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Unstructured data is worth the effort when you've got the right tools
It’s dawning on companies that data analysis can yield insights and inform business decisions. As data-driven benefits grow, so do our demands about what more data can tell us and what other types we...
View ArticleFour short links: 28 February 2012
Designing RESTful Interfaces (Slideshare) — extremely good presentation on how to build HTTP APIs. Manipulating History for Fun and Profit — if you want to make websites that are AJAX-responsive but...
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Developer Week in Review: Are APIs intellectual property?
Returning after a brief hiatus due to my annual spring head cold, welcome back to your weekly dose of all things programming. Last week, I was attending the Genomes, Environments and Traits conference...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 May 2012
Wide Open Future of the Art Museum (TED) — text of an interview with curator at the Walters Art Museum about CC-licensing content: reasons for it, value to society, value to the institution. What I...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 July 2012
Drones Over Somalia are Hazard to Air Traffic (Washington Post) — In a recently completed report, U.N. officials describe several narrowly averted disasters in which drones crashed into a refugee...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 July 2012
pathod — A pathological HTTP daemon for testing and torturing client software. (via Hacker News) A Walk Through Twitter’s Walled Garden (The Realtime Report) — nice breakdown of Twitter’s business...
View ArticleFour short links: 31 July 2012
Christchurch’s Shot at Being Innovation Central (Idealog) — Christchurch, rebuilding a destroyed CBD after earthquakes, has released plans for the new city. I hope there’s budget for architects and...
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True data liberation with IFTTT and Google Drive
An example IFTTT action archives tweets to Evernote The web service IFTTT (If this, then that) accesses popular web applications via their APIs, and lets users create new actions based on changes. For...
View ArticleFour short links: 18 September 2012
The Rapture of the Nerds (Charlie Stoss, Cory Doctorow) — available for download and purchase under a CC-A-NC-ND license. Amazon Maps API — if there is an API layer of general use to developers,...
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Masking the complexity of the machine
The Internet has thrived on abstraction and modularity. Web services hide their complexity behind APIs and standardized protocols, and these clean interfaces make it easy to turn them into modules of...
View ArticleFour short links: 25 April 2013
Alcatraz — package manager for iOS. (via Hacker News) Scarfolk Council — clever satire, the concept being a UK town stuck in 1979. Tupperware urns, “put old people down at birth”. The 1979 look is...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 July 2013
Sifted — 7 minute animation set in a point cloud world, using photogrammetry in film-making. My brilliant cousin Ben wrote the software behind it. See this newspaper article and tv report for more....
View ArticleFour short links: 5 September 2013
Bezos at the Post (Washington Post) — “All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s,” added Bezos.[...] “The number one rule has to be: Don’t be...
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Searching for the software stack for the physical world
When I flip through a book on networking, one of the first things I look for is the protocol stack diagram. An elegant representation of the protocol stack can help you make sense of where to put...
View ArticleFour short links: 28 April 2014
UK Government to Sell Its Students’ Data (Wired UK) — The National Pupil Database (NPD) contains detailed information about pupils in schools and colleges in England, including test and exam results,...
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Making government health data personal again
Health care data liquidity (the ability of data to move freely and securely through the system) is an increasingly crucial topic in the era of big data. Most conversations about data liquidity focus on...
View ArticleUpward Mobility: Overly Defensive Programmer
By now, most meme-aware internet surfers have encountered Overly Attached Girlfriend (and the Rule 63 counterpart, Overly Attached Boyfriend.) What isn’t as well known is that they have a brother,...
View ArticleFour short links: 4 June 2014
Swift on GitHub — watch a thousand projects launch. HTTP API Design Guide — extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API. End-to-End PGP in Gmail — Google releases an open source Chrome extension to...
View ArticleFour short links: 17 February 2015
Matthew Effects in Reading (PDF) — Walberg, following Merton, has dubbed those educational sequences where early achievement spawns faster rates of subsequent achievement “Matthew effects,” after the...
View ArticleFour short links: 6 March 2015
Matt Jones: Practical Design Fiction (Vimeo) — the log scale of experience! Fantastic hour-long recap of the BERG thinking that he’s continued at the Google Creative Lab in NYC. (via Matt Jones) 3dPL...
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