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[Archive | Audio | Video | Popular Tags]Reality has a gaming layer
Kevin Slavin sees a world where games shape life and life shapes games.
Kevin Slavin, managing director of Area/Code and a speaker at Web 2.0 Expo New York, has worked at the the intersection of games and reality for nearly a decade. In this interview, Slavin explores the impact of mobile apps and the unexpected ways games shape our lives. Read more.
Now that fall is here, it's time to put the barbecue away and cook something tasty in the oven. How about duck confit? In an excerpt from Cooking for Geeks posted on Gizmodo, you can learn the secrets of making a mean confit. As you'll discover in the excerpt, "cooking it is all about converting tough collagen proteins -- pound for pound tougher than steel -- into gelatin." Related: Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks, will demonstrate cooking techniques at World Maker Faire New York.
Strata Week: Grabbing a slice
Digits of pi, extruding images with iPads, and mapping the past on top of the present
In this edition of Strata Week: The 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi is calculated with an assist from Hadoop and MapReduce; a new technique uses iPads to extrude light paintings across a long exposure shot; Historypin links historical photos to Google Street View shots; and this is the last week for Strata Conference proposal submissions. Read more.
What is happening with Adobe Flash on Single Board Computers (SBCs)
New in O'Reilly Answers, plus Visualize Azure tables, find an iOS device's UDID, and much more.
According to Steve Jobs, Adobe Flash is too heavy to run on the Powerful iPhone. But Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager for the Flash Platform at Adobe, likes to take it a step further. Forget an iPhone, how about using Flash with an Arduino? Chambers will be hovering around the upcoming Adobe Max conference, and spoke to us about how Flash fits into the very small device market. Read more.
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Personal data stores and pub/sub networks
Social streams may eclipse RSS, but the blogosphere's roots run deeper.
Most people and organizations think of the calendar information they push as text for people to read. Few realize it's also data networks can syndicate. When that mindset changes, a river of data will be unleashed. Read more.
The SMAQ stack for big data
Storage, MapReduce and Query are ushering in data-driven products and services.
We're at the beginning of a revolution in data-driven products and services, driven by a software stack that enables big data processing on commodity hardware. Learn about the SMAQ stack, and where today's big data tools fit in. Read more.
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