Archive for June, 2009
What does IBM stand for?
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed “Big Blue”, is a multinational computer technology and consulting
Facebook vs Twitter Statistics
False Facts : 12 Bugs We’ve Found In iPhone OS 3.0 (Woot)
12 Bugs We’ve Found In iPhone OS 3.0
Laffs by Dave Rutledge & Jason Toon on June 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM
1. Multimedia messaging does not support sculpture, macrame, or interpretive dance.
2. Voice memo recordings totally don’t sound like me. I don’t sound like that, do I? Seriously?
3. Turned on adult content filter but everybody in my videos still has their clothes on.
4. Adding a task to calendar did not result in task getting done.
5. Clicked this blue “compass” icon but kept getting some stupid web browser.
6. Still no apps to cure the nagging feeling that I should’ve bought a Palm Pre.
7. The touchscreen is now on the back of the phone instead of the front.
8. Gone to the bathroom four times already today, and Remote Wipe hasn’t worked once.
9. Spotlight search crashed with memory overload error trying to index my Harry Potter cosplay photo collection.
10. Tried out tethering, but I think I broke my finger smacking that phone around the pole.
11. Apple still hasn’t fixed the no-hardware-keyboard bug.
12. “Cut” function does not apply to monthly AT&T bill.
Woot : 12 Bugs We’ve Found In iPhone OS 3.0.
Facts about National Doughnut Day
National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June each year. The holiday celebrates the doughnut a.k.a “donut” — an edible, ring-shaped piece of dough which is deep-fried and sweetened. Many American doughnut stores offer free doughnuts on National Doughnut Day. In 2009, both independent doughnut shops[1] and large national franchises offered free doughnuts in the United States.[2][3][4]
National Doughnut Day started in 1938 as a fund raiser for the Chicago Salvation Army. Their goal was to help the needy during the Great Depression, and to honor the Salvation Army “Lassies” of World War I, who served doughnuts to soldiers behind the front lines in France.
Soon after the US entrance into WWI in 1917, the Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. The mission concluded that “huts” that could serve baked goods, provide writing supplies and stamps, and provide a clothes-mending service, would serve the needs of US enlisted men. Six staff members per hut should include four female volunteers who could “mother” the boys.
(The canteens/social centres that were established by the Salvation Army in the United States near army training centers were called “huts”.)
About 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to France. Because of the difficulties of providing freshly-baked goods from huts established in abandoned buildings near to the front lines, two Salvation Army volunteers (Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance) came up with the idea of providing doughnuts. These are reported to have been an “instant hit”, and “soon many soldiers were visiting Salvation Army huts”. Margaret Sheldon wrote of one busy day “Today I made 22 pies, 300 doughnuts, 700 cups of coffee.”
A legend has spread that the provision of doughnuts to US enlisted men in WWI is the origin of the term doughboy to describe US infantry, but the term was in use as early as the Mexican-American War of 1846-47.
National Doughnut Day – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
What is MC Hammer’s real name?
Real Name: Stanley Kirk Burrell
A.k.a: M.C. Hammer
“U can’t touch this”, and few could. The song topped charts in 1990 and earned an estimated $30 million. At the top of the ride Hammer had a $12 million dollar mansion in Fremont, CA, 17 luxury cars and a staff of 250.
Whatever Happened To: M.C. Hammer.
Top 10% of Twitter users do 90% of the tweeting
The recent Harvard Business study took a random sample of about 300,000 Twitter users and monitored their activity in May, then compared the results with findings for other big social networks. Still not hip to Twitter? Click here for the scoop.
Among the findings: Turns out that 55 percent of Twitters are women, compared to 45 percent men. However, it also happens that men have 15 percent more followers than women, and that both men and women are more likely to follow men rather than women. That’s a “stunning” development for the Harvard Business researchers, who found that most other social networks are far more centered on content created by women.
Also interesting: The fact that the “typical” Twitter user tweets “very rarely,” with the median number of “lifetime tweets” for a given Twitter user is … well, just one, while about half of all Twitters update their feeds barely once every 74 days, according to the study.
Meanwhile, the top 10 percent of Twitter busybodies are creating 90 percent of the content on Twitter, the survey found; compare that to the findings for other social networks, where the top 10 percent of users account for just 30 percent of the activity.
Study: Top 10% of Twitter users do 90% of the tweeting : Ben Patterson : Yahoo Tech.