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I'm a tinkerer with technology, and occasionally strike lucky with it. I co-chair the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and I'm in charge of designing O'Reilly's conference software platform, Expectnation.
I've written a few computer books, most recently "Learning Rails", in collaboration with my old friend and co-conspirator Simon St.Laurent.
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Coca-Cola, for example, decided CES, held this year from Jan. 6-9, was so critical to its future that it moved its annual global marketing meeting out of Atlanta for the first time to Las Vegas so that its execs can pick through technologies and meet with potential partners.
Soon, if not already, they should be making similar time for Strata.
This year I switched to using web applications for managing my projects—I mostly try to follow Getting Things Done. Formerly a user of the excellent Omnifocus, I wanted to go platform agnostic.
Nozbe is an excellent web app for personal project and time management. My favorite feature is that it can be managed via email—essential when so many of my actions are started from email.
With a mobile site, and iPhone, Android and iPad app support, you can take your tasks in your pocket too. For bonus points, Nozbe offers Evernote and Google Calendar integration.
If getting organized is on your New Year list of resolutions, give Nozbe a whirl.
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I so nearly defected away from my Macbook Pro to an Ubuntu netbook, for the battery life and form factor, but this kept me with Apple. Less backache from carrying, great build quality.
It's the hardware that keeps me there, though: practically all the apps I use are web ones, accessed through Google Chrome. So, I'm pretty intrigued by the Chrome netbooks Google are sending out.
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Where the ladies at?
Now you know. This app pulls data from the Foursquare API and calculates which places have a high female-to-male ratio. credit for inspiration goes to the original "where the ladies at" apps
The NOLA Ladies site illustrates perfectly why framing the online data debate as just about privacy is too blunt an approach.
This site shows you where the venues with more women than men are, based on Foursquare checkins. All this data was given up willingly by the participants, but for me it doesn't pass what John Fritz calls the "squirm factor".
This usage of information, though from consenting participants, leaves me very uncomfortable indeed. The question is if the squirm factor can be codified (if it should), and how to deal with the notion that squirminess is a very personal thing.
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So if politicians are using services such as RapLeaf, how exactly are we supposed to count on legislation to help us preserve any kind of privacy online?
GMSV nails it today. Personal details are out there, in increasing volume. It's a side effect of technological progress, which we can't really restrain. What we can possibly do is decide what's acceptable or not, and think about privacy self-defense.
More than ever I wish I had a better grasp of history, to contextualize this in the frame of civilizations over the last few thousand years. I don't know if any answers are there, but perspective might be.
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Incanter can be used as a standalone, interactive data analysis environment or embedded within other analytics systems as a modular suite of libraries.
Exciting! More grist for the Clojure-curious.
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I'm exploring and getting to enjoy very much LinkedIn's follow company feature. What caught my eye today was that it breaks out of the normal tech profile for networking sites, with Keller Williams Realty and L'Oréal popping up in the most-followed charts.
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Incanter is a 
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