Natural language shopping

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding
David Meyer, gigaom.com

In the devel­op­ment of nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing, the seman­tic web and so on, e-com­merce pro­vides a rich breed­ing ground. Com­pa­nies such as Ama­zon and Google always want to find bet­ter ways to learn what it is poten­tial cus­tomers…

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The rise of sensor journalism

Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out
By Laura Hazard Owen, paidcontent.org

Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia’s Emily Bell said Thursday.

If data jour­nal­ism means the…

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Domain name prospecting

Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name
David Teten, forbes.com

This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and star­tups; part 1 was “Should a Start­up Spend VC Fund­ing on a Domain Name?”.

I’ve writ­ten in the past about how to iden­ti­fy a great start­up oppor­tu­ni­…

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Programmable world: all things as one–Buddhism meet engineering

In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One
Bill Wasik, wired.com

We are surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, and even save our lives.

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Creating a great LinkedIn group

7 Ways to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Group
Jeff Haden, inc.com

OWNER’S MANUAL

If this guy can build a thriving group on industrial water treatment (no, really), you can be master of your own niche on LinkedIn.

There are almost 2 mil­lion LinkedIn Groups, since any of the more than 200 mil­lion LinkedIn us…

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Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google
BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com

Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once you pass away.

After you die, the…

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Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus

Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus
By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com

Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’.

Does check­ing Twit­ter dur­ing the work­day real­ly leave you scat­ter­brained? Could tak­ing up med­i­ta­tion help you tune out the noise and focus bet­ter? Melon…

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Postach.io converts your Evernotes to a content management system

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com

One of the more inter­est­ing projects to emerge from Ever­note’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blog­ging plat­form that turns your Ever­note note­book into a con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based…

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Super language theory: one ancient ancestor of all language

Researchers Trace Languages Of Billions Back To One Ancient Ancestor
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

At the end of the last ice age, a single language fractured, until it became the languages we speak across Asia and Europe.

At least 15,000 years ago, a sin­gle lan­guage start­ed to break up. It broke into about seven dif­fer­ent lan­guages and…

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SV Angel says health informatics is a mega trend

SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends”
Kim-Mai Cutler, techcrunch.com

SV Angel, one of the Val­ley’s best-known early-stage firms, says it’s start­ing to look heav­i­ly at health star­tups that take a “software-first approach” towards human biol­o­gy, med­ical research and patient care.

The firm has always had a l…

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MDRevolution: custom healthcare for the masses

The Data Doc: Meet the MD who wants to bring custom healthcare to the masses
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

Here’s a phrase I’ve never heard dur­ing a doc­tor’s visit: “We need your data, girl!”

I was at MDRev­o­lu­tion’s La Jolla, Calif., office about a month ago, sit­ting in on a con­sul­ta­tion as a patient huffed away on a tread­mill. A staff mem­…

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