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2013-06-18 18:11:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

At GE's industrial cloud event in SF. Here are the headline notes I tweeted: http://storify.com/edd/ge-and-the-industrial-internet

2013-06-12 21:56:28 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 6 +1s)

Details of the tech being Google's improved image searching. via +Yann LeCun 

2013-06-12 15:27:01 (11 comments, 2 reshares, 26 +1s)

I've joined Silicon Valley Data Science — I'm happy to announce that I've joined Silicon Valley Data Science as VP of Strategy.

I'm excited as we build an all-star team of data scientists and data engineers to take on interesting and difficult problems. It's all about using data in a smart way to create new capabilities and amplify existing ones.

I'll also be continuing as chair of Strata and Editor in Chief of Big Data.

Why the new gig?

Because being a part of inventing the future is irresistible.

My career with technology has always been about helping people do more and better. In tech, we're at a time of such phenomenally exciting change, for both people as individuals and businesses. Smart use of data, more than anything, has the ability to focus and multiply our potential as humans.

It'sa... more »

2013-06-06 15:45:11 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 20 +1s)

Via Hacker News. I really like this description of the author's thought process.

2013-06-05 19:59:12 (24 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

Why the new GMail tabs don't work for me (but I'm not very normal)

It's neat that +Jason Cornwell was listening to me kvetch on Twitter a little about the new tabs in Gmail. He asked for expansion, so I thought I'd write it here. 140 chars not a great place for it, really.

So, first thing to say is: I'm an outlier. I actually think the new tabs are a really good match for how a lot of people use email. I am also thrilled to see innovation around email of any sort.

The main issue for me is the way I deal with my email. I'm "inbox zero"  oriented, so my workflow is something like this: as much non-direct email as possible is filtered and I check it at leisure. The rest I read and either reply right away, or star for follow up then archive. Nothing stays long in inbox.

(a) I used Smart Labels, but I have Promotions, etc, setu... more »

2013-06-04 17:38:51 (3 comments, 10 reshares, 7 +1s)

Interesting comparison of speed of query engines from AMPLab. 

2013-06-03 05:04:07 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The registration of the new gTLDs is interesting. Here, for instance, is what Dish Network intend to do with the ".dot" TLD: get around domain/typo squatting by operating its own TLD over which it has unique control.

Fuller details copied here and at the link below

• The Internet has been plagued by cybersquatting, typosquatting, phishing, pharming and identity theft scams.  This malicious online conduct has shaken the trust and confidence of consumers to share information and transact business online.  Thus, the proposed .DOT gTLD has the following user experience goals:

o Unify the full breadth of products and services offered by Applicant and its affiliated entities under one brand umbrella;
o Improve and streamline the manner in which customers and other business partners can interact with Applicant and its affiliated entities in the online digitalspa... more »

2013-06-02 23:18:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

I took this four years ago. Didn't realize at the time how #DoctorWho  it would prove.

2013-06-02 22:02:25 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Rückkehrunruhe
n. the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all, even though it felt so vivid just days ago—which makes you wish you could smoothly cross-dissolve back into everyday life, or just hold the shutter open indefinitely, letting one scene become superimposed on the next, so all your days run together and you never have to call cut.

2013-06-02 17:43:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

A personal memento from the +Data Sensing Lab - thanks so much +Julie Steele +Alasdair Allan +Kipp Bradford +Rob Faludi and +Michael Manoochehri

2013-06-01 03:07:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"a list of currently discussed ASIC bitcoin mining hardware."

2013-05-31 18:20:46 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, members of the working groups which define the specifications, academics, industrial researchers, representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world's greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical.

2013-05-31 16:10:47 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 11 +1s)

+Chris Wiggins interviewed in IEEE Spectrum

"I will agree with what Jim Gray of Microsoft said years ago, which is that every field of human endeavor is being progressively transformed by abundant data. So both because there are more data available, the data are cheaper to store and transmit, and there’s easy access to data, and that’s changing every field of human endeavor, both in the academy and industry. So fluency in data science is an actual investment."

2013-05-28 20:12:46 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

How can government help realize the economic and social benefits of big data?

+Neelie Kroes's speech on the economic and social benefits of big data to Europe. She calls out ways in which the EU and politicians can support big data:

"First, regulation. We need a set of rules that maximise the value and minimise the cost of data. Making it freely available for re-use, and freely flowing across Europe. Without compromising on fairness, transparency, or user control."

"Secondly, unlocking this data needs people's trust. So we need a data protection framework that builds that confidence and permits that digital innovation."

"Innovative data products and services need interoperability, standardisation, and where possible harmonised formats. Otherwise, the data is there in theory, but it's just too difficult to fit together... more »

2013-05-28 16:43:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Smart soccer ball, via +Alistair Croll. Now seeing if we can get some +adidas Football folks to Strata London…

2013-05-28 15:42:25 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Phones become commodity, value is in the cloud

Interesting quote from LG official on their not planning to make any more Nexus phones: [[ Wong said that Google phones have "no added value for us without our own skins." ]]

Turn that around, I think it's pretty obvious from the iPhone and the Nexus 4 that manufacturer-added "skins" add little or no value for the customer. LG's comments sound to me like the protestations of a dying model trying to lock-in relevance.

Phones are headed to commodity, and there's nothing they can do about it. The value to customers is in the cloud services.

2013-05-28 15:37:12 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Today's the last day for Strata London proposals. Get yours in now, before midnight UK time (that's noon on the west coast of the US, 3pm east coast). +Kaitlin Thaney and I are waiting to hear from you!

http://strataconf.com/strataeu2013/public/cfp/268

2013-05-28 15:36:41 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

Today's the last day for Strata London proposals. Get yours in now, before midnight UK time (that's noon on the west coast of the US, 3pm east coast). +Kaitlin Thaney and I are waiting to hear from you!

http://strataconf.com/strataeu2013/public/cfp/268

2013-05-28 15:33:45 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is +MAKE, China-style. I'm fascinated by the preponderance of submarines.

2013-05-27 01:34:27 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Holiday evening cooking in the backyard. The chimenea keeping the cool breeze at bay!

2013-05-26 17:11:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Hummingbird in the backyard this morning

2013-05-25 18:37:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Batting practice before today's game. It's a lovely day at the park

2013-05-23 18:22:59 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 19 +1s)

Amazing.

2013-05-23 18:16:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

My second opinion post on Medium: When Democratization Isn't a Good Thing -- the PC era has a lot to answer for

"I want everybody to have the power computers offer, but I don’t think we should make everyone into a programmer to achieve that. “Democratization of programming” is a positive-sounding term that actually means making humans do grunt work that computers ought to do themselves."

#programming  

2013-05-23 17:19:01 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Even though I'd seen the preview at Google I/O, I was really wowed by using the new #googlemaps  for the first time. It is beautiful, useful, and showed the places I go a lot right from the get-go. Nice job, maps team! This is what we're talking about at +O'Reilly Strata when we say "making data work".

2013-05-23 15:39:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looks like the new Google #Hangouts heralds the end of the last of my connections on AOL Instant Messenger. I used to use them gatewayed through GTalk, but they're gone now.

2013-05-23 14:26:27 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 4 +1s)

New open source catalog and list of APIs on Data.gov

I invite you to visit Data.gov to see the new catalog for browsing U.S. open data: http://catalog.data.gov We have combined raw and geospatial data from many sources across the U.S. and presented it through an open source tool, CKAN.

In connection with the U.S. Digital Strategy we have also created a new list of government APIs: http://www.data.gov/developers/page/developer-resources

Find out more at: http://www.data.gov/blog/datagov-launches-new-catalog-and-apis

2013-05-22 17:14:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Roger Magoulas, +Jim Stogdill and I recorded this podcast yesterday, about the rise of in-memory databases.

#bigdata   #analytics  

2013-05-22 17:12:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett's data science for business book will be published soon. In the meantime, you can pre-order it on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Business-data-analytic-thinking/dp/1449361323

#datascience  

2013-05-22 17:01:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's been a while since I was a W3C-watcher, but change seems afoot.

2013-05-22 13:21:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Strata London Call for Speakers ends next week - Apply by 28 May to present your best big data stories #bigdata #datascience  

2013-05-21 17:37:30 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Every Single GDL @ I/O Segment from I/O 2013, In One Place
#gdl   #io13   #developers   #android   #chrome   #drive   #ingress   #search   #maps   #wallet   #cloud   #dart   #gmail  

Last week was a whirlwind, starting with the incredible keynote, followed by three full days of sessions from Moscone Center in San Francisco. Between sessions throughout the first two days of the event, we delivered exclusive content and interviews on GDL @ I/O, including excellent guests like +Bradley Horowitz, +Megan Smith, +John Hanke, +Hugo Barra, +Baris Gultekin and more.

GDL @ I/O also showcased content from a wide array of products, including +Android, +Google Chrome, +Project Glass, +Google Drive, +YouTube, +Google Maps, +Google Cloud Platform +Google Wallet and more. 

If you’re like me, you know there’s good content in here youdidn’t get the chan... more »

2013-05-21 04:08:12 (11 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

The new locations feature in the Google+ app lets you select a circle to share your location with. I've been selective with mine, but a few people like +Leo Laporte are sharing more openly.

It's a bit confusing on Android right now as the maps app still includes Latitude and checkins.

2013-05-21 03:44:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Here's why Vic couldn't sleep last night!  A fresh new Google+ Android build that incorporates all of last week's goodness... and more.   Enjoy.

#googleplusupdate

edit 9:52am PST

For the sake of clarity - the new Android app will install on modern versions of Android (Froyo and above) with the advanced image editing features available on Ice Cream Sandwich and above.  Rollout in progress...

2013-05-21 03:12:11 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

I've found one place where Apple still beats Google. The quality of the illustration for the PILE OF POO emoji. Well, hello there, little fella!

2013-05-20 21:11:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Via Reddit, I discovered this blog on programming the #Arduino with #Ada. Quite the trip down memory lane—I, and many others who studied at the University of York in the 1990s, had much of our software engineering instruction using Ada.

2013-05-20 02:28:31 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +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 18:46:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Maker Fair has three livestreams! Tune in if you can't be there.

2013-05-19 18:41:55 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Well, this is gutsy. On the face of it, it propels Y! into the same universe as Facebook, Twitter and Google, with a social community of content generators.

More analysis is also available from +Mathew Ingram here: http://gigaom.com/2013/05/18/why-yahoo-acquiring-tumblr-for-1-billion-makes-a-certain-horrible-kind-of-sense/

The main impact on me is thinking that I probably need to find another home for my content that's currently on Tumblr. I really don't like Blogger templates, so it's likely time to go back to a self-hosted blog.

2013-05-19 18:21:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

An epic tale of the +Data Sensing Lab, from +Alasdair Allan. It all started so innocently as a conversation at OSCON last year…

2013-05-19 18:11:57 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Adorable.

2013-05-19 17:49:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A summary of the cloud and data announcements from last week at Google #io13  — making the data store available outside of AppEngine is significant.

2013-05-19 17:39:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nice start to an Ashes summer! #cricket  

2013-05-19 17:13:04 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Had fun writing this new #strataconf post on GraphLab, GraphX, & more: Improving options for unlocking your graph data http://goo.gl/NH5G7

2013-05-19 16:57:49 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +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/.

2013-05-19 15:51:52 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Ted Nelson, the American academic who in 1963 coined the term hypertext, and is therefore viewed as one of the World Wide Web’s founding fathers, just released a 12-minute video with a big reveal at the end...

READ: http://bit.ly/10e5wQU by +Christopher Mims 

2013-05-19 05:01:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

+Kenneth Cukier keynoting on the topic of big data at The Next Web, Europe.

2013-05-19 05:08:32 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 13 +1s)

Feeling a bit better about #hangouts now…

I like the "Snooze notifications" feature. This actually makes a bit more sense than managing my "available/away" status. 

The stored history is great, mirrored over every machine, and being able to jump into and drop out of a video call again is handy (I upgraded a text chat to screen sharing in a Hangout to help solve a problem).

I created an image from inside the hangout (screen snap) and that appeared in a gallery attached to the hangout in the G+ stream. I was impressed by that: it suggests that hangouts could be trusted for archived collaboration.

2013-05-18 20:46:49 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Thanks for the terabyte, Google!

I'm not sure if many Google I/O attendees realized this, but the Pixel comes with a terabyte of Google Drive storage for 3 years. I activated mime yesterday. Living with this terabyte could be a game changer. Let's see what I can fit there!

2013-05-18 20:23:05 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Removing presence indicators from the mobile version of #hangouts is a real problem. I'm not sure how this was omitted. Maybe all Googlers are online all the time?

It wouldn't be as annoying a regression if I could use in parallel with Google Talk. Being a good user, I've used the send feedback function to report this...