"link list" entries
Radar Roundup: Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp)
The Street as Platform (Dan Hill): amazing essay by Dan Hill (yet another genius formerly at the BBC) about the invisible cloud of data in a city street. "We can’t see how the street is immersed in a twitching, pulsing cloud of data. […] This is a new kind of data, collective and individual, aggregated and discrete, open and…
Radar Roundup: Web
Active URLs (Ned Batchelder): OmniTI have done something clever with their URLS—turned them into active verbs: their testimonials are at URLs like /helps/ning, their jobs page is at /is/hiring, etc. What’s This Fascination with Ad Networks (John Battelle): I had breakfast at ETech with jbat (who runs the Web 2.0 Summit) and got a braindump of his thinking around…
Radar Roundup: Brains
Today's topic is: our brains, understanding how they work, and living with the consequences of that knowledge. Brain Enhancement: Right or Wrong? (NYT): amazing gray areas we're getting into. Is it okay for a scientist to take brain-enhancing drugs? Compare with Wired News's write-up of Quinn Norton's ETech talk on the subject of how new bio technology will make us…
Radar Roundup: UI
Microsoft's Lucid Touch (DanceWithShadows): a semi-transparent device that you interact with by touching the back of the screen. A clever prototype from Microsoft Research, demoed at the recent TechFest. Multitouch Rubiks Cube (The Future is Awesome): cube that displays the colours and you gesture to rotate. Cute. NextWindow (ZDNet): nifty demo from a New Zealand vender of multitouch sensitive…
Radar Roundup: Data Mining and Visualization
Visual Complexity: a proof sheet and index for the visualization projects on the web. cf InfoVis. TextRank Paper (PDF): "In this paper, we introduce TextRank–a graph-based ranking model for text processing, and show how this model can be successfully used in natural language applications." Some detective work suggests it might be (at least part of) the algorithm Google uses…
Radar Roundup: Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence Foo Camp was last weekend and attendees have been writing up their experiences. Adam from Inkling Markets, Matthew Hurst, Andrew Turner, Greg Linden, and Roger Ehrenberg (both days). From the camp (and Kim Rachmeier of Amazon) came the best definition of Collective Intelligence ever: "the network knows what the nodes do not". 6 Influential Datasets That Changed…
Radar Roundup: Bio
(Feedback to the first week was that there were too many links per day and they were too random. This week I'll try keeping it to 3-5 links, themed each day. First up: biotech and personal genomics.) Insurance Fears Lead Many to Shun DNA Tests (NYTimes, reg required): many people not going through doctors to get DNA tested because of…
Radar Roundup
I'm trying a new idea here, a summary of news about Foos and the themes that we're tracking on Radar (It's testament to how well ETech reflects our Radar that so many topics show up there). Hope it gives you some interesting reading. Nathan Eagle's Reality Mining slides on Slideshare. Nathan will be speaking about reality mining at ETech. Adam…
Morning Links
Don't have time for any reflective blogging this morning, but I've been frustrated by all the stories going by that I don't have time to comment on, and wonder if it's worthwhile just to put up a link post every morning, as well as any commentary. Let me know if you think that this kind of link-list post is worthwhile…