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A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network

by karlcow

HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to be a "Central Nervous System for the Earth" (CeNSE). It's a research and development program to build a planetwide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors."

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Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos | Facebook

by karlcow & 1 other

The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.

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Home | The Glocal Project

by karlcow

Operating out of the Surrey Art Gallery’s Tech Lab, The Glocal Project is a collaborative, multifaceted artist-led project that examines the changing role of digital image making today. The digital revolution has included the global proliferation of millions of image-taking devices (such as digital cameras, video recorders, cell phones, and PDAs) and the sharing of billions of images through online networking and archival sites (such as Flickr). As this democratization of digital technologies makes the ability to make photographic images so ubiquitous, Glocal is interested in looking at the implications of the changing roles and relations of images within the field of visuality. Glocal is particularly interested in exploring the construction and relevance of the “unique” or “originary” image in relation to the multiple or “multitude”.

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OpenX Blog » Serving billions of ads each month using distributed statistics

by Fiber_Optic (via)

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Carriers Spend Billions on Networks and Millions to Dress Them Up - GigaOM

by benoit

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

by karlcow

A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

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Microsoft Seadragon, PhotoSynth and Virtual Earth 3D demo with Adam Shepard at TED 2007 » Billions With Zero Knowledge

by vdl2_création

Application capotante! Voir la vidéo de la démo présentée à TED 2007.

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We are proud to announce Gigapan, an ongoing partnership between Charmed Labs, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group, and Google. "Giga" stands for many, or billions of pixels, and "pan" as in panorama. One of the primary goals of Gigapan is to capture stunning panoramic images of our world using technology that is afforable to the ordinary consumer. Be sure to read below about our Beta Program and how to sign up. Matériel de prise de vues panoramiques

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Acquisition. Innovative Mac P2P.

by cyberien & 9 others (via)

Millions of users, billions of files Share files with tens of millions of Mac and Windows users around the planet. iTunes Intimacy # "Integration" is an understatement. Acquisition automatically: imports and plays downloads in iTunes # marks files you already have in iTunes # shares files as an iTunes Shared Library Media Preview Preview audio files directly in Acquisition, even before they finish downloading. Fall in love with new artists Acquisition provides recommendations of new artists to investigate. Filter the junk Acquisition filters junk from known file spammers and the user-configurable blacklist. Keep things tasteful with Acquisition's 'adult' content filter. iPod Acquisition = Love With its seamless iTunes integration, Acquisition works great with the iPod. High-speed downloads Acquisition uses high-tech swarming algorithms to maximise your download speeds. Torrent-iffic With its integrated support for BitTorrent files, Acquisition is the ultimate tool for the ultimate downloader. iTunes-esque browsing Just like iTunes, Acquisition arranges results in a unique artist and album browser. Control your bandwidth Limit the number of downloads, pause & resume downloads, and cap your upload bandwidth. Pixel Perfect Acquisition is beautiful. It is such a definitive design that Apple and countless others have 'borro

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SharedBook - On-Demand Reverse Publishing for Businesses and Consumers

by cyberien (via)

SharedBook has developed a unique, on demand reverse publishing platform to help businesses and consumers extract, manipulate and publish the Internet content that is most important to them in the era of Web 2.0, a time when billions of pieces of content - text, data and photos as well as audio and video - appear on the Internet first. With some 14 billion pages of content available online today and growing - text, data and photographs, as well as audio and video - the opportunities to Reverse Publish content from the Web to print are limited only by one's imagination.

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cool offer....not seen anywhere

by crescentindis

Dear frnds..... I recently joined AGLOCO because of a friend recommended it to me. I am now promoting it to you because I like the idea and I want you to share in what I think will be an exciting new Internet concept. AGLOCO’s story is simple: Do you realize how valuable you are? Advertisers, search providers and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you making? NONE! AGLOCO thinks you deserve a piece of the action. AGLOCO collects money from those companies on behalf of its members. (For example, Google currently pays AOL 10 cents for every Google search by an AOL user. And Google still has enough profit to pay $1.6 billion dollars for YouTube, an 18-month old site full of content that YouTube’s users did not get paid for! AGLOCO will work to get its Members their share of this and more. AGLOCO is building a new form of online community that they call an Economic Network. They are not only paying Members their fair share, but they’re building a community that will generate the kind of fortune that YouTube made. But instead of that wealth making only a few people rich, the entire community will get its share. What's the catch? No catch - no spyware, no pop-ups and no spam - membership and software are free and AGLOCO is 100% member owned. Privacy is a core value and AGLOCO never sells or rents member information. So do both of us a favor: Sign up for AGLOCO right now! If you use this link to sign up, I automatically get credit for referring you and helping to build AGLOCO. http://www.agloco.com/r/BBCM3179 Thanks ash

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RESTful Web Services

by pvergain

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." --John Gall, Systemantics To design a website you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs. To design a web application you need to know about HTTP, XHTML, and URIs. To design a web service you need to know about XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Policy, WS-Security, WS-Eventing, WS-Reliability, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, WS-Notification, WS-BaseNotification, WS-Topics, WS-Transfer... What happened there? The web is the most successful distributed platform in the world, and it's simple enough for average humans to understand. How come adapting it for use by computer programs requires that smart people spend billions of dollars and devote years of their lives to coming up with all these new standards? And what happened to HTTP and URIs? The answer is that "Web Services" aren't the web. They're a heavyweight architecture for distributed object access, like COM and CORBA. This architecture is associated with the web, because HTTP is a trendy protocol, and flexible enough that you can implement almost anything on top of it. But it's not really of the web. The architecture of Big Web Services reinvents or ignores every feature that makes the web successful. This is the book that puts the "web" back into "web services". You can design a web service that uses HTTP, XHTML, and URIs. You just need to understand REST, the architectural principles that drive the web. RESTful Web Services gives you the tools you need to argue for sensible web services, and the strategies and code you need to create them. The book is manuscript complete at around 440 pages, and it'll be published by O'Reilly in May 2007. We think this can be the definitive work on the real-world use of REST.

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Choosing and using typeface

by kampod

Type. In your lifetime you've seen billions of letters and millions of words, yet you might never have consciously noticed the typefaces you read. Type is important because it's an unconscious persuader. It attracts attention, sets the style and tone of a document, colors how readers interpret the words, and defines the feeling of the page - usually without the reader recognizing a particular typeface.

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