Good reads in tech, Nov 6th 2012
Recent good reads from around the Web concerning online voting, AI applications in education; the semantics of how Twitter labels things; and interviewing for analytic thinking.
Why you’re wrong about which Avenger is the greatest
The most influential of all the Avengers is a character who makes no on-screen appearance, yet commands the respect of the most dominant among our heroes.
Apache ZooKeeper: Part 2: Introducing ZooKeeper-rw, a command-line interface
In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed how we are using ZooKeeper to handle distributed applications. ZooKeeper is used to store application configuration, application state and handle workflows using queues. Here I’ll present how we accomplish...
Think your passwords are secure? Think again! (Part 3)
No matter how good a password is, it provides little to no security if it is not stored and managed properly. Unfortunately, many online services have heinously-poor security practices. But that does not mean yours has to. This week wraps …
Think your passwords are secure? Think again! (Part 2)
Following on from last week’s post, today we will look at how to make better passwords, how to manage them and how to detect potentially insecure Web sites before giving them a password. If you missed the previous post, you …
Think your passwords are secure? Think again!
What used to be considered a secure password is far from it now. See why and how to improve the situation for yourself, your products and your business.
Showing why bloggers need to know (more than just) a little about semantics
Did you know that the reading level at which you write your blog post (say, 6th grade level versus 11th grade level) can have a lot to do with how much the post is shared on social media?
The Twitter IPA: Let’s get real
I admire Twitter for adopting their new IPA (Intellectual Property Agreement) promising their employees to use patents only for, well...noble causes. I really do admire this move. It's just that it won't work.
What was the score 7 years ago? A tech retrospective
Federated Media recently celebrated its 7-year anniversary and, in honor of that, I invite you to look back with me at the world of tech then versus now. A good place to start is CES. CNET’s “Best of Show” awards …
Conversation Targeting Put Before Experts
Yesterday I presented some facts about Conversation Targeting at the Semantic Technology and Business conference -- a crowd of experts in semantic technology and applications. We had a real breakthrough to talk about, with the stats to back it up.
HTML5 vs mobile app: Old debate, new platform
Today, Digiday featured an article about the ongoing debate of apps vs. mobile Web. It is not a new issue on the mobile platform and, one could argue, not even a new issue in the tech world. Native apps for …
Tech Take-Aways from the 2012 CM Summit
While oriented primarily to marketers, much of this year's Conversational Marketing Summit was about the intersection of marketing and technology on the Web. Here are a couple of powerful themes that emerged during the jam-packed 2-day event.
Open source announcement for cronviz: a tool to visualize your cron jobs
I’m pleased to announce Federated Media Publishing’s first open-source contribution. cronviz: Visualize your cron jobs. It’s 3 AM. Do you know where your cron jobs are? Use case You have a problem: something’s causing performance...
Automatically generating Web page scraper templates
Most Web developers are aware of tools that scrape data from Web pages, including from Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s), but such tools usually have a big drawback: they require you to painstakingly model the page structure of each target...
The art of building AI-powered applications (Part 2)
What's the difference between a gourmet chef and an engineer who tries to cook something for dinner? What's the difference between a Jack-of-all-trades and an AI expert? Read on...
