Science as a Service

"Software as a service (SaaS) is one of the great innovations of Web 2.0. SaaS enables flexibility and customized solutions. It reduces costs — the cost of entry, the cost of overhead, and as a result, the cost of experimentation. In doing so, it’s been instrumental in spurring innovation.

So, what if you were to apply the principles of SaaS to science? Perhaps we can facilitate scientific progress by streamlining the process. Science as a service (SciAAS?) will enable researchers to save time and money without compromising quality. Making specialized resources and institutional expertise available for hire gives researchers more flexibility" - an interesting article.

Google Analytics

An useful material - Google Analytics Guide

100 years in chains

"That was Jan. 23, 1913, a century ago this week. Mathematician Andrey A. Markov delivered a lecture that day to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg on a computational technique now called the Markov chain.

Little noticed in its day, his idea for modeling probability is fundamental to all of present-day science, statistics, and scientific computing. Any attempt to simulate probable events based on vast amounts of data — the weather, a Google search, the behavior of liquids — relies on Markov’s idea." - read more here.

About Facebook Graph Search

Here is a collection of actual Facebook Graph Searches. Obviously, the answer depends on the accuracy in filling profiles info. Just check out your own profile. How many fields did you left blank ? :). Another problem is identification. For example, the same town (university, etc.) could be presented more than one time (with different ID's). There is a long way to LinkedIn's precision ...

P.S. btw, check out search (more precisely - visualization or tabulization :) for your own circle: Social Directory for Facebook. It is like your own small LinkedIn on the base of your social graph in Facebook.

Data Mining FAQ

Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Decision & Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic FAQ

Web Intents for M2M

Our new paper has been published. The paper briefly describes the current state of open APIs for M2M applications. As the main topic for review we consider an Application Programming Interface (Open API) from ETSI. It provides applications with a rich framework of core network capabilities upon which to build services while encapsulating the underlying communication protocols. Open API provides a portable platform for services that may be replicated and ported between different execution environments and hardware platforms. It is the most elaborated specification for M2M APIs to date. In this article we would like to propose the possible extension for ETSI documents, namely – Web Intents that, by our opinion, will keep telecom development in sync with the modern approaches in the web development.

/via European Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-216X Vol. 94 No. 3 January, 2013, pp.452-462

DLD 2013

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is DLD, Munich 2013



/via Geo Messages

P.S. and the same in Twi-gazeta:   DLD

Web Pair: share contact info

Our web pairing for mobile phones has been updated. This basic service lets you connect two smart phones so you will be able to transfer data from one to another. More precisely – it links two browsers. Actually, you cal link mobile to desktop, desktop to desktop, mobile to smart TV, etc. The key idea is that internet connection should be enough for passing data from one browser to another (from any screen to another screen). There is no need to download applications. Everything should work in the browser.

How does it work? Point two browsers (two phones, for example) to the same URL: http://pair.linkstore.ru

You can use the following QR-code:

 

You can see the following:

The picture will be the same in the second browser. Just a code should be different:

This random code will be used for pairing two devices. It is the schema similar to Bluetooth pairing. On the screen (phone) that should display the data (be linked to another phone/screen in slave mode) type the code presented on the second phone. You do not need to type anything on the second (master) phone.

Now our slave screen is ready to accept data:

As soon as the code in entered, the second screen (master) will be updated automatically:

Type any text and press Push button on the master screen. You (your pal) will see data on the slave screen:

It is a basic example that transfers text data. Technically it is possible to pass any data available in the browser. What you can transfer right now:

- just type any text. All connected slaves phones will see that

- type any phone number. It will be presented as a clickable link on the slave screen (screens)

- type any URL. E.g. http://servletsuite.com Slave screen will show a clickable link

- type the following command t:some_name_from_Twitter. E.g.:  t:t411. Slave screen (screens) will show the link to that account in Twitter (http://twitter.com/t411 in our example). So, your pals will be able to read your feed, follow it, etc.

- type the following command f:some_name_from_Facebook. The same as above but for Facebook. Slave screen (screens) will show the link to that profila in Facebook. So, your pals will be able to read your feed, subscribe, etc.

What are the prototypes? There are two componets in Coldtags suite. Both controls are pre-ajax and use frames but they work. They are Cobrowse and Slide.

Source 13

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Source 13, SF 2013



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Luggage Tracker

An interesting development in location - luggage tracker

Street Fight Summit

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Street Fight, NY 2013



/via Geo Messages

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Data visualization

Collection of data visualization tools. It includes libraries for plotting data on maps, frameworks for creating charts, graphs and diagrams and tools to simplify the handling of data.

Portable printers

An interesting hardware - portable printers. E.g., iPhone compatible printers. Here is an example for the project that can print paper tickets on the go.

As per our own development we are looking for paper tickets based on Social ID Card

Probability theory

A good introduction for programmers - Probability theory

CES 2013

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is CES, Las Vegas 2013



/via Geo Messages

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Social dynamics

An interesting set of papers devoted to the social dynamics from Barabasi Lab

Using Network Proximity for Context-aware Browsing

Our new paper has been published. This paper describes our SpotEx model for accessing to local data for mobile subscribers. This model is based on ideas of network proximity. In our concept, any existing or even especially created Wi-Fi hot spot or Bluetooth node could be used as presence sensor that can play a role of trigger for opening access for some content (or discovering some content).

/via International Journal On Advances in Telecommunications, volume 5, numbers 3 and 4, 2012

HTML5 for mobile

An interesting mobile web framework Junior

Machine Learning in 30 min

Machine Learning for Hackers

Pairing phone with TV

YouTube Makes Your Phone A Remote Control, By Pairing Its Mobile Apps With TVs From LG, Panasonic, Sony, And Others

But we did it already :) Check out mobile web pairing

Hadoop cluster

An interesting read: How to build Hadoop cluster