In 2010, Google had $29.3 billion in revenue. To put things in perspective, this is more than the GDP of the 28 poorest countries… combined! Despite all of Google’s products and services, 97% of Google’s business revenue is still from advertising. Google has made a major push to capitalize on the growing use of mobile […]
[Infographic] The good old Internet back in ’96
We absolutely are in web2.0 now. But who of you guys remembers the good old times back in 1996? Just to reflect some of the problems back in th late 90. I remember fighting with image preloaders to optimize my pages for user experience by prefetching every thing for mouse over effects.. Look at this […]
AI-Class Grade calculator – let the machine do it
It’s not to hard for an AI-Class student to calculate her or his final score and the corresponding grade but having the machine do it for you is far more geeky. I built a small calculator in Google docs, so feel free to use it for your grade estimation. Just follow this link and […]
[Infographic] The Money Network
Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, Twitter and LinkedIn built the heart of social Web being estimated to be worth more than $71 billion. Remarkable that all of them grew in the last decade, more exactly within the last 5 years. Venture capitalists, founders, engineers and angel investors bring thos kind of start-ups from nothing to an IPO […]
New Stanford courses online – enroll now
For all of you interested in education, Stanford’s new online courses maybe worth a look. I like the entrepreneur classes and I will try to attend as many courses as possible. How about you? Computer Science Game Theory http://www.game-theory-class.org Design and Analysis of Algorithms I http://www.algo-class.org/ Cryptography http://www.crypto-class.org/ Software Engineering for Software as a […]
i’m the first real smartwatch
Who of you did not dream of a watch that can call special agent X to support you. I you are still dreaming of this childhood fantasies, the i’m watch is the right gadget The watch features a 1.54-inch curved capacitive TFT LCD with 240 x 240 pixel resolution, a first of its kind according […]
Why Digital Talent Doesn’t Want To Work At Your Company
Recently I found this post (source below) which tells you what you should be like if you want to get talented staff. I totally agree with the author so I wanted to share the key facts of his findings Most of the bigger traditional companies nowadays match the blacklist in almost every detail. You […]
Micromouse runningthrough maze in just 3.9 sec
Look at this small robot solving a highe maze in less than 4 sec after exploring it before. I am most impressed by the plattform this guy is using to map the maze, run an optimizer and kind of shooting through the maze with its solution afterwards. Where can I find details on the implementations […]