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Blaise Aguera y Arcas' TED Talk on Augmented Maps

Blaise Aguera y Arcas (creator of PhotoSynth, founder of Seadragon and now Architect of Bing Maps) gave a talk at TED last week. In it he showed off some of the latest Bing Maps has to offer. He demoed the fluid zooming capabilities based on Blaise's own Seadragon technology and the 3D capabilities provided by Silverlight. He also demoed how images and live video can be overlay Photosynth-style on top of the map (these were both made possible by the mapping application platform that was recently added to Bing Maps). Read more.

A Live Edition for Learning Rails

By Simon St. Laurent
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One of the best things about Rails is that it's under constant development. New features appear constantly, and the upcoming 3.0 release even streamlines the architecture substantially. This wonderful track record of incremental development gives developers an ever-better set of tools to work with, but is really difficult for those of us documenting those tools in old-fashioned ink and paper. I'm very happy to announce that O'Reilly has released the Live Edition of Learning Rails, which brings the book up to date from its original November 2008 release (covering Rails 2.1.0) to last month (covering Rails 2.3.5), as well as incorporating errata. Read more.

Living Stories can reinvent the article

Google's Living Stories platform fills a big gap in the content universe

By Mac Slocum
Comments: 2

Article-based content is limiting. It's static and can't capture the energy surrounding newsworthy events or interesting topics. That's why Google's Living Stories format -- released this week as an open source project -- holds so much promise. It can reinvent the form in a way that works with the web, not against it. Read more.

How a Mobile Policy Can Benefit Your Business

Stay Competitive and Reap the Rewards

The Mobile Future Is Now — "People who cannot afford a landline phone or a computer usually can afford a cellphone, making it the most popular gateway to the wealth of resources available on the network," writes Sarah Sorensen, the author of The Sustainable Network: The Accidental Answer for a Troubled Planet. In her new O'Reilly Insights column on Forbes.com, Sorennsen explains how you can turn the mobility trend into a business benefit. Learn more.

Understanding nonfunctional requirements

By Andrew Stellman
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Understanding nonfunctional requirements

When I help people learn about non functional requirements, I draw a lot of material from the first book that Jennifer Greene and I wrote for O'Reilly, Applied Software Project Management. So when I recently wrote a Q&A; about non-functional requirements, I realized that a few especially relevant things that Jenny and I wrote in our chapter on understanding requirements that could be really helpful to readers. I'll post them here, and try to tie them in to the questions we've been getting. Read more.

Four short links: 18 February 2010

Open Politics, Ada Day, Hardware Debugging, Design Insight

By Nat Torkington
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On MicroSD Problems (Bunnie Huang) -- fascinating detective story as he tries to figure out how he got some dud Kingston SD cards. SPOILER ALERT: fault-tolerant hardware gets sold in tranches (great, ok, bad) and the bad tranche sold off-label. This and more in today's Four Short Links. Read more.

Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual

The ARMAR project shows how augmented reality can revolutionize learning

By Mac Slocum
Comments: 2

Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual

The ARMAR augmented reality project out of Columbia University offers an intriguing glimpse into how AR and education may soon intersect. Instead of rifling through a manual or looking up information, an AR layer could guide you through a task. The creators of ARMAR talk about their work and its implications in this Q&A.; Read more.

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How I use Social Media: Part 3--Blogging

By Amy Blankenship
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How I use Social Media: Part 3--Blogging

Recently, I've been writing about how I use Social Media. In Part 1, I talked about how I use Twitter. In Part 2, I talked about how I use Facebook and potential I see in Facebook for all of us as developers. Last week, I made a slight digression to talk about how Connected TV and Social Media could work together to make TV as engaging as online content. Today, I'd like to talk about blogging. Obviously, I find blogging to be highly beneficial, and I believe that if you're not blogging, you should be, and here's why. Read more.

IntelliJ Idea9 ActionScript 3/Flex Workflow Part 1

By Jesse Freeman
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IntelliJ Idea9 ActionScript 3/Flex Workflow Part 1

As far as ActionScript 3/Flex IDEs go, IntelliJ is the new kid on the block. It is cross platform, is not built on Eclipse, and has some of the best code writing/refactoring features I have ever seen. It's no surprise considering IntelliJ is one of the best Java editors around and now that it fully supports ActionScript development it is worth looking at. To help familiarize you with working in IntelliJ Idea 9 I have broken this workflow tutorial into two parts. This is part 1 which covers getting up and running, configuration, the editor itself and project organization. Read more.

The Widening HTML5 Chasm

By Simon St. Laurent
Comments: 54

Recent claims that Adobe is blocking HTML5 are glaringly wrong, reflecting mostly the incompatibilities between the two organizations, the W3C and WHATWG, sharing the process. Ideally, I'd like to see the W3C take its consensus-based process seriously, and the WHATWG agree to abide by that. Realistically, I just can't see either part of that happening. The W3C is too willing to bend; the WHATWG too unwilling. Read more.

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News & Commentary

Blaise Aguera y Arcas' TED Talk on Augmented Maps

A Live Edition for Learning Rails

Living Stories can reinvent the article

Google's Living Stories platform fills a big gap in the content universe

How a Mobile Policy Can Benefit Your Business

Stay Competitive and Reap the Rewards

Understanding nonfunctional requirements

Four short links: 18 February 2010

Open Politics, Ada Day, Hardware Debugging, Design Insight

Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual

The ARMAR project shows how augmented reality can revolutionize learning

What's New in O'Reilly Answers

Build a web crawler, Remove data from a phone, Google Buzz, and much more!

How I use Social Media: Part 3--Blogging

IntelliJ Idea9 ActionScript 3/Flex Workflow Part 1

The Widening HTML5 Chasm

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