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On Megapixels
via ongoing by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Shared by Mahesh CR Something to remember when I move ahead from my layman N82!Suppose you’re interested in buying a camera. If you look at the ads andreviews, the first thing you see right beside every single oneis its megapixel count. The camera makers want you to think that more is always better, which iswrong. But the community buzz is starting to be “more is worse”,which isn’t...
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Data on the Web: VGChartz vs. NPD
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
Shared by Mahesh CR Equity Research is ready for a shakeup...After writing my first post, Equity Research in the Age of Web 2.0, I received a lot of comments asking really good questions. Most of the questions from readers asked about real world examples. So here's a taste.In the world of securities research, in general, we talk about consensus sources. These are sources that everyone looks...
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The Dirty on Revision 3 DOS Attack
via revision3.com by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
As many of you know, Revision3’s servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. It’s an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasn’t your normal cybercrime – there’s a chilling twist at the end. Here’s what happened, and why we’re even more concerned today, after it’s over, than we were on Saturday when it started.It all...
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Mobile Internet
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Nat Torkington on May 26, 2008
I enjoyed Going Fast on the Mobile Web, a slide deck on Slideshare. It's by Jason Grigsby, and has the rough structure of: (1) mobile is huge, (2) iPhone is worth developing for, (3) here's why other platforms' mobile experience sucks, and (4) what you can do to fix it. The two slides that really stood out were on points 1 and 2.The size of mobile (3.3B handsets, one for every two...
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Paul Graham on Six Principles for Making New Things
via |Message by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
... or hail mary or hare krishna![from Six Principles for Making New Things by Paul Graham]Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.I like the fact that his title numbers then six, but he uses letters in the text.
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In two words, Im-possible: The problem with counterintuition
via confused of calcutta by JP on May 26, 2008
Nearly 40 years ago, we were asked this question at school:Imagine a string tied around the middle of an orange, in effect forming a circumference. Now imagine another string, this time tied around the middle of the earth, at the equator.Okay? Now increase the length of each of these strings by a foot. Imagine each string now suspended around its sphere as an annulus. Tell me, which string will...
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Let's grab Google's gazillions
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on May 23, 2008
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The infographic that saved a million lives?
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on May 20, 2008
“No graphic in human history has saved so many lives in Africa and Asia,” says NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof about an infographic in a ‘97 Times article that spurred Bill and Melinda Gates to take action on public health.in september i traveled with bill gates to africa to look at his work fighting aids there. while setting the trip up, it emerged that his initial interest in giving...
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Q&A: Hard-driving Seagate CEO talks about making money in storage
via VentureBeat by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Seagate is my sponsor on ScobleizerTV and I have an interview with Bill coming up on my show in the next week too. This interview is great, though.Bill Watkins is a hard driver. The CEO of Seagate, the $13 billion hard disk drive maker based in Scotts Valley, Calif., is racing to take advantage of the boom in storage as digital media spreads everywhere: to iPods, home...
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Face to Face
via i love typography, the typography blog by johno (iLT) on May 20, 2008
An Interview With Stefan HattenbachStefan Hattenbach started designing typefaces in 1996. In 2003, he established his own independent foundry and design studio, MAC Rhino Fonts (MRF). Proud A.S. Roma supporter and father of two, Stefan works his magic from a studio in the beautiful city of Stockholm.What do you love about designing type?Oh many things. One is the challenge of getting the...
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