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I recently sat down with Roger Magoulas, Director of Research at O'Reilly to talk about what he is paying attention to these days. I thought we would do a single, quick segment for Radar. I was mistaken. I have broken out the interview into several parts and will release them weekly... Call it ...
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Apertus -- open source cinema camera. (via joshua on Delicious )
A Survey of Collaborative Filtering Techniques -- From basic techniques to the state-of-the-art, we attempt to present a comprehensive survey for CF techniques, which can be served as a roadmap for research and practice in ...
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The 8th Ignite Seattle is this Tuesday, 12/1.
We've got an amazing set of speakers and fun...
opening activity. We are once again at the King Cat Theatre in Downtown Seattle. Doors open at 7PM. The contest will start at 7:30 and the talks will begin at 8:30. You can track Ignite Seattle updates ...
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Ignite Seattle on 12/1 (tomorrow): iPhone Apps, Ben ...
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After the recent Web 2.0 Expo NY --a sprawling, week-long conference and exhibition--I ducked into the Morgan Library to catch " A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy ." A one-room show about an 18th century novelist seemed like the perfect antidote to a week of tech talk in the Death ...
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As much as anything else, a user's impression of a web site has to do with how fast the site loads. But modern Web 2.0 websites aren't your father's Oldsmobile. Chocked full of rich Flash content and massive JavaScript libraries, they present a new set of challenges to engineers trying to ...
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Paywall Performance for News -- the National Business Review (NBR) in New Zealand went to a paywall in mid-July, and Foo Camper Lance Wiggs says their visitor numbers reveal a grim picture. As a commenter says, of course, visitor numbers go down but NBR makes money directly from the visitors ...
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My Parka pinched tightly, I plunged into the sleet
battering the pavements of Washington DC in a flash storm and tread
down 6th Street. I wasn't about to turn back now. There was no other
time for me to take the assortment of extended family members to the
Newseum ,
the exhibit hall ...
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ProFORMA -- software which builds a 3D model as you rotate an object in front of your webcam. Check out the video below. (via Wired )
BiwaScheme -- a Scheme interpreter written in Javascript. (via Hacker News )
YMacs -- in-browser EMACS written in Javascript. Emacs, for those of you who ...
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1 in 3 Schools -- visual exploration of education data is the latest BERG project, and they've found a new application for a cute visualization and they're calling the result Chernoff Schools . Recommended reading for those interested in visualization or education.
The Robots Podcast -- ...
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http-parser -- This is a parser for HTTP messages written in C. It parses both requests and responses. The parser is designed to be used in performance HTTP applications. It does not make any allocations, it does not buffer data, and it can be interrupted at anytime. It only requires about ...
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We're entering our third year of Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference. . Velocity 2010 will be June 22-24, 2010 in Santa Clara, CA. It's going to be another incredible year.
Steve & I have set a new theme this year, "Fast by Default". We want the broader ...
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English Shellcode (PDF) -- paper presented at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, showing how to encode arbitrary x86 shell code (the payload in a malware or other attack that elevates privileges and pwns your machine) as something that looks, at first glance, to be ...
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After
posting some thoughts
a month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, The
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life , I heard from a reader who
urged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, Frame
Analysis (Harper Colophon, 1974). This blog presents the thoughts
that ...
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Scott Beale of Laughing Squid and I are going to be in the Philadelphia area today. We want to meet up with people while in town, so we're having a Drinkup at Triumph Brewing Company in the Old City area of Center City starting at 7PM. Facebook has the details . If you are involved in ...
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Top E-Tailers Profiting From Scams -- Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion generated more than $1.4 billion by "misleading" Web shoppers, said members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. [...] The government says the investigation shows that [the companies] ...
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When Twitter decided to slowly roll out a new, official retweeting feature , people waited in anticipation. When they let their users know what it might look like, people debated whether that was the right way to deploy it. When it actually became available, people almost universally disliked ...
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I'm on the board of CommonCrawl.Org, a nonprofit corporation that is attempting to provide a web crawl for use by all. An interesting report just got sent to us about the use of robots.txt files within the .Gov Top Level Domain, a standard known as the Robots Exclusion Standard.
In ...
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With Facebook topping 330 million active users over the past week, the company's strongest growth region continues to be Asia. Over the last 12 weeks, Facebook added close to 17M active users in Asia alone. Since my previous post , the share of active users from Asia grew by 2% (to 13.5% of ...
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Spokeo -- abysmal indictment of society, first prize in mankind's race to the bottom. Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets ... GUARANTEED! Spokeo deep searches within 48 major social networks to find truly mouth-watering news about friends and coworkers. PS, anybody who gives their ...
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Healthcare is one of the biggest industries in the world. The United States spends over 17% of its GDP on healthcare and the issue of the industry's future is being hotly debated in Congress. Whatever happens to other elements of health reform, health information technology will play a key role ...
