- Awesome: DIY Data Tool Needlebase Now Available to Everyone
If you've been within shouting distance of me over the last month, you've probably heard me singing the praises of Needlebase, a great new point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web. [...] Now it's open and available for all: free for personal use or by subscription for commercial use." (data tool )
- New Statesman – WikiLeaks: the cartoon
Animated news machine Apple Daily summarises Wikileaks' Cablegate. (wikileaks apple_daily humour )
- Chromaroma: the makeover London commuting has been waiting for | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Visualisation, RFID and gameifying your journey to work – Mudlark's latest toy hits all those development sweet spots" (gaming london tube transport )
- Telegraph plans to charge for some digital content | Media | guardian.co.uk
"The Daily Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk publisher is understood to have formed a small executive group to look at a wide range of online revenue models, including charging on different platforms such as tablets and introducing levels of registration for its website." …which could almost certainly be said of any traditional media organisation. (telegraph paywalls business_models )
- I’m Dropping Diaspora, This Site Is Now Closed
Avery Morrow despairs with the attempt to provide an open source version alternative to Facebook: "This blog was dormant for a while because I didn’t want to give Diaspora bad press. [...] Then I read this: Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora [...] What is this ridiculous nonsense?" (facebook open_source language alternatives programming )
- Google Acquisition of Groupon Seems Likely, Say Sources | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
"According to sources close to the situation, Google has offered $5.3 billion for Groupon, in what would be its largest acquisition yet, if completed." (google acquisition groupon )
- Forget Net Neutrality; Comcast Might Break the Web: Tech News «
"The fight that erupted today between Level 3 and Comcast involves an esoteric agreement between two of the Internet’s big players colliding with a series of equally arcane policy arguments, but at its core this fight is about money. Yet what began as a commercial dispute may end up fundamentally changing how the web works and who pays for it." (comcast isps level3 net_neutrality competition regulation )
- Contextify
"At Contextify, we’re building tools that can give you the best context for the news. [...] By analysing millions of articles online, we can find the stories that tell you what’s really happening in the stories you care about." From the fine hands of Bobbie Johnson and friends (journalism tools bobbie_johnson knight_news_challenge )
- Flickr: Kernbeisser’s Photostream
Photos from inside North Korea. (photography north_korea )
- The 15 Biggest Flops In Tech For 2010
"With 2010 about to draw to a close, we're taking a look back at some of the big products and moves in tech that just didn't work out." (failure technology google_wave yahoo palm_pre microsoft aol blackberry twitter google_tv itunes )
- First Look at Aro for iPhone: Can This Semantic Software Replace Your Core Mobile Apps?
"Because of Android's relative openness, Aro is able to completely integrate its PIM solution onto the Android mobile platform. But now, as the company prepares to launch its iPhone version, compromises had to be made. This begs the question: can innovation around core apps even work on iPhone?" (semantic_web android iphone artificial_intelligence app )
- The Centrist Politics of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Daily’ — New York Magazine
"He’s using the opportunity to try to craft a major new editorial voice for the marketplace. In stark contrast to those of Murdoch’s existing American papers, The Daily’s politics will be centrist and pragmatic—Bloobergian, if you prefer—according to people close to the project." (rupert_murdoch ipad newspapers )
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