by Scott Judson
Owner of Judson Steel, an iOS development studio based in Auckland
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Your iPad 3 is pretty. These hi-res geometric wallpapers from Veerle Pieters are also pretty. I smell synergy.
Instagram Socialmatic Camera.
Look at this creative camera concept. ADR-Studio created this Instagram Camera Concept in the typical app design, with Apple technology and the functionality of a polaroid camera. The camer has a memory of 16 GB, Wifi and Bluetooth, a 4:3 Touchscreen, 2 lenses, optical zoom, webcam applications and QR code capturing, an internal printer, paper cartridge with Instagram paper, LED flash, and many more…
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What Google would have looked like in the ’80s. (And it works!)
(h/t @theollyman)
Feelin’ lucky.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2mmq4Lusu1qd96hso1_1280.jpg)
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What Google would have looked like in the ’80s. (And it works!)
(h/t @theollyman)
Feelin’ lucky.
Future extraterrestrial rovers may be powered remotely by high-energy laser beams shot through miles of thin fiber-optic cables. This new technology could allow robotic probes to penetrate thick layers of ice to explore Antarctic lakes or the subterranean oceans on icy moons like Europa or Enceladus, and even power a new kind of rocket into space.
“Our modest goal over the next three years is to use a 5,000-watt laser to send a cryobot through up to 250 meters of ice,” inventor and explorer Bill Stone, who presented the new concept today at NASA’s Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta, told Wired. “All the data show there are no show-stoppers for doing that. But from my standpoint, this is child’s play compared to what we could do.”
LASERS drilling into SPACE?!
YES, THAT IS CHILD’S PLAY INDEED.
The Internet’s Population Doubled Over the Last Five Years
Royal Pingdom susses out some interesting trends about the world’s 2.27 billion Internet users:
- Africa has gone from 34 million to 140 million, a 317% increase.
- Asia has gone from 418 million to over 1 billion, a 143% increase.
- Europe has gone from 322 million to 501 million, a 56% increase.
- The Middle East has gone from 20 to 77 million, a 294% increase.
- North America has gone from 233 to 273 million, a 17% increase.
- Latin America (South & Central America) has gone from 110 to 236 million, a 114% increase.
- Oceania (including Australia) has gone from 19 to 24 million, a 27% increase.
They also note that Asia’s Internet population is almost as large* the entire Internet population was in 2007.
*My original post stated that Asia’s Internet population was almost double, not almost as large. Thanks to Anna for catching that.
WordPress Dominates Top 100 Blogs
Via Pingdom:
We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world. This is an increase from the 32% we recorded three years ago.
Other developments since then include that custom blog publishing platforms are more common now, TypePad has all but disappeared from the top 100, Tumblr has made an entrance, and some companies really don’t want to spill the beans about what solutions they use.
Nice to see Tumblr is in the top 100.
MySQL is the persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data: the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves. Since we believe in sharing knowledge and that open source software facilitates innovation, we have decided to open source our MySQL work on GitHub under the BSD New license.
The Twitter Engineering Blog. MySQL at Twitter.
The Twitter MySQL repo on GitHub.
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In case you need some help figuring out why Facebook would want to buy Instagram, this chart from 1000memories’ post, how many photos have ever been taken?, should help.
In a nut: photos are kind of a thing on Facebook, and Instagram is kind of a thing for photos.
Exclusive: Instagram-Facebook Deal Nets CEO Nearly Half a Billion
$1 billion, nice haul…
(Source: Wired)
