Found Things is a compendium of curiosity.
Awesome doodle: Google celebrate Robert Moog’s birthday with a brilliant recreation of his most famous synth, complete with a real to real for playback!
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The lego birds of Britain.
Silicon valley’s visa free offshore startup community?
So it turns out that technology doesn’t make us lonely after all…
(Via @paulbradshaw)
Twitter is looking at emerging markets with it’s new mobile web version
Putting computers in children’s bedrooms is ‘like telling them not to socialise with you’. Worried about online porn? Don’t regulate the net – regulate your kids.
Coding the future: HTML5 takes the internet by storm.
Very useful reading for anyone not already working in this space.
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Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future
The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record
“Despite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie’s profits, it’s really not that surprising. Claiming a camcorded copy of a movie seriously impacts box office attendance is the same as arguing that concert bootlegs stop people from seeing artists on stage. … Of all the people who downloaded a pirate copy of the film about 20% came from the U.S. This means that roughly 100,000 Americans have downloaded a copy online through BitTorrent. Now, IF all these people bought a movie ticket instead then box office revenue would be just 0.5% higher. Not much of an impact, and even less when you consider that these ‘pirates’ do not all count as a lost sale.”
20 Years of GSM and SMS -
Two thirds of the world’s population, 4 billion people, use cell phones today, and all of them have access to SMS. Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM), set up in 1982, created the GSM standard, leading to a unified, open, standard-based mobile network. SMS, up to 160 7-bit character messages sent over control channels (when they aren’t busy), was part of the original GSM specification itself. The first GSM handests were approved for sale in May 1992. But it was not until 1996, when pay-as-you-go SIM cards showed up, and the kids got their hands on it, that SMS gained popularity.
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Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are has died, aged 83.
