28 Jun 06 Dashboard Spy
Dan Brown pointed us to Dashboard Spy, a nice resource for folks designing and developing Executive Dashboards and various business Intelligence tools. Quite a collection of screen shots, commentary and links!
10 Jun 06 Using Satellites to Spot Human Rights Abuse
Satellite images captured under a pioneering program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) provide powerful evidence that the government of Zimbabwe has destroyed an entire settlement and relocated thousands of residents as part of a campaign against political opponents.
The images, analyzed by the AAAS staff, show two views of the settlement of Porta Farm, located just west of the Zimbabwean capital of Harare. The first, an archived image from June 2002, shows an intact settlement with more than 850 homes and other buildings; an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 people lived in Porta Farm at the time.
The second photo, taken by satellite on 6 April this year, shows that the settlement has been leveled.
Tags: New & Notable, Politics, Science
01 Jun 06 Virgin Mobile Introduces Ad-Subsidized Minutes
Virgin Mobile announced yesterday that it is offering it’s customers the option to earn minutes in exchange for viewing and responding to ads. They are initially targeting teenagers and twenty-somethings but believe the model has potential with a broader audience of value conscious customers.
Under the offer, customers of Virgin, a venture of Sprint Nextel (S.N) and Richard Branson’s Virgin (VA.UL), can get up to 75 minutes of free calls per month if they spend an equal amount of time looking at ads and replying to these ads via text messages.
Tags: New & Notable, Wireless
