If you type Google into Google, you will break the internet
…and the third most searched term in Google for 2013 was… Google. That’s probably strong enough to write an episode of ‘The I.T. Crowd’ around, yes?
Category: Web 2.0 (Observations)
Seven years on Twitter
I’m sure there’s an exciting statistic that I could dig out for this momentous day, but no. Just a simple note that I’ve been on Twitter for seven years, and there’s not an itch in sight.
Building mining rigs for fun and (perhaps) profit
Lots of talk about crypto-currencies at the moment, and while I’m not in the loop in any major way, I do know that if you’re trying to make sense of the latest flavour (Litecoin) you should head over to ‘friend of the parish’ Jason Evangelho’s article on Forbes: We’re still not even sure who created Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency to go mainstream. Its value is erratic, swinging dramatically up and down within weeks. We don’t know who will adopt or condemn it next, but one thing is certain: This new form of decentralized currency is resilient, and you can mine it, trade it,
I’ve got a bad feeling about Yahoo and Imgur
…because Yahoo buying a popular image hosting site with social features and making a success of it worked out so well the last time they ran this play.
Still waiting for a Square chip and pin
Silicon Valley’s darling of the credit card payment industry, Square, has released another hardware iteration of their magstripe reader. European watchers will note the system still doesn’t support ‘Chip and Pin’. While it’s not a deal-breaker for me, I continue to be amazed at the lack of security for the customer in the US credit card industry. At least in the UK retailers will check the signatures match – the majority of US transactions I’ve had swipe the card, hand it back, and then ask for a signature. I await Square’s launch in territories with stronger fraud protection systems with
AirBNB almost replicate Kubrick’s War Room
I know it’s the artistic choice, but anyone with a passing knowledge of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb” will know that The War Room set was decked out in green baize so it resembled a poker table, even though it wouldn’t show up in the black and white prints. Looks like AirBNB went for the best picture possible, rather than accuracy, when they decked out their board room in the style of the Ken Adams set. I think there’s a pun somewhere in that mix about the AirBNB service…
