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50% of One Laptop Kids in Peru Are Teaching Their Parents How to Read & Write.
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, said on stage today at the Techonomy conference that “50% of the kids in Peru who use One Laptop Per Child are teaching their parents how to read and write.” That’s seriously disruptive, isn’t it? Peru is one of the most supportive countries of the […]
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Since Introduction Of Facebook Places, Page Growth and Impressions-Per-Post Are Down
Reports from Page administrators and data from our PageData service indicate that the launch of Places has decreased the prominence of official Page updates in the news feed. Significant decreases in impressions-per-post and new Likes per day for Pages coincide with the introduction of Places stories. This suggest an alteration has been made to Facebook’s […]
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The Great Big Spreadsheet of All Known Android Devices Everywhere
How many Droids are there? How much RAM is in the Nexus One? Does the Samsung Galaxy S support Wi-Fi N? Does the Droid X have a bigger screen than the Droid 2? Can you get Android in a TV? In a car? If these are the sort of questions you’ve found yourself wondering about […]
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Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera
pickens writes “The NY Times reports on a digital camera put together at Kodak’s Elmgrove Plant labs in Rochester, NY during the winter of 1975 from a mishmash of lenses and computer parts and an old Super 8 movie camera that took 23 seconds to record a single digital image to its cassette deck and […]
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Pre tačno godinu dana teturao sam se po palubi broda 20/44 sa špilom karata u rukama. Svaka karta bila je jedno piće. Delio sam karte i sačuvao damu pik za sebe. Oko 6 ujutru ostala je samo gomila muškaraca koji su pili rakiju i gledali u sunce koje izlazi. Prave dame nikad ne ostaju do […]
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Roll Your Own Human Powered Botnet with Pawnfarm
Simulating human identities online with robots is hard. So why not just pay humans to do it for you? Pawnfarm, made in a collaboration between Web Ecology Project researchers Evan Burchard and Tim Hwang (and emerging from the various discussions at Web Ecology Camp IV) enables you to do just that. Once you have an […]
