Import.io wants to help turn web pages into data — fast Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Websites are often full of good, structured data. It’s just buried in, well, a website. Unless you’re going to manually enter that data into a spreadsheet or learn enough programming to build … http://flip.it/XSjnN Related articles Facebook hires NYU deep learning … Continue reading Import.io wants to help turn web pages into data
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Don’t Listen To Your Customers—Watch Them By: David Zax, fastcompany.com The dating site Zoosk better serves users by analyzing their behavior on the site rather than by listening to what they say. "It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want," Steve Jobs famously said. Jobs was talking about products that… http://flip.it/OcDu8 Related articles … Continue reading Don’t listen to your customers, watch them
The Examined Life of Rachel Kalmar: Data Scientist D.C. Denison, makezine.com Rachel Kalmar will be easy to spot at the Hardware Innovation Workshop next week. She will be the one wearing eleven health monitoring devices: three on each wrist, four on her belt, and one on her upper arm. That elegant alumin… The Examined Life … Continue reading The life of a data scientist
Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding David Meyer, gigaom.com In the development of natural language processing, the semantic web and so on, e-commerce provides a rich breeding ground. Companies such as Amazon and Google always want to find better ways to learn what it is potential customers… Natural language comparison service … Continue reading Natural language shopping
Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out By Laura Hazard Owen, paidcontent.org Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia’s Emily Bell said Thursday. If data journalism … Continue reading The rise of sensor journalism
Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name David Teten, forbes.com This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?”. I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportuni… Build Your Startup On A … Continue reading Domain name prospecting
Udacity and Georgia Tech Introduce Online CS Masters Degree Jon Russell, thenextweb.com Georgia Tech has announced a partnership with Web-learning startup Udacity that sees the two organizations team up to offer its first online master of science degree, which will run as an entirely Internet-based program. The degree … Udacity and Georgia Tech Introduce Online … Continue reading Georgia tech online MOOC MS in CS
In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One Bill Wasik, wired.com We are surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, and even save our lives. http://flip.it/SEIhJ Related articles … Continue reading Programmable world: all things as one–Buddhism meet engineering
7 Ways to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Group Jeff Haden, inc.com OWNER’S MANUAL If this guy can build a thriving group on industrial water treatment (no, really), you can be master of your own niche on LinkedIn. There are almost 2 million LinkedIn Groups, since any of the more than 200 million LinkedIn us… 7 … Continue reading Creating a great LinkedIn group
Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once … Continue reading Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die
Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’. Does checking Twitter during the workday really leave you scatterbrained? Could taking up meditation help you tune out the noise and focus better? Melon… Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental … Continue reading Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus
Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based… Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog http://flip.it/vOkRS http://flip.it/IV8va … Continue reading Postach.io converts your Evernotes to a content management system
Researchers Trace Languages Of Billions Back To One Ancient Ancestor By Colin Lecher, popsci.com At the end of the last ice age, a single language fractured, until it became the languages we speak across Asia and Europe. At least 15,000 years ago, a single language started to break up. It broke into about seven different … Continue reading Super language theory: one ancient ancestor of all language
SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends” Kim-Mai Cutler, techcrunch.com SV Angel, one of the Valley’s best-known early-stage firms, says it’s starting to look heavily at health startups that take a “software-first approach” towards human biology, medical research and patient care. The firm has always had a l… RT @Techmeme: SV … Continue reading SV Angel says health informatics is a mega trend
The Data Doc: Meet the MD who wants to bring custom healthcare to the masses Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Here’s a phrase I’ve never heard during a doctor’s visit: “We need your data, girl!” I was at MDRevolution’s La Jolla, Calif., office about a month ago, sitting in on a consultation as a patient huffed … Continue reading MDRevolution: custom healthcare for the masses
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