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If a picture does indeed say a thousand words then the news from Facebook’s software engineer, Doug Beaver, that the site hosts 10 billion photographs is pretty significant. That’s the equivalent of 10,000,000,000,000 words. Admittedly the logic is twisted, but look at all those zeros.
Clearly there are a lot of images of [...]
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The Guardian has broken an unspoken protocol and gone and done it. It will be the first major newspaper in the world to offer its content as a full-text RSS feed. Adam Ostrow at Mashable phrases it just so,
“The Guardian, one of the UK’s biggest newspapers, is breaking ranks with its dead [...]
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I’m sure that most of you have been directed to a JustGiving page. Whether it is to sponsor a marathon happy colleague or misguided pal who, regardless of a diet consisting mainly of beer and fags, believes that swimming from Blighty to France is a grand idea. However, the site isn’t just about [...]
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DODAQ is the world’s first online diamond exchange. And when ‘world’s first’, ‘online’ and ‘diamond’ come together in a sentence, I’m always going to raise an eyebrow, because such a combination is kind of groovy.
Although I’m no expert in the finer details of diamond exchanging, I’m absolutely down with the basics. And [...]
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Just a quick update on a post that caught my eye as I perused the world of ChrisBrogan.com recently. And it is, as the title suggests, kind of cute - in both senses of the word.
His post, Finding Treasure in the Comments, isn’t just a clever continuation of an analogy that began here. Picking [...]
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As of today, US movie rental titan NetFlix has released their API, allowing anyone eager to have their developer wizardry way with the company’s expansive database.
That means free access to data on over 100,000 films and, importantly, statistics relating to consumer ratings, of which there are two billion increasing by two million a day. What [...]
