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A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Microsoft and the economics of Bing >> Business Insider
"Microsoft's financial disclosures suggests that Microsoft is paying as much to gain every point of share as it is generating in revenue from each point of share. Put differently, it appears Microsoft has a 0% gross margin on its search market growth of the past year: For every $1 of new revenue it generates, it spends $1 in traffic acquisition costs. That's just not a sustainable business."
Kevin Turner's speech at Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 >> Microsoft
"We already have 530 million Windows Live IDs. There's a little over a billion people on the Internet. We've got over half of those already, with the Windows Live ID."
Kevin, if that's really the quality of your maths, I'm worried about how you rose almost to the top of Microsoft.
Lords set sights on review of Digital Economy Act >> ZDNet UK
"The Digital Economy Act could be reviewed by the House of Lords next year, if peers are given the right to scrutinise legislation after it has been passed into law."
A lot hinges on that "if".
Google climate map offers a glimpse of a 4C world >> guardian.co.uk
It's interactive, using Google Earth to show you what a world 4C hotter - which is now expected - will look like. Buy suncream and at the top of a hill. And worry.
What's wrong with Icann >> Kieren McCarthy
In a response on the Icann mailing list, McCarthy - a former insider at Icann, as well as a journalist - gives his thinking on how it gets it wrong: "My personal philosophy of why this vicious circle continues to persist is because ICANN lacks almost entirely a culture of learning from previous mistakes. Never has it had a review of the effectiveness of a particular process at the end of that process – despite this going against every best practice guidebook in the world.
"As a result, ICANN doesn't have any internal checkboxes or red flags that would indicate something is going along the wrong lines. And, ironically, the mistakes of the past are frequently repeated because they follow from well-worn paths of travel."
CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How Apple's iPhone Totally Humiliated The Mobile Industry >> Business Insider
"The most profound effect that Apple has had on the industry is how it has completely swallowed the lion's share of its profits, in a very short period of time, without even commanding much market share."
Processing, the language >> Processing.org
"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions." Now updated to 1.2. Very interesting - like a new form of Logo.
Hidden features of Python >> Stack Overflow
A fantastically useful list for anyone who uses Python - such as the developers at the Guardian, among others.
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