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Entries from February 2011

The tipping point on social networking

February 20th, 2011 ·

If I rank my activity in social networking sites, it probably is proportional to the number of friends that I have on these accounts. In decreasing order this would be: my corp buzz friends on my google.com account my facebook friends my public buzz friends on my gmail account my twitter account. my quora account [...]

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Tags: Research · The internet

Jobs in the USA

February 17th, 2011 ·

I was thinking today about President Obama meeting with silicon valley leaders in order to talk about jobs. I heard a podcast today that mentioned Apple has 30,000 employees in silicon valley, but 1,000,000 employees in China as contractors for the manufacturing of iPads, iPhones, laptops, and iPods. It caused me to wonder what it [...]

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Tags: Economics · Politics

Nissan Leaf Carwings Agreement

February 16th, 2011 ·

The time is approaching for delivery of my Nissan Leaf. Today they invited me to sign up for the Telematics service through Carwings. As far as I can tell, this offers very little and requires me to consent to data uploads from the car. If I could get access to the data that was uploaded [...]

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Tags: Inspirations · Rants