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Tim Cook Ripped Apart Google’s Business Model In Two Paragraphs

September 19, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Justin Sullivan, Getty ImagesApple CEO Tim Cook. Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers Wednesday detailing the company’s privacy policy. One portion of the letter sticks out in particular, and it’s a clear jab at the way Google does business. Cook writes that many internet services are free but use your personal data to market products to you. “You are the product,” Cook writes. That’s how Google operates. Its algorithms scan your email, web searches, etc. to show you relevant ads. Facebook has a similar model. Here’s the key part of the letter: A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple…

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Tim Cook Ripped Apart Google’s Business Model In Two Paragraphs

How Google’s Panda Filter Negatively Impacted Ask.com, eBay & Google Backed RetailMeNot.com

May 26, 2014 / / 0 Comments

On Tuesday, Google released a rewrite to their Panda filter algorithm and both large and small sites took notice. Some sites gained in traffic and some sites dove in traffic, we have the Winners & Losers chart for Panda 4.0 already published. But as of this morning, Searchmetrics has updated their weekly US charts, showing the real impact for the top sites that lost traffic. In our previous reports, Searchmetrics told us that Ask.com was hurt most, losing about 75% or more of their search visibility (not traffic) from Google. It seems like eBay and Google’s venture-backed RetailMeNot also lost a tremendous amount of search visibility, about 50% of their Google impressions. Before I share the charts with you, RetailMeNot.com has issued a statement …

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How Google’s Panda Filter Negatively Impacted Ask.com, eBay & Google Backed RetailMeNot.com

This Chrome Add-on Lets You Copy & Erase Text Inside Any Image on the Web

April 24, 2014 / / 0 Comments

What would you say if we told you that it’s possible to copy, translate, edit and even erase the text inside any image you find on the internet? Well, you can, and it’s a lot easier than you might think. All it requires is a new browser extension, called Project Naptha, made by developer Kevin Kwok. It uses a number of optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms, including libraries developed by Microsoft and Google, which quickly build a model of text regions, words and letters from nearly any image. Once installed, you simply hover your cursor over available image text and select it. Using its built-in tools, you can do a number of things: Firstly, you can copy your selection. This is great if you’ve been emailed…

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Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free

April 16, 2014 / / 0 Comments

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I am a programmer over at Iron Galaxy Studios. I’ve been programming professionally in the games industry for nearly ten years now. My main focus is on graphics and optimizations. I’ve worked on diverse franchises like Madden and Tony Hawk, plus games such as Bioshock Infinite and Crimson Dragon. Find me: @sigmel Sigmel’s ThoughtsLinkedIn I post in: ProgrammingTechnology Instapaper Text Share: Twitter Facebook Reddit Google+ Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free Now I want to cover the basic terminology used when talking about concurrent algorithms. This will be helpful so that you are familiar with the available techniques you have when you have multiple threads operating together. The term concurrent itself refers to an algorithm that can scale from being synchronous…

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