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Month: January 2007
Lately Amazon has been introducing a raft of ‘web 2.0’ features to its e-commerce website. In this post we explore how Amazon has implemented tagging, Ajax, blogs and wikis – and ask whether it’s made much difference to the user experience, and to the bottom line.
will be interesting to watch if all the 2.0 stuff will increase sales
From a correspondent at the World Economic forum in Davos: I went to the energy dinner hosted by MIT and the striking thing was the composition of the audience. No top guys from Shell or BP in evidence. But Silicon Valley packing the room. The tech crowd included Vint Cerf, Vinod Khosla, John Doerr, Larry Page, Chad Hurley … and Sergey Brin came late. So full that even Page and Hurley had trouble getting in. Topics: nanobatteries, solar, natural selection and biofuel bugs, transmission grids.
2015-07-29:
If we create the right environment for innovation, we can accelerate the pace of progress, develop and deploy new solutions, and eventually provide everyone with reliable, affordable energy that is CO2 free. We can avoid the worst climate-change scenarios while also lifting people out of poverty, growing food more efficiently, and saving lives by reducing pollution.
2015-11-30:
2 related initiatives are being announced at today’s event. One is Mission Innovation, a commitment by more than 10 countries to invest more in research on clean energy. The other is the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a global group of private investors who will support companies that are taking innovative clean-energy ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace. Our primary goal with the Coalition is as much to accelerate progress on clean energy as it is to make a profit.
this is a good step but coal needs to be defunded much more.
His old system was undetectable, but he was worried he might be caught, so he was working on a spiffy new scheme which was really really undetectable. But only 99% bulletproof. As you might be able to guess, I was easily able to find all of the fellow’s “undetectable” doorway pages and all of his clients with a single Google query — I didn’t even have to use any of my internal tools. I still chuckle when I hear the word “undetectable.”
where the average IQ of a SEO is revealed
sci fi is not dead yet, i guess
Kitchen sponges can contain 10000 bacteria per cm — potentially including gnarly pathogens like E. coli and salmonella. But nuking your kitchen sponges in the microwave for just 2 minutes can kill 99% of them
more precise tags interspersed with ‘regular’ tags. formalizing the geo:lat etc stuff. smart!
After governments are disassembled, only the cooperative way of life remains to help society flourish. But with the wrong person as head coordinator, this utopia is headed for a crash. From prolific, genre-breaking writer Paul Di Filippo’s Wikiworld, this short story is one of a set of mind-bending tales of humanity’s alternate pasts, all too recognizable present, and far-flung futures.
Several of the new measures were controversial, with some experts worrying it would make things worse. But the scheme was a success. An important step was to introduce a one-way system, with roads designated only for walkers coming from the stoning back to the camp. “Last year you had to push a lot to get to the camp. This year you could comfortably follow the stream all the way. Everyone was very happy.”
fluid dynamics to the rescue. granted, the whole thing is pretty stupid anyways
I recently spoke with a junior who was stressed about her decreasing ability to focus on anything for longer than 2 minutes or so. I tried to inspire her by talking about the importance of reading as a way to train the brain.
Chanel wanted something “clean, youthful, and beguiling,” said Chanel chemist Robert Geneau, adding that organically musky, smoky, and earthy tones had been rejected because the scent’s intended users most likely had too much musk, earth, and smoke in their lives already
Gregor J. Rothfuss 