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Tech use increases child’s literary skills http://nexle.dk/l/vws? Careful parents, correlation does not imply causation!

Google gives in to Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp and will restrict access to free news: http://nexle.dk/l/vih

Intelligent robots: IBM simulated cat’s cerebral cortex with 150K CPUs http://nexle.dk/l/g3c !!!

@cherevik Google Salmon protocol… http://nexle.dk/l/iv4

Time bomb in music industry – copyright contracts for 70s and 80s music up for expiry in 4 years! http://nexle.dk/l/r99

RT @BillPrescott: @Jason @arrington guys, how about doing a tc50 downunder in oz?? maybe a tc20??

Google launches new programming language “Go”, http://nexle.dk/l/77e WTF!

RT: @rww
Google Now Scanning RSS, Atom Feeds, Mayb Real-Time Protocols in Future http://bit.ly/3iuufb

RT @Andrew303: How the Huffington Post uses real time testing to write better headlines http://bit.ly/CSzmp

Funniest Facebook messages – must see! http://bit.ly/GwY5c

Microsoft’s amazing new take on what a tablet computer will be (“booklet”) http://tinyurl.com/nycf93

RT @TechCrunch Very Interesting upcoming realtime social web marketing monitoring tool from Microsoft http://bit.ly/18a8lk

Are the majority of tweets slowly just becoming teaser headlines with URLs?

RT @rww Annotate the Web: Google Launches SideWiki http://bit.ly/mQJrR

FeedZero= wildest personalised RSS reader? Uses bayesian filter. Sub’ed + rated 50+ feeds, lets see.. http://br.st/00E

finally landed! a 4 hour delay on a 54 min flight, could have driven to Sydney myself in that time. Qantas, one more strike for you #fail

Stuck in Melb airport due 2 plane tech failure, not too happy – will Qantas come through for me or not?

GPS + Twitter, huge opportunities for businesses and consumers, don’t u think? walking home from client. My loc: http://is.gd/3fGRU

Oracle keeps and commits to Solaris and SPARC – wuhu! Ellison; “We’re in it to win it” http://tinyurl.com/lwvd9d

RT @leolaporte If you want to use @Dropbox use this URL (2GB account is free!): http://bit.ly/c9HuV

http://tinyurl.com/68e8zq

A moderately interesting (but admittedly too long and slightly boring in spots) interview with Netscape founder and VC Marc Andreessen. Topics are around social networks (including FaceBook, Ning, Google, LinkedIn etc.), the newspaper business (having a go at the NY Times in relation to future of the print edition), his new investment fund, historic tech trends and more.

Originally sourced from Charlie Rose: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10093

Looking into different cache modules for high performance dynamic websites. Looks like many of the big sites (YouTube, Flickr, New York Times and many more) are using memcached which looks to be a very interesting and straight forward piece of software.. Then as I have the luxury of working in a pure J2EE environment I have looked into pure-java caching frameworks as well (like ehcache). This article is an interesting (but maybe not elaborate) example of the two; http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2007/05/comparing_memca.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/23/mobissimo-has-1223-the-capital-of-kayak-and-out-executes-them/

Very good example where an underdog beats the big money..

“Connecticut startup Kayak has raised $223 million in venture capital and employs 58 people to build and grow its travel search site. Its chief competitor, San Francisco based Mobissimo, has raised $1 million
and has just 15 employees. Mobissimo also became profitable last year,
and the company doesn’t have to raise more money unless it’s to fuel
faster growth or acquisitions.

It’s also clear even from a cursory comparison of the two sites that
Mobissimo is trying harder than Kayak to help you find exactly the
flight and hotel you are looking for. Kayak is largely similar to other
travel search sites – enter where you want to go and get back results
from a number of providers, sort by price, etc.”

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/23/mobissimo-has-1223-the-capital-of-kayak-and-out-executes-them/

Very good example where an underdog beats the big money..

Must say I never heard of highscalability.com before… but if you are into designing large-scale web application this is a very good site with some juicy reads on real life architectures; SlashDot, Flickr, Youtube, Wikimedia, Twitter and many more examples;

http://highscalability.com/slashdot-architecture-how-old-man-internet-learned-scale

Not sure when it happened but Google launched a new beta version of its Google Maps for Mobiles with a feature “My Location”. This feature allows you to see your approximate location on a map via a mobile phone without using GPS. It calculates your location based on the nearest phone towers. Its nothing new but its exciting that the technology is starting to get used some more. While the Google thing works on many platforms, the Java integration of this technology is under JSR-179 “Location API” and there is a pretty cool article about the Java Location API here. This is just the beginning! This technology over the next year is going to get so hot!! Imagine the advertising potential as well as the opportunity for new and exciting business ideas around social computing etc.. How exciting.

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news?

If you have not seen this yet, have a look.. quite amusing;

http://robinsloan.com/epic/

Just tap it!!  http://www.songtapper.com can recognise song names by you tapping it with a key on your computer! Its online, free and worked for me – twice! (and everyone knows I don’t have a musical bone in my body)

“If humans may be viewed as the sum total of their memories, then at our doorstep may be a life changing revolution: the ability to store one’s entire life experiences on an accessible and easily searchable file.”

Although far away, the subject is cool and the article is a good read..

Read the article.