Category: Information Visualization

  • Farmingo digitizes organic farmers markets

    Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The ben­e­fits of your local farm­ers mar­kets are plen­ty. You’re get­ting fresh food, sup­port­ing local farms and help­ing to cre­ate a more sus­tain­able food sys­tem. But with lim­it­ed hours and loca­tions, you prob­a­bly can’t take advan­ta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…

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  • Ditch the pricey telecom Internet with Freedompop

    Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Free­dom­Pop, a start-up aim­ing to offer free and low-cost mobile broad­band access, is now tak­ing aim at the home Inter­net mar­ket as well. The com­pa­ny, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans on Wednes­day to start tak­ing pre­ord……

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  • Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

    FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…

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  • Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success

    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……

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  • Marketing clouds: here comes 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… RT @allthingsd:…

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  • I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work

      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…

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  • Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True

      yahoo.com Almost one year ago today, we laid out the night­mare sce­nario for Microsoft (MSFT) that could lead to its busi­ness col­laps­ing. After lay­ing it all out, we con­clud­ed, “For­tu­nate­ly for Microsoft, none of this is going to happen.” We wer… http://flip.it/GwzT7 Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True Related articles How Steve Ballmer Became…

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  • Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”

    Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat The Editors, betabeat.com Just don’t call them dis­rupters. By 11/14 11:30am Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twit­ter and Square, recent­ly tried to dis­abuse the tech indus­try of its infat­u­a­tion with the word ‘disruption.’ “We don’t want ‘disruption,’ where we just move… Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat http://flip.it/WgfQz http://flip.it/bz0gh…

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  • Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget

      By ANTON TROIANOVSKI, wsj.com “Every week­end, we’d do something,” said Ms. Stef­fen, a reg­is­tered nurse whose hus­band works at a tire shop. “Now maybe once every month or two, we get out.” More than half of all U.S. cell­phone own­ers carry a device like the iPhone, a sh… Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget…

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  • Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

                Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 bio­med­ical and life sci­ence com­pa­nies are clus­tered in Genome Val­ley, a research park in Hyder­abad, India. (Via Joanne Man­aster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost…

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