CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-19 23:32:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

So, what's so great about copy.com compared to dropbox? I didn't see anything that would make me move.

2013-05-19 23:20:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

*How I moved from iPhoto (feature rich) to dropbox (future proof). *

2013-05-19 22:09:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-15 23:11:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Video demo of voice command 2.0.
Install instructions can be found below:
http://stevenhickson.blogspot.com/2013/05/voice-command-v20-for-raspberry-pi.html

Need more beta testers for changes for 3.0

Voice Command v.2.0 on the Raspberry Pi

2013-05-09 22:13:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New Executive Order on Open Data Enables Government as a Platform

I've made the case that the history of technology adoption is really the history of platforms, which then enable big developer ecosystems. This was the story of the PC, of the web, and now of the smartphone era.  

Government too can act as a platform provider - but for society as a whole. Think the Interstate Highway System in the US, weather satellites, or the way the opening up of the GPS system for private use enabled everything from in-car navigation to Foursquare.

Open data is to the 21st century as the highway system was to the 20th. Today, President Obama issued an executive order that will put more fuel on the open data fire.

2013-04-27 06:28:36 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

A dystopian private police future

2013-04-25 23:17:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wired is 20 years old this month.  I just came across this paragraph in an article I once wrote for Newsweek, marking some anniversary of the browser:

Just about the only place you could get something to eat at 4 in the morning in Champaign, Ill., in early 1993 was a convenience store called the White Hen Pantry. "It's kind of a Midwest 7-Eleven," says Marc Andreessen, who would often stumble out of his workspace at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at ungodly hours in search of sustenance. Andreessen, 21 years old at the time, and fellow NCSA worker Eric Bina were working on a program they called Mosaic. One night at the White Hen, Andreessen scanned the newsstand and saw the first issue of a magazine called Wired. "I thought, 'Wow, this is pretty interesting stuff'," he recalls of the magazine that promised to treat technology as a cultural... more »

2013-04-25 09:20:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is IMPORTANT: Ask your minister to save Europe's bees!!

The European Commission has proposed a ban on the use of bee-harming pesticides (neonicotinoids) for an initial 2 year period. This move is a step in the right direction to save our bees and ensure good food and good farming in Europe.

During the first vote on this ban on March 15th 2013, no majority decision was reached by the national ministers for agriculture from the different EU member states.

On 29th April, the ministers are set to vote again in an attempt to reach a final decision.

You still have time to influence them: http://www.goodfoodgoodfarming.eu/eventsactions/bee-action.html

2013-04-23 22:23:48 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Panayotis Vryonis  gets it.

2013-04-21 21:29:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

It could be a productivity boost for all :-)

2013-04-20 17:43:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Undeclared martial law, dancing to terrorists' tune, ... and we applauded
I think I'm one of the few people disturbed and unhappy by how the manhunt was run in Boston and by how few people even questioned if any of this was legal.  Or what precedent we just set.

The media, who should have been loudest in questioning these actions, used the polite term "lockdown" to describe what was an undeclared martial law.  When you shut down all transportation, close businesses, tell citizens they must remain inside their homes, and bring in the armored vehicles - that's martial law.  When you search people's bags and demand their ID because they are walking on the street - that's martial law.  When you "ask" people for "consent" to search their homes by sticking your foot in the door and using intimidation and fear - that's martiallaw.  T... more »

2013-04-20 17:21:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Retro tech that took us to the moon

I was at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for the TEDMed dinner reception last week, and couldn't help but be struck by the crudity of the technology that took us to the moon and back.  This is the command console from the Apollo spacecraft .

Today, our computers are sleeker and more powerful, but our aim is set much lower.  What an inspiration the "Mercury 7" were when I was a child; as a teenager, how I thrilled to the grainy telecast of those first steps on the moon! I never dreamed it would take us so long to get back.

I'm really delighted by the initiative of entrepreneurs like +***** of SpaceX, and +Edward Lu of the B612 Foundation, who are taking us back to space with big dreams, but I also have to lament that we seem to have lost the shared will to greatness.

As I've often said(ec... more »

2013-04-17 13:41:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-15 21:13:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

First lab-grown kidney successfully implanted in a rat http://bit.ly/Zw4zye

2013-04-15 08:33:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Doodle for Google από έλληνες μαθητές! Ψηφίστε!

2013-04-15 05:40:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How to upload/download individual files to Dropbox from your server without doing a full sync

'Commandline Dropbox client' : New blog post ->
http://blog.justin.kelly.org.au/commandline-dropbox-client/

2013-04-14 23:28:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

my post got 63k visits, thanks to HN.

http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/14/hn-frontpage-got-me-63k-visits/

2013-04-14 23:23:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

my post got 63k visits, thanks to HackerNews: the aftermath.

http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/14/hn-frontpage-got-me-63k-visits/

2013-04-11 22:41:40 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-04-11 21:18:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

You know, Google, the web already had this feature.

It was called RSS.

2013-04-11 20:17:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Incrediblue introduces collections – http://incrediblue.com/collections

2013-04-10 17:28:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Organizing and viewing your photos in Google Drive is now easier than ever. We added several features with our update – if you are a Google Drive user, you should check them out!  Read more on our blog: http://blog.cooliris.com/post/47236485699/new-features-in-google-drive-make-organizing-photos-a

2013-04-05 23:29:31 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-04-05 15:26:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Incrediblue getting more & more appealing by the day

2013-04-03 14:26:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

LongData.org: side project, του κυρίως project :-) Για ενημέρωση/προβληματισμό/προθέρμανση.

2013-03-30 23:59:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Bitcoin, the world's first open source cryptographic currency, which has been on a tear since the beginning of this year, set a new record for itself yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92. With nearly 11 million Bitcoins in circulation*, this sets the total worth of the currency just over one billion dollars.

2013-03-30 23:43:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Αξίζει να διαδωθεί. Μετά απο τόση προσπάθεια, μετά απο τόση κινητοποίηση σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, η Ελλάδα πάλι τα έκανε χάλια (λέω να βρίζω γιατι τα γραπτά μένουν) http://bumblebeegr.blogspot.gr/2013/03/blog-post.html

2013-03-30 23:09:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

ένα πρόβλημα που αναζητά λύση :-)

2013-03-28 23:15:09 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-03-28 07:55:58 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

There's an excellent story in +LWN.net this week about what's going on with pump.io. I'm sharing my subscriber link with you; hope that doesn't get me in trouble.

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/544347/d9c904117b4824d1/

2013-03-15 06:51:55 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Tying a shoe with a robotic prosthetic hand!

2013-03-14 06:04:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Google just put another nail in the open web

Why do I say this? Because, well, try to read my post about Google's decision to close Google Reader: https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/499071000129201

How do you know we lost something here when RSS went away? Because my friend +Dave Winer and +Ryan Block can't read this post. Why not? Because they don't have Facebook accounts and refuse to turn theirs back on.

We lost something here and I don't see it coming back.

UPDATE: Ryan says he can see my post on Facebook. Sounds like Facebook changed its stance here very recently. That's cool.

2013-03-08 17:02:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Today in Geek History: Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1775. Good day for science; bad day for his lab mice.

2013-03-08 13:53:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Lately, I’ve been falling in love with DayOne.

Read more: http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/3/8/dayone/

2013-03-06 09:46:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Toys, toys, toys..

Hey, I've joined all the cool kids in having one of the new Google "Pixel" laptops (aka Chromebooks).  And it is a beautiful screen, to the point where I suspect I'll make this my primary laptop. I tend to like my laptops slightly smaller, but I think I can lug around this 1.5kg monster despite feeling fairly strongly that a laptop should weigh 1kg or less.

Because the screen really is that nice.

And I really appreciate not just the pixels, but the form factor. I despise widescreen displays, but I had gotten resigned to them. Until now. 3:2, baby!

I don't understand why people complain about "black bars", when I can't see why it would be any different to have "no pixels at all", which is what the silly widescreen displays do. 

I'm still running ChromeOS on this thing,w... more »

2013-03-04 11:46:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Traditional and classy.

2013-02-25 18:55:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Amazon May Seem Unstoppable, But Google Is Powering the Counterattack

Google’s increasingly aggressive effort to steal online retail from
Amazon is turning into one of the most intriguing business battles of the year, and not just because of the sight of two behemoths pounding on each other.

http://oak.ctx.ly/r/2l5u
Photo: Inkling

2013-02-25 10:58:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Στο τεύχος 017 του deltaHacker:
Το αγαπημένο σας Raspberry Pi μπορείτε να το μετατρέψετε και σε Arduino -- κι όλα όσα πρέπει να γνωρίζετε πριν το επιχειρήσετε!

Μπορούμε (και θέλουμε) να ταχυδρομήσουμε και σ' εσάς το deltaHacker 017, αρκεί να συμπληρώσετε τη φόρμα παραγγελίας στο

http://deltahacker.gr/order

Οι συνδρομές στο περιοδικό ξεκινούν από όποιο τεύχος επιθυμείτε, αρκεί να υπάρχει σε stock. Δείτε τα θέματα όλων των τευχών που έχουν κυκλοφορήσει ως τώρα:
http://deltahacker.gr/category/magazine-issues

Προσοχή: Το περιοδικό deltaHacker δεν κυκλοφορεί στα περίπτερα, είναι συνδρομητικό και διανέμεται ταχυδρομικώς.

Μηνιαίο, συνδρομητικό περιοδικό deltaHacker: Διασκεδαστικό, ουσιαστικό χάκινγκ για όλους!... more »

2013-02-24 20:55:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I need some help... What's the most commonly used (is there a standard?) changelog.txt format?

2013-02-23 18:00:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Carl Malamud asks a key question that demands an answer in a democracy: do we have the right to read laws that govern us, or can we be required to pay to read them? 

2013-02-21 15:48:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'll be speaking at the upcoming confoo.ca conference about my new project, pump.io.

This is the first time I've talked about it publicly, so I'm really excited.

2013-02-21 14:02:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

A new way to view files in Google Drive

Beginning today, Google Drive will let you quickly preview more than 30 file types and quickly flip between files until you find the one you want. 

From the preview window, you can click on the side arrows to flip to other files, watch video files or scroll through multi-page documents. You can even select and copy text from the preview -- even for a PDF. And you have one-click access to share, download, print or open a file for editing. 

Learn more about the Drive viewer here: http://goo.gl/0TjAT

2013-02-20 21:33:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-20 15:57:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-02-20 12:02:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Get four of my books for free:

http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJZZUNndWNlaFRMYnRVag 

Just remember APE when you write a book:

http://amzn.to/T37r5x  

:-) 

#HolyKaw  

2013-02-18 11:14:30 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-02-16 19:24:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Άλλη μία υπενθύμιση ότι οι υπηρεσίες στο Internet κλείνουν και δεν είναι σχεδιασμένες για να υπάρχουν πολλά χρόνια.

2013-02-15 14:45:35 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

In case you missed this:

2013-02-15 14:43:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Will you use this?

2013-02-14 00:23:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Γράφω το business plan του "project LA". Στην αρχή έμοιαζε λίγο από-από-που-ν-αρχίσω-και-που-να-τελειώσω. Αλλά είναι τόσο ώριμη η ιδέα και τόσο δουλεμένη, που μετά από μερικές ώρες γράψιμο, αν και έχει πολύ ακόμη, όλα μπαίνουν στη θέση τους... Είναι μεγάλη ικανοποίηση να το βλέπω να γίνεται ένα συγκροτημένο κείμενο!