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Sep 2 / 2:19pm

Najlepšia rada, ako sa vyrovnať s návratom do práce po dovolenke

And look around you: all those people you dislike, they are miserable too. The days are getting shorter; soon they will be leaving the office in the dark. Not long after that, they will be getting up in it too. And by then it will be cold as well.

Sure, you and your friends must live through the next few months as well. This is why it is important to make sure that you dislike as many people as possible, thereby ensuring that most of the people you know are suffering deservedly. You can start making friends again in the spring.

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Aug 31 / 10:52am

Pravda o (nielen) univerzitných weboch

University Website

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Aug 30 / 9:44am

Redesign nightmare at Digg.com: users rebell by putting Reddit at frontpage

Reddit has taken over the front page of Digg. If Kevin Rose and the rest of the Digg team thought that a long weekend would be enough to calm the furor over the latest changes to the popular site, they were clearly mistaken. Not only did Digg's users declare today "quit Digg day," but in order to protest Digg's new auto-submission system, users are now upvoting every Reddit story on the site.

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Aug 29 / 12:11pm

Najslávnejšie internetové memy v jedinej infografike

Online University
Via: Online University

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Aug 29 / 5:17am

Internet jednou vetou

According to Compete, a Web analytics company, the top 10 Web sites accounted for 31 percent of US pageviews in 2001, 40 percent in 2006, and about 75 percent in 2010.

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Aug 27 / 1:56pm

Paul Allen sa zbláznil

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed far-reaching patent lawsuits against Google, Apple, Yahoo, Netflix, Facebook, AOL and eBay, among others, alleging the companies violated patents owned by his now-defunct idea lab Interval Research.

The four patents at issue allegedly cover basics of online commerce, including recommending products to a user based on what they are currently looking at, and allowing readers of a news story to see other stories based on the current one. Two other patents relate to showing other information on a web page, such as news updates or stock quotes.

The lawsuit also alleges that Interval Research was one of four funders of Sergey Brin and Larry Page’s research that eventually became Google. The suit includes a screenshot of a 1998 Google webpage, crediting Allen’s company.

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Aug 22 / 4:33am

Prvý pád lietadla spôsobený počítačovým vírusom?

Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed with 172 on board moments after taking off from Madrid's Barajas Airport on a scheduled flight to Las Palmas on 20 August 2008. Just 18 survived the crash and subsequent fire aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft.

The airline's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and this resulted in a failure to raise an alarm over multiple problems with the plane, according to Spanish daily El Pais (report here). The plane took off with flaps and slats retracted, something that should in any case have been picked up by the pilots during pre-flight checks or triggered an internal warning on the plane. Neither happened, with tragic consequences

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Aug 22 / 4:00am

Captcha

(Pre tých neskôr narodených: "Dokáž, že si človek: USMEJSA")

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Aug 17 / 9:10am

Vyrobil som jednoduchý návrh nového prvku do redakčných systémov, ktorý by médiám v týchto dňoch ušetril veľa práce

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Aug 17 / 7:12am

Zbohom, web...

Sources: Cisco estimates based on CAIDA publications, Andrew Odlyzko

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Aug 5 / 3:31pm

Čo nové v sociálnych vedách: Ako oznamovať zlé správy?

  • Separate
    If you need to, say, tell customers about a new $100 fee, it’s better to hit them with the bad news, talk about something else, and then mention their $10 rebate coupon. The bigger the difference between the gain and loss, the more you should separate the news.
  • Evaluate
    If the gain and loss are close to equivalent, consider your audience. Most people would be terrified by a $1 million loss, even if it came with an offsetting $1 million gain. Just say everything is fine. On the other hand, risk-takers (venture capitalists, ninjas) will want to see raw numbers.
  • Obfuscate
    If you want to confuse your audience as to just how bad (or good) your news is, change the currency halfway through. Giving employees extra sick days but taking away free soda and snacks, for instance, makes it harder for them to calculate the value of what they’ve lost.
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    Aug 4 / 11:07pm

    Čo všetko o vás vedia webové stránky - (strašidelný) update 2010

    From a single click on a web site, [x+1] correctly identified Carrie Isaac as a young Colorado Springs parent who lives on about $50,000 a year, shops at Wal-Mart and rents kids' videos. The company deduced that Paul Boulifard, a Nashville architect, is childless, likes to travel and buys used cars. And [x+1] determined that Thomas Burney, a Colorado building contractor, is a skier with a college degree and looks like he has good credit.

    The company didn't get every detail correct. But its ability to make snap assessments of individuals is accurate enough that Capital One Financial Corp. uses [x+1]'s calculations to instantly decide which credit cards to show first-time visitors to its website.

    In short: Websites are gaining the ability to decide whether or not you'd be a good customer, before you tell them a single thing about yourself.

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    Aug 1 / 7:20am

    BBC versus Guardian na Facebooku

    Samozrejme, údajná BBC India je súkromný profil s pár priateľmi, čo ale zistíte, až keď naň kliknete - ak by sa na takéto žartíky podujali zrazu tisícky ľudí, asi by nebolo Facebooku (ani BBC) do smiechu.

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    Jul 31 / 5:26am

    Facebook stránka Wiredu bola zrejme hacknutá

    Zo série "Stáva sa aj v najlepších rodinách"... (post na stránku Wiredu pridaný v sobotu o 14.20)

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    Jul 27 / 10:39am

    Etická otázka dňa: možno klientovi účtovať počet hodín vášho spánku, ak sa vám snívalo o práci?

    Last night I had a dream that led to a major creative breakthrough on a work project. Can I bill my client for the sleep time?

    At what point in your dream did this idea strike — while you were sitting naked in high school French class or when you realized that all your teeth were loose? Whatever the case, we get where you’re coming from: In the Google Docs era, work has become an around-the-clock grind. We’d wager that checking email now rivals toothbrushing as America’s favorite pre-bedtime ritual.

    But that doesn’t mean it’s kosher to bill for REM. “To be billable, the time spent has to be willfully expended,” says William G. Ross, author of The Honest Hour: The Ethics of Time-Based Billing by Attorneys. Once the alarm clock buzzed, however, the meter started running. Did you jot down your brainstorm on a bedside notepad or spin it around in your mind while eating Trix? If so, bill for those minutes. Now you’re living the dream.

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    Jul 20 / 11:19am

    O koľko % rýchlejšie zničí novinára internetová žurnalistika v porovnaní s prácou pre tradičné médiá?

    Such is the state of the media business these days: frantic and
    fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in
    pursuit of a story are instead shackled to their computers, where they
    try to eke out a fresh thought or be first to report even the smallest
    nugget of news — anything that will impress Google algorithms and draw
    readers their way.
    Tracking how many people view articles, and then rewarding — or
    shaming — writers based on those results has become increasingly
    common in old and new media newsrooms. The Christian Science Monitor
    now sends a daily e-mail message to its staff that lists the number of
    page views for each article on the paper’s Web site that day.
    ...
    Physically exhausting assembly-line jobs these are not. But the
    workloads for many young journalists are heavy enough that signs of
    strain are evident.
    “When my students come back to visit, they carry the exhaustion of a
    person who’s been working for a decade, not a couple of years,” said
    Duy Linh Tu, coordinator of the digital media program at the Columbia
    University Graduate School of Journalism. “I worry about burnout.”

    Celý článok:
    In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/business/media/19press.html?_r=1

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    Jul 18 / 10:46am

    Jeden z najpoučnejších príbehov z dejín softvérového priemyslu: Ako sa 12 rokov vyvíjal (a nevyvinul) Duke Nukem Forever

    Duke Nukem 3D became one of the top-selling videogames ever, making its creators very wealthy and leaving fans absolutely delirious for a sequel. The team quickly began work on that sequel, Duke Nukem Forever, and it became one of the most hotly anticipated games of all time.

    It was never completed. Screenshots and video snippets would leak out every few years, each time whipping fans into a lather — and each time, the game would recede from view. Normally, videogames take two to four years to build; five years is considered worryingly long. But the Duke Nukem Forever team worked for 12 years straight. As one patient fan pointed out, when development on Duke Nukem Forever started, most computers were still using Windows 95, Pixar had made only one movie — Toy Story — and Xbox did not yet exist.

    On May 6, 2009, everything ended. Drained of funds after so many years of work, the game’s developer, 3D Realms, told its employees to collect their stuff and put it in boxes. The next week, the company was sued for millions by its publisher for failing to finish the sequel.

    prečítajte si určite celý text wired.com

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    Jul 17 / 4:24am

    Stránka týždňa: detektor bleskov (žlté sú najnovšie, červené najstaršie, takže môžete tipovať aj smer pohybu búrky)

    http://www.chmi.cz/meteo/rad/blesk/updated_show_blesk.php

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    Jul 15 / 10:23am

    Maslowova hierarchia internetových potrieb

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    Jul 13 / 12:01am

    Sexyparlament.sk - konečne priama demokracia na Slovensku!

    Mnohí od NextBig čakali niečo zásadné a štátotvorné, tak sme sa rozhodli druhým webovým projektom podporiť priamu demokraciu na Slovensku a v Česku...

     Verím, že strany na hlas ľudu dajú a tých krajších poslancov aspoň presadia v parlamente dopredu pre účely zlepšenia kvality televízneho záznamu.

    Hlasujte:

    Sexyparlament.sk - Slovensko

    Sexyparlament.cz - Česko

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