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WatchWatch
Mind-controlled videogames become reality via kurzweilai NeuroSky Inc. and Emotiv Systems Inc. are among the companies vying to emerge in the brain-wave market using electroencephalograph, or EEG, technology. Uses include concentrating and relaxing, improving mental health, and games: London-based MyndPlay Ltd. is using NeuroSky chips inside its own headset to enable viewers to control the...
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Don't Be an Idiot
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook and former Googler, had a great speech to the graduating class at Harvard this past week (you can watch the video here).  One of my favorite parts of the speech was where she intoned the advice given to her by Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt: ‘Don’t be an idiot’ - I love it when CEO’s know exactly what to say to employees!...
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What Happened To The Hype About Hyperlocal?
Two things today made me assess the small progress made in hyperlocal journalism to date, and to reconsider the direction we might be headed in. First, I saw a tweet go by pointing to a WSJ story: Keach Hagey, For AOL, a Costly Gamble On Local News Draws Trouble Mr. Armstrong, has held his ground in defending Patch, which he co-founded in 2007 before he joined AOL, but he recently promised...
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Brands are Finally Starting to Get It
For me Monday’s = me building reports for about 10 straight hours, with that in mind it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Pandora (sorry no link, if you don’t know what it is please stop reading this right now and never come back) has become one of my closest friends each Monday.  And with all of the psychic’ish songs, I’m used to having to listen to the obligatory...
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Leap Motion, a San Francisco startup has created a device (“the Leap”) that lets you control your computer just my moving your fingers over it, as if you were using a touchscreen in the air. Leap Motion is now taking pre-orders for the $69.99 device but won’t begin shipping it until the end of this year or early 2013. The company is also opening up its developer ecosystem to give software...
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Quoted on a Google GDrive Story
With Google constantly attempting to ‘drive’ enterprise customers away from Microsoft, the Google Drive service could essentially replace a vital feature that Windows Enterprise clients use on a daily basis: shared hard drives. Google Apps already is offering a more robust and customizable feature set for small to medium sized companies in terms of email, it makes perfect sense that they are...
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Just Quoted by ReadWriteWeb on Facebook's...
“This was an obvious power play by Zuckerberg; the pre-IPO timing is no coincidence,” said Jordan Hudgens of software design firm MCW Services. “With all the commentary surrounding the reasons why Facebook has taken so long to go public, the number one factor for the delay has always been Zuckerberg’s reluctance to give up control. It’s clear that he is not...
Apr 20th
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Interview on Microsoft SQL 2012
I was just interviewed by Alan Earls of TechTarget, the quotes are below: Another enthusiast is Jordan Hudgens, senior software engineer at MCW Services in Midland, Texas, which specializes in creating software applications for the oil field industry.  His company has a heterogeneous database environment, including Microsoft SQL 2008 for its .NET applications and MySQL for PHP. They are using...
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March 2012
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The Top 5 Sites Visited While Watching TV
In Nielsen’s U.S. Digital Consumer Report, we were given a glimpse of the extent consumers are connected while watching TV. The world’s greatest attention magnet now meets the world’s coolest digital water cooler.What’s clear is that connected consumers are also seasoned multi-taskers. When asked what they’re doing on their devices while watching TV, the top 3 activities included: 1. Checked...
Mar 16th
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Report: 51% of web site traffic is 'non-human' and...
Incapsula, a provider of cloud-based security for web sites, released a study today showing that 51% of web site traffic is automated software programs, and the majority is potentially damaging, — automated exploits from hackers, spies, scrapers, and spammers. The company says that typically, only 49% of a web site’s visitors are actual humans and that the non-human traffic is mostly invisible...
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