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Examples?

It appears that they have figured out how to get the App interface (e.g. momentum scrolling) via the browser. Wasn't it a big deal that such changes could help developers avoid the App Store:

http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/more_on_pastrykit

The author wants an event calendar:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/

and a contact form

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

and a photo gallery:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Photoblogs_and_Galleries

Wordpress does all that with simple plugins or built in functions. Perhaps it is a CMS.

What's Blekko?

I thought they were in trouble with the release of Amazon's RDS, but it looks like they responded. Great work.

If you have a wordpress blog, wordpress.com will convert your latex to images using this plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-latex/

Here is another possible explanation for the correlation between reputation and CV upload:

Higher reputation --> more time on the web to answer questions --> likely unemployed --> more desire to upload CV.

With the wealth of data that they collect, this would be a great place for an economist (like myself:)) to study usage patterns and possibly conduct experiments.

Of course, the set of people that buy this device are more "green" than the average consumer and also more likely to change habits. Nonetheless, looking at correlations of household-level usage with location specific variables like weather, sporting events,etc. could be really interesting. Moreover, conducting experiments where alerts are different for 50% of the users to test how responses differ would really illustrate how public policy should move forward. Think of the A/B testing web developers use, but with possibly wide-ranging consequences.

Great work!

They should report whether 5.3 is statistically different from 4.6 given the two sample sizes.

If we each owned our own business, we would rarely reach the economies of scale that have increased standards of living for the last 200 years.

The ultimate problem are the lenders to the PE firms: someone is always on the other side of leverage. The big banks make bets on the PE firms' investments by lending them money with little collateral. If these lenders did their HW, the price of such defaults or shocks to cash flow streams would be reflected in interest rates.

Note that before he could ever be charged, he checked a box next to text (that even in the video) showed that there was a monthly fee. I think these "deals" are dirty, but there is some user input involved.

They seem to scrape a lot of rental sites, not including Craigslist.

Why didn't they just subsidize bike and bike lock purchases for individuals?

Full page:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1

Stock prices should equal the future discounted stream of a firm's cash flow. A free option for the sole product that you produce will certainly lower the long-term prospects of profitability.

Original story with background:

http://www.cctv.com/english/special/news/20091026/103440.sht...

Techcrunch blogspam. Original:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/28/...

and the letter:

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/10/27/ba-letter28_gr_...

As the article points out, Google Groups for private lists is awesome. Free and includes a gig of storage.

I wonder how:

http://fathomdb.com/about/home

will respond.

Direct link:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC377LL/A

Blog spam: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870381620457448...

Working link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-us-wall-street...

Two strong assumptions:

1. Correlation is causation? 2. It is all the Bush adminstration's fault.

Not a referral link...I am not that smart.

They look impressive:

http://store.psystar.com/ads-rebel/rebel-22-osx.html

Blog announcement:

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-data-api-for-...

Link to sources:

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=1267157011

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=iro...

Sounds like a very good refinement of the reputation score in MTurk. For example, I usually only request workers with 95%+ acceptance rates.

The "Gold questions" sound like another refinement of the tests you can give Turks: if you have an image processing task, you can require that a worker pass a series of tests and effectively become certified before attempting your job. Are you guys trying to replace that system or complement it?

Direct link:

http://crowdflower.com/

Their quality control could eliminate the quasi-quality control that I now perform with MTurk. I set up a task like "get bio from webpage" and send it to 3 unique workers. I then run the results through a script to check whether they agree. If they do, accept all (pick random one). If they don't agree hand check (!) and possibly reject one of the jobs.