Archive for August, 2009

Download over a million books for free: Google

Google Books is offering over a million book for free. Google Books will offer free downloads of these and more than one million more public domain books in an additional format,...

How to make a difference while driving: TRAFFIC WAVES

Ran across this cool site TRAFFIC WAVES .  William Beaty, explains how sometimes one driver can vastly improve traffic. There are amazing things you can do as an "amateur traffic dynamicist." You can drive like an "anti-rubbernecker" and erase slowdowns created by other...

Flight Caster: Flight Delay Prediction 6 hours before airline alerts

Flight Caster predicts flight Delay 6 hours before airline alerts.  How to they do it?  By applying machine learning and data processing  to  massive amount of raw data collected by the government agencies. FlightCaster takes data from multiple sources - some historical, some real-time - and crunches them in a database with a patent-pending algorithm and process. We use 10-years of flight data along with current and near-term forecasted conditions to establish likely delay factors and...

Hacking a Google Interview By MIT

Hacking a Google Interview By MIT MIT's guide to mastering googles programing interview questions. http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/materials.php Ever wanted to work at a company like Google, Apple, or Facebook? There's just one thing standing in your way: the interview. But there's no need to fear. We've mastered the interview questions and topics, and we want to show you how you can nail every programming...

Torch Mobile has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM)

Now that RIM has acquired Torch Mobile, Blackberry phones might get a better browser.  Per Torch Mobile they will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser for Blackberry phones. http://www.torchmobile.com/ Torch Mobile is excited to announce that our company has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM), one of the most renowned mobile technology companies in the world. Our team of developers will join RIM’s global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our...

50 Best Websites 2009 by Time Magazine

Time magazine has posted a list of Top 50 websites for the year 2009. There are some cool sites you definitely need to check...