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BlogsTags > chinaFour short links: 3 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 3, 2013 Causal Entropic Forces (PDF) — new paper from Sci Foo alum Alex Wissner-Gross connecting intelligence and entropy. (via Inside Science) Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat Are Trademarked Memes (Ars Technica) — the business of this (presumably there will be royalties … Four short links: 30 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 China = 41% of World’s Internet Attack Traffic (Bloomberg) — numbers are from Akamai’s research. Verizon Communications said in a separate report that China accounted for 96 percent of all global espionage cases it investigated. One interpretation is that China … Four short links: 18 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 18, 2013 The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto — I can’t assure with 100% certainty that the all the black dots are owned by Satoshi, but almost all are owned by a single entity, and that entity began mining right from … Four short links: 28 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 28, 2013 What American Startups Can Learn From the Cutthroat Chinese Software Industry — It follows that the idea of “viral” or “organic” growth doesn’t exist in China. “User acquisition is all about media buys. Platform-to-platform in China is war, and it … Four short links: February 21 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 21, 2013 Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of US Trade Secrets (Whitehouse, PDF) — the Chinese attacks on Facebook, NYT, and other large organisations are provoking policy responses. WSJ covers it nicely. What is this starting? (via Alex Howard) BodyMedia FitLink … Four short links: 19 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 19, 2013 Using Silk Road — exploring the transactions, probability of being busted, and more. Had me at the heading Silk Road as Cyphernomicon’s black markets. Estimates of risk of participating in the underground economy. Travis CI — a hosted continuous integration … Four short links: 15 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 15, 2013 Ed Startups in a Nutshell (Dan Meyer) — I couldn’t agree with Dan more: The Internet is like a round pipe. Lecture videos and machine-scored exercises are like round pegs. They pass easily from one end of the pipe to … Four short links: 13 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 13, 2013 CA Assembly Bill No. 292 — This bill would provide that the full text of the California Code of Regulations shall bear an open access creative commons attribution license, allowing any individual, at no cost, to use, distribute, and create … Four short links: 1 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 1, 2013 Icon Fonts are Awesome — yes, yes they are. (via Fog Creek) What the Rails Security Issue Means for Your Startup — excellent, clear, emphatic advice on how and why security matters and what it looks like when you take … Four short links: 30 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 30, 2013 Chinese Attack UAV (Alibaba) — Small attack UAV is characterized with small size, light weight, convenient carrying, rapid outfield expansion procedure, easy operation and maintenance; the system only needs 2-3 operators to operate, can be carried by surveillance personnel to … Four short links: 11 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2013 How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off (Anil Dash) — the basic straightforward stuff that gets your users on-side. Anil’s making a career out of being an adult. Clockwork Raven (Twitter) — open source project to send data … Four short links: 7 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 10, 2013 DroneNet: How to Build It (John Robb) — It’s possible to break the FAA’s “line of sight” rules regarding drones right now and get away with it to enable fast decentralized growth. This strategy works. e.g. PayPal flagrantly broke banking … Four short links: 7 January 2012By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 7, 2013 DroneNet: How to Build It (John Robb) — It’s possible to break the FAA’s “line of sight” rules regarding drones right now and get away with it to enable fast decentralized growth. This strategy works. e.g. PayPal flagrantly broke banking … Four short links: 18 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 18, 2012 Credibility Ranking of Tweets During High Impact Events (PDF) — interesting research. Situational awareness information is information that leads to gain in the knowledge or update about details of the event, like the location, people aff ected, causes, etc. We found … Four short links: 13 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 13, 2012 Top 10 Chinese Internet Memes of 2012 — most are political, unlike Overly Attached Girlfriend. Evaporative Cooling — thoughtful piece about the tendency of event quality to trend down unless checked by invisible walls. (via Hacker News) What Was It … Four short links: 20 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 20, 2012 The Shape of the Internet Has Changed — 98 percent of internet traffic now consists of content that can be stored on servers. 45% of Internet traffic today is from CDNs, and a handful of them at that, which makes … Four short links: 1 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 1, 2012 China Hackers Hit EU Point Man and DC (Bloomberg) — wow. The extent to which EU and US government and business computer systems have been penetrated is astonishing. Stolen information is flowing out of the networks of law firms, investment … Four short links: 27 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 27, 2012 Social Media in China (Fast Company) — fascinating interview with Tricia Wang. We often don’t think we have a lot to learn from tech companies outside of the U.S., but Twitter should look to Weibo for inspiration for what can … Four short links: 29 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 29, 2012 Tricorder Project -- open sourced designs for a tricorder, released as part of the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize. (via Slashdot) Microsoft's New Open Sourced Stacks (Miguel de Icaza) -- not just open sourced (some of the code had been under MS Permissive License before, now it's Apache) but developed in public with git: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET... Four short links: 22 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 22, 2012 Stamen Watercolour Maps -- I saw a preview of this a week or two ago and was in awe. It is truly the most beautiful thing I've seen a computer do. It's not just a clever hack, it's art. Genius. And they're CC-licensed. Screens Up Close -- gorgeous microscope pictures of screens, showing how great the iPad's retina display... Four short links: 9 January 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 9, 2012 Mr Daisey and the Apple Factor (This American Life) -- episode looking at the claims of human rights problems in Apple's Chinese factories. OpenPilot -- open source UAVs with cameras. Yes, a DIY spy drone on autopilot. (via Jim Stogdill) mbox -- more technical information than you ever thought you'd need, to be saved for the time when you... Four short links: 1 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 1, 2011 Things Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than -- next time you're bragging about your efficient code, spare a thought for the Pascal IDE and compiler that lived in 39,731 bytes. This list of more bloated things is hilarious. The China Startup Report (Slideshare) -- interesting to see the low salary comes with expectation of bonuses but little interest in equity... Four short links: 26 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 26, 2011 911 Footage -- the Internet Archive has published a great collection of video from Sep 11 2001. A tremendous boon to researchers. Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? (Smithsonian Magazine) -- not sure if why they're successful is ever definitively anointed, but the article is fascinating reading. deck.js -- Javascript presentation library. Why Amazon Can't Make a Kindle in the... Four short links: 24 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 24, 2011 STM in PyPy -- a proposal to add software transactional memory to the all-Python Python interpreter as a way of simplifying concurrent programming. I first learned about STM from Haskell's Simon Peyton-Jones at OSCON. (via Nelson Minar) Werner Vogels' Static Web Site on S3 -- nice writeup of the toolchain to publish a web site to static files served... Four short links: 6 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 6, 2011 China Wants to Buy Facebook (Forbes) -- Beijing approached a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees to see if it could assemble a stake large enough "to matter." This has implications for Facebook entering China. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is reportedly "wary about the compromises Facebook would have to make to do business there." If she... Four short links: 26 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 26, 2011 Draft Horses Bring Fibre to Remote Locations -- I love the conjunction of old and new, as draft horses prove the best way to lay fibre in remote Vermont. (via David Isenberg) Chinese Political Prisoners Gold-Farming (Guardian) -- "Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour," Liu told... Four short links: 23 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 23, 2011 PC Emulator in Javascript -- days later and it's mindboggling. US Home Prices as Opera (Flowing Data) -- reminded me of Douglas Adams's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" which has software that turns your company's performance numbers into music. The yearly accounts of most British companies emerged sounding like the Dead March from "Saul", but in Japan they went... Four short links: 2 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 2, 2011 Chinese Internet Cafes (Bryce Roberts) -- a good quick read. My note: people valued the same things in Internet cafes that they value in public libraries, and the uses are very similar. They pose a similar threat to the already-successful, which is why public libraries are threatened in many Western countries. SIFT -- the Scale Invariant Feature Transform library,... Four short links: 26 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 26, 2011 Barnes and Noble Nook Color Gets Android Upgrade (Wired) -- was an e-reader, but now Barnes and Noble are offering an upgrade to turn it into a fully-fledged Android tablet. The only thing you won't be able to do is download apps from the Google marketplace. The Nook retails for $250. (via Glyn Moody) Anime Site Treats Piracy as... ePayments Week: Android's predicted ascendance April 14, 2011 Gartner says Android can take half the smartphone market by the end of 2012. Also, China's mobile customers can slip NFC SIMM cards into their handsets, and geolocation company Quova challenges developers. Hints of iPhone envy in ChinaBy Cliff MillerApril 13, 2011 A survey of Chinese phone owners conducted through the Sina micro-blog service finds that iPhones are a prized possession, while Android interest is tepid and things aren't looking good for Nokia. Four short links: 6 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 6, 2011 Timeline Setter -- ProPublica-released open source tool for building timelines from spreadsheets of event data. See their post for more information. (via Laurel Ruma) Return to Shenzhen Part 1 -- Nate from SparkFun makes a trip to component capital of the world. It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for geeks. a special market that dealt exclusively with bulk... Four short links: 3 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 3, 2011 Guangzhou City Map -- Chinese city maps: they use orthographic projection (think SimCity) and not satellite images. A nice compromise for usability, information content, and invisible censorship. (via Hacker News) Broken Windows, Broken Code, Broken Systems -- So, given that most of us live in the real world where some things are just left undone, where do we draw... Four short links: 17 February 2011
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 17, 2011 The True Cost of Publishing on the Kindle -- an article, apparently by a horrified negotiator with Amazon, revealing that magazine and newspaper publishers pay the WhisperNet delivery costs of their editions. That's not Amazon overhead, it comes out of the publisher's royalty slice. (via Hacker News) Fonts in Use -- examples of sweet typography and the fonts that... Four short links: 24 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 24, 2011 The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks (The Atlantic) -- After more than ten days of intensive investigation and study, Facebook's security team realized something very, very bad was going on. The country's Internet service providers were running a malicious piece of code that was recording users' login information when they went to sites like Facebook.... Four short links: 17 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 17, 2011 Remove DRM from EBooks -- it's been done, and the tools are getting easier to use. The Kindle DRM-remover uses gdb to hook into the Kindle for Mac application, watch when a book's decoded and snaffle the key. (via BoingBoing) AliBaba's Data Possibilities (The Economist) -- Alibaba has a huge and barely exploited asset: the data it has gathered... Four short links: 7 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 7, 2010 Synopsis Data Structures for Massive Data Sets (PDF) -- survey of data structures that reduce the problem space when dealing with large data sets. (via Pete Warden) Optimism -- you build what you're thinking of. Time to figure out the optimistic future and build that. "Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.” --attributed... Four short links: 13 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 13, 2010 Open Source Community Types (Simon Phipps) -- draws a distinction between extenders and deployers to take away the "who do you mean?" confusion that comes with the term "community". Sparklines -- Tufte's coverage of sparkline graphs in Beautiful Evidence. (via Hacker News) Why NoSQL Matters (Heroku blog) -- a very nice precis of the use cases for various NoSQL... The Watering Hole - A Point to Ponder 
By James TurnerAugust 29, 2010 Berkeley Breathed had his dandelion patch, we have Mount Conflicted... Four short links: 23 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 23, 2010 5 Reputation Missteps (and how to avoid them) (YouTube) -- a Google Tech Talk from one of the authors of the O'Reilly-published Building Web Reputation Systems. Solr on EC2 Tutorial -- the tutorial shows how to index Wikipedia with Solr. (via Matt Biddulph) clive -- a command line utility for extracting (or downloading) videos from Youtube and other video... The manufacturing future 
By Dale DoughertyJuly 6, 2010 Dale Dougherty weaves together recent commentary and his own first-hand observations from the manufacturing world. In this piece, he asks: What can we learn from China? Can the U.S. become more competitive as a maker of things? Four short links: 28 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 28, 2010 They Don’t Complain and They Die Quietly (Derek Powazek) -- In this hyper-modern age of real-time always-on location-based info-overload, perhaps a moment of true peace and quiet is the greatest gift one can receive. The Slow Media Manifesto -- Slow Media inspire, continuously affect the users’ thoughts and actions and are still perceptible years later. Steven Levy ran a... Four short links: 26 April 2010
By Nat TorkingtonApril 26, 2010 E-Commerce Booming in China (Economist) -- bad time for Google to be leaving, just as online sales take off. Chinese consumers in stores check quality by hand but buying online requires trust, aka brands. This is a turn towards Western-style commerce built on trademarks and brand promise of quality, and away from the prevalent wild East style of commerce... Four short links: 19 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 19, 2010 Tsung -- GPLed multi-protocol (HTTP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, WebDAV, SOAP, XMPP) load tester written in Erlang. Myth of China's Manufacturing Prowess -- The latest data shows [...] that the United States is still the largest manufacturer in the world. In 2008, U.S. manufacturing output was $1.8 trillion, compared to $1.4 trillion in China (UN data. China’s data do not separate... Four short links: 18 February 2010
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 18, 2010 David Cameron, The Next Age of Government (TED Talk) -- Cameron's argument is that with open data and behavioural economics, we can offer policy preferences but let people make informed choices. Interesting that transparency and open data can be a bipartisan issue. Finding Ada -- pledge to blog about an inspirational woman in technology or science on March 24.... Google's Fall Out With China - Making a Stand for Free Speech
By Sarah SorensenJanuary 19, 2010 Time and time again, China has tested the digital world, trying to stifle its free information flow and control the resources that are open to its people. There are a long list of methods China has employed to clamp down on access... Four short links: 14 January 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 14, 2010 Four Possible Explanations for Google's Big China Move (Ethan Zuckerman) -- I'm staying out of the public commentary on this one, but Ethan's fourth point was wonderfully thought provoking: a Google-backed anticensorship system (perhaps operated in conjunction with some of the smart activists and engineers who’ve targeted censorship in Iran and China?) would be massively more powerful (and threatening!)... Commerce and the Wealth of Nations
By Tim O'ReillyDecember 31, 2009 I was struck the other day by an article in the New York Times that describes the different approaches of the US and China to Afghanistan, in which the US shoulders the burden of war, while China reaps the benefits of commerce. Quoting from the article, I tweeted: "American troops help make Afghanistan safe for Chinese commerce." In response, @kamalram... Four short links: 22 October 2009
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 22, 2009 Eight Billion Minutes Spent on Facebook Daily -- you weren't using that cognitive surplus, were you? How We Made Github Fast -- high-level summary is that the new "fast, good, cheap--pick any two" is "fast, new, easy--pick any two". (via Simon Willison) Isaac Mao, China, 40M Blogs and Counting -- Today, there are 40 million bloggers in China and... Review of Guobin Yang's "Power of the Internet in China"
By Andy OramSeptember 30, 2009 My review of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, a combination of research and sociological analysis, 1 to 50 of 59 Next Stay Connected
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