Brian O'Leary on why publishers should tackle book piracy with open minds and lots of data.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb | 10 January 2011
Brian O'Leary, founder of Magellan Media and a speaker at TOC 2011, discusses the difficulties of measuring book piracy and the benefits piracy could create for publishers.
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Online Collaboration, Reputable Twitterers, Old Computers, and Web Experiments
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat | 10 January 2011
- Tools and Practices for Working Virtually -- a detailed explanation of how the RedMonk team works virtually.
- Twitter Accounts for All Stack Overflow Users by Reputation (Brian Bondy) -- superawesome list of clueful people.
- The Wonderful World of Early Computing -- from bones to the ENIAC, some surprising and interesting historical computation devices. (via John D. Cook)
- Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure (PDF) -- they can't run just one test at a time, so they have infrastructure to comprehensively test all features against all features and in real time pull out statistical conclusions from the resulting data. (via Greg Linden)
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2011 threat predictions, Google's Hotpot trial, and Facebook's stuffed piggy bank.
by David Sims
| @ndwoods | 7 January 2011
In this edition of ePayments Week: mobile platforms and geo services appear in McAfee Labs' Threats Predictions report; Google tests near-field communications; and what will Facebook do with all that new money?
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A look at what works in a census visualization.
by S?bastien Pierre
| @ffunction | 7 January 2011
In this first post in a new series on data visualization, S?bastien Pierre takes a close look at the New York Times' "Mapping America" interactive census map.
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User Experience, Big Data Case Study, DimDim Acquired, Secret to the Web
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat | 7 January 2011
- Users Can Self-Report Problems -- users self-report 50% of the problems that professional usability testing uncovers, and they find problems that usability testers don't. (The other way to look at this is: self-reporting only finds half the actual problems in a site)
- The Learning Behind Gmail Priority Inbox (PDF) -- challenges faced by Gmail Priority Inbox and how they beat them. Priority Inbox ranks mail at a rate far exceeding the capacity of a single machine. It is also dif?cult to predict the data center that will handle a user’s Gmail account, so we must be able to score any user from any data center, without delaying mail delivery(via Hacker News)
- DimDim Acquired by Salesforce -- congrats to the founder, who was an OSCON speaker, and his team. The open source remains, but will not be contributed to by Salesforce. DD Ganguly, the founder, is a good smart chap and I look forward to his next project.
- WWIC -- As Tim said when he forwarded this around: This is absolutely brilliant. Think deeply on it. Act on it. (via Alex Howard in email)
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A look at free services that reveal traffic data, server details and popularity.
by Pete Warden
| @petewarden | 6 January 2011
You no longer have to be a technical specialist to find exciting and surprising data. In this excerpt from Pete Warden's ebook, "Where are the bodies buried on the web? Big data for journalists," Pete looks at four services that reveal underlying information about web pages and domains.
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