November 2011
8 posts
April 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
3 posts
“Bernbach on creativity:
“I think the most important thing in advertising is...”
– THE IDEA WRITERS (via tigs)
October 2010
1 post
May 2010
6 posts
““‘We don’t start with a blank slate,’ he said. ‘In fact, what we do in our...”
– Can Traditional Composing Become Obsolete? - PSFK (via tigs)
Google Prediction API →
guillee:
The Prediction API enables access to Google’s machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications. The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in...
BigQuery →
guillee:
BigQuery is a web service that enables you to do interactive analysis of massively large datasets. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery lets developers and businesses tap into powerful data analytics on demand.
Google Latitude API →
guillee:
The Google Latitude API allows for websites and programs to integrate with Google Latitude, enabling users to update and read their current location, their location history, and more!
“Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
The past always tries to...”
– Mick Jagger & why copyright doesn’t always help artists | eaves.ca (via tigs)
Openbook →
heyitsnoah:
While it feels like everyone in the world is talking about the whole Facebook privacy thing, my quick and informal survey of some non-internety folks came back with a bunch of blank stares.
Anyway, Openbook does a better job explaining what’s up than just about anything I’ve seen. Do a quick search for anything you imagine people wouldn’t want made public about themselves and it...
April 2010
4 posts
Watchtigs:
http://ow.ly/1Bs7t
March 2010
1 post
December 2009
3 posts
Science and Economics →
heyitsnoah:
The FT had a great article last week on all the different ways economists try to use scientific principles to understand their world. It’s chock full of interesting insights.
Early in the article they explain that while all these banks were diversifying, they were all diversifying in the same way, something we know all understand. What was especially interesting, though, was that...
Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut →
tigs:
merlin:
inky:
In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must...
November 2009
3 posts
October 2009
6 posts
“One day Larry and Sergey bought Android, and I didn’t even notice. Think about...”
– Eric Schmidt explains how things really work at Google.
Well, This Explains So Much About Google - Eric Schmidt - Gizmodo (via heyitsnoah)
“One day Larry and Sergey bought Android, and I didn’t even notice. Think about...”
– Eric Schmidt explains how things really work at Google.
Well, This Explains So Much About Google - Eric Schmidt - Gizmodo (via heyitsnoah)
“The Ofcom report found that 32 per cent of 12- to 15-year-olds believed that...”
– Two paragraphs later is the other shoe, “More teenagers – 37 per cent – believe, correctly, that the search results are ranked on usefulness and relevance, while a small but cynical minority thought that the websites paid to be at the top of the list.”
Google ‘ranks websites by how true they...
“The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on...”
– Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK | Media | The Guardian
One important thing to note about this fact: Of that number 60 percent is search and 22 percent is classified. That means the web has taken over the market once reserved for the newspaper industry,...
September 2009
9 posts
“There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.”
– Ken Venturi (via simko)
The Internet Manifesto: How journalism works... →
cyan1975:
This Internet Manifesto was published and signed by a small, neat group of German journalists and bloggers (full text here):
1. The Internet is different.
2. The Internet is a pocket-sized media empire.
3. The Internet is our society is the Internet.
4. The freedom of the Internet is inviolable.
5. The Internet is the victory of information.
6. The Internet improves journalism.
...
August 2009
19 posts
