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Jane Jacobs on Strangers (Nina Simon) — Many of us live in towns
Jane Jacobs on Strangers (Nina Simon) — Many of us live in towns where we rarely have the opportunity for this kind of anonymous, safe, positive soc...

Killer App for Wearables (Fortune) — While many corporations are
Killer App for Wearables (Fortune) — While many corporations are still waiting to see what the “killer app” for wearables is, Disney invented on...

After writing my short post about the use of drones to deliver
After writing my short post about the use of drones to deliver packages, it occurred to me that there’s one more realistic use case. Unfortunately (...

Editor’s note: this is an excerpt from our forthcoming book
Editor’s note: this is an excerpt from our forthcoming book Designing Connected Products; it is part of a free curated collection of chapters from t...

When a team first starts to consider using Hadoop for data storage
When a team first starts to consider using Hadoop for data storage and processing, one of the first questions that comes up is: which file format shou...

Over the past year, I assisted in creating an application that
Over the past year, I assisted in creating an application that helped shift a major part of IBM to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. I did this ...