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GIS for Obama

GIS for Obama

This job advertisment is interesting, not surprising for the most web savy candidate so far.

I wonder how much of what happens when this technology is applied to a presidential campaign will become public. If we hear very little, then you will know it has made a big impact !

Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.

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Thoughts

Sense / Nonsense

A very sensible report in today’s independent rebuts the nonsense reported in the Daily Mail last week.

Nonsense

My house has a duck egg blue door in case you are interested..

Still I can die happy knowing that it some small way I have upset the Daily Mail 🙂

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iphone

02 iPhone 3G 13,000 orders per second !!

Got a nice email from Jennifer from O2 this morning, explaining why the iPhone 3G upgrade was such a disaster, the servers broke because…

“Demand for iPhone 3G is staggering. We invested heavily in our website capacity which was tested carefully in advance, but we were experiencing 13,000 orders per second being placed, far beyond our expectations.”

Wow !!! 13,000 orders per second, thats 780,000 per minute or 46 Million per hour. So Apple at that rate would reach it’s annual global sales target in the UK alone in 15 minutes.

This is either outrageous hype, or a mad cover story to hide poor planning and design of the O2 website, or .. well you had better drop everything and join everybody else you know or have ever met in the queue outside your nearest O2 store.

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.