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The growing popularity of connected devices – especial... tablet computer, the iPad – are starting to change the... media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a ... otherwise lackluster holiday shopping season, everyone, ...
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Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms canvas, java... Willison, I was made aware of an old but interesting pos... visualizing of sorting algorithms. Aldo Cortesi explains...
He decided to make something better and ended up with so ...
Anyway, I t

Can you think of an open data curation project where the...
In the mid 1990s, as open source code began to boom, the ...
For years I’ve asked, where are the equivalent project ...
Nada.
... and how it was finally opened up in an incomplete form.

Today we’re open-sourcing a JavaScript library for vis...
A guider is a dialog box that guides a user through your ...
This example guider is not attached to any element and h ...
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An example guider attached to the "Add Varia

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

So, why go free? No, we haven’t decided to become a no... we’re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... they’re ambitious too.
The “Internet of Things” is a big idea (tho

I'm doing up some slides on Mac OS/X, using Office 2004.... window grabs from Grab.app, and for many of the slides, ...
Nice. The 'Compatibility Report' for reading this file b ...
However, some of the images did work, and the ones that ...
So, if you'

I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in ...
The idea of representing relationships between people as ...
At the time he wrote, Fitzpatrick had two points to make ...
Fitzpatrick subsequently went to work for Google, and hi ...
... ith the

There are many surprises in doing a PhD. That, for examp... easier to have a idea than to show that is any good. Tha... your supervisor does not possess 'the answer'. Perhaps h... greatest surprise is that it is so much easier to start ... finish it.

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this eac... years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. Ther... APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the n... 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as... the most po

Redesigning Docs for RESTful Web APIs
In the past year, a new trend has emerged for web API do ...
Companies such as Posterous, Wordnik and Google have led ...
At Mashery, we were inspired by these new designs to bui ...
... already deployed I/O Docs for

I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture):
Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire

Occupy Wall Street’s slogan “We are the 99%” had b... the United States and the world for just over a month wh... Glattfelder and his co-authors released the study “The... Corporate Control” in October 2011. The study was a sc... our global

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

let’s try to find all possible ways to visualize a
ludicrously small data set of two numbers. Afterwords,
let’s try to pick the best visualization.

Software maker Mozilla has launched a prototype of its n... code editor. It's called Bespin, and it's still in the d... app is live and you can test it out right now.
The logo pretty much says it all -- it's a code editor t ...
You get all of the advant

ellyfish Screen Shows Video In Living, Pulsating 3D
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Gemotion is a soft, ‘living’ display that bulges ...
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a well-known computer graphics a ...
... Gemotion screen

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Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate.
Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

“Time” is the most used noun in the English language...
1. Time exists. Might as well get this common question o ...
2. The past and future are equally real. This isn’t co ...
3. Everyone experiences time differently. This is true a ...
... #9 and

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc...
Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ...
Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head ...
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At a urology conference in Las Vegas in 1983, Dr. Giles ... very memorable lecture.

In the same vein, programmers who pay attention to how t... written language also tend to pay a lot more attention t... You see, at its core, code is prose. Great programmers a... code monkeys; according to Stanford programming legend D...
And just li

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us ... Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives...
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going t ...
But I'm hardly a naysayer when it comes to tech. I agree ...
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It is widely accepted that academic papers are rarely ci... But what kind of data lies behind these assertions? Dahl... look at the academic research on citation practices and ... it is clear citation rates are low, much confusion remai... figures and

From literature searches to collaborative online writing... amount of the research process now takes place online.®.. Tattersall provides a list of useful Google Chrome exte... added to the browser to help facilitate the daily academ... Recommendat

Fundamentally, our system is designed to be run across t... web front end and the back-end (commonly known as the "a... in SharePoint parlance).
FeandAppServerDiagram
As illustrated by the above diagram, the front-end compo ...