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Most Popular Featured Workspaces of 2009 - Featured Workspace - Lifehacker

by ghis (via)
Every week we bring you fresh workspaces from the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell pool, all supplied by you—the awesome Lifehacker readership. Today we're highlighting the 25 most popular workspaces of 2009.

DESIGN WEEK

by fabifab
Design Currency: Icograda Design Week In Vancouver Cur”rency\ The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand. Design has the power to influence our core values, our identity, our expectations and our worldview. Design brings clarity and enhances meaning. Design Currency 2010 offers designers, business leaders and government the opportunity to experience current design thinking. Reshape your understanding of the value of design.

Kindle Total Cost of Ownership: Calculating the DRM Tax | Unicom Systems Development

by karlcow

Although the Kindle doesn't make sense for me, your situation may be different. For instance, if you use an e-reader primarily for recreational reading, you may want to keep far fewer books than the 50%/year I used. If you read a bestseller a week, that's 52 * $10 = $520 a year. If your retention ratio is 10%/year, then your DRM tax would be about $70, which is a lot less painful.

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December 2009

VIDEO: Le plus grand rassemblement de femmes rousses

by Noel Basile
VIDEO: Le plus grand rassemblement de femmes rousses Le plus grand rassemblement de femmes rousses a eu lieu ce week-end à Breda aux Pays-Bas pour la quatrième année consécutive. Un meeting qui selon son organisateur, l'artiste Bart Rouwenhorst, veut redonner aux rousse leur fierté... après tant d'années, voire de siècles, de railleries et de méchanceté dues à leur différence. La femme rousse fut souvent montrée du doigt pour sa couleur de cheveux, son odeur, "sa laideur", ses liens possibles avec le diable, mais aussi parce qu'on ne retrouve qu'une minorité seulement de femmes à la crinière rousse dans le monde, parmi tant d'autres brunes ou blondes. Actuellement, à peine 1 pour cent seulement de la population mondiale a les cheveux roux, et ce chiffre a tendance à s'amenuiser. C'est pourquoi il n'y avait pas de temps à perdre pour les quelques 3 femmes rousses venues de 36 pays pour cette 4ème Journée mondiale des cheveux roux à Breda, aux Pays-Bas. Mais il n'y a pas que les mythes, il y a aussi les études scientifiques. Selon le Pr Werner Habermehl spécialiste de la sexualité au Centre de recherche social de l'Université de Hambourg, les femmes rousses font statistiquement plus l'amour que les brunes ou les blondes. Phénomène que la psychologue française Christine Baumanns explique par le fait que lorsque des hommes voient une rousse, ils estiment qu'ils toutes ses chances de l'emballer et qu'au lit, avec ces femmes chaudes, se sera du tonnerre de feu de dieu ! Croyance que les Rousses n'ont pas intérêt à démentir, vue leur cote à la bourse des valeurs sexy féminines.

ECMAScript 5 released

by marco (via)
ECMAScript 3.1 (now 5) was released this week

Facebook | New Tools to Control Your Experience

by srcmax
Today, we're launching new tools to give you even greater control over the information you share. Mark Zuckerberg, our founder and CEO, talked about these changes in his post last week. They include a simpler privacy settings page and a tool to control the audience for each and every post you create. We're also taking this opportunity to require all 350 million people who use Facebook to review and update their settings.

VideoClix to Power Clickable Interactive Video for Dailymotion | InteractiveTV Today

by srcmax

VideoClix, a Vancouver-based provider of technologies for clickable interactive video (which it calls "hypervideo"), said last week that it has signed a deal with Dailymotion, a Paris-based company which claims that its flagship broadband video portal is the world's second-largest. According to VideoClix, its technology will provide Dailymotion users with an "active and engaging" experience while providing advertisers with a non-intrusive way to reach their target audience. "This partnership brings clickable video to the masses on a global scale," VideoClix CEO, Babak Maghfourian, said in a prepared statement. "It's a win, win, win for audiences, publishers and advertisers alike."

Zero Geography: Mapping the Geographies of Wikipedia Content

by karlcow

The following maps represent the first stage of a project I am embarking on to map out some of the spatial contours of Wikipedia. Data were obtained from the August 2009 Wikipedia geodata dump organised by user Kolossos. The information was then ported over to a GIS. There are almost half a million geotagged Wikipedia articles (i.e. Wikipedia articles about a place or an event that occurred in a distinct place), so the preparation time alone for the files needed to create these maps was almost a week.

Cocktail - Overview

by sbrothier
Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. It is a smooth and powerful digital toolset with a variety of practical features that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and helps Mac users around the world to get the most out of their computers. Cocktail is installed at more than 200 000 computers world wide. The largest part being private individuals, but Cocktail can also be found at large international companies (Puma, Sony), educational institutions (Harvard University, University of Texas) or newspapers (The New York Times, Business Week).

November 2009

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.

Lokan : Apple et la presse

by srcmax

Il est souvent difficile, voire impossible, de communiquer avec Apple. Lokan en a fait l'expérience ce week-end lors de la conférence de presse consacrée à la présentation de l'Apple Store de Montpellier

Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Latitude, now with Location History & Alerts

by karlcow

People also want to know when their friends were nearby, but it's not always convenient to keep checking Latitude to see if a friend has recently shown up near you. After working on this for a while, we realized it wasn't as straightforward as sending a notification every time Latitude friends were near each other. Imagine that you're Latitude friends with your roommate or co-workers. It would get pretty annoying to get a text message every single time you walked in the door at home or pulled into work. To avoid this, we decided to make Location Alerts smarter by requiring that you also enable Location History. Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week to learn your "unusual" locations and start sending alerts.

Phonetikana - the johnson banks thought for the week

by karlcow

Multiple trips to Japan and constant frustration at being unable to read the language has sparked off an unusual typographic project at johnson banks. Earlier in the year we started seeing if we could combine the English language and Japanese script in some way.

Le son est dans la lettre.

Sens du client - Le Monde nous parle d'égotisme

by paulantoinem
Dans le Journal Le Monde de ce week-end, je lis un article intitulé "L'égotisme devient le nouveau credo publicitaire des marques afin de renouer le lien avec le consommateur. IKEA, Microsoft ...

Weekly column introduces you to a Different neighbouring tree

by karlcow

Each Sunday I will introduce a tree, and you will have the week to get to know it. Whenever possible, I will mention several locations where it can be found.

Légèrement différent de mon projet name a tree. Je vais devoir l'expliquer sur la grange

Royal Ascot Racing-2010

by lifelovestar
The Royal Ascot always fall on the week of my birthday, as part of my Top20 mission I would love to be able to go on the day and not just as a normal spectator. What would be fabulous is making to the Royal Enclosure and maybe meet the Queen

Adobe is Bad for Open Government

by marco
So next week, Adobe's having aconference here to tell Federal employees why they ought to be using "Adobe PDF, and Adobe® Flash® technology" to make government more open

October 2009

Facebook: How to Eliminate “Dead Friend” Suggestions

by srcmax & 1 other

Last week, in conjunction with its latest redesign, Facebook released “suggestions for helping friends,” a feature that aims to get you to assist your friends that don’t appear to be actively using the site and “reconnect” you with old contacts.

One unfortunate side effect of the feature: it started recommending those you’d rather not connect with, and in some cases, deceased friends.

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