content without context is still strangely compelling – addictive, even – but it’s the high fructose corn syrup of making stuff; it leaves you hungry for more and doesn’t really nourish.
Things Magazine (via guy)
Content marketing as HFCS? Is the tide turning on content marketing already?
Or are we about to see the rise of context marketing?
- Content Marketing: Next Big Buzz (inc.com)
- Report: Content and the New Marketing Equation (briansolis.com)
- CM 2015: An Interview With David Meerman Scott, Marketing Strategist and Best-Selling Author (contentmarketinginstitute.com)
Add to reading list…
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Source: guy
White House ‘Big Data’ Push Means Big Bucks for Drone Brains
The Pentagon already spends hundreds of millions annually on “big data”-esque problems. The initiative announced today could add to that kitty up to $60 million per year for new research projects. That includes a $25 million yearly sum for a new Darpa data mining program called XDATA, which is broadly defined as a tool to analyze large amounts of meta-data and “unstructured” data like message traffic. (In comparison, the Department of Energy is receiving only $25 million in funding for a new data mining institute and the National Science Foundation is being granted $13.4 million.)
Where is all the rest of that defense research going? Several places, and a lot of it for helping drones crunch the massive amounts of information pulled from sensors.
“The Department of Defense if placing a big bet on big data.” Zachary Lemnios, the Pentagon’s research and engineering chief, told reporters on Thursday. “We are within sight of a new generation of systems that understand and interpret the real world with computer speed, computer precision and human agility. These systems will not only be central to helping our commanders and analysts make sense of the huge volumes of data our military sensors collect, they will also support multiple missions.Some of these systems, like Darpa’s Mind’s Eye, seeks to develop “visual intelligence” in aerial sensors, which would give military computers the ability to connect visual data with pre-written cues. Effectively, that could mean giving drones the tools to spot enemy soldiers automatically. Other programs likely to benefit include the Insight program, which can help drones spot potential threats on the battlefield.
More money for big data!
Source: unexpectedtech
Smart cat under a bench in California
Angry Birds Addiction Explained (via @Minervity)
HTML semantics and front end architecture
Good advice!
“Information is powerful…but it is how we use it that will define us” - Strata 2012: Avinash Kaushik, “A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action”
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Source: youtube.com
Seth: The extraordinary software development manager
As usual, a short and to-the-point post from Seth:
- Clients want useful visibility into the future in terms of costs, timing and deliverables
- Code is going to be used, reviewed, updated and inspected by people other than the person writing it
- A great programmer is worth thirty times as much as a good one
- Programming at scale is more like building a skyscraper than putting together a dinner party
Image source: Openclipart.org
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
Big Data Hype Explained
A nice overview of the big data value propositions
A truly inspiring talk demonstrating how every breakdown can be converted into an opportunity for a breakthrough
Random explorations by Ashutosh Bijoor...
