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Bitcoin - P2P digital currency

by m.meixide
Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is also the name of the open source software which enables the use of this currency. The software is a community-driven open source project, released under the MIT license.

January 2012

Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China | Technology | The Observer

by night.kame

Earlier this month Apple took the unusual step of releasing a list of all the firms in its worldwide supply chain as part of its 2011 audit of human rights conditions at factories where it has partnerships.However, the company's own list made for grim reading. It revealed that a staggering 62% of the 229 facilities that it was involved with were not in compliance with Apple's 60-hour maximum working week policy. Almost a third had problem with hazardous waste.Cook insisted in his email that Apple did not turn a blind eye to conditions in its supplier network. But he did warn that the firm was likely to discover more problems. "We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues," he said.

Tim Cook, CEO actuel d'Apple, est responsable de toute la partie production depuis son arrivée en 1998. La fermeture des usines Apple : c'est Cook. La transformation d'Apple, fabricant informatique, en un bureau d'études couplé à une agence de publicité : c'est Cook. L'iPhone 4 blanc avec un an de retard : c'est encore Cook. Depuis 10 ans, Cook a joué la carte "sweatshops" et engrangé les profits ; ça commence à se voir, mais ça n'est plus un problème : l'argent est là, n'a jamais été distribué aux actionnaires, il peut s'acheter une virginité tel le mafieux versant son obole pour la restauration du presbytère.

Radio Interview with Matriarch of Social TV - MIT's Marie-Jose Montpetit

by sbrothier
Social TV is a huge buzzword in the TV world these days. Basically, it refers to the ways people are using social media in conjunction with their TV viewing. That might refer to something as simple as checking your Twitter feed on your phone while watching a political debate. It might also include joining a social network oriented around media discovery, like GetGlue, or Miso, where you can find out what your friends think of shows, or be notified when they are watching something. It had us wondering what impact Social TV will have on the way programmers design shows, and whether we’re returning to gathering in the living room watching I Love Lucy, only virtually. Marie-Jose Montpetit is a research scientist at the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT, where she researches putting video on multiple devices and combining it with social networking components.

OneSwarm

by m.meixide
Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications offer no user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor user behavior. As a result, using a P2P network means that your online activities become public knowledge. OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.

PirateBox - David Darts Wiki

by karlcow

PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open communications and file sharing network.

La valeur de communauté locale sans logging.

December 2011

Responsive Advertising | Mark Boulton

by sbrothier
Recently at Mark Boulton Design, we’ve been working on a redesign of the global visual language for a large sports network. Like many web sites delivering news and editorial content, they rely on advertising for their revenue — either through multiple ad slots on the page, or from video pre-rolls.

Strategies for Public Occupation - at the Storefront for Art and Architecture | Blogs | Archinect

by karlcow

P2P (peer-to-peer) Occupation studies the propagation of a 'shadow' Wi-Fi network that circumvents official telecommunication networks to offer a safe and public internet for citizens. Such an occupation works by introducing existing software that converts existing telecommunication devices into Wi-Fi access nodes.

China Hacked Into Networks Of Huge Hotels To Gain Access To Companies All Over The World

by karlcow

One of iBahn's largest clients is Marriott International, which holds meetings for multinational companies. By breaking into iBahn's network, China may have been able to see millions of corporate emails whether they were encrypted by iPass or not.

How To Use WordPress Custom Post Type Query to Sort by Date | DesignHammer Website Design and Development in North Carolina

by mozkart (via)
One thing we were trying to achieve was an Events listing solution that was fundamentally simple. Date, times, location and a description. Many of the events plugins out there seem to store their data in a database table specifically created for the plugin, something that won't play nice with MultiSite. The ideal solution would be a list of events that stores its data in each network site's unique database table structure. Therefore, we chose to set this up as a custom post type with a date picker attached to a custom meta box. We would store the date in a custom field. Simple enough. One thing that had us racking our brains for a while was how to sort the dates in a useful way.

BrandFolium Blog: Photopoll - Instant Feedback Made Beautifully Easy

by oseres (via)
Photopoll is a fast, intuitive and fun way to ask connected friends for their feedback. The idea behind this iOS application is very simple: create quick polls for friends to comment with the help of images. 60% of US social network users are at least somewhat likely to take action when a friend posts something about a product, service, company or brand on a social media site*. As more consumers access social media on the go, their in-store shopping decisions will be affected by these same influential brand-related discussions. *ROI Research 2011 Photopoll is the tool to create, nourish and enhance these conversations by bringing the traditional polling experience to the next level thus positioning itself as the easiest social decision tool for connected consumers.

Announcing ql.io — eBay Tech Blog

by karlcow

ql.io – a declarative, evented, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs. Through ql.io, we want to help application developers increase engineering clock speed and improve end user experience. ql.io can reduce the number of lines of code required to call multiple HTTP APIs while simultaneously bringing down network latency and bandwidth usage in certain use cases.

November 2011

cogen - Crossplatform asynchronous network oriented python framework based on python 2.5 enhanced generators. - Google Project Hosting

by jpcaruana
cogen is a crossplatform library for network oriented, coroutine based programming using the enhanced generators from python 2.5. The project aims to provide a simple straightforward programming model similar to threads but without all the problems and costs.

Concurrence — Concurrence Framework v0.3.1 documentation

by jpcaruana
Concurrence is a framework for creating massively concurrent network applications in Python. It takes a Lightweight-tasks-with-message-passing approach to concurrency. The goal of Concurrence is to provide an easier programming model for writing high performance network applications than existing solutions (Multi-threading, Twisted, asyncore etc). Concurrence uses Lightweight tasks in combination with libevent to expose a high-level synchronous API to low-level asynchronous IO.

Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers

by karlcow

This tutorial discusses various techniques for using generator functions and generator expressions in the context of systems programming. This topic loosely includes files, file systems, text parsing, network programming, and programming with threads.

This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

by karlcow, 1 comment

Ultimately we're trying to build the next Visa, not the next PayPal.  We're building a human network based on how we think the future of payments will work. The current model needs to be blown up. 

Greg's Cable Map

by 84GHz (via)
Aggregated information about undersea network cables.

Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1 - Smashing Coding

by Monique & 1 other

As Web developers, we have an affinity for developing with JavaScript. Whatever the language used in the back end, JavaScript and the browser are the primary language-platform combination available at the user’s end. It has many uses, ranging from silly to experience-enhancing.

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