For an internet advertising company to make money, it can only happen because of the internet user. Yet sometimes it seems almost as if the advertising technology industry is at war with internet users. With more than 50% of savvy internet users in US on ad blockers, and ad blockers being among the most downloaded →
Spanish Banking Group BBVA Just Snapped Up a Finnish Fintech Startup article tells that Spanish banking group BBVA has bought Holvi, a Finnish financial technology startup that provides online banking and financial planning services for small businesses. http://fortune.com/2016/03/07/bbva-holvi-fintech/ I had earlier posted information on Holvi at my Banking is Broken? Start-ups try to fix it →
Due real Fluorescent lamp fire danger I have pretty much tried to get rid of potentially dangerous tradtional starters in the fuorescent lamps. So I replaced the starter with electronic safety model – if bulb does not start, it will stay off without heating. Or at least should. I got one Axxel S10 starter that →
http://www.petergarritano.com/the-internet.html What Internet looks like? Nice pictures from one Internet center Posted from WordPress for Android →
Do you have trouble concentrating at work? It’s probably because of all those amazing ideas you have running through your head. A new study claims that intelligent people are more easily distracted at work: Workers who have trouble concentrating on a daily basis may be intellectually superior to their colleagues, according to a new study. →
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/the-absolute-horror-of-wifi-light-switches/ Example of IoT home automation gone wrong in many ways! Posted from WordPress for Android →
International Open Data Day: Go Hack on Some Government Data for common good or just for fun of it. Hundreds of different data-hacking events were held around the globe this weekend to celebrate International Open Data Day. It’s the fifth installment of an annual event promoting government data-sharing with a series of loosely joined hackathons. →
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Maybe it is good time to do security update by installing newest version. Posted from WordPress for Android →
There’s a valley of death for hardware startups. Ironically, it occurs when companies start selling their product. Pre-revenue startups raise money on stories of limitless potential, of rocketship growth and products flying off the shelves. Post-revenue startups don’t have that luxury. They need to tell stories of revenue growth, high margins, and traction. They need →
Processing is a flexible free software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. I have thought that I should test Processing some day because it looks interesting and easy to learn. I finally did sort of testing. Let’s start from basics and history. Processing is an →