All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook

Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com No more caring about minutes. Free phone calls over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G! Face­book just let loose with a new update to the Mes­sen­ger app for iPhone, which until now was restrict­ed to text mes­sag­ing, sort of like … Continue reading All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with. Google is ridicu­lous­ly pow­er­ful. The ser­vice isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j… RT … Continue reading Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level

(via Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level | Digital Trends) Related articles From The Pebble Smartwatch To Google Glass: Gauging The New Mobile Market For Wearable Devices (businessinsider.com) Gibson meets Glass: Cyberpunk creator dons Google's wearable (slashgear.com) 3 Ways To Make Wearable Tech Actually Wearable (fastcodesign.com) OK, cupid: … Continue reading Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level

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Why big data is about mining real world behavior

By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. RT @nytimesbits: Big Data: Rise of the Machines http://flip.it/X0O7J http://flip.it/82cR0 Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise … Continue reading Why big data is about mining real world behavior

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Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

  Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion… Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics … Continue reading Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

NRA hides under the social media covers

National Rifle Association disappears from Facebook and stops tweeting in wake of school shooting By T.C. Sottek, theverge.com The Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) — the largest gun rights advo­ca­cy group and one of the pre­vail­ing lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tions in the Unit­ed States — has pulled back from its social media pres­ence fol­low­ing the New­town, Con­necti­… RT … Continue reading NRA hides under the social media covers

Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The … Continue reading Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”

Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat The Editors, betabeat.com Just don’t call them dis­rupters. By 11/14 11:30am Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twit­ter and Square, recent­ly tried to dis­abuse the tech indus­try of its infat­u­a­tion with the word ‘disruption.’ “We don’t want ‘disruption,’ where we just move… Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat http://flip.it/WgfQz http://flip.it/bz0ghContinue reading Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”

Expereal will visualize and analyze your life in real time

Expereal: iPhone app to rate/analyze your life via data visualization Jonathan Cohen, boingboing.net Expe­re­al is a free iPhone app devel­oped to help peo­ple bet­ter under­stand them­selves, to feel even more con­nect­ed to the world, and to, hope­ful­ly, make more informed deci­sions about their lives. The mar­ket­place has social media… RT @BoingBoing: Expereal: iPhone app to … Continue reading Expereal will visualize and analyze your life in real time

How information science empowered Obama’s reelection

When the Nerds Go Marching In James Fallows, theatlantic.com How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama’s reelection The Obama cam­paign’s tech­nol­o­gists were tense and tired. It was game day and every­thing was going wrong. Josh Thay­er… When the Nerds Go Marching In - Alexis … Continue reading How information science empowered Obama’s reelection

Christie flip flops after hurricane Sandy

Chris Christie listened to Rupert Murdoch’s warning, re-backed Romney - Salon.com By David Daley, salon.com After the Fox News chief threatened the governor on Twitter, the two men quickly talked, and Christie got on board Rupert Mur­doch’s warn­ing tweet — telling Chris Christie in the midst of Hur­ri­cane Sandy cleanup that the New Jer­sey gov­er­no… … Continue reading Christie flip flops after hurricane Sandy

LinkedIn and identity theft

Identity fraud more common among LinkedIn users - Salon.com By Natasha Lennard, salon.com The personal information openly shared on social media sites is a goldmine for fraudsters The pro­lif­er­a­tion of per­son­al infor­ma­tion shared via social media cor­re­lates with a sig­nif­i­cant spike in instances of iden­ti­ty fraud. In 201… RT @Salon: “A goldmine for fraudsters”: Identity … Continue reading LinkedIn and identity theft

Cory Booker goes on food stamps to show us what food insecurity feels like

Cory Booker goes on food stamps - Salon.com By Mary Elizabeth Williams, salon.com The Newark mayor goes on a food-stamp diet to show us what poverty tastes like Cory Book­er is a rare and unique brand of politi­cian. Cory Book­er is a human being. Since tak­ing office in 2006, the mayor of Newark has made … Continue reading Cory Booker goes on food stamps to show us what food insecurity feels like