Archive for January, 2012

30-story building built in 15 days, yep in 360 hours – Video

January 31, 2012 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

What can you accomplish in 360 hours? The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tall hotel prototype in 360 hours, after building a 15-story building in a week earlier in 2011. You may ask why in a hurry, and is it safe? The statistics in the video can put you in good faith. Prefabricated modular buildings has many advantages over conventional buildings. - Higher precision in fabrication (+/- 0.2mm). - More coordinated on-site construction management. - Shorter construction time span. - Lower construction waste. - Also many other health and energy features are included in Broad

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Who buys advertising on Google – Infographic

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#1 Finance & Insurance – $4.0 Billion (example keywords in this industry include: “self employed health insurance”, “cheap car insurance”, “credit cards for bad credit”) #2 Retailers & General Merchandise – $2.8 Billion (example keywords in this industry include “zumba dance dvd”, “proform treadmill”, “weber grill accessories”) #3 Travel & Tourism – $2.4 Billion (e.g. “new york hotels”, “plane tickets”, “rental car deals”) #4 Jobs & Education - $2.2 Billion (e.g. “accredited online college degrees”, “online certificate programs”, “unemployment benefits”) #5 Home & Garden - $2.1 Billion (e.g. “replacement windows cost”, “appliance repair”, “cabinet refacing”) #6 Computer & Consumer Electronics – $2.0 Billion (“ink cartridges

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History of Better Business Bureau – Infographic

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The Better Business Bureau is 100 years old this year, and to celebrate, they’ve made an infographic of their accomplishments.

If you printed Facebook – Infographic

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Cartridge Save, the online ink cartridge retailer who compiled the facts that, it would take 573 million hours to read every Facebook status posted in a year, which is how long it would take to fly around the globe 8.5 million times. The UK company surveyed 2,102 UK Facebook users by email to calculate numbers for the infographic. Of those surveyed, the average UK Facebook user spends 32 minutes per day reading on Facebook, and 62% of respondents write one status about two lines in length per day.

DMARC – antiphishing standard which promises a world of less phishing

January 30, 2012 |  by  |  News  |  No Comments

15 companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal joined forces on a “technical working group” to jointly work on a standard for blocking phishing e-mails by verifying that they come from legitimate companies. It seems obvious that trusted, legitimate companies could come together to do this, but it’s only started happening in the last 18 months. What is DMARC Work? DMARC.org – or the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance – is a new white-list system will be available for use across the Internet. DMARC standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using the well-known SPF and DKIM mechanisms. This means that

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What’s the deal with green jobs – Infographic

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Jobvine took a look at what green jobs are and the growth over the past few years. With most governments investing millions of dollars into making their countries greener each year, all industries are getting affected. They show how some of those industries have changed. Also examine the top IT companies and the effort they are making into saving the environment. Google has been completely carbon neutral since 2007. By 2012, Microsoft plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 30 percent compared to 2007 levels. If you are looking for a job at a top company like that it's time

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Tech hiring trend 2012 – Infographic

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Executive vice president of Acquity Group Jim Newman, whose team created the infographic below, believes the current tech hiring trends shows that top tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are hiring like crazy despite the global economic downturn. Tech hiring trend 2012 - Infographic

Is Pinterest next social commerce game changer – Infogrpahic

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Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites. It enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular categories such as home decor, food and wedding inspiration. Members can use Pinterest’s “Pin It” bookmarklet tool and iPhone app to save things they see online and offline, and explore and repin the images their friends collect via their personal newsfeeds. Is Pinterest next social commerce game changer - Infogrpahic

SOPA and the film industry – Infographic

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Has Hollywood already forgotten the 1950s and the Hollywood blacklist? SOPA is the reincarnation of the House Committee on Un-American Activities Hollywood blacklist - SOPA is an Internet blacklist. In case you’re still unclear about the U.S. Congress’s hapless SOPA legislation that went down in flames earlier this month, the Matador Network sums it up neatly with this angry infographic. SOPA and the film industry

Megaupload user data could be deleted by Feb 2, say US prosecutors

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All the data on Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, as reported by MSNBC. The file storage website hires outside companies – Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc – to store its users’ data. Since Megaupload’s assets have been frozen, the service cannot pay the hosting companies to keep hosting the data. According to a letter by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, filed in the case Friday, Jan 27, they could begin deleting data Thursday. US prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men,

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