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Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World

Nathan Eagle · The MIT Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Big Data is made up of lots of little data: numbers entered into cell phones, addresses entered into GPS devices, visits to websites, online purchases, ATM transactions, and any other activity that leaves a digital trail. Although the abuse...
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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

Jaron Lanier · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary...
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More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook

Jim Dwyer · Viking
Format: Hardcover

David versus Goliath in Silicon Valley - an epic attempt to take back the InternetTheir idea was simple. Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control their personal data, instead of surrendering it to big businesses like Facebook. They called it Diaspora....
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Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter

Stefan Weitz · Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

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Using Microsoft Windows 7

J. Peter Bruzzese · Que; 1 edition
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

Get comfortable with Windows 7. Don’t just read about it: See it and hear it with step-by-step video tutorials and valuable audio sidebars delivered through the Free Web Edition that comes with every USING book. For the price of the book, you get online access anywhere with a web connection–no...
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Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers

Mike Smith · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Far from the catchy television spots and sleek magazine spreads are the comparatively modest ads that pop up on websites and in Internet searches. But dont be fooled - online advertising is exploding. Growing at a compound annual rate near 20 per cent, it is now the second-largest advertising...
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The Best of Windows® 7: The Official Magazine: The Official Magazine: A Real-Life Guide to Windows and Your PC

The Editors the ficial WIndows Magazine of · Microsoft Press; 1 edition

Explore the practical, fun, and creative things you can do right now with Windows® 7-with expert guidance from the editors of the only officially endorsed magazine for Windows® 7. This guide comes packed with smart-and-simple tips-and vibrantly illustrated how-to's-on everything...
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Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World

John Havens · Tarcher
Pages: 304

In Hacking Happiness, futurist and contributing Mashable writer John C. Havens introduces you to your "quantified self" - your digital identity represented by gigabytes of data produced from tracking your activities on your smartphone and computer. Harvested by megacorporations...
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Photoshop Elements 12 in Easy Steps

Nick Vandome · In Easy Steps Limited

Adobe's best-selling Photoshop Elements for editing images is updated with even more features to enhance pictures. And Photoshop Elements 12 in easy steps reveals all the key features on offer for you to perfect your photos. It'll help you to quickly master Elements' interface...
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Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language

Martin Donnelly · IBM Press
Pages: 1130
Format: Print book

IBM's Best-Selling Guide to XPages Development-Now Updated and Expanded for Lotus Notes/Domino 9.0.1 XPages instantly revolutionized Notes/Domino application development, and the newest versions deliver unprecedented performance and flexibility. Now, the popular insider's guide to XPages...
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