Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week.
From crowdsourcing to crime-sourcing: The rise of distributed criminality
Crowdsourcing began as a way to tap the wisdom of crowds for the betterment of business and science. Crime groups have now repurposed the same tools and techniques for their own variation: “crime-sourcing.”
Wearing Android on your sleeve
WIMM Labs believes that wearable technology and at-a-glance moments — things like looking at a thermometer and checking the clock — can create powerful combinations.
Fighting the next mobile war
While you’ll likely interact with your smartphone tomorrow in much the same way you interacted with it today, it’s quite possible that your smartphone will interact with the world in a very different way. The next mobile war has already begun.
Spoiler alert: The mouse dies. Touch and gesture take center stage
As touch and gesture evolve from novelty to default, we must rethink how we build software, implement hardware, and design interfaces.
Amazon’s “Prime” challenger to the iPad
While conventional wisdom says that to compete with the iPad you must emulate Apple’s best practices, Mark Sigal argues that Amazon can do just fine by blazing its own trail.
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