The Best Tools for Archiving Web Pages Online. Your favorite content on the Internet may disappear. Learn about the best software tools and web archiving services that will help you save any web page on the Internet, forever. Web pages change or may even disappear with time. Thus if you would like to preserve a web page forever, you should either need to download that page to your computer (and put it on Dropbox) or you could use a web archiving service that will safely store a copy of that page on their own servers, permanently. There are quite a few ways to save web pages permanently and your choice of the tool will depend on the kind of web content that you are trying to archive. If you are essentially interested in the saving text-only content, like news articles, Pocket and Instapaper are recommended choices. You can save pages via email, browser extensions, bookmarklets or through apps. Evernote and OneNote are impressing tools for archiving web content in your own private notebooks.
Text data management, Part 1: Confusion. Et tu, Citi? Bank Raises Balance Requirements and Fees. Bank of America wasn’t the only big national financial institution to announce some changes that might hit customers in the wallet. Citi was quick to bash Bank of America when it rolled out its hugely unpopular debit card fee, but it just announced an overhaul of its checking account options, along with increases in minimum-balance requirements and monthly maintenance fees that kick in Dec. 9.
One big change affects the bank’s mid-level checking option. The bank is phasing out its EZ Checking account, which hasn’t been offered to new customers for over a year. Customers who have this account now can keep it, but there are some new rules. (MORE: Bank Accounts: Do the Free Cash Come-ons Outweigh the Fees Sure to Follow?) The mid-tier checking package the bank now offers is called the Citibank Account.
(MORE: Was Bank of America Hacked?) (MORE: 111 Pages of Disclosures for the Typical Checking Account?!?) Six Provocations for Big Data by Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford. The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing information from Twitter, Google, Verizon, 23andMe, Facebook, Wikipedia, and every space where large groups of people leave digital traces and deposit data.
Significant questions emerge. Will large-scale analysis of DNA help cure diseases? Or will it usher in a new wave of medical inequality? Will data analytics help make people’s access to information more efficient and effective? Or will it be used to track protesters in the streets of major cities? This essay offers six provocations that we hope can spark conversations about the issues of Big Data. Rankur Offers Free Marketing Analysis on The Web - Technorati Advertising.
Having to decide how to promote your new product? Or what are the main features that people like on your competitors’ gadgets? Having issues with your current ad campaign? There are technologies that help you answer the question and ease the finding of the solution, but now they become free! Consumers’ opinions have always been an important piece of information during the decision making process.
New EU-based startup, called Rankur, combines technologies like Opinion Mining and Text Analytics into a cutting edge product that answers the questions “What other people think” and “What are other people talking about”. A marketing or PR professional may stay current to what is being said about a topic, find out what are the related discussions about, where do they come from, discover negative or positive text and filter opinions by language, source or trend.
Another application of these recent technologies is the automation of the follow-up of your brand reputation. Millions of tweets reveal global mood trends | Health Tech. It may not be terribly surprising that many of us find our moods dipping over the course of the day, and that by nightfall we light up again. Or that our moods are perkiest on weekends, regardless of which days our weekends fall on (i.e., Fridays and Saturdays in the United Arab Emirates). What's of note, according to an analysis of 2.4 million tweets in 84 countries by researchers out of Cornell, is that these mood trends hold steady across cultures and borders, hinting at some sort of deeper trend whose basis is in being human, not in belonging to a particular people or place. "We saw the influence of something that's biological- or sleep-based; regardless of the day of the week, the shape of the mood rhythm is the same," Scott Golder, a doctoral student of sociology, said in a news release.
"The difference between weekdays and weekends has to do with the average mood, which is higher on the weekends than the weekdays. AirPort Utility for iOS is a network admin's dream. Over the years, I've run the AirPort Utility on my Mac more times than I've wanted to. Usually I'm at a client's office, trying to troubleshoot a network issue. Now life has just gotten a bit easier for network admins -- the AirPort Utility for iOS (free) is now available on the App Store. The app is designed to manage all Apple Wi-Fi network base stations, including the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule. If you're used to using the AirPort Utility for Mac, then you'll have no issues at all with the new iOS utility. The design is extremely simple and easy to understand. Tap any specific base station to begin; you must enter any passwords that you're using to protect the device (you DO have passwords set up, don't you?).
I won't go into too many details about the utility, but be sure to take a look at the gallery to see everything that you can accomplish. Create a Flipbook Style Magazine with your Favorite Web Content. Meet another impressive tool for curating online content that converts all your favorite web snippets into a digital magazine much like a flipbook. I earlier discussed a few content curation tools that make it easy for you to clip snippets of any kind of web content – be it tweets, videos, photographs, or even presentations – and publish them all under a single web page. It is like creating an online scrapbook where you clip content from different online sources. Themeefy is another impressive tool for curating online content but it takes a slightly different approach - instead of creating a single page with all your web snippets, Themeefy compiles everything into a beautiful magazine that resembles a flip book – see sample.
You may either use your mouse buttons or the arrow keys on the keyboard to flip through the pages of the magazine. If your “magazine” has too many pages, viewers can make use of the index page to directly jump to any particular section. Diffbot launches APIs for monitoring web pages. Internet search startup Diffbot launched its API today for visually scanning, parsing and extracting information from web pages. Diffbot detects what type of layout a page has, then searches it for common visual cues to monitor when any content changes on a page, or to extract specific information for developers to use.
The Palo Alto-based company was founded in 2008 by two former Stanford students, CEO Mike Tung and CTO Leith Abdulla, with seed funding from Stanford incubator StartX. Tung originally created Diffbot to monitor the websites for his various Stanford classes and tip him off to any new announcements, posted lectures or assignments via text message. According to Diffbot’s creators, all web pages fall into one of 30 different page-type categories. “Diffbot understands visually what all of these different elements of the page are and can be used by developers to connect that content to direct action,” Tung told VentureBeat.
Developer Guide - Protocol Buffers - Google Code. Welcome to the developer documentation for protocol buffers – a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more. This documentation is aimed at Java, C++, or Python developers who want to use protocol buffers in their applications. This overview introduces protocol buffers and tells you what you need to do to get started – you can then go on to follow the tutorials or delve deeper into protocol buffer encoding. API reference documentation is also provided for all three languages, as well as language and style guides for writing .proto files. What are protocol buffers? Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.
How do they work? You specify how you want the information you're serializing to be structured by defining protocol buffer message types in .proto files. Why not just use XML? A bit of history. iOS 5 reviewed: Notifications, iMessages, and iCloud, oh my! iOS 5 is now available to the public after having been teased for months. Unlike the last major update to the operating system (iOS 4), we think iOS 5 could be the most significant update to the iDevice line since the rollout of iPhone OS 3 back in 2009. Why do we say that? Simple—because of the sheer number of new and improved features that make the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad more usable than ever.
We're talking significantly revamped notifications, Twitter integration, wireless sync, iCloud, home screen improvements, and more—so many, in fact, that we can't address everything buried within an app or setting in a single review. What we will do, however, is talk about the major updates as well as those tidbits that interest us the most after having used the OS. Notifications The push notifications introduced in iPhone OS 3 (which we'll refer to as iOS 3, for consistency's sake) were helpful at the time, but only because they were better than nothing.
Settings Notifications Center. Siri: The Future of Connecting - Technorati Gadgets. When Siri was announced, Apple described it as a feature exclusive to the iPhone 4S, and many wondered why. Some said it was to give the 4S something that people couldn’t get with iOS 5, and in turn sell more units, or because of the strain it would put on servers if 70 million people were using Siri every day.
This can be debated, as Apple most likely won’t reveal their reasons, but the most probable explanation is that Siri is learning. Siri is a cloud-based technology, baked into the OS. Many complained that Siri should work offline for tasks that don’t involve the Internet, but this may be the best thing Apple has done with the service. Please remember that Siri is only in beta. Releasing any feature in beta is very uncommon for Apple, as they always strive for perfection in anything that they release to the public.
But for Siri, an exception was made. Continued on the next page. How to Transfer Files Across Cloud Services like Google Docs or Dropbox. Your files are stored on cloud storage services like Google Docs, Dropbox or Amazon S3. How do transfer online files across services without downloading them locally? Cloud storage services like Google Docs, Dropbox, Amazon S3, etc. have made it easy for you keep your important files and documents online. These services are mostly free and you can have multiple accounts on them as long as you use separate email addresses. This leads to another problem though.
Would it be nice if there were an easy to way to manage / search all your online files from one place without having to download them to the computer first? Meet Otixo – an impressive web-app that lets you access files stored across different cloud service from a central location. Otixo supports FTP so it can also be used to directly transfer files from any FTP server to Google Docs or Amazon S3 without having to write complicated scripts. How much are your contacts worth to you? [Infographic] 13 October '11, 06:05pm Follow What would it take for you to give up your personal contacts? How about your business ones? With each of us putting a different dollar amount on what we’d accept to rebuild from scratch, contextual email plugin Smartr, from Xobni (of which we covered the launch, last week) thought it might be interesting to get a broad-scale overview.
You can see the full infographic below, but here are some of the more interesting take-aways: 48% of those surveyed still use a paper address bookPeople aged 45-54 years consider their contacts to be the most valuableMobile phones clock in at 77% as the chosen way to store contacts So what’s your price? Tablet vendors scurry to undercut $500 iPad | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog. What's the sweet spot for tablet pricing? We're finding out as Hewlett-Packard, RIM, HTC, and others learn that trying to sell a tablet at the iPad's starting price of $500 may be a fool's errand.
Lenovo and Best Buy are the latest to bring down pricing, selling the 10-inch Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet with 32GB today and Monday for $329, down from $499. And that 10-inch tablet comes with a dual-core Nvidia processor and Android 3.1. At Best Buy, HTC also recently knocked down the 7-inch HTC Flyer to $299 from $499 . This happened--probably not coincidentally--right after the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire was announced-- which is selling briskly , thank you. RIM and Best Buy have also been testing the $299 price-point waters for the 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook , $200 off the regular price.
And India's $60 Android tablet --albeit with very-low-end features--offers a whole new take on tablet pricing. Tablet price reality check: But don't expect Apple's iPad to come down in price anytime soon. What does Your Wireless Carrier Know and How Long do they Keep that Info? Have you ever had the feeling that you are being watched? That someone is spying on every move you make? No? Well, unfortunately, you are being tracked. They know where you go, what you do, what you talk about, and even who you know. It’s about time you learned what all things your wireless carrier knows about you, and for how long it keeps data such as your text messages, call logs and your handset’s web surfing records.
The info comes to us via a Justice Department document prepared for law enforcement with the above said details. You will definitely be surprised to know about the time period for which data is retained by some of the major cellular service providers in the US. In the present day, millions of people travel around with a tracking device on themselves – the mobile phone. Here’s a peek at the policies of the four major carriers in the US. First up is Verizon, which (as you know) is the largest wireless carrier in the US based on number of subscribers.
Json. PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi. A Hormone May Treat Autism, Social Disorders. NoScript now locks down loose JavaScript on Android | The Download Blog. Silicon Valley has gone Google. Daily deals found to cost more than regular services in new report. Android hole could be used to disable antivirus apps | InSecurity Complex. Readers' Choice Awards 2011: Tablets and Ebook Readers - Tablets. The 20 Brands With The Most Loyal Customers - Kim Bhasin - Business. This is how Windows get infected with malware. What Does Eight Years Of Blogging Get You? Supercomputing center targets big, fast storage cloud at academics, industry.
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