Geeking with Greg

What has caught my attention lately: "Ads are often annoying ... [and] the practice of running annoying ads can cost more money than ...

Some of the advertising out there is getting spooky. If you look at a product at many online stores, that product will then follow you aroun...

Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Tiny cheap satellites will provide near real-time imagery of the entire Eart...

More of what caught my attention lately: "Make infinite computing resources available internally ... Give teams the resources they ...

What has caught my attention recently: Netflix says the value of its recommendations algorithms is $500M/year ( [1] ) Details on the inte...

You can get over-the-air HDTV signals using an antenna. This antenna gets a better, stronger signal with less interference if it is direct l...

Seattle City Light has a clever project where, instead of installing solar panels on your house where they might be obscured by trees or bu...

What caught my attention lately: 12% of Harvard is enrolled in CS 50: "In pretty much every area of study, computational methods and...

Personalized education has had some spectacular failures lately, in large part due to how tone-deaf the backers have been to the needs of t...

More of what caught my attention lately: The overwhelming majority of smartphone users set up their phone once, then barely ever download...

What caught my attention lately: Great idea for walking directions: "At times, we do not [want] the fastest route ... When walking, w...

More of what caught my attention lately: Crazy cool and the first time I've seen ultrasound used for device-to-device communication ou...

What caught my attention lately: Fun data: "How to tell someone's age when all you know is her name" ( [1] ) "The poss...

Project Euler is a simple and surprisingly good educational tool for a blend of computer science and math. Highly recommended. You are gi...

More of what has caught my attention lately: Excellent history of Google's love-hate relationship with management (hint: it's mos...

What has caught my attention lately: Dilbert on A/B testing: "Bend to my will and choose the orange button, you mindless click-puppet...

More of what caught my attention recently: Cool new tech, especially for mobile, detecting gesture movements from the changes they make to...

What caught my attention lately: Colorful description of Google's servers in 1999: "A thin layer of cork to protect the motherboa...

Wearable computing so far seems to be going after mimicking a tablet, but I wonder if the real success will be in augmented perception. Cur...

What caught my attention lately: Windows 8 has caused a big drop in PC sales to businesses, most of which has been picked up by Google Chr...