16 month ago
Linkorama : "Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money" - In his first interview since the world financial crisis, Gao Xiqing, the man who oversees $200 billion of China’s $2 trillion in dollar holdings, explains why he’s betting against the dollar, praises American pragmatism, and wonders about enormous Wal
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39 month ago
Linkorama : Global Neighborhoods - overview of shel israel's new book
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45 month ago
Andy Baio : Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 - 2 cents a quote, with a 98.3% success rate [via]
kellan : Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 - Okay the sheep were cute, but this is interesting. #
deusx : ESV Bible Blog - Blog Archive Mechanical Turk Recap - "For this first foray, we decided to use Mechanical Turk to verify what we created ourselvesin other words, to verify an internal database."
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49 month ago
Linkorama : Cultural Influence on Adoption - Translated from french, a conversation with Francis Pisani
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50 month ago
Linkorama : OhmyNews and Softbank Join Hands - . OhmyNews will spend the invested funds on the expansion of OhmyTV, an Internet television arm of OhmyNews, to advance citizen participation in the video journalism and the development of OhmyNews' English language edition, pushing citizen participatory
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Linkorama : Hot Technology for Chilly Streets in Estonia - "The other draw," he said, "is that if you want to work for a company that influences the lives of tens of millions of people, and you want to do it in Tallinn, there really isn't any other choice."
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52 month ago
kellan : Boots made in Chiapas: realizing globalization's potential for good or ultimate activist lifestyle chic? - Or both? See this short Dominion article for more info. #
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54 month ago
Linkorama : DFJ's empire grows - It is now raising new funds for (1) clean tech and (2) India.
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54 month ago
Linkorama : Shameless Hitist - But the real surprises are just as likely to come from below, in the noise below the spikes. I can't find Tallinn, Estonia amongst Florida's beautifully mapped peaks, but that didn't stop some smart people there from changing the world not once, but twice
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57 month ago
Linkorama : Real Sweatshops Making Virtual Goods - Fascinating underbelly arbitrage
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57 month ago
Linkorama : Profits, Not Jobs, on the Rebound - In the last three years, profits at the seven largest companies in Silicon Valley by market value have increased by an average of more than 500 percent while Santa Clara County employment has declined to 767,600, from 787,200. During the previous economic
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