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  • Goal oriented visualizations? (via Erik Duval’s Weblog)

    Visualizations and their efficacy always takes me back to Edward Tufte‘s big hard cover books on Infographics (or Chart Junk when it’s done badly). In terms of this specific category, visualization leading to a goal I think it’s still very much a ‘general case’. But examples are always better than theoretical descriptions of an ideal.…

  • Macintouch Reader Reports: User Interface Issues iOS/Lion

    Don’t get me wrong OS X Lion is a good thing. But I am despising the migration of the mobile iOS system’s human interface design to the desktop OS. Gestures? We don’t need no stinkin’ gestures. Read On.

  • JSON Activity Streams Spec Hits Version 1.0

    Whether it is Twitter or Facebook or what have you, each and every new social networking service is starting to slowly pull back from sharing its data with the world at large. Twitter adherents are crowing about the death of RSS/Atom publish and subscribe feeds open for the whole world to see. Now you need…

  • New OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Achieves Record

    There’s no other way to accomplish fast throughput than to adopt the latest greatest technologies and in SSDs that is a SandForce flash memory controller. Since the release of their 2000 series controller SandForce has proven they have got a sizable lead over their competitors in flat-out Read/Write speeds. What then would happen if you…

  • AnandTech – Computex 2011: OCZs RevoDrive 3

    More fallout from the Computex 2011 tradeshow in Taipei, Taiwan. OCZ was on an absolute tear introducing new flash memory based SATA6 SSDs and PCIe SSDs. While we readers wait to see review hardware brought into the hardware blogger’s test labs to see how the final shipping product will perform.

  • 2WAY Q&A: Layar’s Maarten Lens-FitzGerald on Building a Digital Layer on Top of the World

    Augmented Reality waxes and wanes in the blogosphere as new products come out and old ones get revised. As part of its press releases @ Computex 2011 (Taipei, Taiwan) Qualcomm announced a new developers toolkit for AR developers. So there’s still hope yet we will see further evolutionary or radically incremental improvements in the current…

  • AnandTech – OCZ Agility 3 240GB Review

    The upgrade market for Windows PCs is still very strong and budget concerns are almost always a preeminent when shopping for an upgrade. From CPU to Memory to Harddrives, a Solid State Disk is still a sure way of increasing the Windows Experience Score for your Windows 7 PC. Now OCZ is trying to drive…

  • EMC’s all-flash benediction: Turbulence ahead • The Register

    All the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) spread by big legacy manufacturers of hard drive storage in the data center is a way to stem or delay the burgeoning tidal wave of Flash memory based storage. Yes the economics of Flash based storage are not quite there yet, but for the high performance, high throughput…

  • From Big Data to NoSQL: The ReadWriteWeb Guide to Data Terminology (Part 1)

    I don’t know if you have ever heard of Relational Databases or Structured Query Language. They became di rigeur after 1977 in most corporate data centers pushing more power into the hands of users instead of programmers. But that type of structured data can only carry you so far until you bump against its limits.…

  • A new appreciation of security theater (via Jon Udell)

    I know Bruce Schneier was very hard on TSA’s changes in screening over time since they were first rushed into service. If Bruce’s attitude towards Security Theater can evolve, so can mine. The WSJ reported recently that the FBI, looking for fresh leads in the 1982 case of Tylenol poisonings, suspects Ted "Unabomber" Kaczynski and…