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Readability -- bookmarklet that takes the crap out of a web page, resizes, and reformats so it's easier to read. Doesn't work for all sites, but it's a hellishly interesting idea. An In-Depth Look at Pivot, Microsoft's Newest Data Visualization Tool (TechCrunch) -- When turned on, Pivot can also make sense of your own browsing history (if you are...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
In my Twitter stream today, Sylvia Martinez (@smartinez) retweeted a link to Seymour Papert's 1980 paper written for a Presidential commission that proposed that we provide a computer for every child in America. Long before One Laptop Per Child, Papert saw that computers should not be an "auxiliary" aid to learning but "fundamental" to changing how we learn. He understood...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
How Robber Barons Hijacked the Victorian Internet (ArsTechnica) -- cautionary tale of the exploitation of a monopoly. Once installed as the dominant proprietor of the nation's telegraph system, public trust in the confidentiality of Western Union transmissions evaporated. Gould "scanned the telegraph, or manipulated it, as an open book to the secrets of all the marts," Josephson wrote. 350...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Surveys show us cocooning ourselves in worlds of information that reinforce our existing prejudices. It's not enough to read opposing viewpoints because our assumptions and interpretive lenses differ. When we get tired of power plays, we'll start communicating.
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
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 Wednesdays with Roger. This episode touches on...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
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 this area. (via bos on Delicious) Drizzle Replication using RabbitMQ as Transport -- we're...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
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 at http://igniteseattle.com. Here is our list...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
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 Star Javits Center. As I'd hoped, the Morgan focuses on a...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
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 maximized the performance of their sites. You need to design your sites to be Fast by Default. That's the theme...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
The Newseum is worth the entrance fee. But it gives short shrift to journalism's economics, influence on society, and technology.
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
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 128 bytes of data per message stream (in...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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 Souders & I have set a new theme this year, "Fast by Default". We want the broader Velocity community & to adopt it as a shared mission &...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Reactions to Frame Analysis, a wide-ranging interpretation of experience by leading sociologist Erving Goffman. Although the Internet tends to strip away the external meanings Goffman recorded, we still bring our real-life frameworks into online interactions.
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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 Ignite Philly, read Radar...
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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] "trick" consumers into entering their e-mail address just before they complete purchases at...
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