dalek2point3

its too bad that the data from the search process is not made available more openly. they used crowdsourdcing for the image analysis, but as this analysis shows -- its likely the people can really be useful at all stages of the search effort.

kudos for doing this! really great.

I thought commercial drone technology had not yet passed the muster at the FAA?

Special plug for the OpenStreetMap innovation fellow!

http://www.whitehouse.gov//innovationfellows/projects#sectio...

Round 3 Presidential Innovation Fellows will work on five Crowdsourcing projects that seek to create interesting opportunities and solve unique challenges.

Open Street Map for Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map of the world built by a community of mappers who contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. During disasters like the 2010 Haiti earthquake, volunteers around the globe can use OSM to quickly build maps of uncharted or poorly charted regions, with the goal of rapidly getting help to where it is most needed. This project expands on existing State Department initiatives to: create and share open geographic data with the OSM user community; support the growth of global technology communities through stakeholder events around the globe; make citizen-driven mapping a core component of ongoing engagement with civil society; and openly share the outcomes of civic engagement efforts to help inform humanitarian and development projects around the world.

so, Microsoft is not going to compete in the market for online video and concede that battle to Google? Im surprised, given how much grief GOOG has given MSFT over developing a YT app for WindowsPhone.

who does this website belong to? c2.com? really cool domain name, mustve been an early adopter?

As an indian citizen I've never understood how these technologies ever reach me. I know GPS is by the US government, is any one commercializing these technologies in India?

"Indian officials say the independent navigation service will aid marine traffic, emergency response officials, vehicle tracking applications, mobile communications, mapping, and civilian drivers."

Popcorn Time? really? I'm skeptical -- how many users do you think it's seeing?

really? now we have to have an entire website dedicated to the t-test? surely this is something you could learn to do in a spreadsheet? no?

Did you try the Leap with Google Earth? it works great! Lots of fun.

how popular is it in places where it is open? any numbers? when is it coming to Boston?

you can do a "location-based" google search, where it restricts pages based just on the country of origin. how does that work?

but what about the legal side of things? last time I checked, Netflix wasn't particularly excited about me trying to scrape all of their video data and making money off of it.

Great point and glad to hear about Algortihmia. In my own domain of mapping data, I see something similar. OpenStreetMap users put in the fundamental data openly, and firms then value-add using nice routing design, apps etc to compete on the product market and make money. It usually works out just fine.

Also would love an invite! My email is dalek2point3 AT gmail

does anyone have a link to the usability of AWS v Google vs Azure? I'm looking to setup a personal server for all kinds of data wrangling, personal projects, websites etc. Im wondering what the most cost effective solution might be.

I agree, but the more important thing that this article needs to emphasize is the difference between crowdsourcing and crowdserfing. Waze is using the crowd to hoard data about traffic, that you can use for one specific purpose (avoiding traffic) but for science its nearly useless. Want to understand traffic accidents based on the design of highways? you're out of luck with Waze data. All that the crowd is doing is making Google rich.

We definitely need open source software to power these platforms. But whats more important is to keep the work of the crowd in the open. But maintaining data servers, reliable access and developing features takes developers and time -- how was fund that work? that is the real challenge.

Also see: http://xkcd.com/1102/

erm, and also the fact that MANY MANY open source projects are not on github? Linux, apache, android, some of the most influential projects are missing. This should be titled, "the fastest growing open source project by people who are not too important to be hosting on Github".

is decompiling an app legal? does it not break someone's terms of service?

oldie but goodie. For those who are new to map-making, the reason Africa does not look nearly as big as it really is (and why Greenland looks so big) is because of something called "map projections", i.e. the choices that were made as to the formula for projecting a spherical earth onto a flat piece of paper. The most popular projection in use "mercator" favored an accurate representation of western europe and distorted other regions, the smaller size of Africa being one casualty. Here is more reading for those who are interested: http://www.petersmap.com/page3.html

I dont understand what's going on ...

You've misspelt "notifiactions" on your main page.

i wonder if it will keep getting regular updates and support too -- what product cycle will it be on? will it have clippy -- the office assistant? so many questions.

You might fins some help here: http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/sfgeo/liquefaction/susceptibility...

do a PhD if you want to be an academic, do highly specific research on one topic, teach students, give up money for freedom and intellectually challenging environment. if you want to do anything else, really, there are probably easier ways to get there.

"Database connections are a real limitation"

I repeat

"Database connections are a real limitation"

this should be one point, and the others should be one point. No?

Oh man, I remember those days when the Wordpress vs/ Drupal vs. Joomla war was still in its infancy. Drupal was always soo yucky in terms of UX even though it was waay more powerful than wordpress. WP seems to have essentially won that war. Wonder why? Something similar happening the .JS world? Not really my cup of tea.

Anyone have a sense of how long this price war could feasibly go on? What's happening at the cost side for GOOG / AMZN? How much do you reckon its costs the on the margin for extra cores, memory etc?

I wrote an example for graduate students in the US to create a webpage and directed them to look at my webpage for an example template. Now they all copy my analytics tracking code, and I have like tens of student websites that I'm tracking me. It annoys me. I think we should have some sort of two-way authentication or atleast a way to "mute" certain domains or only whitelist certain domains in the reporting side of GA. Perhaps it exists?

my complaint is mainly with the headline. if the word "kickstarter" was anywhere in the title I would not have clicked. d'oh.

im curious -- what is the waze market share in Israel? does everyone use it?