Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'stats'
Migration Misery: Feedburner becomes Google
Google started this year with aggressively reviewing its product portfolio. A number of services were announced to be shut down recently. That's fine, times are tough. And even if they were not - I still admire the decisiveness of any large product company to occasionally merge similar things and kill the ones that haven't gained traction. I've had to make a few of those decisions myself and they are never easy. So when logging in to FeedBurner a week ago...
China Is Larger Than Germany
"Well, duh", you might say, but actually until recently it was not. GDP-wise that is. Based on 2007 numbers, the top economies in the world were: the US of A, $13.8 trillion Japan, $4.38 trillion China, $3.38 trillion Germany, $3.32 trillion Media coverage around this change has a lot of interesting facts, worth reading Bloomberg and Washington Post for example: China's economy is 70 times bigger than when leader Deng Xiaoping ditched hard-line Communist policies in favor of free- market...
2008 Travel Report
Looking back at 2008 I discovered that it was a quiet one -- travel-wise that is. Mostly I have to thank Etta for her appearance in May and becoming a good excuse for some no-fly-zone right before and paternity leave after, running into the summer. Number of business trips: ~15 Flight legs: ~32 (+ 3 international trains) Days away from home: ~67 London: 41 days (including one almost-a-month with whole family again) Luxembourg: 11 days San Jose / San Francisco:...
Eesti konkurentsivõime presentatsioon
EASi tellimusel on Ernst & Young valmis saanud võrdleva uuringu Eesti konkurentsivõimest teiste Euroopa riikidega võrreldes. Fookus on kitsamalt võetud just tööjõu maksude ja töösuhete paindlikkuse teemadele. Väga kompaktne ja kohati üllatav materjal. See on kohustuslik kirjandus kasvõi selleks, et paremini mõista Targa Eesti mõttekoja ettepanekute konteksti. Näiteks hindamaks, kas ettevõtjad räägivad mingist ahnete kapitalistide salakavalast maksu-utoopiast või lihtsalt konkreetsetest meetmetest, et majanduskeskkonna osas eest liikunud (naaber)riikidele konkurentsis järele jõuda. Slaidid ise siin: Eesti konkurentsivõIme uuringView SlideShare presentation or Upload...
Making wine at Crushpad
On a recent trip to California got a chance to visit Crushpad. They are a high-end winery... where you are the winemaker. Some of my friends invested in them last year and one of them has been pushing a group of us to make a barrel of our own wine together. So we kicked off the process and it has moved along, for some reason without much enthusiasm from my part. Now after being there, including a half-day Crushcamp...
Skype 4.0 is smaller again
As promised in June, the second iteration of Skype 4.0 client is now available for download. If you got on to beta 1 and liked it or hated it, I highly recommend the upgrade to beta 2. The past quarter has really passed fast. I'm amazed how much the 4.0 research, design, product and project management, development and quality assurance teams got through. Especially given that you have to work under timeline pressure while at the same time being called...
Passime kodus teleka ees, sest see on ohutum
Sel ajal kui ma istusin Pärnus ja kuulasin lugusid Eesti teadmistepõhise visioonidest, saatis sõber sõnumi Emori ürituselt, kus tutvustati hiljutist uuringut Eestlaste väärtushinnangutest: "71% eestlastest oleksid kõige õnnelikumad kui nad istuksid kodus ja ei teeks midagi. Seejuures vaatavad nad päevas 4.5h telekat". Kui mõelda sellise kambaga luurelemineku võimalustest (ehk kuidas selliselt meelestatud ühiskond võiks innoveerida, ettevõtteid luua, eksportida, maailmas endast mingit märki maha jätta) tuleb sügav masendus peale. Emori veebis on veel mõned väljavõtted uuringust, nt: Oma igapäevatöös eelistavad ligi...
President's Speech on Innovation
Last week's Baltic Dynamics 2008 conference was opened by an address by the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, speaking on Innovation. As the full text did not make it to the president.ee website's speeches section yet, I pinged his office and they kindly provided me a full copy in a few hours. Transparent government in action, love it. As I think this is one of the best condensed summaries of the major issues -- such as investments, education,...
ChinAfrica
I very rarely have found myself spending several hours on a single magazine article, but Richard Behar's report on China in Africa from June issue of FastCompany is very much worth you invest that time too. This illustration probably recaps the "what" part of the story: In a word, the chair you sit on and the computer you're using to read this post more likely than not come from China, no surprise there. What we probably have noticed less as...
Skype 4.0 beta 1 is out!
Yes, it has taken something like 2 years from first conceptual ideas being bounced around. I've been involved in Skype's Desktop clients team since March and I have to tell you, approaching the first beta launch of our 4.0 client is one of the reasons for deafening silence on this blog. June especially has been very intense and I'm truly proud of what the hundreds of people involved have pulled off. Please do read the official blog post, download...
Rahulolev station.ee kasutaja
Olen nüüd vast kuu aega kasutanud news.station.ee ja blogs.station.ee teenuseid ja väga rahul. Miks? NEWS.station avalehe valik näidata enam kui neljas või kuues kanalis kajastatud lugu aitab kiiresti pildi ette saada hetkel "kuumadest" teemadest Konkreetse teema vaade võiks olla iga meediahuvilise sagedane tööriist, et näha kuidas praktiliselt sünnib uudis. Näiteks nagu selles juhuslikus näites, kus Postimees on kirjutanud uudise valmis juba siis kui Äripäev alles toore pressiteate veebi paneb. Ja Päevaleht on pea poolteist tundi maas. Station teeb suurepärast tööd...
Estonian - the Most Insignificant Language?
Some while ago an online media outlet ran a poll, asking the readers where do they think Estonian language falls among the languages of this world by "usefulness". Many Estonian-speakers do tend to think that a million speakers means... nothing. That the language is on the verge of going distinct. About 2/3rds of answers ranked the language to the bottom third of worlds' 6000 languages. There was a linguistics forum in April that surfaced some interesting data of the contrary,...
Numbers to Prove How Much I Love Skype Chats
Played around with some simple queries in my active Skype chats database, which weighs 215MB in plain text and has data since May 16th 2006. Probably I did a computer migration around then and earlier history (since I started using an early beta of Skype in mid-2003) is buried somewhere in backups. Found out that I have sent 59709 and received 273715 messages during this time. And respectively 27389 outbound and 140505 inbound messages in the year of 2007. That's...
Possibility of Innovation In a (not The) Valley
Thomas L. Friedman wrote in the Herald Tribune a few years ago a column that acknowledged, and probably injected a lot of self confidence to innovators outside of the usual suspect American hightech hubs. Written from an angle of criticism towards the American high school system, I found his text much more useful read upside down - thinking about how the more remote areas previously known for their cheap labour and mass quantity low tech production are winning share on...
8332 Cheers to You, 2008!
I would like to thank all of you 8332 unique visitors (yes, you too Teller) coming from 106 countries for finding this blog in 2007 and for reading through those 29372 pages. The fact that over half of you have come back more than once is great. The 239 of you who have over 200 visits per year under your belt - really, I wish I managed to post that often... Make your life easier and subscribe to the feed,...
2007 Travel Stats
Just like in 2006 I took a look back to the calendar again to recap the time spent on the road (or in the air for that matter) in 2007: Number of business trips: ~28 Flight legs: 79 Days away from home: ~95 London: 67 days (including a ~30 day stretch stay, though) Prague: 8 days Luxembourg: 6 days San Jose: 6 days Tokyo: 4 days Brussels: 2 days Netherlands: 2 days Now, when it almost seems that the year...
A Lot Of People Doing Wrong Things in Estonia
An interesting graph from a presentation by Ott Pärna, CEO of Estonian Development Fund (see also my post from their recent event, in Estonian). Estonian & German industries being compared here by employment (left) and value added per manufacturing area. One common characteristic we share is that there are a lot of areas where a large share of people is adding a tiny part of the value for country's economy. However, it is quite concerning how tilted towards the...
Give a Hundred to Save a Million Kids? Nah...
Read a great column by Clive Thompson in Wired's September issue on how big numbers (and lack of numeracy there) affects people's charity decisions. He studies a troubling paradox in human empathy: We'll usually race to help a single stranger in dire straits, while ignoring huge numbers of people in precisely the same plight. We'll donate thousands of dollars to bring a single African war orphan to the US for lifesaving surgery, but we don't offer much money or political...
K800i Rulez Flickr
As a follow-up on finding the best phone (for moblogging to narrow the scope), SonyEricsson K800i has now become the #1 choice on Flickr. (Some quite amazing photo samples behind that link as well)....
Son VS Father, 1:0
You can be able to converse with people and write to audiences in two languages, have a mobile and upload the pictures on the go through flickr, and all these other neat things. But it all doesn't matter if you just learn to walk. The traffic over last two weeks to this blog and Kusti's, respectively. Handover moment to the next generation....
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