Tom & I recorded this cover yesterday in the living room. Dan Auerbach rocks. Check it out on youtube
Apple Knows Where You Are and Tells Others
Privacy matters.
As you know, I love apple products, but according to apple’s new privacy policy, this is very facebooky…
“To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services.”
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/06/21/21venturebeat-apple-already-knows-where-you-are-all-the-ti-31273.html
Disruptive Thinking @ Singularity University
“Singularity University (SU) is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, SU hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. SU is based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.”
Very cool indeed – check it out here: http://singularityu.org/
BP Spill Infographics
Typically the nytimes.com has the best, timely infographics – but the Wall Street Journal easily topped them with great, clear infographics aof the BP spill and the complete mess from the Deepwater Horizon Rig. Short BP stock.
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
Matt McKeon a developer with the Visual Communication Lab at IBM Research’sCenter for Social Software has this interesting post:
“The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population sizes are statistics from Google, the Facebook Data Team, and wild guesses based on what seemed reasonable to me.”
Steve Jobs on Flash
Nice description of why no Flash on iPhone/Pad by Steve Jobs
“Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.”
Department of Defense Power Point Graphic – WOW!
Look at this simply AWFUL graphic, from a NY Times article on Powerpoint – “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter.
Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=me&ref=general
Powerpoint, oh how I hate thee…
My question is, “Why is Over Government Capacity” to the left and above “Infrastructure Services & Economy”? What does that really mean?
Calculus
Great, simple overview of Calculus by Steven Strogatz on nytimes.com.
“Calculus is the mathematics of change. It describes everything from the spread of epidemics to the zigs and zags of a well-thrown curveball. The subject is gargantuan — and so are its textbooks. Many exceed 1,000 pages and work nicely as doorstops.
But within that bulk you’ll find two ideas shining through. All the rest, as Rabbi Hillel said of the Golden Rule, is just commentary. Those two ideas are the “derivative” and the “integral.” Each dominates its own half of the subject, named in their honor as differential and integral calculus.”
Read it here, honest, it’s way better than my last calculus class…
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/change-we-can-believe-in/
iPad + ABC
My favorite guy in the brown truck delivered my iPad this morning and we have been impressed so far. The ABC application works great!
Check it out here: http://abc.go.com/site/abc-player-for-ipad
or just download it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abc-player/id364191819?mt=8
and of course, you will want to see what is on the inside, so check that out here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-13579_3-10003019.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20