www.khanacademy.org/

www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/guest-expert/2012/02/02/j-prosserman/chasing-madoff-real-story-behind-largest-ponzi-scheme-in-history

"We could learn a lot from the music industry, and the rather terrible ways the music industry has tried to combat piracy."

..

"If we lose that fanbase, our business is done, but if we can grow that fanbase, our business will grow."

www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/jan/30/angry-birds-music-midem

www.ted.com/talks/paddy_ashdown_the_global_power_shift.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNBkxA313kk

www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_of_cities_and_corporations.html

Below is straight from the Tyler Neylon’s page:

Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.

Academics have protested against Elsevier’s business practices for years with little effect. The main objections are these:

1 They charge exorbitantly high prices for their journals.

2 They sell journals in huge "bundles," so libraries must buy a large set with many unwanted journals, or none at all. Elsevier thus makes huge profits by exploiting their essential titles, at the expense of other journals.

3 They support measures such as SOPA, PIPA and the Research Works Act, that aim to restrict the free exchange of information.

If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details in the box below.

thecostofknowledge.com/

As if all these birds form one bigger individual.

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We’re a startup We’re called Simpli.fi. We’re a small team of entrepreneurs who are already making a large impact in the advertising industry. We play in the real time bidding space as a DSP (demand side platform) and are forging our way into the SSP (supply side platform) arena. We’re integrated with top industry partners and have a healthy revenue stream. We’ve been in business for a few years and have a great line of investment.

Who do we want? We want passionate people who own their projects and move forward at a fast pace. We love perfection and performance. From hackers to hired professionals, we are interested in anyone who can hold their own. Want to know more about our stack? Here’s a tidbit: Erlang, Ruby, C, C++, GPU, node.js, HTML/CSS/JS. But we’re open to new technologies that perform well and handle high load.

Want to join us? Send us your github account. Give us some code to tear apart. Share a story on how you make decisions about anonymous data within a few milliseconds or how you? You would store and process gigabytes of raw data about the web (think crawled pages and UA Strings).

Please email jake at simpli dot fi if interested.