- Networks Blocking Google TV — the networks are carrying over their old distribution models: someone aggregates eyeballs and pays them for access. In their world view, Google TV is just another cable company. They’re doubling down on this wholesale model, pulling out of Hulu and generally avoiding dealing with the people who ultimately watch their shows except through ad-filled shows on their corporate sites. (via Gina Trapani)
- Mobile Market Snippets — lots of numbers collected by Luke Wroblewski. After the Verizon iPhone launched in the U.S., Android suffered its first quarterly decline. Apple’s share of the U.S. smartphone market gained 12.3% to 29.5% in the March quarter while Android’s share in the U.S. fell from 52.4% to 49.5% — its first sequential loss in any region of the world since early 2009. The post has lots more like that.
- Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning Tutorial — This tutorial will teach you the main ideas of Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning. By working through it, you will also get to implement several feature learning/deep learning algorithms, get to see them work for yourself, and learn how to apply/adapt these ideas to new problems.
- A Generation of Software Patents — This report examines changes in the patenting behavior of the software industry since the 1990s. It finds that most software firms still do not patent, most software patents are obtained by a few large firms in the software industry or in other industries, and the risk of litigation from software patents continues to increase dramatically. Given these findings, it is hard to conclude that software patents have provided a net social benefit in the software industry.
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Top stories: July 18-22, 2011
Google+ is a social backbone, how to fix the patent mess, and programming well with others.
This week on O'Reilly: We examined the deeper and broader implications of Google+, four solutions to the patent quagmire were offered up, and we learned about the "art of mass organizational manipulation."
Developer Week in Review: Mobile’s embedded irony
Who really profits from Android sales? And does the world need another source control system?
Microsoft profits from Google's toils, why you shouldn't put older developers out to pasture, and a new source control system enters the fray.
Developer Week in Review: Mobile's embedded irony
Who really profits from Android sales? And does the world need another source control system?
Microsoft profits from Google's toils, why you shouldn't put older developers out to pasture, and a new source control system enters the fray.
Intellectual property gone mad
Sweeping patent changes aren't likely, but small solutions may curb patent trolls.
Patent trolling could undermine app ecosystems, but who can mount a legitimate challenge? Here's four potential solutions.
Developer Week in Review: Christmas in July for Apache
Apache adds to their donated portfolio and your travel-patent guide to East Texas.
In the latest Developer Week in Review: Apache gets a gift of code from IBM, and a handy patent / travel guide for your next trip to East Texas.
Four short links: 28 June 2011
Mediasaurus Dix, Mobile Numbers, Machine Learning, and Software Patents
Developer Week in Review: Start your lawyers!
If the lawsuit fits, the Kinect SDK for Windows arrives, and IPv6 day fails to excite.
The legal community continued to feed off IP disputes among software giants, Microsoft brings the Kinect SDK to Windows, and the web switches IPv6 on for a day, but did anyone notice?
Developer Week in Review: The other shoe drops on iOS developers
iPhone devs may need lawyers, Apache gets a new project, and Java programmers abuse a pattern
If you were an iOS developer, you may have gotten to meet a process server in person this week, as Lodsys doles out the first batch of lawsuits. Oracle gave Apache the keys to OpenOffice, and told them to take it out for a spin, and your faithful editor vents about a commonly overused Java pattern.
Developer Week in Review: Apple devs cry “gimme shelter”
Apple protects their developers, Oracle earns a few bucks, and Sony has a bad week
If you were an Apple developer, it was a good week. If you were a Sony executive, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. If you were Oracle, it was business as usual.
Developer Week in Review: Apple devs cry "gimme shelter"
Apple protects their developers, Oracle earns a few bucks, and Sony has a bad week
If you were an Apple developer, it was a good week. If you were a Sony executive, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. If you were Oracle, it was business as usual.