G+ statistics via Webmaster Tools Author Stats

// I had previously http://bit.ly/W8U6r2 written about adding your #author information in your content so that your name can show up next to Google search engine results of your website and #Google+ posts. 

What I hadn't included though is that Google's #WebmasterTools  have a "Author stats" report with traffic #statistics of the pages that Google has correctly indexed as authored by you. The interesting part is that your Google+ posts are included in this, so you actually have some analytics on your G+ activity (unlike Facebook if you only use a personal profile). 

If you have previously added your authorship information to your pages, this link http://bit.ly/Wd9Klr should give you the report. 

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Ember table and the endless grid

// Ember table describes itself as a "fast, lazy rendered, easily extensible table built with Ember.js". The demos on the page http://bit.ly/UejkEL look nicely done (especially the one with thousands of rows!) but the examples in the download file do not run out of the box. Still, check it out and keep a bookmark for future versions. 

On other solutions in the field, see also ng-grid http://bit.ly/VLSpiK and of course my current favorite: jqGrid http://bit.ly/UekhwO

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The Internet of Buzzwords

// The Next Web explains "Why 2013 will be the year of the Internet of Things" http://tnw.co/TmTcZl

According to WikiPedia, the term describes "a system where the Internet is connected to the physical world via ubiquitous sensors". But at the moment I think there is a confusion on what "the Internet of Things" actually means, or at least how it is used. Or TNW is desperate for a new buzzword. 

For example, the author writes: 
But as Patil points out, the raw data is not so helpful on its own and this is why people are building products that can help to communicate that information clearly. A good example we’re covered recently is MySugr, the data collection app for diabetics.
Although it doesn’t yet take blood readings automatically, but inputting the data on mood, food and health, people with diabetes can start to work with their own data. The mobile app means they can add information anywhere and even show it to their doctor. At the moment though it’s not compatible with the blood testing kits that are given to patients.

In what was described above, no "thing" produces data or communicates with any other "thing". This is simply an example of "digitized life" (is this a term? can I coin it? :))

Another example involved switching on the lights to your home by your mobile device's GPS signal when you enter the house. If there ever was an example of too much technology being used for a very simple task, that is probably it. Not to mention that GPS signal can be problematic inside a house (signal gone = lights turn out on you?). 

Perhaps we need better examples if the idea of "The Internet of Things" is to have any success...

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Luxembourg vs Kozani

for #12photoproject  with +Dimitris Giannopoulos 
taken in Luxembourg, edited in Kozani (Greece)
timestamp: 12/12/12 12:12:50 :)
see more here https://www.facebook.com/events/386863428069482/

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