Given the "search results" affair unveiled this week between Bing and Google, one wonders if Google will claim that Microsoft is copying their plans to dominate the world through free, cloud apps... Starting today, people in over 150 more countries can use the Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. This includes viewing, editing, and sharing Office document attachments in Hotmail. via news.softpedia.com The promise from Microsoft is that next month, the services designed to extend Office 2010 into the Cloud will reach global availability. Meanwhile, the Redmond company has made an immense leap forward in terms of internationalization by opening up Office Web Apps to users in an additional over 150 countries on top of the markets in which it had already been launched. | Continue »

There's not much more to say about The Economist article other than it is funny and interesting to see how the Russian GDP is equivalent to the economy of Texas, or how the California GDP is equivalent to Italy's. Funny and good for a tweet or for a Facebook share, that is all. They have not included fundamental data about level of education, per capita productivity, access to health, GDP per capita, and a long list of variables that must be taken into account when comparing countries or regions in a more meaningful way. Another interesting exercise would be to compare China's GDP with the rest of the world, and see the evolution of that comparison over the last 20 years. via www.economist.com It has long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies of the world. These days, it would rank eighth,... | Continue »

Netflix yesterday announced they will be releasing their (stream-only) service in 43 countries of Center and South America, including Brazil, the biggest market in the region and one of the fastest growing economies in the world. As reported by one of the main newspapers in Brazil (article in Portuguese), Netflix will be partnering with Netmovies, an online movie rental service controlled by the American fund Tiger Management Corp. As a result of these news, Netflix's shares soared in the Nasdaq to an all-time high, taking the company to a whooping $ 15.1 Billion valuation. Last, as a long-term Netflix user, I hope this move brings more Brazilian and South American movies to US-based users as well - and not only crappy or dubbed ones... via blog.netflix.com We’re excited to share with you the news that later this year, Netflix will expand to 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean,... | Continue »

En 1976, el artista ruso Leónid Sókov realizó una pieza titulada Proyecto para fabricar gafas para todos los ciudadanos soviéticos. La obra formaba parte de la exposición La Ilustración total que se exhibió en 2008 en la Fundación Juan March... | Continue »

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Today was officially my last day at six apart. Great team, great company, great customers, but time to do my own thing! Thx 6a for everything! | Continue »

Greece Bailout Begins! Wall Street Journal | Feb. 9, 2010, 10:31 PM | 2,499 | 24 Print Tags: Greece From the WSJ: Germany is considering a plan with its European Union partners to offer Greece and other troubled euro-zone members loan guarantees in an effort to calm fears of a government default and prevent a widening of the credit woes, people familiar with the matter said. via www.businessinsider.com | Continue »

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The big question is: will Gmail users buy into this quick sharing? Google thinks so because it’s a part of the evolution from email, to IM, to status updates. It’s also, in their eyes, a part of the evolution to the next step, Google Wave. So far, the public has proven to be not ready for Wave yet. But Buzz might be the perfect tool in getting people to think about communicating in a way beyond email and IM. Or it may be another misstep in Google’s social quest. via techcrunch.com | Continue »

Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours… A considerable increase from the previous 120m. Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. It’s still a fair increase from the estimated 6-10m global users from a few months ago. LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide. This means an increase of around 1m members month-on-month since July/August last year. Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was... | Continue »

Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours… A considerable increase from the previous 120m.Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. It’s still a fair increase from the estimated 6-10m global users from a few months ago.LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide. This means an increase of around 1m members month-on-month since July/August last year.Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was 250m… meaning around... | Continue »

Integrated marketing services provider Alterian today released the results of their seventh annual survey on social media marketing adoption. The survey covered 1068 marketing professionals worldwide (actually, it was 98% North America and Europe and only 2% Asia Pacific and... | Continue »

The ability to speak a second language isn’t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts—their brains work differently, too. Research has shown, for instance, that children who know two languages more easily solve problems that involve... | Continue »

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researchers identified five skills that separate the blue-sky innovators from the rest -- skills they labeled associating, questioning, observing, experimenting and discovering. via edition.cnn.com good read for entrepreneurs | Continue »

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Even though Chroma doesn't give you full control over your sidebar you can still put a 300x250 ad above the profile module using Custom Sidebar and Custom CSS. The idea is to add padding to top of the sidebar column and then absolutely position the ad above the other modules. First, add the following to Custom Sidebar: <div class="custom-ad-module"> insert your ad code goes here </div> Then add this to Custom CSS: #beta-inner { padding-top: 270px; } .custom-ad-module { width: 300px; height: 250px; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; } That's it! This trick will work for anything that has... | Continue »