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Saturday
Feb112012

Car Dealers Wince at a Site to End Sales Haggling

[NyTimes] : " When it comes to negotiating a price on a new car, the script has not really changed much over the years: The dealer’s salesman writes down a price, you counter and then he walks to the"

Saturday
Feb112012

Don’t Tell Me, I Don’t Want to Know

[NyTimes] : " UNLESS you are my best friend or my husband, I don’t need to know the macabre symptoms of your gastrointestinal virus. I don’t need to know about how much candy anyone, other than"

Saturday
Feb112012

USA-2012-02-11 Show 250

[USA Hacks] : Werbung, Werbung ...
Saturday
Feb112012

Like How Your Hair Hangs? Praise the Laws of Physics

[NyTimes] : " Does your ponytail splay outward or droop limply? Raymond E. Goldstein, a professor of complex physical systems at the University of Cambridge in England, does not have a ponytail,"

Saturday
Feb112012

Vulnerability in Google Wallet Leaves Funds Wide Open

[NyTimes] : "A simple procedure demonstrated on some Android smartphones allows anyone to gain access to funds stored in Google Wallet, Google’s mobile payment system that acts as a substitute for"

Saturday
Feb112012

Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery

[NyTimes] : " SAN FRANCISCO — When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film. He leaves his"

Friday
Feb102012

CLI

[Link] : Writing CLI apps with Flatironblog.nodejitsu.com - scaling node.js applications one callback at a time.

Friday
Feb102012

Announcing Servo

[Link] : By Brian Harrington & Greg OrzellIn a previous blog post about auto scaling, I mentioned that we would be open sourcing the library that we use to expose application metrics. Servo is that…
Friday
Feb102012

An Autopsy on Compromised Phishing Websites

[Link] : In this article we will cover the results of an informal investigation I performed into phishing websites. Rather than simply reviewing them externally as a potential phishing victim would, I…
Friday
Feb102012

The Visual Thinking Revolution is Here!

[Link] : We are in the midst of a “Visual Thinking Revolution” and leaders in all types of organizations are embracing visual thinking as a literacy of the future. Source: MBA Career Service…
Friday
Feb102012

Launching a Democratization of Data Science

[Link] : Posted by It’s a sad but true fact that most data that’s generated or collected—even with considerable effort—never gets any kind of serious analysis. But in a sense…
Friday
Feb102012

Appcelerator buys mobile backend provider Cocoafish

[Link] : Appcelerator, which helps developers build native and HTML5 mobile apps, has been on an acquisition tear in the past year and has added mobile backend provider Cocoafish on Thursday to fill out…
Friday
Feb102012

Google and affliction of me-too-ism

[Link] : Google, if the Wall Street Journal is to believed, is about to launch an online storage service. When I read the news, the first question that ran across my mind was not that they are going to offer…
Thursday
Feb092012

Mavuno

[Link] : Mavuno is an open source, modular, scalable text mining toolkit built upon Hadoop. It supports basic natural language processing tasks (e.g., part of speech tagging, chunking, parsing, named entity recognition), is capable of large-scale distributional similarity computations (e.g., synonym, paraphrase, and lexical variant mining), and has information extraction capabilities (e.g., instance and semantic relation mining). It can easily be adapted to new input formats and text mining tasks.

Tuesday
Feb072012

After a Year, Startup America Has a Start

[NyTimes] : "Courtesy Startup America.Scott Case (hands raised) and Steve Case celebrate Startup America.The adventure of new ventures.It’s been a year since business leaders gathered at the White House to"

Tuesday
Feb072012

Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself

[NyTimes] : " Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way — often with noteworthy results. He published his first physics paper at 15, earned"

Monday
Feb062012

Losing Weight with Wolfram|Alpha

[Link] : Posted by Remember that New Year’s resolution you made to lose weight this year? If you’re one of the many people around the world who pledged to get healthy and finally lose that…
Monday
Feb062012

OCTO talks ! » Data Grid or NoSQL ? same, same but different…

[Link] : For three years now, NoSQL as a piece of technologies for Big Data has spread over the world and is challenging the centralized world of RDBMS. The space of distributed storages is yet not new and…
Monday
Feb062012

Davos Debrief: Data, Power, Happiness – It’s Getting Personal

[Link] : By Tim Leberecht - February 5, 2012 Following a year in which “people power” was the rallying cry from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual…
Monday
Feb062012

What startups can learn from the NY Giants

[Link] : Last night’s Giants/Patriots game was another epic contest, displaying the greatness and intertwined fortunes of two of the best teams of the era. However, what underpinned the contest were…