In a matter of a few years, tons of drones could be whizzing around residential zones, taking away tiny pieces of privacy people once had. DroneShield is a fresh new concept that alerts of nearby low-flying UAV devices in the area. John Franklin, one of the developers, told the Voice of Russia that 18 countries, including Russia, have already put in orders for the gadget and has been creating buzz ever since.
I don’t pay much attention to mobile anything. I am nosing near 70, and I find life works just fine without checking a mobile device every few minutes.
“Open” is a good example. Open invokes images of free and open source software. As my columns in Online Searcher document, open is usually closed. For software, open is a way to open the door to consulting services.
Open in the Google context is similar. The monetization angle is different. Google has a huge appetite for revenue. The system Google has constructed over the last 13 or so years is an expensive puppy to operate, upgrade, and maintain.
Phi Beta Iota: Google is the Standard Oil or Monsanto equivalent to the world of knowledge. As admirable as their computational mathematics are, they are evil polluters and manipulators of information. Google — like NSA — is not a public service operating in the public interest. It is a monopoly, a predatory monopoly with zero ethics that will eventaully have to be shut out and routed around by alternatives such as the Autonomous Internet.
Uberflip is a new web publishing tool that allows a company to easily create a social hub populated with the most relevant content coming from their main media properties, including blogs, RSS feeds, social media channels, images and videos, presentations and PDF documents.
Uberflip publishing metaphor is the “hub” in which, similarly to Rebelmouse and Pressly you can create multiple channels where you either aggregate or curate theme-specific content.
Among Uberflip unique features there is the ability to import and convert PDF documents into editable flipbooks, an array of widgets that can be added to integrate more functionalities (e.g.: Disqus comments) and a call-to-action feature allowing you to integrate customizable and elegant subscription boxes that directly connect to your newsletter provider (e.g.: Malchimp).
My comment: Compared to Rebelmouse, Pressly, Uberflip is a tough contender. Its key strengths are the elegant and clean output design, which displays excellently also on tablets and smartphones and the breadth of features for curating and collecting content (e.g.: custom collections). Uberflip is also the only tool of this kind that integrates a PDF to flipbook conversion engine, allowing you to integrate any company PDF into one or more collections in a beautiful format to view.
The Basic version, which allows for one hub with multiple channels, one custom collection and one CTA costs $49.95/month. Higher priced versions at 199 and 499/mo allow for using your custom domain, more collections, CTAs and additional features including analytics and other features.
Thad Starner is one of several pioneers who have been personally experimenting with continuous visual input devices, sometime called wearable computing. To most people it looks like he has a screen attached to his eyeball. Starner wore his for years (as has others like Steve Mann, who started doing this earlier). They are living the dream/nightmare of being on the web 24/7, even while walking. So what is it like?
The article How To Do Predictive Analytics with Limited Data from Datameer on Slideshare suggests that Limited Data may replace Big Data in import. The idea of “semi-supervised learning” is presented to handle the difficulties associated with creating predictions based on limited data such as expense and manageability and simply missing key data. The overview states,
“As it turns out, recent research on machine learning techniques has found a way to deal effectively with such situations with a technique called semi-supervised learning. These techniques are often able to leverage the vast amount of related, but unlabeled data to generate accurate models. In this talk, we will give an overview of the most common techniques including co-training regularization. We first explain the principles and underlying assumptions of semi-supervised learning and then show how to implement such methods with Hadoop.”
The presentation summarizes possible approaches to semi-supervised learning and the assumptions it is possible to make about unlabeled data (these include such models as clustering, low density and manifold assumptions). It also covers the concepts of Label Propagation and Nearest Neighbor Join. However, as inviting as it is to forget Big Data, and switch to predictive analytics with Limited Data the suggestion may sound too much like Bayes-Laplace.
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TIMESHEET. Know your team members daily billed hrs for the month. Filter them by account or project you are interested in for billing, invoicing or meeting purpose.
PLAN AND MANAGE. Manage tasks in project, group by user, iteration, completion, work-on, etc. Intuitive & easy to change task dates, dependencies, deadlines, assign to anyone for specific hrs/day
GTRACK. gTrack: Desktop app used to capture work hours. Record screenshots, keyboard activity & update Ganib with progress in Real-Time.
DASHBOARDS. Know your project progress and status: Work done today, this week, this month and all time for all projects in your portfolio.
LISTS ON THE FLY. Automate all your existing paper processes. Create pages to capture any type to share as well as manage.
