Internet of Things Light Painting Wifi (Haunting Video) Above: WiFi signal spills gently into the street from an old Oslo apartment building built in the 1890's. Video below. Wireless communication channels are all around us all the time, but their variable strengths in different places create a textured, invisible part of the urban landscape. A team of Norwegian researchers, arguing that WiFi is "a… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
APIs Searching for Sadness in New York: Is the Foursquare API Living Up to Its Potential? As explained in this blog post, Foursquare needed a way for its business staff to run reports based on its data without slowing down production servers and without learning technologies such as Scala and MongoDB. The company decided to make its data available to business staff through a Hadoop cluster hosted by Amazon Web Services. Foursquare's… Hack Klint Finley View comments
DEMO 2011 Facebook Scam and Spam Protection You learned long ago not to leave your computer unprotected against the elements of the Internet. You would never think of accessing the Internet without anti-virus software (hush, you Mac folks), so why would you leave one of your most important online presences - your Facebook Page - unprotected? Today at DEMO, WebSense launched Defensio 2.0 for… Mike Melanson View comments
DEMO 2011 A Look at DEMO 2011 Funding Over the next two days at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, California, more than 50 companies will take the stage and introduce their product in six minutes flat. It's a format that has become an industry standard, with conferences like TechCrunch 50, TechCrunch Disrupt and LAUNCH following in its footsteps. A continual criticism of DEMO… Mike Melanson View comments
Crowdsourcing Palestine PM Crowdsources Cabinet Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is one of the Mideast leaders who isn't reacting to the social media pointed in his direction with a knee-jerk ban. Instead, he is rolling his Facebook pageout as a platform for crowdsourcing his cabinet. Dr. Fayyad dismissed his old cabinet on February 14, in the wake of the uprisings in Tunisia and… Social Curt Hopkins View comments