CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-21 05:13:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"The European Union could soon consider a proposal that would give law enforcement the ability to engage in offensive hacking, i.e., compromise private infrastructure and systems to gather information via spyware, delete data or even take servers offline completely when there is probable cause to suspect cybercriminal activity." ...this is, worrying.

2013-05-21 00:39:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Long, extremely thorough, and rather interesting article about "What you can do right now..." with +Project Glass.

2013-05-19 21:19:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

"I almost had to mortgage my house to get the parts for Google I/O", says +Kipp Bradford of the +Data Sensing Lab, interviewed live with +Alasdair Allan on the Meet the Makers stage at Maker Faire today.

2013-05-19 18:18:00 (0 comments, 7 reshares, 8 +1s)

The long and convoluted story of +Julie Steele, +Kipp Bradford, +Rob Faludi and myself and how we brought the +O'Reilly  +Data Sensing Lab to +Google I/O. With guest appearances from +Brian Jepson, +Shawn Wallace, +Meghan Blanchette, +Edd Dumbill, +Michael Manoochehri and +Tim O'Reilly.

2013-05-19 16:33:03 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 15 +1s)

Both the shield hardware and +Arduino software to manage it, will all be open sourced. However if you don't want to wait, or you're not comfortable soldering SMD components. The hardware we deployed at +Google I/O as part of the +Data Sensing Lab is now available to pre-order at http://datasensinglab.com/dslstore/.

2013-05-16 22:38:39 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Book Signings (read FREE books!) In the Cloud Platform Sandbox

O'Reilly has kindly donated a bunch of books for authors to sign in the Cloud Platform Sandbox.  Stop by, chat with the authors and get a copy of their book.

Programming Google App Engine with +Dan Sanderson at 3:00pm

Building Wireless Sensor Networks with +Rob Faludi at 6:00pm

Distributed Network Data with +Alasdair Allan  and +Kipp Bradford  at 6:15pm

Hope you can stop by!

#io13   #io2013  

2013-05-16 20:36:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

During today's #io13  talk we announced that Android API version 18 (which will be landing in a few short months) will have developer APIs for Bluetooth Low Energy and AVRCP 1.3. 

The video of the talk should be posted soon, so you can see a preview of the APIs we shared. 

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/326240948

2013-05-15 18:03:48 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

The +Data Sensing Lab here at +Google I/O got picked up by +CNET.

2013-05-15 17:48:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The beginning of a love affair between +WIRED and the #InternetOfThings ..?

2013-05-14 03:37:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

...finally #VentureBeat  also picked up the +Data Sensing Lab story at +Google I/O. Again focusing on a, at least in my opinion, non-existant privacy issue. Not everything to do with sensors is a privacy issue.

2013-05-14 03:10:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

...and +GigaOM picked up the +Data Sensing Lab presence at +Google I/O and also remembered that we'd done it all on a smaller scale at +O'Reilly Strata. Which was nice.

2013-05-14 03:06:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

...so +TechCrunch picked up the presence of the +Data Sensing Lab at +Google I/O. I think they're hammering on the privacy angle a bit hard. The mesh is an environmental sensor network, there really is no privacy implications here, it's all aggregate data with no personal information involved.

2013-05-13 18:50:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

The +Data Sensing Lab officially arrives at +Google I/O...

2013-05-13 03:19:03 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Spaceships glowing blue in the dawn as we leave Florida headed across the Atlantic.

2013-05-13 03:18:19 (8 comments, 5 reshares, 22 +1s)

The final production line for sensor motes for the +Data Sensing Lab. We're just T-2 days away from the biggest sensor rollout we've ever done here at +Google I/O in San Francisco.

2013-05-09 06:47:03 (10 comments, 8 reshares, 16 +1s)

One of the five hundred mesh-networked sensor motes that will blanket Moscone West, and +Google I/O, next week as part of the +Data Sensing Lab. Measuring temperature, pressure, humidity, light, motion, and both RF and audio noise levels throughout the conference centre.

2013-05-07 16:21:24 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Blinking lights here at +Google Boston preparing for the +Data Sensing Lab at +Google I/O next week.

2013-05-07 14:53:08 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Drone Dudes are a team of filmmakers and designers who use RC copters to capture stunning aerial cinematography. On the MAKE blog we interview Andrew Petersen and Jeff Blank, who operate a radial octocopter capable of lifting rigs up to 12lbs. on a 2- or 3-axis gimbal. All the gear stows away inside their Transit Connect, which doubles as a camping vehicle when they are on the road.

http://blog.makezine.com/2013/05/07/movers-and-makers-drone-dudes/

2013-05-07 14:33:17 (0 comments, 9 reshares, 10 +1s)

...all four versions of the sensor mote for the +Data Sensing Lab at +Google I/O next week. The "standard" mote at the top left, the version with the connector for the pressure mat at the top right, the one with the RF power detector bottom left and finally the one with air quality sensor at the bottom right. http://datasensinglab.com/

2013-05-07 13:29:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Carolina Ödman-Govender talking about Crowdsourced Astronomy at re:publica 2013, http://13.re-publica.de/node/5051.

2013-05-07 13:23:23 (1 comments, 13 reshares, 19 +1s)

Time to unveil what I've been working on for the last month or so since leaving academia. The +Data Sensing Lab is going to +Google I/O — 500 sensor motes and 4000 sensors, streaming data 24/7 all through the week. It's going to be a blast, http://datasensinglab.com.

2013-05-07 02:05:53 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 6 +1s)

A prototype (bottom) which was green wired, and production model (top) of the basic through-hole version of the sensor motes we're using for the +Data Sensing Lab at +Google I/O  next week.

2013-05-06 23:28:19 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Well this is absolutely awesome...

2013-05-05 20:56:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"If you gave an iPad to someone who had never used a keyboard and told them to develop a writing system, chances are they would eventually invent a faster, more intuitive system. Perhaps a gesture based system based on shorthand? Or some sort of swipe-to-type system?" ...I still miss Palm's Graffiti, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS). Towards the end, I could almost write faster in Graffiti than I could on paper...

2013-05-03 21:01:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft landed safely during a simulation of two types of parachute failures. In the test, conducted in Yuma, Ariz. on May 1, a mock Orion capsule was traveling about 250 mph when the parachutes were deployed - the highest speed in the test series.

The first test of the parachutes after traveling in space will be during Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014, when an uncrewed Orion will be returned from 3,600 miles above Earth's surface.

Check out initial video of the test. We'll post additional video as it comes in: http://youtu.be/lSGZo2vDbQk 

2013-05-03 19:27:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Today is the #FSF 's Day Against DRM. To celebrate +O'Reilly  is offering 50% off on all +O'Reilly , #NoStarch and #RockyNook ebooks and videos. Including all of mine; +Learning iOS Programming, +Basic Sensors in iOS, +iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino, +Geolocation in iOS and +Distributed Network Data.

Having the ability to download files at your convenience, store them on all your devices, or share them with a friend or colleague as you would a print book, is liberating, and is how it should be. If you haven't tried a #DRM -free ebook or video, I encourage you to do so now. And if you're already a fan, take advantage of the sale and add to your library. 

All #ebooks from oreilly.com are #DRM-free. You get free lifetime access, multiple file formats, free updates, and tomorrow you also get 50% off.

Use the code DRM2013 when checking out all daytod... more »

2013-05-02 12:34:22 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

There are lots of reasons that #Linux  never succeeded on the desktop, these problems are only some of them, and probably not even the most important.

2013-05-02 12:27:34 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

This is the sound of +Google quietly making a whole product category obsolete. Remote desktop support just got a lot easier...

An entire industry just got  #sherlocked , http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked, by Google.

2013-05-02 12:15:40 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

The thing that confuses me about the +Project Glass interface is that "things to the left are happening now or coming up" and "things to the right are from the past." Surely it's more intuitive that the future events are on the right? We read left-to-right after all? Or is this just me..?

Update: +Vishnu Suresh explains it this way, "Could be because it is over the right eye.. past contents are 'flowing back' towards the back of your head through the remaining part of the device hooked over the right ear." Which makes total sense to me. Glad to have that cleared up.

2013-05-01 18:35:50 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 7 +1s)

Interesting visualisation of a denial of service attack on #VideoLAN , http://strata.oreilly.com/2013/05/visualization-of-the-week-a-ddos-attack-on-videolan-downloads-infrastructure.html. We could almost be in #Neuromancer  here, cutting Black ICE...

2013-05-01 01:19:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

We have a new logo!

2013-05-01 00:40:24 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

A long post, from +Jay Freeman (aka #saurik) explaining his motivations, and taking a deep dive into the technical details of the exploit he used to jailbreak +Project Glass, along with his advise that you should leave your boot loader locked, "...while your device has an unlocked bootloader, you have no way to be confident that your operating system hasn't been modified by someone while outside of your control. This is because anyone can, after booting your bootloader-unlocked Android device into fastboot, boot or flash any custom image they want." .

Jay also warns that, "...sadly, due to the way Glass is currently designed, it is particularly susceptible to the kinds of security issues that tend to plague Android devices."

Read more at http://www.saurik.com/id/16. (via +Edd Dumbill)

2013-04-30 23:18:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Now if only my iPhone did wireless charging...

2013-04-29 17:24:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Footage of +Virgin Galactic's #SpaceShipTwo  detaching from #WhiteKnightTwo  and firing her rocket to break the speed of sound earlier today during her first ever powered flight.

2013-04-29 17:16:08 (4 comments, 7 reshares, 17 +1s)

Absolutely awesome picture of +Virgin Galactic's #SpaceShipTwo  during her first ever powered flight earlier today.

Credit: marsscientific.com (via https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/328913232075038720)

2013-04-29 15:09:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

A successful test flight for +Virgin Galactic and #SpaceShipTwo. After a reported 13 second burn of its engine in flight for the first time, #SpaceShipTwo  is now safely on the ground. #WhiteKnightTwo  has just done a fly over of the runway and is circling to land.

2013-04-29 15:02:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

What on Earth were #Samsung thinking? "Samsung Style! If you like the S3 this phone is even better, it has an HD screen, and is just a lot slimmer... " 

2013-04-29 15:11:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A summary of what's going on with the suborbital space flight companies as +Virgin Galactic warms up for what potentially could be the first power flight of #SpaceShipTwo .

Update: ...and we have ignition and the first powered flight for #SpaceShipTwo , https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/328884037080973313

Update: ...and #SpaceShipTwo has landed successfully, http://goo.gl/n0MFG.

2013-04-29 14:24:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The +NASA Space Apps Challenge gets a nice write-up on +The Verge.

2013-04-29 15:11:50 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

"It's a beautiful day for a flight.." as +Virgin Galactic's #WhiteKnightTwo  and #SpaceShipTwo  take off on White Knight's 115th flight, and SpaceShip Two's 26th. Doesn't look like +Virgin Galactic is currently live streaming to http://www.livestream.com/virgingalactic, but you can keep up with the flight by following them on #Twitter  at https://twitter.com/virginGalactic.

Update: ...and we have ignition and the first powered flight for #SpaceShipTwo , https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/328884037080973313

Update: ...and #SpaceShipTwo has landed successfully, http://goo.gl/n0MFG.

2013-04-29 12:48:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Here in the UK the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act has just passed. Previously ownership of your own published work was automatic, this is no longer the case, "...the Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organisation - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes..."

2013-04-29 11:53:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Slowly accumulating a pile of Bluetooth LE adapters for my +Raspberry Pi and #BeagleBone. Compatibility testing. Meh!

2013-04-29 11:52:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

More on the three #PhoneSats that hitched a ride as a secondary payload on the first Successful Launch for Antares earlier in the month. See http://www.npr.org/2013/04/26/178846158/can-you-hear-me-now-cellphone-satellites-phone-home and http://phonesat.org for more... (via +Adafruit Industries)

2013-04-29 11:06:18 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

When I wrote this article, http://bit.ly/smart-dust, for the +O'Reilly Radar I didn't really think I'd be seeing it this soon, http://bit.ly/michiganmotes.

2013-04-29 09:44:57 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The visualisation of stereotypes...

2013-04-28 15:17:20 (3 comments, 11 reshares, 17 +1s)

For those of us old enough to remember the original movies before they were ruined by digital remastering, these will bring back a lot of memories...

2013-04-28 14:13:50 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Should we finally give the "Wow!" signal the respect it deserves? Or without any repetition should it continue to be written of as an anomaly?

2013-04-26 19:00:33 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Predictable perhaps but +Jay Freeman (aka saurik) has done what he does. His #ifihadglass  would be to jailbreak and modify the software, and as +Google actually sold him one, he's done just that.

Apparently +Project Glass runs +Android 4.0.4 which is apparently vulnerable to the adb restore race condition. The attached picture shows what he did with that...

via https://twitter.com/saurik/status/327856986278477824

2013-04-26 12:34:43 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

The docking of the robotic Russian #Progress spacecraft to the #ISS  was scheduled for 8:27 am EDT, seems to be running into problems. You can watch it live on +NASA TV at http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv/pop-out.

2013-04-26 11:12:46 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Interesting analysis of social graph of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers.