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  • Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

    New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki in Fin­land have devel­oped algo­rithms they say are the best yet for deter­min­ing how mobile phone users are get­ting around town — walk­ing, dri­ving, tak­ing the sub­way or oth­er­wise — by… http://flip.it/hxozG…

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  • Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste

    New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it real­ly easy to do some advanced visu­al­iza­tions on data in just a few min­utes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of Flow­ing­Da­ta for point­ing it out.) The way it works…

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  • How the cloud is rescuing the freelance industry

    How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself Rich Pearson, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now Rich Pear­son is Chief Mar­ket­ing Offi­cer of Elance. The way that busi­ness­es recruit and man­age work­ers is under­go­ing a dra­mat­ic trans­for­ma­tion. A volatile econ­o­my and an increas­ing­ly… http://flip.it/gfsrb Related articles Elance unveils Private Talent Cloud to…

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  • ThinkFree Cloud Office: ditch those servers and paper pushers

          ThinkFree Cloud Office.   top rated office 2.0 by Rule the Web     Related articles   Cloud services and your business: What’s your strategy? (bizblog.blackberry.com) Join Us at CloudCamp Austin This Saturday (rackspace.com) Riverwalking Inside The Rackspace Cloud (rackspace.com) Building43 Launches On Cloud Sites (rackspace.com) Pagerank for Event Graphs (windley.com) PRACTICE…

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