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Kevin Kelly: Predicting The Next 5000 Days Of The Web

The theory of the internet as a global computer or global mind is increasingly commonplace and obvious, but Kevin sheds good light on the topic. The global brain is already exhibiting certain emergent behaviors. As an example Kevin points out that humans currently act as the eyes and ears of this global computer. Everyday humans are working on behalf of the global mind to gather data for it by taking photos, recording video, and making...

http://singularityhub.com/2008/12/27/kevin-kelly-predicting-the-next-5000-days-of-the-web/

Internet global brain database consciousness sentience

Back to the Future for Data Storage

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/02/back-to-future-for-data-storage.html

2009-02-19

Google database Big Table relational SimpleDB distributed

Exploits of a Mom

http://xkcd.com/327/

fun database XSS name

Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing?

http://highscalability.com/are-cloud-based-memory-architectures-next-big-thing

2009-03-17

memory server cache cloud SSD database grid

How a memory champ's brain works

It takes less than 30 seconds for the reigning World Memory Champion to recall the sequence of a pack of playing cards. In an hour, he can memorise 26 more packs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7982327.stm

2009-04-07

human memory psychology database brain memory system

Correlates of War (COW)

The Correlates of War project seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations. Key principles of the project include a commitment to standard scientific principles of replication, data reliability, documentation, review, and the transparency of data collection procedures. More specifically, we are committed to the free public release of data sets to the...

http://www.correlatesofwar.org/

database war statistics politics military history relationship international international relations

QWIDS - Query Wizard for International Development Statistics

http://stats.oecd.org/qwids/

development statistics international database aid OECD

wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit

wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life...

http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page

handbook manual collaborative database tutorial

Coding in the Cloud - Rule 2 - Don’t write to the database in real time

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2009/07/coding-in-the-cloud-rule-2-dont-write-to-the-database-in-real-time/

cloud programming database scaleability

UNdata

UNdata is an internet-based data service which brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point.

http://data.un.org/

database United Nations reference international statistics

New Public Data Set: YRI Trio

The YRI Trio Public Data Set provides complete genome sequence data for three Yoruba individuals from Ibadan, Nigeria, which represent the first human genomes sequenced using Illumina’s next generation Sequence-by-Synthesis technology.

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/new-public-data-set-yri-trio-.html

2009-10-19

Amazon genome human database

The Amazon Relational Database Service

Using the RDS APIs or the command-line tools, you can access the full capabilities of a complete, self-contained MySQL 5.1 database instance in a matter of minutes. You can scale the processing power and storage space as needed with a single API call and you can initiate fully consistent database snapshots at any time. Much of what you already know about building applications with MySQL will still apply. Your code and your queries will...

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/introducing-rds-the-amazon-relational-database-service-.html

2009-10-28

MySQL Amazon AWS cloud database hosting

Stolen Computer Registry

http://www.stolencomputers.org/home.html

theft computer laptop database

The Rosetta Project

is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.