O'Reilly Digital Media Blog tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2007-12-07:/digitalmedia//8 2009-04-28T14:46:34Z O'Reilly Digital Media Blog Movable Type Pro 4.21-en Strata Newsletter: November 30, 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47547 2011-12-01T01:00:00Z 2011-12-01T01:00:00Z Highlights from the 11/30/11 edition of the Strata newsletter include: Clojure is a rising star in the data world, a look at the top data news, and a deep dive into data visualization design. Mac Slocum http://radar.oreilly.com/mslocum Highlights from the 11/30/11 edition of the Strata newsletter include: Clojure is a rising star in the data world, a look at the top data news, and a deep dive into data visualization design. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3515 text Prognosticating the Future of Mobile Audio tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2011://53.47527 2011-11-27T10:00:00Z 2011-11-27T10:00:00Z Seven years ago, at Project BBQ, I predicted a "convergent technology" device that would be a phone, a camera, an iPod, and a web browser -- two and a half years before the first iPhone was released. Peter Drescher http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2056 Seven years ago, at Project BBQ, I predicted a "convergent technology" device that would be a phone, a camera, an iPod, and a web browser -- two and a half years before the first iPhone was released. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2056 text Four short links: 25 November 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47526 2011-11-25T11:00:00Z 2011-11-25T11:00:00Z Continuous Three-Dimensional Control of a Virtual Helicopter Using a Motor Imagery Based Brain-Computer Interface (PLOSone) -- direct brain control is becoming a reality, tiny step by tiny step. Also: HELICOPTERS! Forward Secrecy for HTTPS -- Google contributed a better HTTPS cipher suite to OpenSSL, one that doesn't share keys between conversations. Yay the Goog for giving back. Ratings Systems... Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Continuous Three-Dimensional Control of a Virtual Helicopter Using a Motor Imagery Based Brain-Computer Interface (PLOSone) -- direct brain control is becoming a reality, tiny step by tiny step. Also: HELICOPTERS! Forward Secrecy for HTTPS -- Google contributed a better HTTPS cipher suite to OpenSSL, one that doesn't share keys between conversations. Yay the Goog for giving back. Ratings Systems... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text Four short links: 22 November 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47509 2011-11-22T11:00:00Z 2011-11-22T11:00:00Z Facebook is Gaslighting the Web (Anil Dash) -- interesting to see the way in which Facebook is attempting to embrace and extend the web, as opposed to AOL's doomed attempt to set itself up in competition and opposition to the web. As Molly's piece eloquently explains, what Facebook is calling "frictionless" sharing is actually placing an extremely high barrier... Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Facebook is Gaslighting the Web (Anil Dash) -- interesting to see the way in which Facebook is attempting to embrace and extend the web, as opposed to AOL's doomed attempt to set itself up in competition and opposition to the web. As Molly's piece eloquently explains, what Facebook is calling "frictionless" sharing is actually placing an extremely high barrier... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text Top Stories: November 14-18, 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47507 2011-11-18T17:00:00Z 2011-11-18T17:00:00Z This week on O'Reilly: Doug Hill used Steve Jobs and Ted Kaczynski to examine America's love/hate relationship with technology, Mike Loukides criticized mobile carriers for messing with Android's UI, and engineer Elecia White shared her enthusiasm for embedded systems. Mac Slocum http://radar.oreilly.com/mslocum This week on O'Reilly: Doug Hill used Steve Jobs and Ted Kaczynski to examine America's love/hate relationship with technology, Mike Loukides criticized mobile carriers for messing with Android's UI, and engineer Elecia White shared her enthusiasm for embedded systems. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3515 text Understanding Apple fans tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47502 2011-11-17T21:27:59Z 2011-11-17T21:27:59Z AT&T and other carriers are not helping Android, or themselves, by turning a great product into a second-rate one. And maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but I now understand what Apple fans hate about Android. Mike Loukides http://radar.oreilly.com/mikel AT&T and other carriers are not helping Android, or themselves, by turning a great product into a second-rate one. And maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but I now understand what Apple fans hate about Android. text What we could do with really big touchscreens tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47501 2011-11-17T20:00:00Z 2011-11-17T20:00:00Z If we could combine the touchscreen's ability to signal our layout wishes with the large displays and workspaces that many of us enjoy at our work desks, wouldn't that change the kinds of documents we create? Peter Meyers http://radar.oreilly.com/petem If we could combine the touchscreen's ability to signal our layout wishes with the large displays and workspaces that many of us enjoy at our work desks, wouldn't that change the kinds of documents we create? text Four short links: 16 November 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47491 2011-11-16T11:00:00Z 2011-11-16T11:00:00Z Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text Four short links: 15 November 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47484 2011-11-15T11:00:00Z 2011-11-15T11:00:00Z Cost-Effectiveness of Internet-Based Self-Management Compared with Usual Care in Asthma (PLoSone) -- Internet-based self-management of asthma can be as effective as current asthma care and costs are similar. Apache Lucy -- full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages. It is a "loose C" port of Apache Lucene™, a search engine library for Java. The... Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Cost-Effectiveness of Internet-Based Self-Management Compared with Usual Care in Asthma (PLoSone) -- Internet-based self-management of asthma can be as effective as current asthma care and costs are similar. Apache Lucy -- full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages. It is a "loose C" port of Apache Lucene™, a search engine library for Java. The... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text Four short links: 3 November 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47440 2011-11-03T10:00:00Z 2011-11-03T10:00:00Z Feedback Without Frustration (YouTube) -- Scott Berkun at the HIVE conference talks about how feedback fails, and how to get it successfully. He is so good. Americhrome -- history of the official palette of the United States of America. Discovering Talented Musicians with Musical Analysis (Google Research blgo) -- very clever, they do acoustical analysis and then train up... Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Feedback Without Frustration (YouTube) -- Scott Berkun at the HIVE conference talks about how feedback fails, and how to get it successfully. He is so good. Americhrome -- history of the official palette of the United States of America. Discovering Talented Musicians with Musical Analysis (Google Research blgo) -- very clever, they do acoustical analysis and then train up... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text Four short links: 31 October 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47423 2011-10-31T10:00:00Z 2011-10-31T10:00:00Z Solitude and Leadership -- an amazing essay on the value of managing one's information diet. Far more than yet another Carr/Morozov "the Internet is making us dumb!!" hate on short-form content, this is an eloquent exposition of the need for long-form thoughts. I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is... Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Solitude and Leadership -- an amazing essay on the value of managing one's information diet. Far more than yet another Carr/Morozov "the Internet is making us dumb!!" hate on short-form content, this is an eloquent exposition of the need for long-form thoughts. I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47356 2011-10-24T13:00:00Z 2011-10-24T13:00:00Z Spurred on by a Googler's rant against his own company and Apple's release of a new phone, a new OS and a new cloud infrastructure, Mark Sigal wonders what the "post-pc" revolution really looks like. Mark Sigal http://radar.oreilly.com/msigal Spurred on by a Googler's rant against his own company and Apple's release of a new phone, a new OS and a new cloud infrastructure, Mark Sigal wonders what the "post-pc" revolution really looks like. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1308 text Four short links: 24 October 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47390 2011-10-24T10:00:00Z 2011-10-24T10:00:00Z Tangle -- open source Javascript library for creating slider-type widgets in web pages, with built-in updating of other web elements. This is fantastic for exploring "what-if" scenarios. Check out the demos. Location-Based Security -- The researchers have created a customized version of Android controlled by a “policy engine” on a server. The Android devices use Bluetooth and near-field communications... Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Tangle -- open source Javascript library for creating slider-type widgets in web pages, with built-in updating of other web elements. This is fantastic for exploring "what-if" scenarios. Check out the demos. Location-Based Security -- The researchers have created a customized version of Android controlled by a “policy engine” on a server. The Android devices use Bluetooth and near-field communications... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text Developer Week in Review: Talking to your phone tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47381 2011-10-21T18:30:00Z 2011-10-21T18:30:00Z This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. James Turner http://radar.oreilly.com/jamest This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2978 text Four short links: 21 October 2011 tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47377 2011-10-21T10:00:00Z 2011-10-21T10:00:00Z What Mozilla is Up To (Luke Wroblewski) -- notes from a talk that Brendan Eich gave at Web 2.0 Summit. The new browser war is between the Web and new walled gardens of native networked apps. Interesting to see the effort Mozilla's putting into native-alike Web apps. YouTube Insult Generator (Adrian Holovaty) -- mines YouTube for insults of a... Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ What Mozilla is Up To (Luke Wroblewski) -- notes from a talk that Brendan Eich gave at Web 2.0 Summit. The new browser war is between the Web and new walled gardens of native networked apps. Interesting to see the effort Mozilla's putting into native-alike Web apps. YouTube Insult Generator (Adrian Holovaty) -- mines YouTube for insults of a... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text