- Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors’ Picks » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Late this afternoon, Google News rolled out a new experiment: Editors’ Picks. Starting today, a small percentage of Google News users will find a new box of content with that label, curated not by Google’s news algorithm, but by real live human news editors at partner news organizations." (google news editors journalism )
- Revolutionary read – Communicate.ae
"Mark Finney, head of client sales at UK publishing house Guardian News and Media (GNM), spoke about “digital revolutions” at the recent Dubai Lynx." (guardian interview business_models )
- Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’
"I didn't plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about "freedom from porn." [...] The electronic debate proceeded from there." Gawker journalist Ryan Tate accidentally gets into an e-mail debate with Steve Jobs. Fascinating stuff. (apple gawker email steve_jobs )
- iPhone App Sales, Exposed
"One of the most commonly asked questions we get from both developers and industry outsiders is: how much money can I make developing apps? It’s a hard question to answer. [So we] asked for sale sdata from 124 developers that market applications ranging in price from 99 cents to $79.99." (apple sales statistics app_store )
- HTML5 Readiness
All HTML5 and CSS3 features mapped against browsers. Shaped like a semicircle, for no very obvious reason. (html5 css3 browsers infographics comparison )
- A Protovis Primer, Part 1 | eagereyes
"Protovis is a very powerful visualization toolkit. Part of what makes it special is that it is written in JavaScript and runs in the browser without the need for any plugins. Its clever use of JavaScript's language features makes it very elegant, but it can also be confusing to people who are not familiar with functional programming concepts and the finer points of JavaScript. This multi-part tutorial shows how to create a visualization (my interactive Presidents Chart) in Protovis, and explains the concepts that are involved along the way." (javascript tutorial tutorials visualisation libraries )
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