Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief execut……
Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud demonstrates the need for enterprises to develop new ways of harnessing the vast potential of big data. Yet these marketing clouds beg the question of who will help… RT @allthingsd:…
25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The petition has reached 25,000 signatures Almost immediately following the tragic school shooting in Connecticut, over 16,000 people have signed an official White House WeThePeople petition to “Immediately… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…
Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…
Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too. http://flip.it/sMiw8 Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet Related articles Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The…
Phil Plait, slate.com [Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them… Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery Related articles The “no compassion”…
lifehacker.com Tessa Miller View Profile • Google Plus • RSS When we kicked off the How I Work series in August, we encouraged readers to tell us whose productivity tips and tricks they were dying to know. No one has been more… http://flip.it/zcWep I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work Related articles Tim Ferriss…
Behold: The Largest Iceberg Breakup Ever Caught on Film Eric Liu, theatlantic.com The effects of climate change, in one gorgeous, terrifying video So, wow. Wowwowwow. A group of filmmakers, making a movie called, aptly, Chasing Ice, have captured what they claim to be the largest iceberg calving ever filmed.… RT @megangarber: This is *literally* awesome:…
Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable Deborah Méndez-Wilson, special to USA TODAY, usatoday.com On-demand and online services offer more choices than cable—sometimes for free. Like everyone else, Audra Sharifi Isfahani and her husband James McCollough wanted to trim their costs in this down economy. They figured if they cut their… http://flip.it/lTsTR Related articles…