stats in twitter

by typing in 'stats' in twitter, you will see the number of followers and following numbers. Thats neat, I wish they had more keywords - like help , SOS whatever.. :)-

Xmas web cams around the world

you want to watch xmas around the world.. here's a list of webcams operating

Good Quote

"The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents
one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage." -- Peter Drucker

Have come out of one big cluster fuck. I certainly am now seeing the wisdom of these words. Leadership, needs pinpoint who actually is creating value and who is just whitewashing reality to suite their own agenda's.

How to Get 16 Million Facebook Application Users?

This is an interesting read to the degree that one has 16Million users within 10 weeks. Thats quite a high velocity and traction in a short period of time.

"e answer is simple. Run a facebook class at Stanford. Facebook Class instructor Dave McClure reviews the amazing results from the class. You will see that the lesson here is multiple iterations of applications and a 2 pronged focus on virality and engagement of the facebook applications.

[..]

Dave McClure also covers his infamous Pirate Model for customer life cycle: AARRR
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Referral
Revenue"

Is this model compareable to the CMM, SDLC, Agile etc ?? Worth take some serious notes on this model

Face Book status updates visa RSS ?

I just notices that my WEb Clibs on my GDS (google Desktop )N gadget is spawning out Status updates from all my Friends on Facebook. When did this begin to happen ??

An't that cool ??

unique name-matching technique to identify ethnic

Q: Your study used a unique name-matching technique to identify ethnic patterns. Why did you choose this methodology?

A: This project employs the names on U.S. patents to determine probable ethnicities of the inventors. For example, inventors with the surnames Wang and Ming are more likely Chinese than Hispanic.

The central advantage of this approach is that the ethnic assignment is at the individual patent level. There are over 7 million inventors associated with U.S. patents since 1975. This micro-level assignment allows us to characterize ethnic contributions at levels of detail not otherwise possible: For example, the annual Chinese percentage of U.S. inventors can be refined down to the 1992 Chinese share of IBM's inventors in Silicon Valley working in semiconductors.
This exceptional detail, especially within individual firms and schools, allows us to answer many more questions than previous data sources.

Via : HBS

RSS stirred, but not shaken...

Testing out RSSFreshness A a new Rss filter tool from the refreshpartners. BIG Thank you to Roy for answering my question on TorCamp Group.

Now to start some real cleanup and and then try some GDS mashup !! I need to weed out the noise from the signals :)

The biggest sex event on Earth

This is something that is mind blowing when looks at primative nature !!

"Every year, and shortly after a full moon, billions of corals across a third of
a million square kilometers of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef enter in a frenzy
of reproduction. Now, an international team of Australian and Israeli
researchers has discovered the key to this
moonlight romance. It is an ancient light-sensitive gene, known as a
cryptochrome, which is present not only in corals, but in insects, fish and
mammals — including humans. These genes are primitive light-sensing pigment
mechanisms which predate the evolution of eyes — and are pretty sensitive to
blue light."

Nice Coin

Picked this up from homeless main speaks !

I was just wondering if these coins were circulated at the classroom level would this really help in awareness about drugs ? This means when the kids in school pass up a coin to 'da man' who brings em the weed or what not.. would it really help ? After all its a silent yet powerful message, coin is coin correct ?? :)- Could be a nice play on reverse psychology.- it an't kewl to do drugs anymore !!

Blackberry Bug

Tested on 8700c v4.2.1.96 (Platform 2.3.0.79).

Follow these steps toreproduce the Arabic array index out of bounds exception when making aphone call...

Home -> Settings -> Options -> Language -> Change Option -> Arabic(funky chars, top item in list) -> SaveHome ->

[do this next part quickly] tap 9, tap 0 quickly twice, while char is still highlighted tap DEL.

Output : "Uncaught exception: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException"

via : Kristian H