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Smartphone Satellites

kameir — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:53:15 +0000

NASA has deployed three smartphone satellites (PhoneSats) into orbit. PhoneSat is a nanosatellite, categorizing the mass as between one and ten kilograms. Additionally, PhoneSat is a 1U CubeSat, with a volume of around one liter. The PhoneSat Project strives to decrease the cost of satellites while not sacrificing performance. In an effort to achieve this goal, [...]

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Anonymous takes down GoDaddy

kameir — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:32:02 +0000

I guess Bob had it coming .. Yesterday domain hosted on GoDaddy’s DNS as well as GoDaddy hosted email accounts where taken down by a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack). In computing, a DoS attack or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack; dns denial of service attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource [...]

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Google: YOU are the product

kameir — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:45:43 +0000

Do you think of yourself as a Google user? Well, think again .. to Google YOU are the product! With pretty much all of Google’s revenues coming from its Pay-Per-Click program Google is an advertising company selling you to its customers – the advertisers. Google’s model is to sell (your) clicks on sponsored ads. The [...]

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Photo Blog

kameir — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:16:03 +0000

What to do with all the photos you are taking? Set up a Photo blog? There might be an easier way to store your photos. Check put Photobin.com. Photobin let’s you create your own photo book. No more ‘photo mania’ – don’t ever hunt for your photos again on different hard drives, mobile devices and [...]

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Marketing On Facebook And Twitter – Worth The Effort?

kameir — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:07:38 +0000

Is marketing on Facebook and Twitter actually worth the time? Naturally the answer is ‘it depends’ But seriously, it depends – like anything in marketing – if you can actually measure it. To me that means: measuring it in terms of its effect on the bottom-line of your business (see also my article on Social [...]

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The Facebook Number: Why A Billion Dollar For Instagramm Is A Bargain for Facebook

kameir — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:20:41 +0000

Facebook has agreed to a deal to acquire mbile photo sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Initially Instagram will remain an independently branded standalone app that’s separate from Facebook, but the services will increase their ties to each other and it can be expected that Instagramm will eventually be folded [...]

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Google Social Search

kameir — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:27:44 +0000

Google just released a function the company calls ‘social search’, promoting it with the statement that “Search has always brought you information from across the web.” While this statement might be true in general, it is inherently flawed when applied to Google (see Premises For A Better Search Engine). Though Google Amit Singhal, a Google [...]

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Mobile Local Search

kameir — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:38:08 +0000

Despite a growing awareness for online spending, the majority of consumer transactions still happens locally – for simply reasons, really: you cannot get a hair cut from the Internet or get your car washed and most consumers still like to try on the clothes they are about to buy. Another reason though is that mobile [...]

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San Diego CXO For Hire

kameir — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:13:45 +0000

If you are looking to hire a CXO* (CEO, CMO, COO) for your San Diego start-up you should send me an email. And please check out my LinkedIn profile before you do! *CxO is a short way to refer, collectively, to corporate executives at what is sometimes [...]

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Germany: “Remove Facebook Like”!

kameir — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:51:32 +0000

The data protection agencies for the German state Schleswig-Holtstein ordered Facebook today (8/19/2011) to remove the LIKE BUTTON („Gefällt mir“-Button) from its websites citing the violation of three different consumer protection laws. Schleswig-Holstein’s data-protection commissioner, Thilo Wechert, says that an analysis from his office shows that Facebook builds profiles of both users and non-users with data collected by [...]

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