Amazon has reined in the price of its S3 storage a bit as of February 1. It didn’t give a reason for its largesse other than a vague allusion to economies of scale. Maybe it has something to do with Gartner saying using cloud storage for business intelligence is only cheaper for the first five years. Anyway, under the new schedule 50TB, for instance, will cost 12% less than it did and 500TB will be 13.5% less; headier amounts are unchanged – at least in America. Other regions have their own sch...  show all text

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There are around 100 billion neurons in a human brain, forming up to 100 trillion synaptic interconnections -- and MIT

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I work with a lot of people just starting out in photography. People who want to move off of Auto mode and on to something more. And they show me their images, asking, “What can I do better?” I’ve started noticing a pattern in many of the images I have seen from new photography enthusiasts. It’s not absolute, but it is common enough that I write here today offering this bit of advice: Get closer. Here’s the pattern I see when I ask new photographers to photograph something of interest. I’ll ill...  show all text

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The Royal Society is inviting youth groups to help select the winner of the 2012 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize You may recall the video I recently shared with you about the Royal Society's 2011 Young People's Book Award. But maybe you are wondering how your child can help the Royal Aociety choose the 2012 winners of their award. Well, wonder no more because the Royal Society is asking for your help! The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, is inviting after-school re...  show all text

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This project aims to enhance JISC's UK Web Domain archive, a 30 TB archive of the .uk country-code top level domain collected from 1996 to 2010. It will extract link graphs from the data and disseminate social science research using the collection.

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Paul McCartney will offer a free live stream of his performance from Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 9 on iTunes.

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Microtask is the hottest startup in Finland, focused on developing a solution for the global distribution of digital labor. We are going to change the way people work, all over the world.   To help us create this solution, we are looking for a Junior Software Engineer to join our product development team.   As your studies are coming to closure, you're looking for a place to apply all that talent you've acquired. In addition to highly successful studies, you have also worked on programming proj...

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El reglamento que desarrolla la ley Sinde, asumido por el Gobierno del PP tras la renuncia del PSOE a aprobarlo cuando estaba en el Ejecutivo, será estudiado por el Tribunal Supremo. La sala tercera de lo Contencioso Administrativo de este órgano judicial ha admitido a trámite el recurso en el que la Asociación de Internautas lo impugnaba. La sala ha comunicado a las partes implicadas que admite la demanda y que otorga diez días de plazo al abogado del Estado para que evalúe la petición de susp...  show all text

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I am an academic, not a business person. With the ongoing move to boycott Elsevier, which has gained attention from academic news sources, I asked someone who was in business for his take. I’ve know Ryan Dancey for about 15 years, from his creation of the game Legend of the Five Rings. He created a business called Five Rings Publishing Group that was sold to Wizards of the Coast. As part of that sale, he was involved in the move of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR to Wizards of  show all text

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Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 8 This is the ninth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the series here:

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o me hago una pregunta: ¿estamos gobernados por aquellas personas a las que votamos? En Italia y Grecia no, y en España, cuidado, porque se ha optado por un partido que puede comulgar más con esa filosofía. Nos hemos metido en un círculo vicioso del que no sabemos salir. Porque esa es la impresión del ciudadano, expresada en las calles con el movimiento de los indignados.”

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The story of the day is definitely about Path (a CrunchFund portfolio company). The company has been copying address book information to their servers without user knowledge. The company was apparently already aware of the issue and was taking steps to address it prior to this post coming out. The Android app has an opt-in, and a version of the app with an opt-in is awaiting approval at Apple, says CEO Dave Morin in the comments to the original post. Morin has also flat out apologized. This is a  show all text

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...and this is a paper which is not quite what it's cracked up to be. Because while it does, indeed, have great pictures of your ...

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Even as some news outlets like Associated Press hire social-media editors to try and figure out how to make use of tools like Twitter for journalistic purposes, others seem to be intent on locking these tools down and removing as much of the social aspects from them as possible. According to a report in The Guardian, broadcaster Sky News has come out with a new policy that bars reporters from posting anything other than work-related content on Twitter, prevents them from breaking news through t...  show all text

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Amazon and Viacom to Sign Video Deal Next Week; Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales; Path Uploads Your iPhone Address Book to Its Servers

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Barry Sookman, lawyer and registered lobbyist for the Canadian Recording Industry Association (now Music Canada), the Motion Pictures Association - Canada, and Canadian Publishers Council, has an op-ed in the National Post claiming that concerns that proposed amendments to Bill C-11 could result in SOPA-style rules in Canada are the stuff of wild claims and hysteria. The short response is that Sookman's column - along with his clients - downplay the dramatic impact of their proposed amendments.  show all text

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Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute has confirmed that its drilling team has indeed penetrated to the sub-glacial Lake Vostok. Researchers have spent two decades drilling through over 3,700 metres of Antartic ice to reach the lake, which is believed to have been sealed off from the world for 15 million years. Although the drillers were expected to reach the lake this year, the team’s leader was still unable to confirm the success as recently as yesterday (‘‘Too soon’ to confirm suc...  show all text

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“It’s like Pinterest, but…” Welcome to my inbox for the last several months. Just as the world now has a Groupon and a Birchbox for everything, so too is Pinterest creating a wake of copy-cat sites. We’re not talking about sites that merely incorporate Pinterest’s design elements. There are sites that have copied Pinterest’s style, functionality and even portions of its name. Pinterest hasn’t released user numbers, but one study found it drives more traffic to websites than Google+, YouTube and...  show all text

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La auténtica verdad sobre el 2.0 y los social media en nuestro país

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la responsabilidad social de las empresas no depende ya de la voluntad de estas de informar o no sobre sus impactos sobre la sociedad, el medio ambiente y las generaciones futuras.

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Amazon and Viacom might sign a deal as soon as this week, bringing Amazon one step closer to launching a standalone video streaming service.

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Whatever your perspective on how likely Mitt Romney was to lose the Republican nomination race prior to Tuesday evening, it should be acknowledged that he had about the worst results conceivable.

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We hear that the paperwork has just been signed on a monster new funding round for Yammer. There was more than $100 million in interest, and the company took just north of $50 million, last we heard, although that  may still creep up as the deal closes. The earlier reports of fundraising may have been premature, because our source very close to the deal tells us it came together in a rapid 48 hours. It’s hard to believe the company has kept a lid on the news since January. Yammer Founder and CEO  show all text

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You can follow someone on Twitter and friend them on Facebook, but real friends are people you break bread with.

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore [Update] Dave Morin, the CEO of Path has responded in the comments and I’ve pasted it below. As an aside – never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this to blow up like this. I hope we can keep calm and continue to discuss this sensibly. Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help t...  show all text

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