Geeking with Greg

Google Reader is shutting down, but most people moved on long ago. Blogging is dead. To the extent that it lives, it is dominated by profe...

Again, it has been too long, but here you go, what has caught my attention lately: "Employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed fo...

It's been a while since I did a Quick Links post, so there's a lot to cover. Here's the latest of what has caught my attention:...

I built Code Monster and Code Maven to get more kids interested in programming. Why is programming important? Computers are a powerful t...

I finally got a chance to read " Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click ", a paper out of Google presented at the recent VLDB...

More of what caught my attention recently: Android now has 72.4% of the mobile market, up from 52.5% a year ago ( [1] ) Google's n...

I recently launched Code Maven from Crunchzilla . It helps teens learn a little about what they can...

What caught my attention recently: The latest Google and Microsoft earnings show damage from a tech disruption, a shift to mobile that is ...

I recently launched Code Monster from Crunchzilla . It helps parents teach a little programming to ...

I just bet Professor Daniel Lemire $100 that they won't. At least, any time soon. The specific terms of the bet are, "In some ...

Some of what has caught my attention lately: Pump and dump, both at the Facebook and Groupon IPOs. ( [1] [2] ) "The thrilling demis...

Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo may be a test of a new style of executive leadership, the optimizing CEO. She is not the first computer scien...

A fun upcoming KDD 2012 paper out of Microsoft, "Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained" ( PD...

What has caught my attention lately: The coming bandwidth explosion, by 2015, a zetabyte per year, "the equivalent of all movies ever...

I want to share more of the ideas I've been exploring. First, let me start with this, an early ...

More of what has caught my attention recently: $1B for Instagram was silly and caused by fear ( [1] [2] [3] [4] ), but it is impressive t...