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Jeremy Zawodny sees a tipping point for feeds coming soon: Real-time pings mean that we don’t have to wait for a full polling or crawling cycle before getting the latest content… Once this feed stuff hits the tipping point (I think we’re close), things will get really, really interesting. Suddenly these feed sources will be […]
There are some great little infographics in the article quoted at length below. I found it in a binge of reading on Business Intelligence/Analytics, which yielded a few urls (del.icio.us anyone? ;-) Great picture: http://www.insightful.com/products/iminer/Mortgage-screenshot_800pixe.gif http://www.xmethods.net/ — you should visit in general if you haven’t already http://www.sas.com/apps/whitepapers/whitepaper.jsp — needs registration :-( http://www.sas.com/solutions/sci/index.html — supply chain […]
In only a few weeks this blog has become the #1 entry in Google search for Now Economy. On the other hand, we’re not even in the top 20 entries of Yahoo! search for Now Economy, though we are #2 in the Yahoo search for “Now Economy”, and we are #1 in the AlltheWeb search […]
Internet News talks about Amazon’s forthcoming release of Amazon Web Services 4, pointing out the utility of shopping cart web services: The Amazon shopping cart in AWS 4.0 now permits application users to add items to the Amazon Save for Later cart. Shopping cart abandonment continues to be a major problem for the e-commerce industry. […]
Last night we stumbled on the Internet UPC Database, a hack that offers a public database of products and their Universal Product Codes. Anyone can submit new codes or search the database of codes. For example, here’s Diet Cherry Coke. Even more interesting is that a Google search for Diet Cherry Coke’s UPC number points […]
The introduction to the paper below has a lengthy and illuminating rant about the pre-HIPAA patchwork of laws and regulations around medical records privacy. I’d definitely want to read the original NRC report… HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society): JHIM: Journal of Healthcare Information Management Security Measures Required for HIPAA Privacy Margret Amatayakul, RHIA, […]
Some new attacks against the commonly-used SHA-1 and MD5 secure hash algorithms were announced at a rump session at the Crypto 2004 conference on Tuesday, as well as some less-commonly used secure hash algorithms, including the original SHA (now called SHA-0 to avoid confusion), RIPEMD, HAVAL-128, and MD4. Although these attacks in their present form […]
The Now Economy is a meme of many trends, not least of which is the import of mass customization and rapid prototyping’s role in the manufacturing cycle. In the middle of this Slate article is an excellent example of this vision: Made to Order – How industrial design became a weekend hobby. By Clive Thompson […]
Dare Obasanjo: A technology doesn’t have to solve every problem. Just enough problems to be useful. Two examples come to mind which hammered this home to me; Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web and collaborative filtering which sites like Amazon use… If you read the descriptions of the Xanadu model you’ll notice it has certain lofty […]
Paul Ford wrote a compelling vision two years ago: The Marketplace Manager, or MM, looked like a regular spreadsheet and allowed you to list information about yourself, what you wanted to sell, what you wanted to buy, and so forth. MM was essentially an “logical statement editor,” disguised as a spreadsheet. People entered their names, […]