David Lidsky's Blog, page 3135
October 29, 2014
IBM, Twitter: The New Business Intelligence Best Buddies
IBM is turning tweets into business intelligence, thanks to a massive new agreement with Twitter.
Business intelligence is a massive, massive industry where organizations pay tens of millions of dollars to turn raw data about them and their competitors into actionable insights. Now IBM and Twitter are getting in on the game, and launching a portfolio of data analysis tools aimed toward retail, consumer products, transportation, banking, and other industries.
SodaStream Will Close Its West Bank Factory In 2015
But the company insists it is not bowing to pressure from activists.
SodaStream will shutter its West Bank facility and move the manufacturing of its home-carbonation machines to a new factory in Israel's southern Negev region in 2015.
Poynt: A Universal Checkstand For Mobile Payments
Google Wallet. Apple Pay. QR codes. Who will win? Who cares?
Apple Pay. Google Wallet. Square. Paypal. Affirm. Coin. Plastc. Visa. Mastercard. Chase. Capital One. Everybody wants to collect a toll on the post-credit-card future of payments. They all use differing standards and technologies.But who will win?
Google Moves Into Fitness Market With New Fit App
Google Fit works much like Samsung's and Apple's health apps.
This week Google joined Samsung and Apple in the fitness app club with the release of Google Fit.
The Guardian Rolls Out A Redesign, With Input From Thousands Of Readers
The Guardian's new design joins the rest of us here in 2014. It's about time.
It seems like all the major magazines and newspapers are redesigning their websites lately. First it was The New York Times, then the New Yorker. Now the Guardian is getting in on the action with a bigger, bolder, more reader-friendly design--informed, in part, by Guardian readers themselves.
These Are The Products You Can Finance On Reddit's New Crowdfunding Platform
Redditmade is designed for subreddits to create merch for their communities. But there isn't much to look at yet.
Like a nebula belching a new star into life, the sprawling web community Reddit today announced a new Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform so that users can get their projects financed. Redditmade is, according to Reddit marketing manager Kaela Gardner, "a new place to turn the best designs and products by the community into reality." Why dive into the messy, often disappointing fray of crowdfunded products? Here's how Gardner explains it:
The Reason CVS And Rite Aid Won't Take Apple Pay? Contracts
A large consortium of retailers are reportedly bound from using other mobile payment systems in favor of a standard called CurrentC.
When CVS and Rite Aid quietly pulled the plug on Apple Pay, the iPhone's new wireless payment wallet, over the weekend, it left customers confused. (Or with a bad taste in their mouths.) Word was, the sudden rift with Apple had something to do with CurrentC, a QR code-based payment standard that hasn't even debuted in stores yet.
This Cheap Paper Test Can Tell You If You Have Ebola In Just 30 Minutes
A pocket-sized paper test for Ebola quickly turns from yellow to purple if someone has the disease--and no lab or refrigeration is required.
Within about 30 minutes, and without ever going to a lab, a new paper tool can tell if someone has Ebola. The current test goes much slower and requires a lab and electricity. Using a new synthetic biology technique, researchers have eliminated all those concerns and made the pocket-sized test, which can be shipped anywhere in the world and stored without refrigeration. It's both cheaper and much faster than any current Ebola tests.
Why Artist Olafur Eliasson Hauled 100-Tons Of Glacial Ice To Denmark Only To Watch It Melt
His latest sculpture only lasted four days, and that was kind of the point.
One hundred tons of glacial ice is currently melting in front of Copenhagen's city hall. The 12 huge chunks of ancient ice--fished out of a fjord in Greenland by divers and then carefully shipped in refrigerated containers to Denmark--were brought in by artist Olafur Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing as a physical reminder of climate change.
These Are The 10 Most Popular Cities In The U.S. (For Rats)
And, surprise, New York is not even No. 1 (or 2 or 3) on the list.
The possibility of contracting Ebola in an American city has now dominated headlines, dinner conversations, and Twitter for more than a week. Still, the chances of catching it are minuscule (like one in more than 13 million). Perhaps city dwellers should worry more about rats.
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