News: When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong – Technology Review
When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong – Technology Review. We already know that a tremendous amount of information about ourselves can be found at online social networks. From Facebook, to Twitter, to...
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Posted: Visualizing US expansion through post offices. on Vimeo on Vimeo via Posted: Visualizing US expansion through post offices. on Vimeo. This is a great example of using visuals to tell a...
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Tweet the heat: Twitter teams up with The Weather Channel — Online Video News. The Weather Channel is teaming up with Twitter to bring a more social element to weather reporting. This is a great...
View ArticleNews: Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police Before a Crime –...
Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police Before a Crime – NYTimes.com. This is incredible. And an incredible example of big data in use. The Santa Cruz police department has loaded eight years...
View ArticleFacebook Timeline: Same Social Network, New Skin
Today Facebook made several announcements at their f8 conference in California. The most relevant announcement to me is their new feature, Timeline. They will begin transitioning profile pages to the...
View ArticleFacebook: Flypaper For Tech Talent
Facebook is doing big things. It’s obvious that in order to do big things you need big, talented, crazy smart people. I’ve read a lot about how there is an incredible supply / demand imbalance right...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Our Memory in the Age of Google
I’ve read several articles about how the internet is altering the structure of our brains. We’re interacting with information in new ways and are quickly abandoning older methods of research and...
View ArticleThe Quantified Self, Daytum, and a Simple Google Docs Hack
When Facebook announced “Timelines” at the F8 developers conference the first thing I did was research the team responsible for creating the product. I quickly found Nicholas Felton and Sam Lessin as...
View Article1000Memories + ShoeBox + [Others] = The Digitized Past
I’ve had a fascination with the past for a long time. Many years ago I inherited a massive collection of family photographs and ephemera. I’ve got pictures, documents, and collections of trinkets...
View ArticleInformation is Ubiquitous
Tonight I attended an over-the-top social event here in Nashville celebrating the local startup and entrepreneurial scene. The main attraction of tonight’s event was a weigh-in for four challengers...
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