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InSecret: A LinkedIn Hackday Master Tries Something Different
From The Noisy Channel

InSecret: A LinkedIn Hackday Master Tries Something Different

LinkedIn Hackdays are an awesome opportunity for innovation — learn more about them here. But first check out this unusual entry by Hackday master Dhananjay Ragade...

Advertising Value Equivalents
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advertising Value Equivalents

In the WSJ blog: The Numbers Guy, by Carl Bialik: Now Much is this Blog Post Worth?  Addressing how in the rush to measure things,  quantitative measures are often...

Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Humboldt Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Humboldt Squid

Chris Cosentino, chef at Incanto in San Francisco, wants to serve you Humboldt squid.

First Person:
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

First Person:

A very impressive group of people came to CMU

Probability Assignments Using Set
From My Biased Coin

Probability Assignments Using Set

I'm gearing up for teaching my graduate course on randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis next semester.  It's been a while since I've taught it, and I'm...

Selling a Good Reputation on eBay
From Schneier on Security

Selling a Good Reputation on eBay

Here's someone who is selling positive feedback on eBay: Hello, for sale is a picture of a tree. This tree is an original and was taken by me. I have gotten...

QR Codes
From The Eponymous Pickle

QR Codes

Doing some experiments with QR codes and their use in publications.  Also the recognition of their use by the average consumer and their ability to use them.  I...

Fair Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fair Use

Its only 'Fair use' if you can pay the legal fees.  Case study.

Assisting a Hostage Taker via Facebook
From Schneier on Security

Assisting a Hostage Taker via Facebook

It's a new world: An armed Valdez, 36, held a woman hostage at a motel in a tense 16-hour, overnight standoff with SWAT teams, all while finding time to keep his...

Robotics Research a Pillar of New $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Robotics Research a Pillar of New $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

In just a few minutes, President Obama will

Ad Targeting via Social
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ad Targeting via Social

This sounds scary to me.   Targeting via what my network looks like.

Rethinking Databases for the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rethinking Databases for the Cloud

Some insightful thoughts about why the cloud is increasingly being thought about for enterprise database applications.   Mentioned is ParAccel,  designed in particular...

Online Grocery Sales to Double
From The Eponymous Pickle

Online Grocery Sales to Double

Nielsen says that online Grocery sales will double.  And Wal-Mart tests online grocery delivery in California.  Step forward for online sales.

Presidential Event on Innovation, Competitiveness This Morning
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Presidential Event on Innovation, Competitiveness This Morning

President Obama is

Protecting Private Information on Smart Phones
From Schneier on Security

Protecting Private Information on Smart Phones

AppFence is a technology -- with a working prototype -- that protects personal information on smart phones. It does this by either substituting innocuous information...

? Control Considered Harmful
From Wild WebMink

? Control Considered Harmful

When society was arranged as a series of intermediaries serving disconnected clients, distinguishing clients from non-clients was a key element of business. But...

It Just Works
From The Noisy Channel

It Just Works

Given that I work for the world’s largest professional network, I take work very personally. I’m also deeply involved in LinkedIn’s hiring process, which gives...

Foursquare Partners with Amex
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foursquare Partners with Amex

An Instructive development. Have been awaiting a good commercial example of the use of a location gaming social system like Foursquare. Will watch this development...

? Talks In Brazil Next Week
From Wild WebMink

? Talks In Brazil Next Week

While the journey is a long one, I always enjoy visiting Brazil. Some of my best friends live there, and the whole place infused with a positive energy that’s unique...

Precise Language (again)
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Precise Language (again)

I am in the midst of a three-times-normal-speed theory of computing class for graduate students who need to know this material for the qualifying exam, so I have...
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