Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with.

Google is ridicu­lous­ly pow­er­ful. The ser­vice isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j…

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Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level

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Why big data is about mining real world behavior

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By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com

Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet.

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Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

 

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Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion…

Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency

NRA hides under the social media covers

National Rifle Association disappears from Facebook and stops tweeting in wake of school shooting
By T.C. Sottek, theverge.com

The Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) — the largest gun rights advo­ca­cy group and one of the pre­vail­ing lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tions in the Unit­ed States — has pulled back from its social media pres­ence fol­low­ing the New­town, Con­necti­…

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Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com

Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The updates, six months in devel­op­ment, are meant to increase focus…

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