February 2012
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The Mobile Challenge
Native opportunities are the ones that make use of unique capabilities of mobile platforms. Here is a starter list of such capabilities:
* Location. To be precise this should really say “high resolution and continuous location” because computers too have location, but IP geo-lookup is a lot coarser grained, less reliable and most importantly not available when the user is not at...
“GPS “spoofers” — devices that create false GPS signals to fool receivers into...”
– GPS ‘spoofers’ could be used for high-frequency financial trading fraud (Wired UK), via Aden D. (via new-aesthetic)
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou
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How Forbes Stole A New York Times Article And Got... →
nostrich: They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how much is a title worth? If the story that proceeds is any indicator, a title is worth over 6700 words and months of research. It all began Friday when the New York Times published an article “How Companies Learn Your Secrets“. It was an extremely long article which discussed how large companies like WalMart and Target collect data...
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“We have different kinds of challenges on the government side. One is a little...”
– …”To put it in mathematical terms, we’ve had a shift from thinking of the world in terms of calculus to statistics. So, where we once tracked the motions of the heavenly bodies and could send Voyager to Jupiter over a multiyear trajectory, now we tend to think nature is fundamentally...
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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
– Schopenhauer
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“Our worst fears lie in anticipation.”
– Don Draper, via Dustin Boyer
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Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale:... →
Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale:
User-Centered Metrics for Web Applications.
More and more products and services are being deployed on the web, and this presents new challenges and opportunities for measurement of user experience on a large scale. There is a strong need for user-centered metrics for web applications, which can be used to measure progress towards key goals,...
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“The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony Number 9.”
– Erwin Dieterich, via fuckyeahcomputerscience
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January 2012
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Obligation
…”Back in March, I wrote (and subsequently removed most of) a ham-fisted post about the obligation that smart, privileged people should feel to work on things that might make a difference to other people. This was discussed in the context of questioning whether so-called lifestyle businesses are a good idea for entrepreneurs and society at large. I’ve mulled over the idea of obligation...
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“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and...”
– -Plath
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Three Myths About Power →
Three Myths about Power.
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