“Tudou.com” (=”Potato”, in Romanized Chinese) is one of the several Chinese “Youtubes”, seemingly the largest one at present (possibly larger than YouTube itself in some dimensions). Tudou’s stated goal is “to move couch potatoes from the TV screen to computer screens, a process very much under way in China“.
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Mioritic achievements of bad renown. And their primary causes.
→ Read moreNo one, it turns out, does Internet auction fraud like the Romanians. […]when it comes to online auctions, particularly for big-ticket items such as cars that can yield $5,000 a scam, Romanians own the game.
Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes or ‘Digital Cultural Anthropology’
I bet no one would fall asleep in this sort of presentations.
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Google back in 1997
Stephen Dubner has this excellent post about how Google looked like 10 years ago. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? And you can also see the webpage of a young PhD called Sergey Brin, full of ideas (and- most likely without knowing it- with a very succesful career just years away).
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I keep wondering how can there be such a mixture of (not always) good (sometimes excellent!) economic policies (far better than most ‘opposition’ in the USA advocate- and that’s one problem there: the alternative might be worse, in overall terms), but absolutely insane ‘political’ ones (eventually leading to bad economic outcomes as well…), interfering with private life/ choice and meant to control, there is this obsession with controlling each and everybody’s activities, thoughts etc.,
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