A few folks have asked me what I think of the news yesterday that Opera is moving away from their own technology stack to build on top of WebKit going forward.
From Opera’s perspective as a business, I think they probably had to do this.
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KOMO News Digital pickpockets using technology to steal credit cards KOMO News SEATTLE -- Convenience and speed are reasons businesses often used to encourage early adoption of a technology intended to improve our lives, especially when it comes to...
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The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane set out Wednesday on the record-breaking second leg of its solar-powered trip across America, from...
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This is an invention I would love to see go on to bigger and better planes. This would blow the reason for high cost of fuel as the way to hike prices on everything on the plane as well as the flight. Delete the scoop?
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[...] The first three metrics refer to “the number of articles produced … during a given time period, an average length of an article [and] the importance of coverage from the news source.” These favor large publishers, but they select for originality and focus as well.
Google is actually “counting the number of original sentences” [...] The “breaking news score” is a metric of how quickly a publisher jumps on a story. [...] The next three factors, usage patterns, human opinion and circulation statistics, are different ways of assessing popularity.
[...] In a further nod to “legacy media,” metrics eight and nine measure the number of individual bylines associated with a news source as well as the number of news bureaus. Unclear how much this will affect head counts at large publishers. What do you think?
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Did you ever wonder how Google decides who to put at the top of the list? Here is a bit of insight about that. 
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April 23, 11:54 AM
These conclusions are more straightforward thant the original Monday Note on the topic which concluded : "A closer look at Google’s patent for its news retrieval algorithm reveals a greater than expected emphasis on quality over quantity." direct link to the February 24 Monday Note on this topic by Frederic Filloux from Les Echos http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/02/24/google-news-the-secret-sauce/
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Why Google will crush Nielsen
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The web user is the most watched consumer ever. For tracking purposes, every large site drops literally dozens of cookies in the visitor's browser.
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We are providing our data and input for free and it is worth billions in certain hands. We also so far have very little to no power over how that data is used and do not have an easy way if any way to take it back or say no.
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" The Wall Street Journal found that each of the 50 largest websites in the United Sates, weighing 40% of the US page views, installed an average of 64 files on a user device. (See the WSJ's What They Know series and a Monday Note about tracking issues.) As for server logs, they record every page sent to the user and they tell with great accuracy which parts of a page collect most of the reader's attention.
But when it comes to measuring a digital viewer's commercial value, sites rely on old-fashioned panels, that is limited user population samples. Why?"
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What is Inbound Marketing and how can social media like Facebook can convert your followers into customers? And most importantly why do you need an SEO expert advice to be successful?
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This is a good to the point article about how to maximize your social media and online presence to attract customers or interest in your organization or topic or product you are promoting.
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http://www.scoop.it/t/technology-hits/curate ALL ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
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Facebook poke or poking is one way of conveying to someone or your friends saying Hello. But where is it now on Facebook Timeline? It was not removed, it was only hidden to avoid spam.
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Remember the cool poke option? Well it is still there according to this article. You just need to know how to get to it and use it.
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Jonathan Robichaud recently completed a private tutorial on writing computer code with Java-Script, and he can’t wait to move on to Python.
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From what I'm hearing writing computer code is missing in schools. The students in our school system seem to agree.
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http://youtu.be/vk9vHUiw7Pg Buzzfeed has put together a partially tongue-in-cheek video of obscene hand gestures from around the world. They warn, "Be sure to avoid these while abroad."
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A little Friday night short film! Smile!
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WeChat�s multiple features coupled with their strong marketing skills have made the app popular across different markets and helped soar the apps� popularity.
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This is good article about some of the different social media and calling sites around the globe. Rutu Ladage shares details about WeChat, a Chinese start up that is moving fast but in doing so explains others that are popular as well.
Those that travel will find this useful it reveals sites that may offer better deals than the home country phone and data plans with international added that is normally a very bad, costly, use at your own risk of being left penniless idea.
There is a question that screams as we realize how paranoid China and many other nations including the USA are about any Internet use that the leadership does not feel they have total control over. Will the Chinese startup WeChat be used by China to ease drop and spy on users and will other nation use their wireless communication services to do this as well? Interesting how paranoid behavior and mind set is contagious, but if someone thinks they can't trust people without having been given a good reason not to than only appropriate reaction is to assume those that wrongly or unjustly accuse others cannot be trusted. Even if they do all of it in the name of national fear it begs those same doubts be returned.
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The app has already become the number one app in most emerging markets in South East Asia. WeChat which entered the Indian market last year experimented with features across different audiences. Developed by Tencent, the Chinese application provider, WeChat grew exponentially in the space of just one year, far quicker than Facebook or Twitter.
The appeal of WeChat is not just the messenger app. The app packs a host of other features. It’s a mini-social networking site coupled with a messenger app. WeChat launched the platform for users in India but also offers a promotional platform to brands. Just like Facebook and Twitter, brands can use the app to interact with fans and build a follower-base.
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BDlive Patents for profit can slow greater innovation BDlive A company might own, at most, the intellectual property underlying its genetic test; and, because the research and development needed to develop the test may have cost a considerable...
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This is the new talk to follow. Is it time to change the patent laws?
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Researchers build and test the first prototype of a "thermal invisibility cloak", which can hide objects from heat flow.
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"The technology could be put to use in thermal management in electronics.
The theoretical ideas behind the prototype were outlined in a paper by French researchers in 2012 - now made real in copper and a silicone material called PDMS.
It works by channelling heat flow around the central region, with carefully designed, alternating rings made of the two materials.
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Early Education and DIY May Be Keys to Success in Digital Technology
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Late last year, Madeleine spoke to Chevon Hicks, president of the digital ad agency Heavenspot and adjunct professor at USC. He laid out what students in the U.S.
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Most students today already own a lot of technology. Why not allow the use of that? They know their tech and what is loaded onto it. Parents could install protections as well as most schools then they and students could assume proper use of them.... which in the end is who has to employ proper control and use anyway so why not train it and let it happen in learning environments.
The technology goes out of date and schools often lag behind on updates for so much equipment while more up to date stuff sits at home or in a back pocket wasting personal income by not being accessible.
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"It’s all change for Microsoft and Xbox today, with the new Xbox One shaking things up in the gaming world and meeting Sony’s PlayStation 4 challenge head-on. The Xbox One has a lot to live up to, though: the 360 held the best-selling console torch for some time, and that’s something Sony would just love to steal away with the PS4."
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Here's what's new and there is lot of great new features.
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In the days since it first hit the Internet, the blueprint for “The Liberator,” the first known 3-D printed gun has been downloaded more... (Internet rushes to download 3D gun blueprint.
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This might not be a good thing. Wonder why someone decided to make a gun the first main 3-D blue print to push?
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This is an update for any fellow Scoop.it curators about the recent spam that appeared. Nice to know the Scoop.it team didn't lose any time looking for fixes on that. We can help too by reporting all spam and deleting things as they appear in suggestions and notices.
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Hi Therese - So you're totally right and we might have passed a threshold in traffic as we recently saw over the past few days a dramatic increase of spam in suggestions and comments. Here's an update I posted on this:
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I wanted to give you a follow-up update on the spam issues some of you reported these past few days.
Might be a sign of success but we did effectively get a lot more spammers than we used to. The problem we had was repeat spam from single accounts and different than what we had before. These accounts were created manually by humans (not bots) and exploited the comment or suggestion system to spam repeatedly at a very high rate a few number of successful topics (so including a lot of yours).
Today, we launched a radically new system to fight that. Most of this is backend and on our end and it still relies on our community deleting spam comments or suggestions and most importantly helping us identify spammers by checking the "mark as spam" option. What happens following that is totally new and though you won't see it as behind the scenes, we feel pretty good it's going to be much more efficient for the whole community.
Thanks again for having helped us understand the intensity of the problem and sorry you had to suffer from it. We're committed to keep Scoop.it free of spam and we're grateful to count on your support for that.
Might be a sign of success but we did effectively get a lot more spammers than we used to. The problem we had was repeat spam from single accounts and different than what we had before. These accounts were created manually by humans (not bots) and exploited the comment or suggestion system to spam repeatedly at a very high rate a few number of successful topics (so including a lot of yours).
Today, we launched a radically new system to fight that. Most of this is backend and on our end and it still relies on our community deleting spam comments or suggestions and most importantly helping us identify spammers by checking the "mark as spam" option. What happens following that is totally new and though you won't see it as behind the scenes, we feel pretty good it's going to be much more efficient for the whole community.
Thanks again for having helped us understand the intensity of the problem and sorry you had to suffer from it. We're committed to keep Scoop.it free of spam and we're grateful to count on your support for that.
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The Guardian Google faces new pressure over tax claims The Guardian HM Revenue and Customs is investigating fresh lines of inquiry into Google's tax affairs after interviewing a former executive at the company who gave anonymous evidence to...
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A bit of a hassel for Google. Here's the details for you.
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Channel News Asia Vendors seek to profit from China's security budget Channel News Asia Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and "anti-terrorism technology" trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from...
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Don't look for the war on terror to end anytime soon. Have all of you heard of all those Arabs terrorizing China? Over the years everyone is fighting terrorist.....Big money to be made in that too it appears. This appears to be the best excuse ever to spy on every citizen on the planet and all that tempting technolgy makes all govenments and corporations 007.
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Here are the top, best and recommendable iTunes applications that can let you watch Flash videos online from iPhone, iPod Touch or even from iPad. You can now enjoy watching or streaming online.
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Here's some news and info you might find helpful if you like like to watch Flash video on you mobile devices.
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Android news apps are one of the most important thing that you should have on your smartphones or tablets. Here is a list of great news apps for Android.
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Do you use an Android device? Here is the lastest new apps you might want to check out.
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Interested in the impact of #technology and #leadership? Development skills for #health workers around the world: http://t.co/FmZnyzj3fk
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Technology! How to be there when you can't be there!
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Google's Go hits version 1.1, now goes 30 to 40 percent faster.
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Tech innovators and developers should find this worth checking out.
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"We have made optimizations in the compiler and linker, garbage collector, goroutine scheduler, map implementation, and parts of the standard library," Google engineer Andrew Gerrand wrote on the Go blog yesterday. "It is likely that your Go code will run noticeably faster when built with Go 1.1." Go 1.1 is compatible with Go 1.0, so all users should upgrade.
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Why Is Science Behind A Paywall? Gizmodo Australia Advocates of “open science” argue that the current model of science, developed in the 1600s, needs to change and take full advantage of the Internet to share research and collaborate in the...
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Many models for all types of things seem to not fit well any more. The things we place profitable value on like plastic objects are sold and valued while water, which we cannot live without seems worthless until we put it in a plastic bottle that contaminates and waste a lot of water.
Putting knowledge behind a pay wall in these times is highly offensive as well. Having said that I believe we all feel it critical to reward creative thinkers for their design and ideas. How to we change what we do to meet the needs of today and still provide our creative innovators a healthy living.
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Bromium: A virtualization technology to kill all malware, forever ZDNet Invincea uses host-based virtualization technology on Windows desktops — I believe they actually license a runtime version of Oracle VirtualBox in order to build their product...
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This could be a great day if we can really get rid of malware.
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"Technology would have to be a crucial part of that.
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Here you go! How about adding some creative loafing to your life?
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