“A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.” #
[via:Annika H]
2 February 2011
30 January 2011
HS.fi: Kotilaudan tornionyymi hakkeroi kyläyhdistyksen kotisivut
Otin Itä-Uudenmaan kyläyhdistyksen hakkeroidusta sivustosta pari ruudunkaappausta: Etusivu ja Astrid Thors.
[via:Chris Helenius]
25 January 2011
21 January 2011
New Beta Version of The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
There’s an FAQ for the new release on their blog.
[via:Hacker News]
12 January 2011
The Fascinating Story of Porn and Technology Adoption
Yes, Cracked.com publishes some fascinating stuff but I generally find it awkward to link to them.
Let’s take a moment to think about Cracked. Most everyone gets that their material and the research behind it doesn’t quite match the quality you find in Wired.
This meta comment on Cracked relates very closely to this story on the new web publishing industry I discussed little over a year ago. How every pun in a Cracked.com article actually is search engine optimization becomes laughably clear in this porn piece. The writer has slipped in just about every FCC safe adult entertainment related expression you could daydream up of in the story.
Improving content distribution with sex and porn is just that powerful. If you have a web site, you could try this yourself: just mention porn in some really obscure way and you’ll probably get at least some traffic through someone’s really fap happy search engine queries. If you mention child porn, you’ll be awarded search traffic so depraved you might feel a bit uncomfortable just storing your search referer data.
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
1 October 2010
Zynga Moves 1 Petabyte Of Data Daily; Adds 1,000 Servers A Week
“10 percent of the world’s internet population (approximately 215 million monthly users) has played a Zynga game.”
[via:High Scalability]
8 August 2010
2 August 2010
10 July 2010
Youtube launches support for 4K video resolution
Google is obviously building infrastructure for some kind of major, commercial video distribution project. But they’re also preparing themselves for a not so distant future when normal people might have enormous, wall sized-screens at home.
This is not crazy talk without any real application within the lives of normal people. For instance: Any kind of convincing telepresence must be based on video quality much higher than 1080p. Ask yourself what it’d take to make you feel not so much out of place when attending some kind of party by appearing and watching others in life-size on a wall.
I’m just saying. People will want this kind of equipment.
6 July 2010
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17 June 2010
Finally some features that really improve WordPress’ level of usefulness a general purpose CMS.
[via:WordPress]