Monday, January 3, 2011

Social Network: MySpace is reportedly planning massive job cuts

 To the "Wall Street Journal Group, the tech blog" All Things D cites "several familiar with the situation" sources. According to this information could be about 50 percent of currently about 1100 MySpace-employees soon lose their jobs. Would be affected by the job cuts, according to the report, especially jobs in the U.S., but also in some other countries.

The decision on these cuts is not yet been made final, so "All Things D". There are clear indications of the problems with the former top dog among the social networks but it too well. The last week of December was free the entire workforce. To save money, interpreted "All Things D". But no: As a reward for hard work, countered shortly thereafter MySpace in an official release.

Blog - Facebook in Numbers

Six years after its inception, Facebook has reached 648 million unique visitors in November 2010, making the social network's third most visited website in the world. To mark the occasion, the team of Mark Zuckerberg has issued a number of figures that illustrate the weight has been Facebook.

Sixteen million dollars raised for Wikipedia

The Wikimedia Foundation, which manages the online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia and other projects like Wikimedia Commons, said it had collected $ 16 million (12 million) during its annual appeal for donations in late 2010. "As to barely fifty days, the shortest period of appeal for donations in the history of Wikimedia, the foundation has received an average of 22 dollars (16.5 euros) per donation, from people living in 140 different countries, and reached its goal.

The new "chip" of Intel, to the extent Hollywood

Intel's new processors are tailored to Hollywood. Include a content protection system that will allow film producers film distribution in high definition (1080p) for viewing or downloading on computers. The chip, called Sandy Bridge will be presented this week at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas and already distributed to manufacturers for installation on their computers.

The existence of this protection system, called Intel Inside, has encouraged film companies like Warner and Fox to announce the distribution of online degrees based on Intel's proposal. HP has announced new models with Intel chip. Besides this novelty, Sandy Bridge, which will be sold within the family of Core processors, two and four cores, coupling the central processing unit with the graphics.

Glass, a program to share comments

Joaquin Ayuso, one of the pioneers of Tuenti, has made a radical life change, while maintaining the entrepreneurial essence. Its part of the 70 million paid by Telefónica's Tuenti could have spent on a sports and live life in California. Prefer to go to work on an old jeep and continue to build in Los Angeles.

Do not forget that your profile was the first social network that prevails in Spain, and he began to write code for one of the most popular words among Spanish youth, but believes that now, their war is another. Also a social factor and where privacy is important ... but focused on knowledge.