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“When you experiment with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, it feels like magic. You toss 500 questions into the ether, and the answers instantly start rolling in from anonymous workers around the world. It was great for getting work done, but who source...

“The Long Tail has just had another run-in with large amounts of real-world data, and again come out the worse for wear. Tens of millions of music transactions were analyzed by economists and the shape of the sales distribution shows source...

“Hallgrímskirkja cathedral looms up out of the mists and gloom of downtown ReykjavíkThink of Ireland. Rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, make it a third bigger and hang it like a pendant from the Arctic Circle. Crack open the earth’s crust source...

“This is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involved understandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material are simplified or omitted, for the sake of clarity. If source...

“The SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference source...

“59th International Astronautical Congress – http://www.iafastro.com/?id=680 Space elevators on Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator Leaving The Planet website – http://www.leavingtheplanet.com/ Australian Senate space report – http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/c source...

“I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's Startup2Startup dinner. Paul is going to do Q&A with Dave McClure and I'm going to talk briefly about some of the parallels I noticed between the stories in Founders at Work and my experience source...

“ A few years ago, Constance Steinkuehler -- a game academic at the University of Wisconsin -- was spending 12 hours a day playing Lineage, the online world game. She was, as she puts it, a "siege princess," running 150-person source...

“Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively, its browser-baseed virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites. Lively launched just last July. The death notice on the site says it source...

“Yeah. Nice. Expect a whole new slew of FCC regulations to come out regarding general and trade chat. Chuck Norris jokes will result in a fine. Racist/sexist comments will result in inability to post in general. Gold seller spamming, the source...

“If you were a prospective gag headline, you would probably feel about the writers' room at the Onion the way World War II soldiers felt about the view of Omaha Beach as the landing craft doors yawned open. By midafternoon source...

“ Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge locations. source...

“If you're a regular Human Nature reader, you know the story line we've been following here and on the blog: Pakistan has become the world's first mechanical proxy war, with unmanned aerial vehicles hunting and killing bad guys so U.S. source...

“AFTER years of fat profits and bonuses, cost-cutting is once again at the top of the corporate agenda. For companies wanting to chop out middle-management dead wood or sack factory workers, costs can vary enormously across the world. America, New source...

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