News & Views

• Starbucks & McD's Global Penetration Infographic
  12 Mar 10
  Found at: www.princeton.edu
  I loves my infographics but this one is definately not accurate (yet still cool). I know for a fact there were at a minimum 3 Starbucks in Tauranga/Mount Maunganui (NZ) in 2003 and countless others dotted around the country yet nothing on this map. Otherwise sobering
• Ever wondered how to pack a stereo signal in one record groove
  12 Mar 10
  Found at: www.vinylrecorder.com
  phono, analog, vinyl, recorder, single, maxi, disc, dubplates, cut, dubrecord, record, directmastering, pressing, pressung, schallplatten, herstellung, einzelplatten, master, lathe, audiodiscs
• 6 Thoughts About Location Madness
  12 Mar 10
  Found at: ReadWriteWeb
  Funny to read after a brief conversation with @atmasphere yesterday
  Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW. We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocation API Make...
• 6 Thoughts About Location Madness
  12 Mar 10
  Found at: ReadWriteWeb
  Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW. We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocation API Makes...
• The social agent
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: FactoryCity
  Late last fall, from late November through December, I worked with Mozilla Labs to envision what the future of a more social browser might look like. Working with the team, I produced a series of mockups and written pieces that were designed to first layout a...
• Mini Wide Fullscreens Gmail, Is Very Netbook Friendly [Downloads]
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: Lifehacker
  Truly stunningly incredibly useful and works both on GMail and Google Apps Email.
  Firefox/Chrome: Small netbook screens make you really appreciate every last pixel on your device. The Mini Wide userscript for Gmail adds a "netbook mode" shortcut to Gmail that removes navigation and ads for...
• Mr Justice Eady: ‘The law of privacy is a new creature requiring a terminology and language of its own’
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: PogoWasRight.org
  Judith Townend reports: An absence of existing privacy law in England has led to Parliament giving the courts a "free hand" to apply Strasbourg jurisdiction directly, the High Court judge Mr Justice Eady said last night. "There were few established domestic r...
• Potential Summer Blockbuster: iPhone 4.0 Multitasking
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: ReadWriteWeb
  Oh please please tell me someone else has a patent on multitasking on mobile devices.
  AppleInsider is reporting this morning that some trusted sources are predicting a "full-on solution" to multitasking in the iPhone 4.0 OS, which is set to be released this summer. Already, the iPhone shows that it is capable of multitasking with bundled apps...
• ODROID Gets Android 2.1
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: Android Community
  In case you aren’t familiar with the ODROID , the manufacturer, Hardkernel, describes it as an “Entertainment Device” with a focus on gaming. The Developer Edition is shipping with a Samsung Cortex-A8 processor clocked at 833MHz with NEON multimedia acce...
• Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: Android Community
  Most of us don’t know who Martin Cooper is, he was the first person to make a call on a handheld cell phone prototype in 1973 and he is named on the patent “radio telephone system” filed that same year. Android now has some strong endorsers in the invent...
• Former Sun CEO: Tech Companies Suing Over Patents Is An Act Of Desperation
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: Techdirt
  AMEN
  This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com. Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the author.Three years ago, after one of Microsoft's reg...
• Building Scalable Databases: Are Relational Databases Compatible with Large Scale Websites?
  11 Mar 10
  Found at: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
  I always thought the argument was not so much about scaling issues (RDBMS have long since shown they scale well) but rather about extensibility which is actually not a RDBMS issue but one of how you model the data in the first place.If one follows the traditional and well understood relational approach once built, changes to the schema have incrementally large knock on effects higher up the layers (middleware/api, ui etc).Whereas utilising a schema-less store can present a far lesser challenge with change. Massive amounts of good research out there and raises-hands we were doing this in the mid-nineties to great effect.
  A few weeks ago Todd Hoff over on the High Scalability blog penned a blog post titled MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era? where he wrote If you look at the early days of this blog, when web scalability was still in its heady bloom of youth, many of the...
• Radio Upgrade! Improve the Reception of your G1 and Mytouch3G! =D
  9 Mar 10
  Found at: www.youtube.com
• Left 4 Dead 2 Xbox 360 £22.99 Delivered @ Play.com
  9 Mar 10
  Found at: HotUKDeals
  Found by DAFTMASSES, Play.Com Deals Same price as the recent Gameplay deal (which is now out of stock) Could get it for £21.99 with £1 play voucher
• Privacy law: is Max Mosley right? | Opinion | The Lawyer
  9 Mar 10
  Found at: www.thelawyer.com
  For those whose privacy is invaded, the phrase “Freedom of the Press” is no more compelling than “Freedom of the State”. 
• Mobile Usage Infographic
  9 Mar 10
  Found at: www.infographics.tk
• Privacy considerations for location-based services - 26/02/2010 - Computer Weekly
  9 Mar 10
  Found at: www.computerweekly.com
  Location-aware mobile applications and services are on the increase. With growing reach and appeal, they are no longer just about personal navigation.
• Truly Open Data
  9 Mar 10
  Found at: O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.
  I'm kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an "open source approach" to data, pushing hard to get them to release datasets in machine readable formats with reuse-...
• For Your Eyes Only - the three levels of customer behavior based data
  8 Mar 10
  Found at: Communities Dominate Brands
  I had a lot of good discussion based on last weeks blog story about our digital leash. I discussed how classic 20th century marketing research data concepts like demographic data is becoming useless when compared with far more powerful 21st century behavior ba...
• Law firm investigated over claims that it bullied alleged filesharers
  5 Mar 10
  Found at: Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  A leading law firm is being investigated over claims that it bullied and harassed hundreds of people wrongly accused of illegal filesharing.The Solicitors Regulation Authority, an industry watchdog, said it is investigating a complaint brought against Davenpor...
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