http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/170498/1-in-5-tech-firms-rejected-a-job-applicant-because.html?edition=44853#ixzz1pqc7C5Xo
The 2012 annual technology market survey conducted by Eurocom Worldwide found that 1 in 5 technology job applicants was rejected because of inappropriate social media posts. “The 21st century human is learning that every action leaves an indelible digital trail. In the years ahead many of us will be challenged by what we are making public in various social forums today.”
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Nike Flyknit Shoe
http://nikeinc.com/news/nike-flyknit
Nike Flyknit, yarns and fabric variations are precisely engineered only where they are needed for a featherweight, formfitting and virtually seamless upper. With all the structure and support knitted in, the Nike Flyknit Racer’s upper and tongue weigh just 34 grams (1.2 ounces). The whole shoe weighs a mere 160g (5.6 ounces) for a size 9. An additional environmentally sustainable benefit to Nike Flyknit is that it reduces waste because the one-piece upper does not use the multiple materials and material cuts used in traditional sports footwear manufacture. Nike Flyknit is truly a minimalist design with maximum return. Bloomberg Businessweek (3/16/12) "The process is so efficient that Nike can contemplate making the Flyknit in the US, and not depend as much on cheaper labor in Asia."
Nike Flyknit, yarns and fabric variations are precisely engineered only where they are needed for a featherweight, formfitting and virtually seamless upper. With all the structure and support knitted in, the Nike Flyknit Racer’s upper and tongue weigh just 34 grams (1.2 ounces). The whole shoe weighs a mere 160g (5.6 ounces) for a size 9. An additional environmentally sustainable benefit to Nike Flyknit is that it reduces waste because the one-piece upper does not use the multiple materials and material cuts used in traditional sports footwear manufacture. Nike Flyknit is truly a minimalist design with maximum return. Bloomberg Businessweek (3/16/12) "The process is so efficient that Nike can contemplate making the Flyknit in the US, and not depend as much on cheaper labor in Asia."
UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu/
Lynn M. LoPucki teaches Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy Empiricism, and Business Associations. He founded the UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database (BRD) in 1994 and continues to direct it. The BRD collects data on large, public company bankruptcies and disseminates it free of charge to bankruptcy researchers throughout the world. This data provided the foundation for Professor LoPucki’s two most recent books, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts (University of Michigan Press 2005) and Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies: Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (Oxford University Press 2011) (with Joseph Doherty).
Lynn M. LoPucki teaches Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy Empiricism, and Business Associations. He founded the UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database (BRD) in 1994 and continues to direct it. The BRD collects data on large, public company bankruptcies and disseminates it free of charge to bankruptcy researchers throughout the world. This data provided the foundation for Professor LoPucki’s two most recent books, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts (University of Michigan Press 2005) and Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies: Data, Analysis, and Evaluation (Oxford University Press 2011) (with Joseph Doherty).
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
http://snap.stanford.edu/snap/index.html
The SNAP library is focuses on the analysis of large social and information networks. Data collected from: Epinions.com, LiveJournal, Slashdot, Wikipedia, Enron email, Arxiv High Energy Physics, US Patents, Google, Amazon, Gnutella, roads from PA/CA/TX, Gowalla, Brightkite, Twitter, Memetracker, etc.
Databases include:
Social networks: online social networks, edges represent interactions between people
Communication networks: email communication networks with edges representing communication
Citation networks: nodes represent papers, edges represent citations
Collaboration networks: nodes represent scientists, edges represent collaborations (co-authoring a paper)
Web graphs: nodes represent webpages and edges are hyperlinks
Amazon networks : nodes represent products and edges link commonly co-purchased products
Internet networks : nodes represent computers and edges communication
Road networks : nodes represent intersections and edges roads connecting the intersections
Autonomous systems : graphs of the internet
Signed networks : networks with positive and negative edges (friend/foe, trust/distrust)
Location-based online social networks : Social networks with geographic check-ins
Wikipedia networks and metadata : Talk, editing and voting data from Wikipedia
Twitter and Memetracker : Memetracker phrases, links and 467 million Tweets
The SNAP library is focuses on the analysis of large social and information networks. Data collected from: Epinions.com, LiveJournal, Slashdot, Wikipedia, Enron email, Arxiv High Energy Physics, US Patents, Google, Amazon, Gnutella, roads from PA/CA/TX, Gowalla, Brightkite, Twitter, Memetracker, etc.
Databases include:
Social networks: online social networks, edges represent interactions between people
Communication networks: email communication networks with edges representing communication
Citation networks: nodes represent papers, edges represent citations
Collaboration networks: nodes represent scientists, edges represent collaborations (co-authoring a paper)
Web graphs: nodes represent webpages and edges are hyperlinks
Amazon networks : nodes represent products and edges link commonly co-purchased products
Internet networks : nodes represent computers and edges communication
Road networks : nodes represent intersections and edges roads connecting the intersections
Autonomous systems : graphs of the internet
Signed networks : networks with positive and negative edges (friend/foe, trust/distrust)
Location-based online social networks : Social networks with geographic check-ins
Wikipedia networks and metadata : Talk, editing and voting data from Wikipedia
Twitter and Memetracker : Memetracker phrases, links and 467 million Tweets
Movies 35mm Stock Footage
Internet Archive's 35mm stock footage collection consists of material especially shot for stock footage purposes as well as feature film outtakes and unused material that were conserved for future use in other productions. Rights to this collection are held by Internet Archive. You may download and reuse material under the Creative Commons Attribution License. If you require higher-quality material or a written license agreement, please contact Getty Images for licensing information.
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=movies&collection=35mmstockfootage
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=movies&collection=35mmstockfootage
Kauffman Foundation: New Business Startups Declined in 2011
http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/new-business-startups-declined-in-2011-annual-kauffman-study-shows.aspx
The Kauffman Index shows that, despite a drop from 2010, U.S. startup activity remains above pre-Great Recession levels
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.), March 19, 2012 – Entrepreneurship is alive and well in the wake of the Great Recession, although the rate of new business creation dipped during 2011 and startup founders remained more likely to fly solo than employ others. That's the big take away from the "Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity," a leading indicator of new business creation in the United States published annually and released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The 2011 Index shows a 5.9 percent drop from 2010 with approximately 543,000 new businesses created each month during the year, or 0.32 percent of American adults per month in 2011. This remains among the highest levels of entrepreneurship over the past 16 years. The quarterly employer firm rate also remained essentially flat from 2010 to 2011 at 0.11 percent.
The Kauffman Index shows that, despite a drop from 2010, U.S. startup activity remains above pre-Great Recession levels
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.), March 19, 2012 – Entrepreneurship is alive and well in the wake of the Great Recession, although the rate of new business creation dipped during 2011 and startup founders remained more likely to fly solo than employ others. That's the big take away from the "Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity," a leading indicator of new business creation in the United States published annually and released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The 2011 Index shows a 5.9 percent drop from 2010 with approximately 543,000 new businesses created each month during the year, or 0.32 percent of American adults per month in 2011. This remains among the highest levels of entrepreneurship over the past 16 years. The quarterly employer firm rate also remained essentially flat from 2010 to 2011 at 0.11 percent.
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