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February 2012 Archives

Sunday, 26th February 2012

The Most Tweetable Oscar Moments

Viewers sent 2.05 million tweets about last night's Academy Awards presentation, but non-viewers may surprised to see that the most-tweeted moment had nothing to do with any of the films that had been nominated. Meanwhile, none of the three big awards - best film, best actor and best actress awards - managed to make the top three most tweeted…

Social Dave Copeland comments

Wikileaks Lets Loose "Global Intelligence Files" from Stratfor Emails

Early Monday morning (GMT), Wikileaks started publishing the first of "more than five million emails" from Strafor. The company, a "subscription-based provider of geopolitical analysis" by its own description, is (according to Wikileaks) also a provider of "confidential intelligence services" to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and…

Joe Brockmeier comments

Can OpenGeocoder Fill the Platform Gap Left by Google Maps?

How do machines understand what place you're talking about when you say the name of a city, a street or a neighborhood? With geocoding technology, that's how. Every location-based service available uses a geocoder to translate the name of a place into a location on a map. But there isn't a really good, big, stable, public domain geocoder…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Cartoon: We Are One with the Trunk

There's always the risk when you first step into the world of productivity that you lose yourself — that you spend far more time immersed in productivity books, lectures, podcasts, videos and apps than you do actually being productive. That instead of Getting Things Done, you'll Get Productivity Books Read. I got into productivity kind of…

Play Rob Cottingham comments

The Inquisition, IT & Privacy

If you were hunting for a book most ReadWriteWeb readers would, based on the title, find irrelevant to their pursuits, you could do worse than "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" by Cullen Murphy. But, as Murphy adeptly shows, both information technology and the institutional corruption of privacy would not have assumed…

Reviews Curt Hopkins comments

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