Breaking Flipboard Adds Google Reader, Flickr and More [UPDATED] It has only been a couple of weeks since its last major update, but today Flipboard, the social magazine for iPad, has released yet another new version of its app into the iTunes App Store. This time around, Flipboard has added support for Google Reader and Flickr, among other improvements, including navigational changes and better content… Sarah Perez View comments
Tips Are You a Computer Science Student? Want To Be a Data Scientist? Then Check This Out The Data Sciences Summer Institute is a six week summer program for students interested in data science. It will be held at the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and include: a class on the mathematical foundations of data science, advanced tutorials, expert speakers and collaborative research projects. Why go? Well, data… Hack Klint Finley View comments
Analysis Ebay: SMBs Are Optimistic About the Holidays, New Year and Mobile Commerce Small and medium-sized businesses that sell online are expecting the remainder of this holiday shopping season to be strong, generally have an optimistic view of how their businesses will do in the near future, and consider mobile commerce an important part of that future. This is according to Ebay's Online Business Index survey, which was… John Paul Titlow View comments
News Add NoSQL Capabilities to MySQL With the HandlerSocket Plugin Do you want to get the performance of a NoSQL database, but need to use MySQL (or the MySQL fork Percona Server)? DeNA developer Akira Higuchis's HandlerSocket plugin adds NoSQL functionality to MySQL for handling tasks such as primary key lookups without caching. HandlerSocket runs as a daemon within MySQL mysqld process to simple CRUD… Klint Finley View comments
News Jive Releases SDK For Forthcoming Apps Market Jive announced the availability of its Jive Apps SDK beta today at its Social Business Developer Summit at its Palo Alto headquarters. Developers will be able to build applications for the Jive Apps Market, opening in early 2011, to Jive's 15 million users at 3,000 organizations. The SDK is free and open source and based on open standards such… Hack Klint Finley View comments