Contents Hotel Keycard Flaw • Kayak IPO • Higher Ed Big Data • Yahoo News • Amazon London • US has Inferior Broadband • Simulating a Living Organism • New Software Jargon • Snake Robot Security Flaw in up to Four Million Hotel Room Keycard Locks Security researcher Cody Brocious demonstrated a simple technique to…
Contents Travel App Usage Ranking • MetaDeals • Touring the US • Baggage Information Transparency • Unlimited Vacation Perks • Silicon Valley Frequent Traveler Secrets • Living and Working in Heathrow • Great Landmarks Hotels • The Burj Al Arab Top Travel App Usage Ranking Tnooz has an interesting infographic ranking the usage of top…
Contents The Internet Defense League • Lost Jobs Interview Lessons • Marissa Skeptics • Coursera Online Education • YouTube Face Blurring • littleBits Truth, Justice and the Internet Defense League The EFF, Mozilla, Reddit, WordPress and several other organizations have joined together in an initiative to marshall rapid responses whenever internet freedom is threatened, such…
Contents EAN is no Beast • TripAdvisor Font Size Fine • Hotels: Higher Rating = More Revenue • Budget-built Travel App • Wikitravel • “Experiential Travel” • 7.5 Million Mile Family • Best Cheap Cities • Cheap Flights to Europe • Miniature Airport EAN is not a Beast Interesting opinion piece in Tnooz: in response…
Contents Marissa Mayer to Lead Yahoo • Microsoft’s Lost Mojo • Office 13 • MS<–>NBC.com • Nexus 7 Sells Out • Xbox on Top • Just Two More Wow: Marissa Mayer Takes Over At Yahoo I don’t think anyone saw this coming. Google executive Marissa Mayer has been named the new CEO of Yahoo. The…
Contents The Hidden Cost of Complex Online Pricing • Fly to Space in 2013 • Who’s Who in AeroSpace • Brazil to Get US Visa Waiver • Russian Online Travel Surges • GateGuru on WP7 • Super-7 Travel Aspirations The Hidden Cost of Complex Online Travel Pricing Travel companies have been creating increasingly complex pricing…
Contents Nexus Q Hacks • Google “Search As You Type” Service • GroupMe • Coding Horror Likes Win8 • Amazon Same Day • Hate your Mobile Carrier • Stone Skipping Robot Nexus Q Hacks The Google Nexus Q entertainment sphere has only been out a few days but enterprising experimenters have already created some notable…
Contents Utrip Mini-Review • Kayak IPO On • Priceline v. Expedia Semi-opaque booking • How to Pay Abroad • The Shard Mini-Review: Startup Utrip Aims to Simplify Trip Planning Seattle-based trip planning site Utrip offers an interesting user experience design. Users first choose a destination city and travel dates. They then set their preferences for…
Contents Nexus 7 Tablet Reviews & Teardown • Netflix Beats Cable • Yahoo Facebook Make Up • Amazon Smartphone? • Amazon Web Service Outage • RIM Mismanagement • Microsoft Mismanagement • Windows 8 Upgrades • 3D Printing Breakout • Art and Mathematics Nexus 7 Tablet Gets Good Marks Reviews Engadget says the new Google Nexus…
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained by Ron Kohavi, Alex Deng, Brian Frasca, Roger Longbotham, Toby Walker and Ya Xu. There are a lot of people doing online A/B and multivariate testing these days, but few of them bring as much analytic rigor to the process as Ronny Kohavi and his colleagues. Ronny…
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