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Amazon Acquires Woot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Acquires Woot

In a cool move Amazon has bought the geeky surplus store Woot. Will operate as an independent subsidiary. Although I have not been there for a while Woot was known...

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - June 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 6)
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - June 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 6)

Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the June issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...

Google Celebrates Maps Mashups
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Celebrates Maps Mashups

Its only been five years since the launch of the Google Maps API. ReadWriteWeb celebrates with an article about it, and points to their map of mashups. Have now...

Data at Rest vs. Data in Motion
From Schneier on Security

Data at Rest vs. Data in Motion

For a while now, I've pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website...

Interactions magazine on subtlety and change
From Putting People First

Interactions magazine on subtlety and change

The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on subtlety and change, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko: “There are some strange changes under way in...

Washing Away Bad Hair Days
From The Eponymous Pickle

Washing Away Bad Hair Days

In the Online WSJ: Wash Away Bad Hair Days - In the Lab as Procter & Gamble Tries to Figure Out Pantene, Fickle Shampoo Shoppers and Other Marketing Mysteries....

Cryptography Success Story
From Schneier on Security

Cryptography Success Story

From Brazil: the moral, of course, is to choose a strong key and to encrypt the entire drive, not just key files.

Goodbye to UXnet
From Putting People First

Goodbye to UXnet

For nearly three years, selected Putting People First posts — 837 to be precise — have also been published on the website of UXnet. Now that UXnet is being disbanded...

Play and our Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Play and our Brain

Reexamining aspects of the interaction of work and play. Which brought me back to Stuart Brown's book: Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and...

? Open Source Dynamics
From Wild WebMink

? Open Source Dynamics

The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly “just as we shouldn’t worry about the lack of “billion dollar”...

From Computational Complexity

Broader Impacts

Nicole Immorlica reports on the NSF CISE Broader Impacts Summit held last week in DC. We've all seen it. Most of us have even written one. I'm talking about that...

Cargill Starts Innovation Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cargill Starts Innovation Center

I am a long-time student of innovation centers, helping found one myself, and remember hearing of Cargill working in this area a few years ago. Now they are finally...

How Procter Fosters Green Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Procter Fosters Green Innovation

P&G Fostering green innovation: " ... Procter & Gamble has launched a major green-innovation campaign with a goal of selling $50 billion in sustainable products...

Precision Body Scanning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Precision Body Scanning

We tracked the idea of body scanning for some time, for product design applications like diapers. Its been seen in fitting Jeans and in some high fashion places...

USACM Releases Issue Brief on Military and Overseas Internet Voting
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Releases Issue Brief on Military and Overseas Internet Voting

The U.S. Public Policy Council of the Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) has developed an issue brief on internet voting as it relates to military and...

Panera Opens Pay as You Wish Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Panera Opens Pay as You Wish Store

This does not seem like it should work, our reaction to 'free' as it is, but the article claims it does, to be seen how much they replicate this.

Getting the Hang of iPhone Development
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Getting the Hang of iPhone Development

I needed to learn how to develop for the iPhone since the projects I want to work on next will be games for the device. This task was somewhat daunting, givenStanford...

Space Terrorism
From Schneier on Security

Space Terrorism

Space terrorism? Yes, space terrorism. This article, by someone at the European Space Policy Institute, hypes a terrorst threat I've never seen hyped before....

From Computational Complexity

The P vs NP quiz Show. NP! NP! NP!

Some random thoughts about quiz shows. THOUGHT ONE: There could be a quiz show based on P and NP. We all think that FINDING an answer is harder than VERIFYING...

Open Core: Bad For Software Freedom
From Wild WebMink

Open Core: Bad For Software Freedom

The open core model is being feted as the new default open source business model. But I assert it does not deliver and sustain the principle that delivers cost...
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