Analysis Access, Aggregation, and Other Big Data Challenges for Startups In some ways, the term "big data" belies the challenges that startups face in tackling the subject. That adjective "big" tends to get a lot of the attention, often at the expense of the noun "data." In other words, we spend a lot of time talking about issues of the quantity of data and less time addressing issues of quality. Some of those issues… Audrey Watters View comments
Apple The iPad Turns One: My Top 10 iPad Apps On April 3, 2010, Apple officially launched its much anticipated tablet: the iPad. It was the most hyped tech product of the year, but for many of us the hype turned out to be justified. My own Web browsing habits were immediately changed by the iPad. Indeed, I'm writing a whole series currently about how the iPad and other non-PC devices are… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Tools PhantomJS: The Power of WebKit but Without the Broswer PhantomJS gives you command-line access to the features of WebKit. According to its website: "Literally it acts like any other WebKit-based web browser, except that nothing gets displayed to the screen (thus, the term headless)." It has native support for DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, SVG, and JavaScript. You can use to test… Hack Klint Finley View comments
Location Is Publicly Sharing Your Location Creepy? This App Thinks So You might want to file this under the "perhaps this was obvious, but we needed another app to show us" category, but if you check in, Tweet your location and otherwise publicly broadcast your GPS coordinates for all the world to see on the Internet, other people can see where you are. Creepy is a desktop app for Windows and Linux and it's a… Mobile Mike Melanson View comments
Analysis The iPad App That Went Too Far: Media Says Cease & Desist to Personalized Magazine Zite Aggregation and curation are seductive arts - they feel like they're within anyone's reach, they seem limited only by imagination and discerning taste and they can create a magical experience for audiences. The web is filled with people who think they can create new aggregation services that people will love - and in many cases those people are… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments