This month
Will Steacy Blog: The Facebook Effect
Corporate taxes paid on profits fell to 12.1% in fiscal 2011. Companies on average paid 25.6% from 1987-2008.
December 2011
Performance Calendar » Why Inlining Everything Is NOT The Answer
A user’s cache can only hold less than a day’s worth of browsing data: An average user browses 88 pages/day, an average page weighs 930KB, and most desktop browsers cache no more than 75MB of data. For mobile, the ratio is even worse.
November 2011
HTML5 - 12 Cool HTML5 Geolocation Ideas
Public transportation sites can list nearby bus stops and metro locations.Late night out? Taxi or car service Web sites can find where you are, even if you don’t know.Shopping sites can immediately provide estimates for shipping costs.Travel agencies can provide better vacation tips for current location and season.Content sites can more accurately determine the language and dialect of search queries.Real estate sites can present average house prices in a particular area, a handy tool when you’re driving around to check out a neighborhood or visit open houses.Movie theater sites can promote films playing nearby.Online games can blend reality into the game play by giving users missions to accomplish in the real world.News sites can include customized local headlines and weather on their front page.Online stores can inform whether products are in stock at local retailers.Sports and entertainment ticket sales sites can promote upcoming games and shows nearby.Job postings can automatically include potential commute times.
October 2011
HP's ousted Apotheker to take home $25 million - Sep. 22, 2011
Since Apotheker didn't stick around long enough to collect a performance bonus , the company will just use his bonus target as the "average," which is equal to twice his salary.
En même temps, le "performance bonus" c'est normalement un bonus donné en fonction de la performance, pas sûr qu'il en eu mérité un, même en restant plus longtemps.
September 2011
Tokyo metabolizing creates vision for Tokyo as new urban form « Tokyo Green Space
In Tokyo the average household is less than 2 people, and these smaller households seek new connections with neighbors, colleagues, and friends. I think the most radical suggestion is that an awareness of other people living around you might be considered a positive feature rather than something to be concealed or suppressed.
Image Color Summarizer
colour summarizer will produce descriptive colour statistics for an image. Reported will be the average, median or mode, minimum and maximum of each RGB and HSV triplet element.
August 2011
Anne Kaneko's Blog: Radiation (1)
Borrowing some data from the source below this could be 2.1 mSv for the year to 11 March 2012. Well, the same as the UK average but well above the Japanese recommended limit.
Measuring a platform’s smartness - QuirksBlog
However, it would be a mistake to compare the current browsing stats to the current sales stats. The browsing stats are mostly caused by already deployed devices, including the three-year old devices that are still the best the less affluent smartphone users have. So it’s best to see the current browsing stats as a kind of 12- to 24-month moving average of smartphone sales coupled with platform “smartness” (and note the deliberate vagueness and huge margin of error). That explains Symbian’s continued dominance: its sales market share may plummet all it wants, people still have an awful lot of Symbian devices on hand to do their browsing with.
June 2011
TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops • The Register
We are now aware that the police have used traffic information that you have helped to create to place speed cameras at dangerous locations where the average speed is higher than the legally allowed speed limit.
March 2011
Photosmith – the iPad mobile companion for Adobe Lightroom
Make: Online | Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”?
Library as places for hacking litterature?Hackerspaces usually revolve around everyone paying the rent (part of the membership, the largest cost of a space) and shared costs. It’s not really possible to estimate the average cost to get one started, but it’s usually whatever the rent is for a year in your local area for a pretty good-sized location.
January 2011
December 2010
You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends - NYTimes.com
November 2010
Google Code Blog: Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed for Apache
So today, we’re introducing a module for the Apache HTTP Server called mod_pagespeed to perform many speed optimizations automatically. We’re starting with more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that address various aspects of web performance, including optimizing caching, minimizing client-server round trips and minimizing payload size. We’ve seen mod_pagespeed reduce page load times by up to 50% (an average across a rough sample of sites we tried) -- in other words, essentially speeding up websites by about 2x, and sometimes even faster.
October 2010
Opera: State of the Mobile Web, September 2010
The average monthly cost of mobile traffic with Opera Mini is $15.72 instead of $157.20. Opera Mini saves you $141!* * Doesn’t apply for unlimited rate contracts.
August 2010
FOSS Patents: Western civilization runs on the mainframe
In terms of software, the average mainframe customers spends about $1 million in annual licensing fees.
Using Menus in WordPress 3.0 | Digging into WordPress
July 2010
NASA - First-of-its-Kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights
The new map shows the world’s tallest forests clustered in the Pacific Northwest of North America and portions of Southeast Asia, while shorter forests are found in broad swaths across northern Canada and Eurasia. The map depicts average height over 5 square kilometers (1.9 square miles) regions), not the maximum heights that any one tree or small patch of trees might attain.
June 2010
5 iPad Apps That Changed My Mind
toChecklist plug-in for jQuery
modwsgi - Project Hosting on Google Code
The aim of mod_wsgi is to implement a simple to use Apache module which can host any Python application which supports the Python WSGI interface. The module would be suitable for use in hosting high performance production web sites, as well as your average self managed personal sites running on web hosting services.
April 2010
Build Your Own NYT Linked Data Application - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
To help you get started (and since linked data applications are a little different from your average Web application), we thought we’d provide a sample application and detailed information about how we built it.
March 2010
» Artists in the Canadian urban fabric • Spacing Montreal
The Montreal neighbourhood of the H2T postal code (northward from avenue du Mont-Royal to avenue Van Horne between St-Denis and Jeanne-Mance) is the most artistic in Canada with artists accounting for 7.8% of its workers, ten times the national average.



