Category: Information Visualization

  • Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks

    Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks By David Cornish, wired.co.uk Business There’s a ubiq­ui­tous smug­ness that appears to accom­pa­ny the pur­chase of an eread­er. It’s not in the box, nor is it down­loaded as an option­al extra — but a quick glance at the expres­sion of an eread­ing com­muter beside their… RT @WiredUK:…

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  • Accelerator 2013

    startl.org Applications now open for 2013 Accelerator After a year hia­tus, Startl is again part­ner­ing with DreamIt Ven­tures to offer a very select group of enter­pris­es the oppor­tu­ni­ty to engage in an inten­sive, company-building immer­sion… http://flip.it/1zxEW Accelerator 2013 Related articles Ranking Applicants For An Accelerator (alexstechthoughts.com) DreamIt Health Startup Medlio Has a Virtual Insurance Card:…

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  • The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees

    (via The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees – Businessweek) Related articles Foursquare’s New Series D Round Of $41M Helps It Delay Tricky Questions About Its Valuation (techcrunch.com) Bloomberg Businessweek’s Big Story On Samsung Fails To Mention One Of The Biggest Reasons For Samsung’s Success (embargozone.com)

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  • Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money

    Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more…

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  • How the Cloud Changes Software Consulting

    By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Software consulting is a multibillion-dollar business, and the means by which most enterprise software actually ends up in business. Consultants figure out what companies need, install it, customize it, and train workers on it. As more software is… http://flip.it/5rrL9 How the Cloud Changes Software Consulting Related articles OpenStack, Mobile, Amazon and…

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  • iPhone 5 coming to Walmart

    iPhone 5 coming to Walmart’s Straight Talk prepaid plans January 11th Brad Molen, engadget.com Cus­tomers have been able to enjoy the iPhone expe­ri­ence on Wal­mart’s Straight Talk “BYOD” phone plans for quite some time now, but the pre­paid provider will begin direct­ly sell­ing the iPhone 5 — as well as the iPhone 4 — on…

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  • Geoffrey A Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm

    (via Geoffrey A Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm, The Gorilla Game, Inside the Tornado and Escape Velocity – Books by Geoffrey Moore) Related articles Technology Benefit Cycle: What Gartner & Geoffrey Moore Aren’t Telling You (sys-con.com) Managing disruption. Designing for the future of enterprise IT. (smartercomputingblog.com) Crossing the New Chasm: Focusing on Addiction, Not…

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  • Trap Rock Brewery

    (via Trap Rock Brewery) Related articles Fulton Brewery plans a patio ‘oasis’ (bizjournals.com) Venture Capitalist Brewery (winedeposit.wordpress.com) Brooklyn Brewery Stop-Motion (winedeposit.wordpress.com) Best Craft Beer State: Does Quantity Equal Quality? (beerandwhiskeybros.com)

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  • Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning

    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… http://flip.it/sfvZe Related…

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  • Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

    Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com Apple does hard­ware and soft­ware well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them togeth­er. But when it comes to Web ser­vices, the com­pa­ny is a lag­gard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of mis­steps. There are hands-down fias­co… http://flip.it/fuyg5 Related…

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  • Avoid recruiters and put your skills up for auction

    Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete Lon­don post­ed a resume on LinkedIn in Decem­ber 2009, the JavaScript spe­cial­ist stum­bled into a trap of sorts. Short­ly after cre­at­ing a pro­file he received a mes­sage from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, anoth­er from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by…

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