Benedict Evans leads our day with an excellent post about the end of a mobile wave. Basically, we are getting to a mobile saturation point, so growth likely needs to come from someplace other than devices. XKCD gives us some funny with their comic “Message in a Bottle”. As usual, the image hover text is… Read More Geek Reading May 4, 2016 #1098
Today we lead off with the start of a fascinating story on Krebs on Security, where he details his tracking of a skimmer gang in Mexico. On Application Security, they give us an example of CSRF against search in Lucene. Flowing Data shows us the new “exploration” features of Google Sheets. This is actually quite interesting for… Read More Geek Reading September 15, 2015
Mozilla brings us a cool memory scanner to improve server security. Anything that can make security easier is a top story. Another person that you should always read when he writes is AJ Kohn. On his blog, Blind Five Year Old, he talks about aggregating intent. Granted, his posts are billed as SEO most of… Read More Geek Reading March 16, 2015
With social media, big data has come to the forefront of technology. Whether you want to continuously search Twitter, aggregate the social activity on several sites, or do some mining of people’s activity on Facebook, handling big data is critical. There are two questions you need to answer when looking at a project that will… Read More A Simple Introduction To Playing With Big Data
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