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02 January 2010
Most Popular Repurposing Tricks of 2009 - Best of 2009 - Lifehacker
Most Popular Featured Workspaces of 2009 - Featured Workspace - Lifehacker
The Great Best of 2009 Recap - Best of 2009 - Lifehacker
Facebook most popular on the mobile Web in Africa
Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets are extremely popular in Africa, but Samsung is a significant exception, boasting the most popular phone used by Opera Mini users in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia.
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30 December 2009
Japanese Dolls on the Western Toyshelf
Dolls from Japan were very popular in America and Europe through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On these pages, I have collected illustrations and references that suggest the place of the Japanese doll in the minds of American and European children, and of the adults who bought them toys and moralized those toys.
29 December 2009
*NEW!* GameCube Cheat Guide Ebook | GameCube Cheat Guide Cheats Tips Tricks - Download eBooks
*NEW!* Introduction to Yoga (Audio Book) - Master Resale Rights - Download Audio Books / Teaching
*NEW!* The Twitter Automation Report -Master Resale Rights - Download eBooks
*NEW!* Overcome Shyness - How To Overcome Shyness - PLR - Download eBooks
*NEW!* BLACKHAT BUZZ - Make $100+ A DAY ON AUTOPILOT - Download eBooks
Five Best Wallpaper Sites - Wallpapers - Lifehacker
28 December 2009
Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Themes of 2009 - Firefox Extensions - Lifehacker
22 December 2009
Most Popular Featured Desktops of 2009 - Best of 2009 - Lifehacker
21 December 2009
Coding Horror: Microformats: Boon or Bane?
4. The spec is incredibly ambiguous
Probably. Most young specs are. As it becomes more popular I would expect the wrinkles to get ironed out. [Darrel Miller]
Les microformats ont bientôt 6 ans, et hResume très bientôt 4 ans. Mais ce n'est pas grave, attendons encore 5 ou 6 ans que les microformats maturent un peu et que les spécs soient finalisées.
15 December 2009
Cool Websites, Web Applications, and Mobile Tools
13 December 2009
Most Popular Photography Hacks of 2009 - Photography - Lifehacker
12 December 2009
06 December 2009
01 December 2009
Mystery woman in black behind Obama at the town hall meeting becomes popular and speaks out | ChinaHush
[From NetEase and many others] During President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, a beautiful Chinese girl dressed in black appeared in many photos and videos of the scene with the President. Quickly the photos along with the mystery girl became popular on the Chinese internet. The mysteries identity of the beauty let to her Human Flesh Search. She is Shanghai’s image ambassador, Fan Bingbing’s relative, Yang Lan’s niece and many other speculations roamed on the internet.
30 November 2009
Polar Rose: Face recognition for Facebook and Flickr
29 November 2009
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos | Facebook
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.
25 November 2009
9/11 Pager data
9/11 tragedy pager intercepts.
The following are national US pager intercepts that cover the September 11 tragedy from 3am on the same day (Tuesday) until 3am the following day.
Due to popular demand we provide a new block of pager data every 5 minutes, synchronized to the actual time of day the message was sent.
This way the world has a chance to objectively see how the tragedy progressed.
A full archive containing all the messages will be released on Thursday November 26 at the conclusion.
24 November 2009
Freevo Media Centre | Home Theatre Platform HTPC & PVR
23 November 2009
Public timeline - Identi.ca
17 November 2009
