January 2012
WordPress Ecommerce a WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin - getShopped.org
December 2011
Haavard - MediaTek + Opera = True(r)
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
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
October 2011
Pronunciator - Learn to Speak 60 Languages - 100% Free
À propos « Archives de Montréal
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
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
September 2011
99ROOMS.COM
IM2GPS: estimating geographic information from a single image
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
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
T-Drive trajectory data sample - Microsoft Research
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
The Battle Japan’s Losing: Population Falls Again - Japan Real Time - WSJ
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
Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft - NYTimes.com
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.
June 2011
iOS Apps: Instagram
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors Abroad - NYTimes.com
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
April 2011
Scirus - for scientific information



