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Top stories: February 13-17, 2012
This week on O'Reilly: Tim O'Reilly looked back on important titles from O'Reilly's history, Pete Warden explained the thoughts and actions behind his latest visualization, and LeVar Burton reminded the TOC 2012 audience why storytelling matters.
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 11:30 am
Documentation strategy for a small software project: launching VoIP Drupal introductions
VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. A meeting at at MIT this week worked out some long-term plans for firming up VoIP Drupal's documentation and other training materials.
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 10:14 am
The stories behind a few O'Reilly "classics"
Tim O'Reilly: "It's amazing to me how books I first published more than 20 years ago are still creating value for readers."
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 10:00 am
Visualization of the Week: Four ways to look at Obama's 2013 Budget
A New York Times visualization offers a compelling alternative to wading through pages of President Obama's 2013 budget.
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 9:00 am
Publishing News: Let's remember why we got into this business
LeVar Burton's TOC keynote takes publishing back to its fundamentals; Joe Karaganis says opposition to SOPA isn't enough, we also need we good alternatives; and bookseller Praveen Madan says the future of bookstores hinges on experiences ... and perhaps partnering with Amazon.
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 7:30 am
Four short links: 17 February 2012
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did -- predictive analytics moves faster than family communications. (via Sara Winge) JSHint -- a tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. (via Hacker News) Web Caching Tutorial -- explanation of the technical ins and outs of web caching. Gatekeeper -- Apple's new app...
Date Published: Feb 17, 2012 - 4:00 am
Developer Week in Review: NASA says goodbye to big iron
This week, NASA marked the end of an era, as the last of its big iron is retired. Microsoft continues to signal that its forays into open source are legitimate. And a new open source gaming project has a little extra horse-power, thanks to the fans behind it.
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Strata Week: The data behind Yahoo's front page
In this week's data news: Yahoo visualizes its front page traffic and demographics, why Tumblr is tougher to scale than Twitter, and a look at what you need to consider as you build visualizations.
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 10:00 am
Commerce Weekly: Google defends its Wallet
Google calmly responds to concerns about its Wallet application, yet another one-click payment method emerges, and Adele fans won't be using Spotify. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between O'Reilly and PayPal.)
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 8:00 am
The Falling Man and a center that cannot hold
Doug Hill on how we celebrate exponential technological advance while looking for ways to escape it.
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 7:00 am
Four short links: 16 February 2012
The Undue Weight of Truth (Chronicle of Higher Education) -- Wikipedia has become fossilized fiction because the mechanism of self-improvement is broken. Playfic -- Andy Baio's new site that lets you write text adventures in the browser. Great introduction to programming for language-loving kids and adults. Review of Alone Together (Chris McDowall) -- I loved this review, its sentiments,...
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 4:00 am
Book marketing is broken. Big data can fix it
Peter Collingridge, cofounder of Enhanced Editions, says big data can be eye opening for publishers. In this interview, Collingridge talks about the role of real-time data and analytics in publishing and about a new market intelligence service for books.
Date Published: Feb 15, 2012 - 11:00 am
Why data visualization matters
Effective data visualizations go beyond aesthetics; they also allow organizations to make quick and correct decisions from massive amounts of information.
Date Published: Feb 15, 2012 - 10:00 am
Four short links: 15 February 2012
Namebench (Google Code) -- hunts down the fastest DNS servers for your computer to use. (via Nelson Minar) Primer on Macroeconomics (Jig) -- reading suggestions for introductions to macroeconomics suitable to understand the financial crisis and proposed solutions. (via Tim O'Reilly) Smarter Cameras Plumb Composition -- A new type of smarter camera can take a picture but also assess...
Date Published: Feb 15, 2012 - 4:00 am
What the data can tell us about dating and other social congregation
As people go online, they leave a trail of data that could never be captured before.
Date Published: Feb 14, 2012 - 6:34 pm
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