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January 2012

WordPress Ecommerce a WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin - getShopped.org

by gregg & 1 other
WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online. We make setting up a shop easy, and with over 1.3 Million downloads, we have unparalleled experience.

December 2011

Haavard - MediaTek + Opera = True(r)

by karlcow

With MediaTek eating larger and larger parts of Nokia's pie in the feature phone market, one can probably understand why we aren't too worried about what Nokia decides to do, its is market is vanishing on both the low and the high end (Windows Mobile 7 apparently sold fewer units in the 3rd quarter of 2011 than the 3rd quarter of 2010).As for Opera, this new deal with MediaTek will certainly help us towards our goal of 500 million active users by 2013.

November 2011

Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

My activities may be more symbolic than not, but if 300 million people started sending private information to federal agents, the government would need to hire as many as another 300 million people, possibly more, to keep up with the information and we’d have to redesign our entire intelligence system.

mig33 vitural gift sales increase 400% in Q2

by toki
mig33 on Monday announced that sales of virtual gifts among its 40 million registered users grew 400 percent in this year’s second calendar quarter.

October 2011

Pronunciator - Learn to Speak 60 Languages - 100% Free

by hapatchan
60 languages. 3 million lessons. 100% free. Welcome to the world's largest language-learning service!

À propos « Archives de Montréal

by karlcow

Les Archives de la Ville de Montréal ont été crées en 1913 et regroupent 4 km de documents historiques de 1796 à nos jours et 1 million de photographies. Notre site web,  mis en ligne en avril 1997, a subi de nombreuses modifications depuis son origine. On y retrouve des expositions virtuelles telles que «La démocratie à Montréal de 1830 à nos jours» ou «La Roulotte un demi-siècle de magie!» ou notre Guide des archives qui recense nos 400 fonds et collections d’archives. Pour consulter, rendez-vous à l’adresse suivante : http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives.

HP's ousted Apotheker to take home $25 million - Sep. 22, 2011

by night.kame

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.

How to launch in a month, scale to a million users :: Joseph Perla

by oseres (via)
I will talk about my last two startups where I used a lot of techniques to build them quickly and scale them up. Here I explore different techniques I used to architect them to scale which are quite simple, but someone who is not familiar with building systems may be interested in learning how to build his or her own scalable site.

September 2011

99ROOMS.COM

by gregg & 15 others
99Rooms is an unique internet art project that mixes wall painting, photography, animation and sound. Shortly after its launch in June 2004, more than 5 million individuals throughout the world have already visited this interdisciplinary composite work of art. 99Rooms stemmed from the mystical, often apocalyptically charming pictures created by Berlin artist Kim Köster within the countless vacated premises of East Berlin‘s industrial sector.

IM2GPS: estimating geographic information from a single image

by karlcow

Estimating geographic information from an image is an excellent, difficult high-level computer vision problem whose time has come. The emergence of vast amounts of geographically-calibrated image data is a great reason for computer vision to start looking globally — on the scale of the entire planet! In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm for estimating a distribution over geographic locations from a single image using a purely data-driven scene matching approach. For this task, we will leverage a dataset of over 6 million GPS-tagged images from the Internet. We represent the estimated image location as a probability distribution over the Earth's surface. We quantitatively evaluate our approach in several geolocation tasks and demonstrate encouraging performance (up to 30 times better than chance). We show that geolocation estimates can provide the basis for numerous other image understanding tasks such as population density estimation, land cover estimation or urban/rural classification.

Last.fm Heatmap Calendars : un album sur Flickr

by karlcow

series of visualisations of the individual scrobble activity of selected Last.fm users. In total it encompasses 8.7 million scrobbles across ~180 graphs.

August 2011

Crooks net $13m in ATM heist

by alamat & 1 other (via)
In its first quarter earnings release, posted in May, FIS revealed it had taken a $13 million hit in connection with its Sunrise pre-paid card platform.

T-Drive trajectory data sample - Microsoft Research

by karlcow

This is a sample of T-Drive trajectory dataset that contains a one-week trajectories of 10,357 taxis. The total number of points in this dataset is about 15 million and the total distance of the trajectories reaches 9 million kilometers.

Official Google Blog: Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

by holyver (via)
Since its launch in November 2007, Android has not only dramatically increased consumer choice but also improved the entire mobile experience for users. Today, more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide—with over 550,000 devices now lit up every day—through a network of about 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers in 123 countries. Given Android’s phenomenal success, we are always looking for new ways to supercharge the Android ecosystem. That is why I am so excited today to announce that we have agreed to acquire Motorola.

The Battle Japan’s Losing: Population Falls Again - Japan Real Time - WSJ

by karlcow

About 146,200 more people died than were born during the year, another sobering record high, for the fourth straight year. The spread of people is also increasingly becoming concentrated in cities as economically struggling rural towns and villages empty. A little over 90% of citizens reside in cities. Indeed, there are more people who reside in Tokyo’s concrete jungle alone, about 12.66 million people, than all of the small towns across the country combined (11.86 million), according to the ministry numbers.

July 2011

Evernote Architecture - 9 Million Users and 150 Million Requests a Day

by holyver
The folks at Evernote were kind enough to write up an overview of their architecture in a post titled Architectural Digest. Dave Engberg describes their approach to networking, sharding, user storage, search, and some other custom services.

Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft - NYTimes.com

by karlcow, 2 comments

Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, was indicted Tuesday in Boston on charges that he stole over four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.

GeoNames

by rmaltete & 18 others
The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

June 2011

iOS Apps: Instagram

by alamat & 1 other (via)
3.75 Million users love Instagram! It’s a free, fun, and simple way to make and share gorgeous photos on your iPhone.

U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors Abroad - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet.

WikiLocation - The Geolocation Wikipedia API

by Spone (via)
I'm happy to offer up a full REST-ful API service for developers wishing to search for Wikipedia articles by location. The data is gathered by downloading the Wikipedia database on a weekly basis and then parsing all of the geocoded entries. This data is then stored in a database where it is able to be accessed via the API. At present, there are over 3.5 million entries covering 36 different languages and this number increases every week.

April 2011

Scirus - for scientific information

by kathleen_vincent & 15 others
is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

What the Russian papers say | What Russian papers say | RIA Novosti

by oseres (via)
Russian Technologies set to buy blocking stake in national operating system This summer Russian Technologies, a state corporation aiming to help fuel future technological breakthroughs in Russia, acquired a blocking stake in Alt Linux, a Russian company developing and distributing free off-the-shelf and customized software, and put itself forward as the national operating system operator. The fact that Russian Technologies asked the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media to appoint it operator of the national operating system has been confirmed to this paper by a ministerial source and a top manager of a major Russian IT company. France's Mandriva S.A. open source software company may compete with Russian Technologies in implementing this project, due to annually receive an estimated 10 billion rubles ($306 million) worth of federal allocations. The national operating system is being developed under the new Information Society state program, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media Ilya Massukh said recently. The operator will be selected through a tender to be held in early 2011. Russian Technologies, which bought a blocking stake in Alt Linux through its subsidiary Sirius in July 2010, may eventually acquire a controlling interest. The New Generation Initiative (NGI) Foundation, established by Artur Akopyan, former financial director of Russia's Synterra telecommunications operator and currently managing director of private equity firm Sloane Square Capital Partners (SSCP), also wants to help establish the national operating system. This summer NGI bought a minority stake in Mandriva, which is also involved in the project. In essence, this involves the introduction of free software, first introduced in Russian schools in 2007, in Russian state agencies. At that time, then First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and software developers agreed on acquiring a software package at federal expense for a period of three years and the simultaneous development of software that works in a similar way. A total of 2.7 billion rubles ($88.2 million) was allocated to provide schools with licensed software. In 2007-2008, the Armada group teamed up with Alt Linux to deliver software packages to schools in three pilot regions, namely, Tatarstan, the Perm Territory and the Tomsk Region, but it failed to win a nationwide school-software supply tender in 2009. Alt Linux CEO Alexei Smirnov said the National Research Institute of Control Automation in the Non-Industrial Sector (VNIINS), which had developed a Linux version of software from Red Hat, Inc., a major Linux distribution vendor, for the Russian Armed Forces was the company's real rival.

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