Search Me: Inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram’s new “computational knowledge engine.
Cruxlux: Build a Search Engine with 10 Open Source Software Projects.
How come cheap airlines are so cheap?
How News of Michael Jackson’s Death Traveled Across the Web.
List of Top 50 U.S. Ad Networks.
Game Mechanics & Virtual economics: Virtual goods, real pleasure
Simpsons Fetch Higher Ad Rates on Web. 37 seconds of Ad on the web vs 9 minutes on broadcast episode.
Interesting presentations from NANOG 46 (pdf):
- Richard Steenbergen: Deploy a Production IPv6 Network in 30 Minutes or less
- Suzanne Woolf: DNSSEC Goes Mainstream: Deployment Incentives, Experience, and Question
Joshua Porter: Designing with Psychology in Mind
Videos:
- Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
- Eric Ries: How to build a Lean Startup, Step-by-Step
Gabriel Weinberg: Things about Web Images I Just Learned.
Rajat Paharia: Your own Zombie Army (pdf)
Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages: University of Washington software pulls facts from 500 million Web pages.
Are you future-focused or present-focused? The marshmallow experiment.
Pre-roll, Super Overlay, CPE, Custom EAU, Video-in-Video, Animated, Custom: Different types of video ads
Andreessen and Horowitz raise $300 million for investing in startups. This should be interesting!
Summary of Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
David Karger: Why everyone should be their own database administrator, UI designer, application developer, and web site builder, and how they can (ppt)
Mark Leslie Sales Learning Curve: It always takes longer and costs more
Mike Giles: Financial computing on NVIDIA GPUs
Jeff Moser: The first few milliseconds of a HTTPS connection
NYT: Data Center Overload
The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
Stephen Plant: Philosophy and Methodology
Revenge of the Nerd: Paul Wilmott is out to save Wall Street’s soul—one dork at a time
XBox’s Project Natal: Seriously cool gameplay
James Surowiecki: Change we can’t believe in
Nassim Taleb’s top life tips
