Monthly Archives: April 2014

A world can exist in which you and me are in control over our on-line lives, not Facebook or Google. #indieweb #pcloud

Light Saturday night reading on ØMQ. Decentralized message bus. This is cool! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98MQ

BTW @benwerd speaking of hosting, @mediagoblin’s Chris Webber has an outline of the requirements and some of my notes how we deal with them http://indieboxproject.org/blog/2014/04/configuration-management-for-the-people-part-12/

Facebook makes about $2/month per user in North America, 80c in Europe, 30c in Asia and 23c in rest of the world. Surprised at the big difference between North America and Europe. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-23/where-facebooks-user-growth-and-revenue-generation

Did you know “OV EST PT LEV 3” means “office visit that requires 2 of the following: expanded problem or focused history, expanded problem or focused examination, straightforward medical decision making, problems that are low to moderate severity and average of 15 minutes of face to face time between patient/family and MD.” I asked customer…

Making an appointment at the Apple Store is definitely easier than making one at the orthodontist.

Another data breach. Hasn’t all data been stolen already? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/retailer-michaels-stores-confirms-payment-204949741.html

Facebook: spying even on what you don’t share (or store) http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4119?n=65704135.u8wngR

@edyson: “The advertising community has been woefully unforthcoming about how much data they’re collecting and what they’re doing with it. And it’s going to backfire on them, just as the Snowden revelations backfired on the NSA.” Well said. http://www.cmo.com/content/cmo-m/home/articles/2014/4/3/big_data_ethics_tran.html

“Two people familiar with the matter” .. who might that be? #headbleed #nsa http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html