We have some interesting stories for today. First, from The National Museum of Computing, we get the “Lorenz” story. It is a bit of historical computing that many people tend to forget about. At Overtone Recipes, we get a way to recreate Daft Punk’s Da Funk. I know it is a bit different than my… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2016 #1080
Google starts our day by announcing a new design for Google+. The focus is on the more community related items and not a general social network. I think it makes sense based on what I have seen in the past few years. On Google Cloud Platform we now get custom machine types, which is a… Read More Geek Reading November 19, 2015
Today we start with Google’s new logo. If you have not seen it yet, you clearly did not use the internet yesterday. Seriously, everyone reported on this. On the startup side, we have an excellent article from Jeromy Sonne about product activation and retention being the key to revenue growth. Lastly, as much of a… Read More Geek Reading September 2, 2015
By now you have heard that Google is now a subsidiary of Alphabet. If you have not heard this yet, you clearly have been disconnected from all forms of media. This news has been covered, re-covered, analyzed and re-analyzed several times over. In other news, Google research talks about how they have improved transcription in… Read More Geek Reading August 12, 2015
Some more unpleasantness leading off today as VentureBeat reports on the DDoS attack on GitHub continuing and evolving. Also from VentureBeat, Google has started morphing some of Google+ as photos and videos are now available in Google Drive. By itself, this is not a big thing, but we know that Google has not been thrilled… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2015
Leading us off is a joint venture between two behemoths. Google and Microsoft are working together regarding Angular2 and TypeScript. Seth Godin gives us something interesting to think about in his post regarding the asymmetry of decay. Northwestern University brings us another interesting topic, where they found that creative genius is driven by distraction. As… Read More Geek Reading March 6, 2015
This past week, both Google and Facebook made more announcements regarding their ecosystems. Google is slowly integrating Google+ into everything, this time adding features into GMail and Contacts. For GMail, you can now share photos directly from within a message. Contacts are now showing your Google+ circles as additional groups. Facebook launched a new subscribe… Read More Plus Or Like, Choose Your Sharing Weapon
So, Google+ is now open to everyone and it is growing like a weed. Facebook has gone and changed everything again. Some say it is in response to the circles in Google+, others say it is to make it more Twitter-like. People seem to be missing the point of all of these changes from Google+… Read More Facebook And Google Battle For Advertising
This is a guest post from Blake Sanders. Cloud computing allows companies to save money by hosting applications in a virtual “cloud” so that they can be accessed from anywhere. When this technology is coupled with unlimited mobile broadband access, business and employees are able to work seamlessly from almost any location without purchasing additional equipment.… Read More The Cloud Computing Takeover
This is a guest post from Shannon Wagner. There, I said it. Client-facing server software is obsolete. That means we don’t need it anymore, shouldn’t be writing it anymore, and should as quickly as possible replace any of it which is currently “in the wild” with more proper and appropriate stuff. Like… “client-facing client software”.… Read More Client-Facing Server Software is Obsolete
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