John Cohn snapped this shot of puppies on the front steps of IRL. Too cute!
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Jason
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Jason
Absolutely love seeing cows walk untouched through Delhi’s most chaotic traffic intersections.
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Jason
Cellphone social networking connects the poor with jobs.
“Hire cooks, maids, drivers, office helpers, etc. in India through your friends and neighbors. Here’s how!” http://babajob.com/ -
Jason
Online participation archetypes broken down by age (via forrester). view bigger
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Jason
Miss MacDraw? OmniGraffle may be just the ticket. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
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Tom
I didn’t this article about informal economies in the developing world was very good overall, but there was a great nugget in it:
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You don’t know how much you’re going to make if your daily income is based on selling plastic bottles scavenged from the rubbish heap because its dependent on the number of bottles you happen to find. So you can’t contemplate any kind of future planning or purchases based on ensuring you have X amount available every Y weeks, or at least you can, but look into the number of those who dropout or fail to meet their payments. Which is why prepaid schemes based on cash in hand have been so successful. At least 90% of all mobile phone users in sub Saharan Africa are on prepaid programs.
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Its not the amount that must be paid which is the burden but the regularity of the payments against the unpredictability of the incomes. We’re looking at the essential challenge for the redesign of transaction models for the bottom of the pyramid based on the constraints that they face, not continuing to use those based on regular, predictable, even if limited, incomes.
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Here’s the url if you want it: http://www.nitibhan.com/perspective_20/2008/05/musing-on-the-w.html -
Rob
Intel’s Gelsinger retires and makes some predictions. Perhaps its PERCS for everyone:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121487146913417845.html -
Rob
http://www.phishtank.com/index.php is a collaborative clearinghouse for phishing RLs. It even has an API for rsearchers/develoeprs.
I ran across it because I received one of thise millions of phishing expedtion e-mails (purportedly from NatWest Bank in the UK) and I searched for the URL it was going to send me to (for kicks). And I found it there. I was thinking this would be a great idea a number of years ago, but never sound a site that was collecting the URLs.
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Tom
A new amendment to my car insurance policy:
2c There is no coverage for loss to any vehicle that results from the accidental or intentional detonation of or release of radiation from any nuclear or radioactive device. -
Jason
IBM Social Computing evangelist Luis Suarez wrote an article for the New York Times: I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip.
(his website is elsua.net)