conspire to defeat your threads by moving your code around! Be warned and wary! You will have to do battle with both. Sample code and explanation of WTF the eieio
Four short links: 18 June 2013
Our Backbone Stack (Pamela Fox) — fascinating glimpse into the tech used and why.Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python — My vision for an automated version of the game was simple. Players sit across a table on which the
Why We Started the Velocity Conference
Back in 2006, Debra Chrapaty, then VP of Operations for Windows Live (later CIO at Zynga, and now CEO of Nirvanix) made a prescient comment to me: “In the future, being a developer on someone’s platform will mean being hosted
Four short links: 17 June 2013
Weekend Reads on Deep Learning (Alex Dong) — an article and two videos unpacking “deep learning” such as multilayer neural networks.The Internet of Actual Things — “I have 10 reliable activations remaining,” your bulb will report via some ridiculous light-bulbs
Networked Things?
Well over a decade ago, Bill Joy was mocked for talking about a future that included network-enabled refrigerators. That was both unfair and unproductive, and since then, I’ve been interested in a related game: take the most unlikely household product
Four short links: 14 June 2014
How Geeks Opened up the UK Government (Guardian) — excellent video introduction to how the UK is transforming its civil service to digital delivery. Most powerful moment for me was scrolling through various depts’ web sites and seeing consistent visual
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The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...
The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris
No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...
No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press
The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...
The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris
No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies...
No single industry has embraced social and digital technologies like
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press
The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish)...
The Clip Report is expanding. In between the quarterly(ish) briefing books I will be sharing field notes on LinkedIn from my various conversations with media innovators. You can read my learnings here.Pictured above clockwise: Anil Dash, Wenda Harris
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Today in APIs: API World Conference and Expo Registration, AnyPresence Meta-API and 10 New APIs
Early registration for the API World Conference and Expo is ending soon. AnyPresence has launched a platform that enables integration of mobile app building tools. Plus: Social recommendations API from Jinni and
Ringadoc Debuts ‘Anywhere, Anytime’ Doctor Answering Service API
It’s after five o’clock, and you’ve got a weird rash running up your arm. You call your doctor, but instead end up talking to an after-hours operator, who jots down notes,
ActiveStandards API: Making Sure Your Site Measures Up
ActiveStandards, an SaaS website quality management platform, provides the ActiveStandards API, that gives developers access to the toolset, allowing them to integrate it with other websites and use the functionality wherever it is most appropriate for
Automobile: The Next Major Technology Platform – Part I – Connected Vehicle Developer Progr(...)
The Car as a Platform wars have been heating up for some time now and ProgrammableWeb has published several posts on the topic, including: Car as a Platform Wars: GM Joins Ford by Adam DuVander,
53 Analysis APIs: Ferret go, HP Labs and Lytics
Our API directory now includes 53 analysis APIs. The newest is the DMV TREDS API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the HP Labs Multimedia Analytic Platform API. We
Urban Airship Powers Push Notifications for Three Massive Event Apps
Urban Airship, the most globally deployed mobile push messaging service, has announced three new world-class events will utilize its push messaging platform to keep attendees and viewers more engaged than ever before. The Bonnaroo
Today in APIs: Pinterest API, Ringadoc API and 10 New APIs
Pinterest API continues to be elusive. Ringadoc API streamlines out of office communication between doctors and patients. Plus: SlickText.com readies for an API launch next week and 10 new APIs.
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