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Big Question (Answered): Potential Tech Luminary Tattoos For You?
Jan 3rd
Abraham Hyatt compiled a juicy list of tech tattoos for you to ogle (and mock). A dozen or so of them were representations of tech luminaries like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (not kidding). This made us wonder who might be worthy to be permanently inked onto our own bodies. What do you think? Who might earn an ink portrait on you?
Let’s say you were going to tattoo a tech luminaries’ face on to your body… Who would you choose?
We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and presented them back to you with Storify. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.
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IBM Open-Sources Potential “Internet of Things” Protocol
Nov 2nd
The openly stated goal from IBM is to produce a completely new World-Wide Web, one comprised of the messages that digitally empowered devices would send to one another. It is the same Internet, but not the same Web. This morning in Ludwigsburg, Germany, IBM announced it is joining with Italy-based hardware architecture firm Eurotech in donating a complete draft protocol for asynchronous inter-device communication to the Eclipse Foundation.
It would be the current data explosion, times itself. A projected 24 billion simultaneous devices by the year 2020, including RFID tags on shipping crates, heart rate monitors, GPS devices, smartphone firmware, automobile maintenance systems, and yes, not a joke, earrings may become more socially active than any teenage human being presently alive. Tens of billions of devices, billions of messages per hour.
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It is being called Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol, the machine-to-machine counterpart of HTTP. This afternoon, ReadWriteWeb was granted exclusive access to the draft proposal, which is being officially received by the Eclipse Foundation later this morning.
“While smart objects and physical world systems are often integrated with Enterprise and Web middleware today, it is often done using proprietary integration models and combinations of a prolific number of custom protocols and industry standards,” the final IBM draft proposal reads. “In most established M2M [machine-to-machine] implementations of connected devices, the data producers and data consumers are programmed to interact in strict and well defined ways. For example, in a smart city, sensor-based systems can alert operators of a broken water main and report the extent of flooding in streets and subways. Well-designed open messaging technology would enable solutions well beyond this, allowing public and private transit systems for example, to monitor these critical alerts, adjusting their routes and even notifying commuters and customers of alternative routes, transportation, lodging and meals. Social networks could subscribe, allowing residents and commuters to interact, adapt and even provide feedback and status to the city.”
Public transit systems could enable the streets themselves to publish their own traffic status. Traffic signals could become intercommunicative, enabling live and automated rerouting of traffic, including signals that are sent to cars and their drivers. Water, gas, and electric lines can report their own status the same way. And through inter-Web protocols, you could check the status of your local water main on Facebook.
While we’re on that subject: Imagine if Facebook could find you. Literally, you would never have to log in. An application is foreseeable whereby messaging devices connect to a token device located on your person. When you move from your laptop PC to your tablet to your refrigerator, your Facebook session could follow you.
Although the following potential application was not directly stated, it was implied: Consider the potential for intercommunicative monetary tokens. What if every fiver or twenty or century note could report its location and status?
Further into IBM’s draft proposal, the company’s engineers make clear their current position on current HTTP-based Web services protocols in what they call an M2M context. They’re inadequate, and need adaptation.
“Open source messaging components… will have to work equally well across the constrained networks and embedded platforms that are inherent to physical world of machine-to-machine systems,” the latest draft reads. “This will enable a paradigm shift from legacy point-to-point protocols and the limitations of protocols like SOAP or HTTP into more loosely coupled yet determinable models. It will bridge the SOA, REST, Pub/Sub and other middleware architectures already well understood by Web 2.0 and Enterprise IT shops today, with the embedded and wireless device architectures inherent to M2M.”
The “pub/sub” model alluded to here is documented in fuller detail at mqtt.org.
Although IBM is touting its continued commitment to open standards, it’s also clear that there’s payback for IBM in the form of a headstart for middleware support. As this page reveals, amid the existing open source MQTT servers available for experimentation today are servers for message queuing telemetry are based around WebSphere, and messaging brokers are based around Lotus Expeditor.
A great many breakthrough proposals for Internet technologies never actually bore fruit. The Web we could be using now, is tremendously more capable than the one you have in front of you. MQTT is far from being confirmed as the web of future stuff. But today’s formal proposal is one of the critical steps that future visions take toward becoming realities.
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Google+ Source Code Reveals Potential Quora-Killer “Google Experts,” Google Voice Integration & More
Sep 30th
Search + Social Signals = Success (And The Potential of Google+) – Mediarun Search (blog)
Aug 2nd
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Search + Social Signals = Success (And The Potential of Google+)
Mediarun Search (blog) In SEO, the most common discussion around social signals are about how they affect rankings. My harmonica experiences show that if that's the only way you view social signals, you miss a more important point. SEO and social work together to create … SEO Consult® Review Social Media Marketing Services Will restaurants add Google+ to crowded social media plates? Social signals: Twitter, Facebook and Google+ |
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Webinar Explores SEO Potential in Online Communities – TMC Net
Jul 28th
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Webinar Explores SEO Potential in Online Communities
TMC Net As SEO techniques must continue to change to comply with search engine regulations, the best options for boosting SEO can be a challenge to identify at times. To help companies maneuver through the complicated maze to boost SEO, TMCnet offered an … 2 SEO Techniques the Experts Say Will "Make or Break" Your Online Community |
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Netflix Deal with DreamWorks a Potential Roadmap for Premium Streaming Market
Jul 25th
Netflix and DreamWorks Animation are reportedly in negotiations to bring DreamWorks movies to the video streaming service. In and off itself, that is not major news. Netflix makes and breaks content distribution agreements with different partners all the time. Yet, the DreamWorks deal would directly affect the pocketbook of one of Netflix’s major competitors – HBO.
DreamWorks and HBO have a content-distribution agreement that runs through 2014, according to Bloomberg. Yet, the Hollywood Reporter says that HBO is willing to let DreamWorks out of the deal two years early, making the studios’ animated movies available to Netflix in 2013. It would be a bit of a coup for Netflix to be the go-to movie distributor over the likes of HBO and a signal both the mid-term future of content streaming.
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Netflix is at the mercy of its content partnerships. As the company grows and disrupts traditional media businesses, licensing agreements are getting steeper and more difficult to negotiate (see: Starz-Sony). Studios and the networks want to be able to extract money from Netflix without putting it out of business, yet keep the company at arm’s length. A world where Netflix dominates online content consumption is not a good thing for the content providers.
That is why Netflix, so far, only gets entire seasons or series of older TV shows, like Scrubs (a recent addition) or Cheers and “new releases” come to the service 28 days after coming out on DVD. In turn, that is why the networks created Hulu Plus, to capitalize on the immediacy of shows and movies rather than Netflix’s backlog of older titles. Yet, when it comes to premium content, HBO has long been the preferred destination for the big movie studios to make money on their “long tail” of content.
The long tail is now shifting to Netflix and it looks like DreamWorks knows it.
The other half of this equation is timing. For all its explosive growth and innovation, the premium-content streaming market is still just learning to stand on its own feet. The networks and studios are still trying to figure out exactly what their product models will look like and how to best optimize revenue streams of their products. That is why you see the UltraViolet initiative, Comcast teaming with Elemental and the potential sale of Hulu. The industry is fumbling about for the right strategy.
Also, as we see with the HBO/DreamWorks deal, there are licensing agreements that are ending, freeing up partnerships with other entities. Even though DreamWorks itself is a blip on Netflix’s radar, it shows us somewhere near 2013 is when the premium streaming market comes into its own.
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The huge untapped potential of Q&A content for SEO – SEOmoz (blog)
Jul 3rd
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The huge untapped potential of Q&A content for SEO
SEOmoz (blog) If you want to read more about the intersection of Stackoverflow and SEO, they have had a couple of posts about it: one, two and a HN thread. Stackoverflow solves the moderation problem in one way. Quora is tackling it in a different but fascinating … |
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