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Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar
According to the company’s 2013 financial filings, 83 percent of Google’s revenue came from ads, about 7 percent from Motorola which is now gone, and 10 percent from everything else. In other words, when you add up all the revenue from Google Apps Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, etc. together with the Android and other mobile […]
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Distribution of bitcoin wealth by owner
TL;DR: As a result of analyzing the “Mt.Gox leak”, the number of bitcoin holders is likely 1.0 millions. Of these,* the 400 bitcoin millionaires with at least BTC2,000 hold 40% of bitcoins.* 100,000 owners with BTC10-BTC2,000 $5,000-$1,000,000 hold 50% of the bitcoins.* 900,000 owners have a holding of BTC0.002-BTC10, valued at $1-$5,000, and hold 10% […]
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EU allowing libraries to digitise books without permission | What’s New in Publishing
“The right of libraries to communicate, by dedicated terminals, the works they hold in their collections would risk being rendered largely meaningless, or indeed ineffective, if they did not have an ancillary right to digitise the works in question.” via EU allowing libraries to digitise books without permission | What’s New in Publishing.
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About Algomation.com
“Algomation is a platform for viewing, creating and sharing any type of algorithm. All algorithms on on the site are public and can be viewed and shared by any user of the site. Registered users can create new algorithms or fork existing one.” via About Algomation.com.
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Radical Librarianship: how ninja librarians are ensuring patrons’ electronic privacy – Boing Boing
“Librarians in Massachusetts are working to give their patrons a chance to opt-out of pervasive surveillance. Partnering with the ACLU of Massachusetts, area librarians have been teaching and taking workshops on how freedom of speech and the right to privacy are compromised by the surveillance of online and digital communications — and what new privacy-protecting […]
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How your innocent smartphone passes on almost your entire life to the secret service « Bits of Freedom
“After exactly a week, on Monday, 18 November, he concludes the experiment, saying afterwards that he felt liberated when doing so. There’s an easy explanation for his nervousness: what he’ll be doing, where he’ll be and who he has contact with will be seen by tens of thousands of people. Today, by you and me, […]
