apple
Apple kills Google's internal apps, too
Google feels Apple's banhammer a day after Facebook fell before itā¦
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Journalists: update your iOS devices now
Todayās security update for Appleās iOS devices [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/apple-software-vulnerability-ios-patch.html] is a serious one: > One of the worldās most evasive digital arms dealers is believed to have been taking advantage of three security vulnerabilities in popular Apple products in
analytics
This guy analysed what data Buzzfeed is collecting about you - and you won't believe what he found…
Dan Barkerās been poking at the tracking javascript on Buzzfeed, and found some very interesting data being captured from quizzes [http://barker.co.uk/buzzfeediswatching]: > In other words, if I had access to the BuzzFeed Google Analytics data, I could query data for people who got to the
APIs
Flickr, data and the historic built environment
What happens if you mix the geo-data embedded in photos with some data about where our listed buildings are in London? This: > Higher graded buildings were more likely to have photographs taken near them: 88% of Grade Is had at least one photograph falling within 25m of their centre
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Facebook's dirty data
Interesting argument that Facebookās graph search is going to be inherently flawed, because Facebookās data is dirty [http://stevecheney.posterous.com/graph-searchs-false-promise-and-the-con-of-th] : > It turns out as much as half of the links between objects and interests contained in FB are dirtyāi.e. there is no true
DJ Patil: the internet of things will be our superpowers
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/DJ-Patil.jpg] Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners Our world is becoming an instrumented lifecycle. We are becoming the internet of things by surrounding ourselves with sensors, and using that data to get better insights about
app.net. open standards
Aral on identity, privacy and app.net
Liveblog of Aralās talk at Hacks/Hackers Brighton: * * ## [Aral Balkan](http://www.breakingthin.gs)Heās going to talk to us about identity and privacy. Heās an experience designer. He makes things for people ā mainly virtual products, his focus is on the human side of things. [https://i0.
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Google's trust deficit
Mark Wilson, summing up his thoughts [http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2012/07/the-annotated-world-the-future-of-geospatial-technology-edparsons-at-digitalsurrey.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marksweblog+%28markwilson.it%29] on last weekās Digital Surrey Google Maps talk [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/07/digital_surry_
analytics
Sustainably profitable digital publishing - #newsrw
Panel discussion on sustainable business models, chaired byKathryn Corrick, digital media consultant. Lucia Adams, The Times ā When they launched a paywall, people predicted a disaster. But it hasnāt turned out that way, and now all the newspapers are trying to solve the same problem. The big change is the
BIg Data - doing business faster than real-time
McKinsey & Company tell us what āfaster than real timeā actually meansā¦ ** Philipp Nattermann, Partner** [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/mckinsey2.jpg] What is big data and where is it coming from? Every web interaction, transaction, social media posting is creating. 1200 Exobytes of
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Mobile data is growing faster than you think
Astonishing figures from the Three blog [http://blog.three.co.uk/2012/01/09/data-surges-as-new-year%E2%80%99s-eve-celebrations-commence/] : > On the 31st December ā10 we recorded a huge 14TBs (terabytes) of data being used on Three. In 2011, that leapt to a staggering 80TBs of data. In real terms, thatā
data
What Open Data means for Journalists
Greg Hadfield, quoted by Sarah Marshall on journalism.co.uk [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/12/02/how-open-data-has-changed-journalism/] : > An open-data tsunami will mean that more journalism will be about interpreting ā and putting into context ā data that is open to all, at least in its rawest, unrefined form. To