Vint Cerf: High Oil Prices Could Help the Web (3)
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While some of our European readers may snicker if I were to complain about having to pay $4.10/gallon to fill up my car's gas tank, the fact is that across the world many people are feeling pressure at the pump. There are some who argue that the environmental benefits of high gas prices, which are changing our energy consumption habits for the better, outweigh the economic problems pricey fuel creates. But one unexpected benefit of ...
The Percentage Fallacy (9)
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There's one bit of irrationality that seems like it ought to be in behavioral economics introduction but mysteriously isn't. For lack of a better term, let's call it the percentage fallacy. The idea is simple: One day I find I need a blender. I see a particularly nice one at the store for $40, so I purchase it and head home. But on the way home, I see the exact same blender on sale at ...
The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives (1)
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Author: Dirk Riehle Institution: SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC Abstract: Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be committers, vendors feel pressure to produce open source products, and system integrators anticipate boosting profits. Reference: IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 4 (April 2007). Page 25-32. Available as a PDF file or in HTML. (This is ...
Find Who Has Access to Your Gmail Account (21)
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After years of testing, Gmail has finally added a very useful security feature: tracking open sessions. If you log in to Gmail from more than one computer and you forget to sign out, you'll be able to see the list of locations where your account can still be accessed. Until now, the only solution when you forgot to log out from Gmail after using a public computer was to change your password. Otherwise, anyone could ...
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sooraj said:
gmail tells you your password is leaked or you forgot to sign out.
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Jonna said:
Ooh nice option!
Last.fm – the Blog · Last.fm: The Next Generation (51)
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Back in May we unveiled our project to build a new version of Last.fm. Our goal was to lay the foundation for an online music experience more compelling, accessible, and discoverable than anything that had gone before. But modernising a service powered by the people since 2002—touching on everything from the core of Audioscrobbler engine to the look & feel—wasn’t something we could do alone. So we turned to you—Last.fm subscribers and users—and wow, you ...
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Michael said:
Liking what I see so far.
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Apollo L said:
The finest music service on the internet just got better!
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JesusDQ said:
Algunos se quejaban mucho, pero a mí me parece un buen rediseño, actualizado y bien organizado. Eso sí, le han quitado funcionalidades que tenía la beta y no entiendo por qué.Lo mejor es que las estadísticas se actualizan en tiempo real... ñeñeñé!!
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mrshl said:
The new Last.fm is live, and it's awesome. I've been using the Beta for two months. It's a vast improvement.
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Graham English said:
The new site looks awesome.
Megszületett a 100 ezredik szócikk a magyar Wikipedián (10)
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Ma mérföldkőhöz érkezett a Wikipedia magyar verziója. Megszületett ugyanis a százezredik szócikk. S ez azt jelenti, hogy az ötödik éve létező magyar kiadás belépett végre a legnagyobb Wikipedia-kiadások közé, a 22. helyre.Amúgy a hasonló nagyságú nyelvek közül a csehek például beelőztek minket. Ők pár héttel ezelőtt érték el a 100 ezredik szócikket. Korábban érték el az álomhatárt a finnek, norvégok és a svédek is. Igaz, ott a digitális kultúra sokkal előrébb tart, mint minálunk. Érdekes, ...
To Blog, or Not to Blog - That is the Question (38)
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Guest Post By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)I'm noticing a trend lately which started several months ago, and I couldn't quite pinpoint what was causing it. It seemed as though many of my friends and others that I esteemed as good bloggers were getting tired, and were posting much less frequently, or not at all. Many of these people were part of the reason I became an entrepreneur and it was disappointing to ...
All the water and air in the world (1)
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Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth. Update: this image has received a lot of attention and several people have emailed me asking whether I created it. Both the text and image ...
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Gergő said:
two bubbles we playing around, but taking no responsibility. visualization is really impressive.
Megvan az 5 millió Firefox 3 (1)
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Mindössze 15 órára volt szükség ahhoz, hogy 5 milliószor töltsék le a netezők a Mozilla Foundation böngészőjének új verzióját. (A rivális Opera új böngészőjét 5 nap alatt 4,7 millióan töltötték le a gépükre.) A rekordkísérlet célja az volt, hogy 24 óra leforgása alatt legalább ennyien töltsék le a Firefox 3-at. A letöltési verseny magyar idő szerint tegnap este 7 órakor kezdődött, és értelemszerűen ma 19 órakor zárul. Magyarországról máris kétszer annyian töltötték le a böngészőt, ...
Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network (5)
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It was sort of inevitable given Facebook’s monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore and shown above. Both services are attracting around 115 million people to their respective sites each month. Most of Facebook’s user growth, however, has been in international markets - MySpace is still dominates Facebook in the ...
Interview with Linux-Magazine Italia (1)
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Vincenzo Ciaglia from Linux-Magazine Italia sent me a few questions related to the release of 8.04 LTS. Since he was going to translate the conversation into Italian this week, he was happy for me to blog the English version here. 1) Hi Mark, thank you for your availability. Some simple questions to introduce you to our readers to start. What’s your role at Ubuntu/Canonical and what do you do in your spare time? What are ...
How the Web Was Won (4)
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An Oral History of the Internet How the Web Was Won Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign. Each breakthrough—network protocols, hypertext, the World Wide Web, the browser—inspired another as narrow-tied engineers, long-haired hackers, ...
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Gergő said:
I like articles pretty much that describe historical background of a major innovation in technology, say breakthrough, which revolutionarized and changed in many way our very recent globe and thinking on the world. This interesting post introduces and summarizes human aspects how today's internet has been evolved from its original birth.
A szenvedélyről (1)
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A Trójában van egy tanulságos jelenet: Akhilleusz kint áll Trója kapui előtt, és Hektort követeli, mert az megölte Patrokloszt (barátját és szerelmét) egy csatában, amiben Akhilleusz Agamemnon iránt érzett ellenszenve miatt nem volt hajlandó részt venni. Egyedül áll a kapu előtt, ordít és fújtat. Hektor válaszol a kihívásra, és kilép Trója kapuin, hogy szembeszálljon Akhilleusszal. Képességeit tekintve két egyenértékű harcos néz farkasszemet egymással. Hektor a harc kezdete előtt egy kérést intéz Akhilleusz felé: kössenek szerződést, ...
Where Does Facebook Grow From Here (1)
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Facebook publishes demographic data through its advertising platform. Potential advertisers can obtain estimates for the number of Facebook users by age group, gender, education, country, and even relationship status! While the estimates most likely rely on user supplied data, they provide the best publicly available numbers on the Facebook user base. Facebook currently has about 75M users spread across more than 80 countries. The good news is that the top three countries (US,UK,Canada) now account ...
A Google Maps - fotókkal és enciklopédiával (1)
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Nemrégiben számoltunk be arról, hogy a Google összefűzte a tulajdonában lévő Panoramio geocímkézett képadatbáziását a Google Mapsszel. Egy ideje a Google Mapsen már nem csak a különböző nézetek (térkép, műholdas, domborzati) közül választhatunk, hanem kérhetjük az adott területen készült képek és kapcsolódó Wikipedia-szócikkek megjelenítését is. Íme: Az adott földrajzi helyhez kapcsolódó fotókon és Wikipedia-szócikkeken túl nyilván a jövőben egyéb tartalmak is megjelennek majd a Google Maps menüjében. (YouTube-videók? Vagy mondjuk könyvidézetek? Helyi hírek?)
Search, Aggregation, and Conversation: Keys to a Killer Web Service (2)
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There are thousands of new services that pop up every day. Too many services imitate, and only a handful innovate. With all of these services, one wonders what their plans are for success. Competition on the web is stiff and users are demanding more from the services they join. While there's no formula for success, there are three keys to a killer web service: search, aggregation, and conversation. In this post, we take a look ...
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