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September 5th, 2010 | 3 notes | Permalink
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" … YouTube shares advertising revenue with content partners, who may be big entertainment companies like Lions Gate or amateur videographers who have developed a following. Hundreds of these partners make more than $100,000 a year. Some, like Sal Khan, a former hedge fund manager who now makes math and science education videos, have quit their day jobs. YouTube’s next challenge is to attract more advertisers by offering more professional, long-form content to supplement the videos of cooing babies and surprised kittens. YouTube is testing a pay-per-view film rental service and broadcasting live events like concerts, and it just signed a deal to show on-demand Major League Baseball games in Japan."
“A new tea bag uses nano-fibers to suck contaminants and bacteria out of water, providing a desperately-needed, cheap solution for the billions of people without clean drinking water…” (via Nanotech tea bag creates safe drinking water instantly, for less than a penny) “This has been a big year for the Benny Gold brand. We opened our first flagship retail store in SF, expanded the line to include denim and enlisted a few people to help out …” Highly recommended.
September 3rd, 2010 | 12 notes | Permalink
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“Is there are advocate in your company for people with disabilities … If there is we’d like to know who they are - how to reach out to them. And if not, it would be good for you to get one.” (via humantoo) 
photojojo: Canon’s omnidirectional camera can see everywhere at once. It takes a 360° degree photo in one swoop! No seams.
September 2nd, 2010 | 197 notes | Permalink
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” … The next full edition is still estimated to be more than a decade away from completion; only 28 per cent has been finished to date.” 
infoneer-pulse: 30 Ways to Rate a College: The lines below connect raters to each of the measures they take into account. Notice how few measures are shared by two or more raters. That indicates a lack of agreement among them on what defines quality. Much of the emphasis is on “input measures” such as student selectivity, faculty-student ratio, and retention of freshmen. Except for graduation rates, almost no “outcome measures,” such as whether a student comes out prepared to succeed in the work force, are used. (via The Chronicle of Higher Education)
September 1st, 2010 | 11 notes | Permalink
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Alex AinslieI'm a recent Cornell CS MEng graduate interested in data, computation, design and their intersection. In 2009 I graduated early with an independent BA in Computing, Cognition & Aesthetics and minors in French and Information Science. My honors thesis examined the traces our Bluetooth-enabled devices leave behind in public space and my masters thesis explored opportunities for machine learning and visualization to inform personal sensemaking. I have spent the past three summers as an intern at Google working on mobile maps and gmail, suggest, query refinements, social search, and most recently goggles and mobile local search. I joined Google fulltime in August 2010 - the views expressed here are mine alone. This site was born as a personal photo journal during a semester spent abroad in Paris and has evolved into a curated collection of links, text, and images. |
