There’s a massive blind spot about the social component in our lives, and that’s where this data helps. On Facebook, you’re essentially voting all the time on your profile and nobody yet has the ability to make those votes count.
Category: News and Views
Sustainable City Lights Have a Flowery Approach to Life – GreenPacks
City lights have to be one of the biggest energy suckers around, and making them more efficient should lead to massive energy savings.
Homes Below the 37th Parallel Most Likely to Have “Underwater” Mortgages | Nielsen Wire
Generally speaking, the 37th parallel acts as the line of demarcation between the positive equity metros (north) and the negative equity metros (south). This parallel is located at approximately the border of Virginia and North Carolina or Utah and Arizona.
HOAX – Cell Phones Are Cooking Your Brain | Video
I bet you fell for this too. This video was produced by Cardo Systems, Inc, a company that sells BlueTooth headsets. The Snopes article discussing the origins of the hoax can be read here.
Oil Companies–Some Run by Former Bush Officials–Make a Risky Move Into Kurdistan | Fast Company
In their haste to tap Kurdish reserves, dozens of oil companies — several fronted by former Bush officials — have undercut U.S. policy and fanned sectarian tensions in Iraq. They may also lose a fortune.
FinancialStability.gov | U.S. Department of the Treasury
At the height of the crisis, Treasury guaranteed over $3 trillion in assets to prevent a run on money market mutual funds. The program achieved its purpose, and we terminated it in September. Not only did it not cost the taxpayers anything, it earned them $1.2 billion in fees.
Hybrid? Really??? | greenpacks.org
The Lotus Evora concept, scheduled for a debut at the Geneva Motor Show, could well be the next step for hybrid vehicles.
The truth behind the AIG bailout | GDS Publishing
Until now, when making a case for the AIG bailout, the US government has always maintained that had the financial services giant been left to fail, its credit default swap (CDS) obligations would have caused huge losses to its counterparties, resulting in all-out financial collapse.
Cable TV Is Doomed – Business | The Atlantic
The death of cable television would probably still be inevitable without the Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan, which aims to expand broadband Internet access to 90% of Americans and dramatically increase access speeds. But the measure, if it passes, will accelerate the demise of cable television as the standard method of consuming television. Now that Google is leading the way in developing Internet TV, the rise of this technology will come even faster.
Why You Shouldn’t Buy an iPad (Yet) | Fast Company
Apple’s iPad arrives in stores tomorrow and reviewers agree that it’s a magic revolutionary new class of computer. But you shouldn’t buy one. Not yet, anyway.
Let’s break this down.
First-generation Apple products are for suckers.
