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A user asks the O'Reilly Answers community for help in choosing the best hosted platform for web conferencing to provide online training. O'Reilly's Kathryn Barrett assists with a handy list of questions to ask yourself when evaluating web conference environments and urges the user to carefully examine what features he really needs. Do you have a recommendation? Share your knowledge or ask a question of your own in O'Reilly Answers. Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age - Part Two
This gem from Whimsley makes the point - with extensive statistical modeling supporting the argument - that our algorithm-obsessed, long tail merchants are actually depleting the overall choice pool despite the fact that as individuals we may be experiencing a sense of more choice through recommendations engines. "Online merchants such as Amazon, iTunes and Netflix may stock more items than your local book, CD, or video store, but they are no friend to "niche culture". Internet sharing mechanisms such as YouTube and Google PageRank, which distil the clicks of millions of people into recommendations, may also be promoting an online monoculture." Twitter Approval Matrix - October 2009
This is the fifth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of October and different sources such as tweetsentiment.com, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received help from Joe Fernandez the CEO of Klout.com. Joe continues to provide some great 'hard' data that allowed me to better place more items on the grid this month. A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter. Announcing O'Reilly Answers
We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Windows 7 Utilities/Troubleshooting Tools - Share Hacks, Ideas and Solutions About Windows 7 in Answers
Windows 7 ships with some really neat utilities to help you work with external accessories as well as troubleshoot problems. Here are some of the cool ones, including Projector Screen Selection, Problems Steps Recorder, Trouble Shooting Sleep Mode Problems, Windows Disk Image Burner and more from the new book Windows 7: Up and Running. Find out more about Windows 7 at O'Reilly Answers. Using Flash Remoting for Authentication to your AFCS/Facebook AIR Application
If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However there is the challenge of how do you control who comes into your application and what they are allowed to do. In addition, keeping your application credentials safe in case your SWF file was decompiled. So as the title suggests you can use a service like Facebook to take care of the users authentication and Flash Remoting for the application authentication. Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.
We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Featured Gov 2.0 Video: Technology, Transparency, and You
Games Top the Charts in the iPhone and Android App Markets
While it might be true that the number of Book apps is growing at a faster rate, Games continue to dominate the list of popular U.S. iTunes Apps. Games accounted for about a fifth of all iTunes apps over the past week†, but the category continued to have a disproportionate share of the Top 100 charts, accounting for 52% of the Top Grossing, 56% of the Top Paid, and 50% of the Top Free apps. Operating system expertise moves outward as programmers job-hop
I just held a reunion with people I worked with at a real-time and
data acquisition computer vendor 20 years ago, and was interested to
see how many ended up in another, related line of work. Locational Privacy: The EFF Weighs in on Safeguarding Your Location
Increasingly our devices know where we are and are able to share that information. This is a trend that will enable many new services, but at the same time puts the consumer and the service provider at risk. The consumer is at risk of their "future self" forgetting that they are being tracked and then having their location being recorded unintentionally. The company is put at risk just by having this data stored. If they have user data then it is subject to subpoena or unintentional releases. The EFF has weighed in on this trend with a timely whitepaper.
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