1862: In the midst of the American Civil War, inventors W.H. Fancher and C.M. French of Waterloo, New York, successfully receive a patent for the “New and Improved Ordnance Plow,” a horse-drawn plow outfitted with a — get ready for it — firearm.
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It’s the anniversary of what may be the worst invention combination in recorded history, a plow and a gun. So we asked the Wired.com staff to tell us about other inventive combos. Some are weird, some are wonderful.
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The growth of application mashups can be either a blessing or a curse depending on your organization’s application development practices. Security pros shared some thoughts on what you should consider as you develop a processes for handling application mashups.
– Ideally, application mashups are an easy way to blend data and
functionality from multiple sources. Poor development practices, however,
can burst that bubble, adding risk and making both the users
and the applications vulnerable.
As the use of enterprise mashups continues to grow, busine…
Google sees value in using location-based services, such as Google Latitude and Google Buzz to connect to disparate Web services and provide recommendations, but the search engine believes it’s important to mitigate the potential privacy scares associated with such services. To do this, Google product manager Steve Lee said making such services opt-in is crucial. There would also have to be a mutual understanding between the friend providing the recommendation from an app and the recipient of the recommendation for this to work.
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Google sees value in using location-based services such as Google
Latitude and Google Buzz to provide recommendations by connecting
to disparate Web services.
But the search engine believes it’s just as important
to mitigate the potential privacy scares associated with such servi…
IBM is using Hadoop to enable ad hoc analytics at Web scale, in a project called Massive Mashups.
– NEW YORK IBM
is using Hadoop to enable ad hoc analytics at Web scale in an effort called Massive Mashups, or
M2.
In other words, IBM is making Hadoop
accessible to business professionals to enable them to gain access to analytics
on the fly and presenting the results in an easily accessible way…
Microsoft plans on shutting down Popfly, its development tool that allowed nonprogrammers to create their own applications, mashups and Web pages without actually needing to write code. As it refocuses and readjusts its corporate strategy, Microsoft has been killing legacy applications such as Encarta and programs such as Windows Live Butterfly while focusing on the release of Windows 7, Office 2010 and other flagship products.
– Popfly, Microsoft’s
2-year-old development tool for creating applications, mashups and Web pages,
will shut down in mid-August.
Originally intended to provide programming tools for those with little to no
programming experience, Popfly let users snap together code quot;blocks quot;
to create …
