USA CO2 emissions from fossil fuel (2002 data only) : Project Vulcan : US Scientists from Purdue University have created an interactive Google Earth map showing carbon dioxide emissions across the United States, the high-resolution map shows carbon dioxide emissions in metric. …..
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links for 2009-02-21
“Whose data is it anyway?” Facebook in row over who owns *your* data | Technology | BBC NEWS | With Facebook still yet to find a genuine revenue generating business model, there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable not knowing what Facebook might do to achieve profitability.…..
links for 2009-02-20
U2’s new album leaked online – The Inquirer – Popular beat combo, U2’s new album, No Line On The Horizon, has been leaked on the web after someone stuck it on their online music store two weeks early, so I’m sure you’ll be able to get a link to it at the. …..
links for 2009-02-19
Press reviews: Henry’s Othello | Entertainment | BBC NEWS | One of the UK’s favourite comedians and Black Countrymen, Lenny Henry, dazzles critics and audiences with his portrayal of Othello in Shakespeare’s play of the same name. …..
links for 2009-02-18
Race for ‘God particle’ heats up | Science & Environment | BBC NEWS | Competition is healthy for both Europe and the US, says Professor Lyn Evans, project leader of the European Large Hadron Collider (LHC), though missing out on the Higgs would be “sour. …..
links for 2009-02-17
Community Equity Widgets explained : Reiser 2.0 : Weblog : Peter Reiser, web2.0 guru @ Sun, explains about a variety of functionality enabled as part of the SunSpace project, Sun’s internal knowledge sharing and collaboration platform, answers “How do we visualize. …..
links for 2009-02-16
Alien life ‘may exist among us’ | Science & Environment | BBC NEWS | They walk among us, or at least they might, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University. …..
links for 2009-02-14
TPB Tracker Geo Statistics – as in ‘The Pirate Bay’ – A helpful, handy, real-time, mash-up of Google maps and ‘The Pirate Bay’ (TPB) web logs, showing number of users on the site by country. …..
links for 2009-02-13
CBI calls for urgent Government intervention – CBI Press Release – If credit isn’t available soon the recession is going to get a whole lot worse; CBI Director-General, Richard Lambert, has this week urged the Government to implement its various support packages to tackle. …..
links for 2009-01-31
BBC NEWS | Politics | 10 lessons from my Euro MP’s life BBC political reporter Brian Wheeler spent a week living the life of a Member of the European Parliament. …..
links for 2009-01-30
BBC NEWS | Education | White working class ‘losing out’ As if we didn’t know this already “Class” still matters in the UK; working class people are losing out on several fronts, from education to housing, and the current school system is skewed in favour. …..
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links for 2009-01-29
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Do-it-yourself broadband (Community Broadband Network) schemes are springing up around the UK as communities refuse to wait for big firms to roll out faster networks with over 40 local broadband projects live.
links for 2009-01-28
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Despite cutting out SMS support for Europe (and most of the World too) Twitter, the mobile phone-based micro-blogging service, rocketed nearly 1000% in use in the UK over the past year according to industry analysts HitWise.
links for 2009-01-27
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Let’s hope that it’s not too late for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and that this initiative helps them develop valuable and authoritative content before they are potentially overwhelmed by other online knowledge bases. Article by Nick Farrell at the Inquirer.
links for 2009-01-26
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Bill Vass, President and COO of Sun Federal, discusses the use of Sun’s Open Source software stack in the CONNECT system, part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Connect is the information highway for health data exchange in the US; and similar to the UK’s NHS Data SPINE, which uses many of the same technologies from Sun.
links for 2009-01-25
BBC NEWS | Technology | White House plans open government Searching for data about the Obama administration should get easier as the Whitehouse.gov website gets overhauled. …..
links for 2009-01-24
Apple bucks trend with record results – The Inquirer – Are you paying the Apple fashion tax? …..
links for 2009-01-23
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Great to see amazing new businesses like Doodle implementing over Sun technology; Doodle is a free, online, co-ordination and facilitation tool which makes it easy to find a date and time for a group event (even better it doesn’t require registration or any software installation either).
links for 2009-01-22
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Bryan Cantrill gives a quick review of Dave Hitz’s new book “How to Castrate a Bull” and makes comparisons with NetApp’s original differentiators from Sun in 1992 and Sun’s differentiators from NetApps right now that have directly led to the Sun Storage 7000 series that is trouncing NetApps in the marketplace.
links for 2009-01-21
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Scott McNealy interviewed by the BBC revealing he has been asked to prepare a paper on the subject of Open Source and it’s use in Government by the newly inaugurated Barack Obama Administration. Great recognition for Sun who are at the heart of Open Source and has positive ramifications across the board of all Industries and not simply the US Government.