As YouTube is stepping up its efforts to monetize content on the site, it has to make sure that its video views are actually counted, and that ads are displayed when people play any of its clips. Both isn’t possible when users download YouTube clips through third-party services.
“YouTube is doubling down on content creation as a core feature of its site,” Richard MacManus argued on ReadWriteWeb. “It is doing this across the whole spectrum of content creation: from amateur to professional, with a lot of gray in-between.”
Read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/magazine/on-youtube-amateur-is-the-new-pro.html?_r=1&hpw&pagewanted=all
McKinsey Global Institute studied big data in five domains—healthcare in the United States, the public sector in Europe, retail in the United States, and manufacturing and personal-location data globally. Big data can generate value in each. For example, a retailer using big data to the full could increase its operating margin by more than 60 percent. Harnessing big data in the public sector has enormous potential, too. If US healthcare were to use big data creatively and effectively to drive efficiency and quality, the sector could create more than $300 billion in value every year. Two-thirds of that would be in the form of reducing US healthcare expenditure by about 8 percent. In the developed economies of Europe, government administrators could save more than €100 billion ($149 billion) in operational efficiency improvements alone by using big data, not including using big data to reduce fraud and errors and boost the collection of tax revenues. And users of services enabled by personal-location data could capture $600 billion in consumer surplus. The research offers seven key insights.
See the story and download the full report here: http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Big_data_The_next_frontier_for_innovation
The Most Important New Technology Since the Smart Phone Arrives December 2012
By now, many of us are aware of the Leap Motion, a small, $70 gesture control system that simply plugs into any computer and, apparently, just works. If you've seen the gesture interfaces in Minority Report, you know what it does. More importantly, if you're familiar with the touch modality -- and at this point, most of us are -- the interface is entirely intuitive. It's touch, except it happens in the space in front of the screen, so you don't have to cover your window into your tech with all those unsightly smudges. ...
Read the full story here; http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428350/the-most-important-new-technology-since-the-smart/?nlid=nldly&nld=2012-06-29
The first Project Glass products -- Google's network-enabled, computerized glasses -- are set to ship to a select group of enthusiasts early next year, co-founder Sergey Brin said today.
"This is not a consumer device," Brin told thousands in an enthusiastically cheering audience at the company's Google I/O show today here. "You have to want to be on the bleeding edge. That's what this is designed for."
The glasses will be available only to Google I/O attendees who are in the United States. The geographic restriction is for regulatory reasons, Brin said. (Different countries have different requirements for radio-frequency emissions.)
See the full story with VIDEO here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57462058-93/google-glass-$1500-for-developers-shipping-next-year/
If you missed the final launch of the Space Shuttle, or the first private spacecraft rendezvous with the International Space Station, fear not. A new documentary to be released late this year promises you a fiery, 3-D, launch-pad view of these historic flights.
A preview (above) of the film, Space Shuttle & The New Pioneers, was unveiled at the SETICON II conference June 22 in Santa Clara, California. The film chronicles the final days of the Space Shuttle program, from inside NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
See the full story and VIDEO here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/3d-space-shuttle-movie/
When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled the Los Angeles Mayor’s Council on Innovation and Industry (LAMCII) Wednesday, he emphasized that it had practical goals and was not just another talking shop. Paul Bricault, who among many other things is managing director of accelerator Amplify.la and one of the council’s members, spoke to Digital Media Wire to share some insights about what that means in practice.
There are three core goals that the council has identified and will tackle, he said. One is to garner more attention, since Los Angeles’ successes, talents and achievements deserve more notice and respect than they receive. Second is to increase the investment activity in the area, and third is to nurture local talent while making it attractive for others to join them.
See the full story here: http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/06/27/bricault-passionate-about-trying-to-shine-a-spotlight-on-l-a
Phil Lelyveld comment: Jeff Jonas has joined my personal list of innovation 'gods.' His work on finding new ways to pull information from data is just amazing, and he explains it beautifully. Watch the 17 minute video here: http://gigaom.com/2012/04/12/data-guru-jeff-jonas-names-ibm-fellow/
Data guru Jeff Jonas named IBM fellow
Jeff Jonas has been named an IBM fellow, according to a blog post on The Smarter Planet blog. IBM named seven new IBM Fellows earlier this week. Jonas’ official title is Chief Scientist, Entity Analytics with the IBM Software Group, Information Management. We obviously think the world of him – he has been a featured speaker at our Structure Data events twice. ...
[Philip Lelyveld comment: This falls somewhere between a picture and a hologram. Watch the 2:47 min video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pph1rflu0Q&feature=player_embedded. ]
HP, 3M, and UC Santa Cruz (go Banana Slugs!) have been collaborating on a truly remarkable project. Instead of using flat paper for photo printing (which can't change its reflective properties), the researchers are creating a new kind of paper with specular micro-geometry. In other words, it looks like regular flat paper to your eye, but its surface is actually covered in thousands of microscopic hills and valleys. We can print onto those tiny shapes to control the way the light reflects from different angles. The result is that the object in a photo would reflect light the same way as the object would in real life. Or so your eyes would perceive.
Read the full story here: http://gizmodo.com/5920923/futuristic-paper-reflects-light-like-3d-objects-and-might-just-save-printed-media
DJ Patil, Data Scientist in residence at Greylock Partners is planning his on-stage appearance at LeWeb2012 London. He says that he is going to do some ‘live science’.
“The biggest thing about data now is how do you take it and return it back to the user in ways that are acceptable for privacy and all the necessary things that make people feel comfortable with that product,” says Patil.
And with the increase and ease of current data gathering comes the requirement to be able to filter it for practical use.
Read the full story here: http://thenextweb.com/events/2012/06/20/data-scientist-dj-patil-on-why-big-data-must-have-a-purpose/