How The Patent System Is Rigged To Only Expand What's Patentable - When the numbers came out showing that 2011 represented yet another record year for patents granted, it was such a non-surprise that I didn't even bother m...

New Banking Hack Live Chats as It Steals [Security] - [image: Click here to read New Banking Hack Live Chats as It Steals] Recent attempts to separate a user from his banking credentials have employed some h...

Backyard Brains at TED2012 - Neuroscience kits for high school students - [Video Link] Here at TED2012 Gregory Gage of Backyard Brains showed me how to measure the electrical activity of a neuron in a cockroach leg. At around the...

Moore's Law leaves mobile networks ripe for attack - Corrupt telcos also to blame *RSA 2012* The GSM mobile standard is wide open for attack, experts have warned, thanks in part to the increasing amount of c...

Feature: How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business - A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red H...

iPad 3 Rumor Roundup - [image: ipad_rumors]Unless Apple is conning the world, the iPad 3 should be announced next week. It, like its forbears, is the subject of many a rumor, som...

Why Windows 8 is Microsoft’s most vital launch in years - Years have gone by since Microsoft launched a version of Windows that made the general public stand up and take notice. On Wednesday, the company will allo...

eCommerce in India – Part 8 - Hundreds of millions of dollars have flown into the sector over the past couple years at valuations that were very attractive to the entrepreneurs. The tal...

eCommerce in India – Part 8 - Hundreds of millions of dollars have flown into the sector over the past couple years at valuations that were very attractive to the entrepreneurs. The tal...

IBM's Quantum Computers Could Change The World (Mostly In Very Good Ways) - 101010: That's the number 42 represented in binary, which is the mathematical way today's binary computers see every single piece of information flowing ...

My Doctoral Journey – Part 4 - I really appreciate the support from my friends and family for my decision 17 months ago to begin the doctoral journey. I promised periodic updates and tha...

[2b2k] Moi - EconTalk has posted an hour interview with me by Russ Roberts about some of the topics in Too Big to Know that don’t come up so often.

Open Data Challenges - I have been visiting the World Bank the past days to discuss various open data projects, e.g. in Kenya, Moldova and Tunisia. During one of the meetings, a...

Ireland, Twitter, Oscars, Buildings, More: Morning Buzz, February 26, 2012 - Nifty. Virtual tours inside corporate art collections. Marcel Breuer is getting a digital archive. It launches March 23rd. “The website (breuer.syr.edu) re...

Definition: Social media - I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. *Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share ...

Let’s use the ‘No Track’ button we already have - (Cross-posted from the ProjectVRM blog.) For as long as we’ve had economies, demand and supply have been attracted to each other like a pair of magnets. Id...

Disrupting Cloud; privacy gaffes; UK M-payments collaboration, M-termination rates; & LightScrewed? - Telco 2.0 News Review - - *M-Commerce 2.0*: UK m-payments moves closer, M-PESA wins again - *Cloud Computing*: Can telcos "disrupt enterprise cloud"? Plus CDN roundup...

Euan and the “thingification” of social media - I couldn’t agree more. Original post here.

Text messaging timeline - Timeline How 160 characters changed the way we communicate 19 years ago … by Mark O’Neill It’s hard to believe but it has been just over 19 years since the...

The Social Content Quiet Giant - SlideShare Infographic: The Quiet Giant of Content Marketing View more documents from SlideShare Pro

Some Thoughts on Address Book Privacy and Hashing as an Alternative to Gathering Raw Email Addresses - If you hang around technology blogs and news sites, you may have seen the recent dust up after it was discovered that many iOS apps upload user address b...

Festival of Learning 2012 - Over the weekend, I participated in the Festival of Learning at the Media Lab. It was a student organized event in the spirit of the MIT Independant Activiti...

LinkedIn engineering’s client-side template evaluation - LinkedIn shares their evaluation process for choosing a client-side templating solution from 18 different options across 15 formal metrics.

Taking passwords seriously - I used to use the same password everywhere. In 1993, I crashed a Clinton inauguration party at a restaurant in DC, and for years my password was a deriva...

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early... - *The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media* In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books...

Not bloging, identities and Happy New Year :) - I go to Nancy’s blog to look for the Pear & Cranberry Chutney recipe to cook for tomorrow and then remember that I have a blog too and that it had been sil...

Oakland Thanksgiving 2 - [image: ebaldc_sphotel_thxgiving_010][image: ebaldc_sphotel_thxgiving_007][image: Leaf Crowns][image: Happy Thanksgiving!!][image: Mindful Pose][image: me ...

How to Optimize Your Web Blog with Basic Techniques - The initial elements you can apply to build visitors are to adopt benefit of each of the content material you’ve created in your web blog. It is possible t...

Library-related Kindle Screensavers - Note: Be sure to read Frank Skornia’s comment below about the consequences of jailbreaking your Kindle. I finally took some time to personalize the screens...

Fring interop had to violate Skype’s license. Here’s why. - I’ll try to wrap up a few of our season’s stories as we end Summer 2010, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. First up, Fring. This July Skype talk...

Whois Heiko Hebig? - In case you have no idea how to contact me... Can I follow Heiko Hebig on Twitter? Can I poke Heiko Hebig on Facebook? Can I contact Heiko Hebig on Xing? Doe...

the eric update - day 2119: zen and the art of bicycle maintenance. - in preparation for the snowdeal rummage and bake sale that odin had orgnaized to pay for the remaining portion of a fancy new bike he's been saving u...

last.fm - people who burn hundreds or even thousands of dollars on itunes are retards. why would you pay 1.99 (and up) per song to "own it", for severely limited def...

Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America" - It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically chang...

John Chambers on Socializing Cisco... And Himself - Adam Bryant interviewed John Chambers recently, and the talk showed how important it is for leaders to adopt new tools if the company is going to move ahea...

Great Kids Afternoon Project: Claymation! - I had a great Sunday afternoon with my kids today. We combined three of my favorite activities together to do something unique, fun, and easy-to-do - we used...

IP Convergence TV Update - Wanted to share with you the latest updates to the IP Convergence TVportal, for which I serve as Editor. This will be the last update for 2008, and there'...

A Better Customer Service Connection -

Lighting a fire for public radio in Santa Barbara - *Where are you going to go for live information when a life-threatening wildfire bears down on your town?* That was the question on the table over dinne...

Apple and Bebo together - Big consumer brands like Apple are understanding the big potential of social networks. Yesterday Apple made and agreement with Bebo in order to *sell conte...

T-Mobile and 3, slightly advantaged by the European iPhone - Both companies are considered to match the iPhone customers' way of life.

the smell of schadenfreude was thick in the air. - Paris Ordered to Serve 45 Days in Jail. what are the odds that she'll emerge from prison with a ghostwritten book manuscript in hand that will be turned in...

Zombie Seb gets Lemeurized - I gave an interview to Loïc Le Meur right after Webcom Montreal. I know it had been a long day, but still it doesn't explain why my eyeballs are largely mi...

Launch: searchmash, an experimental site started by Google - Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features.

ePrairie: University of Illinois at Chicago Bioinformatics Program a 'Well-Kept Secret' - [image: find related articles. powered by google.] *ePrairie* University of Illinois at Chicago Bioinformatics Program a 'Well-Kept Secret' "The Univer...

Five-Digit Blog Spam - I've gotten a few of these curious spam comments recently. They're fairly reasonable-looking, from a proxy IP (the ones I looked at have been associated w...

Analysis | The Road to Managed Code - On June 6, Microsoft posted security bulletin MS02-026, titled "Unchecked Buffer in ASP .Net Worker Process." Tongues immediately began to wag. Wasn't .Ne...

Steven Ballmer's Thoughts About Microsoft - Steven Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, recently talked with BusinessWeek. In *this column*, he expressed his thoughts on a wide range of topics. Here are my fav...