Did Newsweek really find Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto?
UPDATE: Newsweek’s reporting was wrong: “There was a false unmasking by Newsweek in 2014″ Newsweek has posted a cover story by Leah McGrath Goodman, claiming to have located the inventor…
Developing Android apps using App Inventor 2
Front Page | Explore MIT App Inventor. App Inventor is perhaps the fastest and easiest way to develop custom Android applications. App Inventor uses a graphical programming model in a…
The challenge of health information data normalization
Different facilities and doctors use different terminology to describe the same things which makes the exchange of patient data difficult: Until the data is normalized, the true potential of HIEs…
Google Merchant Accounts: How do you change your business address?
Update: Multiple updates, below. Today (November 11) I received a reply from Google that says in order to change my address, I have to set up a new merchant account…
Why does Android’s Google Maps need access to your personal contacts list?
Google has updated the Maps app for Android. The update says the app now requires access to your contacts list. Why? To share with their business partner, the NSA? Who…
Self-Published Authors should charge $2.99 to $9.99 for their e-books
Self-Published Authors Say ‘Don’t Overcharge for E-Books’ | Creatives at Work. Interesting but this conclusion appears to be based on opinion (which I agree with) but there’s no hard data…
Robotic Snowplows
I dreamed up some ideas about this a few years back: Design and Development: Robotics Teams Compete for Best Robotic Snowplow | Robotics Trends. In my concept, we only need…
How to Use Contests and Giveaways to Get User-Generated Content
Good ideas! How to Use Contests and Giveaways to Get User-Generated Content. User generated content contests – and voting polls – encourage users to pass a link on Facebook and…
How to save your Instagram photos and then delete your account
In light of Instagram’s new policy to license out user’s photos for ads, without specific permission or compensation, users are canceling their Instagram accounts in droves: Oh My Tech!: How…
The statistics behind start up success
Startups: never have so many understood so little about the statistics of variance present in the outcomes of small samples. People like to speak of 10x productivity, non-stop work and…