thingsthatarecheaperthanwhatsapp:
Cumulative design, build, launch and maintenance costs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_TelescopeThis tumblr is pure gold.
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Google loves them some sensors.
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A Running List of Things We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far.
A Running List of Things We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far.
wnyc:
Full list on the Brian Lehrer Show blog.
An important list to remind yourself of from time to time.
Feds Can’t Enforce Net Neutrality: What This Means For You
Feds Can’t Enforce Net Neutrality: What This Means For You
In a pitched battle over the open Internet, federal judges hand telecom companies a big win.
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This year Wired is sending their reporters to cover CES only using phones.
What a crazy, insane, minigame inside the biggest news week for tech.
Instead of the usual mix of old hands and greenhorns, WIRED’s crew is comprised entirely of CES veterans. Which means that covering it would be, like, easy for our team. Easy, that is, if we didn’t intentionally make things harder. So we’re not letting them use computers.
This year at CES, our core crew of reporters can use only their phones to cover the show—this includes any text, images, video or audio content they create. No DSLRS, no laptops; no fancy compact-system cameras or iPads. Just phones. (Our photo department reserves the right to swap out terrible images; you’re welcome.) We’ll call it our CES
Mobile ChallengeSmartphone SuperchallengeSmartphone Thunderdome. And to make it more interesting, »
In 1984, there were 1000 connected devices. That number rose up to reach a million devices in 1992, and reached a billion devices in 2008. Our estimates say…that we will have roughly 50 billion connected devices by the year 2020. That number is going to really accelerate over the next several years. Despite the fact, we estimate that only one percent of things that could have an IP address do have an IP address today, so we like to say that 99 percent of the world is still asleep. It’s up to our imaginations to figure out what will happen when the 99 percent wakes up.
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, on The Internet of Things in 2014 (via wearebunker)
The internet as you know isn’t even the overture of the symphony of creativity that’s »
FQ: If you have an Instagram account, you can slap a price tag on anything, take a picture of it, and sell it. For instance, you could take this can of San Pellegrino, paint it pink, put a heart on it, call it yours, and declare it for sale. Even my grandmother has an Instagram business! She sells dried fruit. A friend’s cousin is selling weird potted plants that use Astroturf. People are creating, you know, hacked products.
Kuwait’s booming Instagram economy
So many people sell things on Instagram in Kuwait that they’re having conferences about it.
(via prophecyboy)
This is interesting to me because I ironically claimed to have a product for sale on Instagram and they deleted it as spam.
Also: have you checked the Instagram Explore tab lately? Half of the images are from people selling »
Nathan from the Guardian Project, drops some knowledge about why need to encrypt all the things. Watch it, you’ll learn things.
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The consumer expectation for content these days is best summarized by the “pull-to-refresh” action.
Thoughts on Tumblr/Yahoo! | Blog @ Percolate (via elrolio)
Didn’t you suggest before Charlie that this is the content revolution?
Not even 1TB?
Geocities was finally shut down in 2009, but since it was such an important part of the early Web, the contents of many of those sites are still available via a massive six-hundred-and-forty-gigabyte archive posted on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
I hope this means that in 10 years time we’ll be able to hold all of todays internet on a 100 dollar hard drive.
It’s the tools that make the job
The quality of your tools and your ability to continue to evolve them will allow you to suppress the need to hire for operational roles, allowing each front-line individual to do more, which simultaneously improving overall coordination (fewer people means coordination is easier) and keeps costs down. Today, the results of Facebook’s engineering leverage ratio means that there is one engineer for every 1.2 million users and despite our blistering user growth, the ratio is growing.
Emphasis mine. (source)
The partnership between Comedy Central, a cable cannel owned by Viacom, and Twitter represents the evolving relationship between television and social media. Twitter is often incorporated into programming with viewers using the site as a second screen while watching live television. But slowly, Twitter is becoming an outlet on which to watch video.
Amy Chozick, The New York Times. A Comedy Show That Comes via a Hashtag.
Next week, Comedy Central is hosting a comedy show almost entirely on Twitter, with comedians posting video clips and jokes using the hashtag #ComedyFest. It’s an experiment to get users to watch video directly on Twitter, rather than use Twitter as a second screen while watching TV.
Also:
As early as next month, Comedy Central will introduce a free, ad-supported app, called CC: Stand-Up. Designed to look and feel like a cable »
Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks
The hope is that, through improved compression techniques, H.265 will enable publishers to stream 1080p video with about half as many bits as required today. That should make true streaming HD video available not just in broadband households, but on mobile and tablet devices, using networks that are a lot more bandwidth-constrained. Doing so could make online video more widely available in markets with poor connectivity or mostly mobile connections.
It won’t be much longer until we’ll be streaming 4k video from revolutions around the globe as they happen. The future is crazy.
Beyond Instagram: Should photographers accept the risks inherent in social networks?
The question should be: can we fight these advances and the millions of people who are consuming images in that way? Or should we accept this new form of consumption and instead look at how we can bring them closer to us, how we can interact and benefit from them. We need to put ourselves in their shoes, accept their rules and, down the line, monetise them. We might be the authors of our work, but without an audience, we’re nothing.
Photos embody this problem the most. They’re traditionally seen as objects. Things that are tangible. But Instagram is the boldest example of how easily that can change. I personally think this will apply equally to other media as the technology and culture evolves, and we’re only seeing it first with photography.
Who decides what you see on the Internet?
The short answer: not you.
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