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DIY Duck Cam is a walking Polaroid Camera!
Check out this Duck Cam, a walking Polaroid camera that captures pictures and prints them out for ya.
video after the jump.
Therefore I am making a ‘Magical Image Digesting Duck’, by hacking digital camera, printer, vacuum cleaner, mp3 player and connecting them by a single microcontroller. The duck, Charlie travels to many tourists spots in New York City. The duck takes a picture when it detects flash light from other camera, prints it out or posts them on the Net via WIFI.
New York City Waterfalls!
Cool, New York City is going bonkers with waterfalls, even one on a bridge!
Public Art Fund, working in partnership with Tishman Construction Corporation, engaged a team of almost 200 design, engineering and construction professionals to build the Waterfalls, which are constructed with building elements that are ubiquitous throughout New York. Actual construction scaffolding forms the backbone of the Waterfalls, and pumps will cycle water from the East River to the top of each structure before it falls back into the river. Following the completion of The New York City Waterfalls in October, all scaffolding will be re-used in subsequent construction projects.
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We Heart Data Center Engineers
For those of you underappreciated server jockeys keeping data center costs down and utilization up using duct tape and homemade software, the New York Times salutes you. Actually it recognizes how important people like you are, especially now that demand for compute power and energy efficiency is soaring. Most of the article highlights the need for data centers to go green, which as we’ve pointed out, is neither easy nor cheap — just yesterday a startup building a “green” data center said construction would cost $100 million.
But the need to save energy is only a symptom of the rising demand for hardware and compute power — power that needs to be managed by someone. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the demand for computer and network administrators will grow by 48.5 percent from 2006 to 2016. The demand for designers of such networks and folks to maintain web sites will grow by 82.3 percent, making them two of the fastest-growing jobs in the computer systems design category. According to other data from the agency, the pay isn’t bad, either.
Until software and hardware mature to the point of automating routine tasks around energy efficiency, virtualization and management, more servers mean more people. Which means that instead of social networking, the next generation of startups will need to figure out hardware-oriented tasks. Entrepreneurs focused on how to manage heterogeneous virtualized environments, compliance and security in virtualized servers, or on better ways to bring storage into the data center as Ethernet replaces Fibre Channel for storage area networks, will find funding. These days, we’re moving from programming to pipes.
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Short and Sweet: Technology Shrinks the Lecture
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Moving to New York
Some of you have heard, some of you haven’t, but Jasmine and I are getting up next week (June 12th) and moving to New York.
The plan is to go on working for Flickr, and fly back to SF once a month or so. So if you could plan your camps/parties/meetups/conferences accordingly that would be swell.
Looking forward to seeing you all on the East Coast. (And while we haven’t really gotten a feel for the new apartment [in Williamsburg], its looking like we might even have something resembling a guest room.)
We’ll be driving back via the not most direct route (which will surprise no one who knows us) that takes us past the Grand Canyon, Austin, and New Orleans. (thats as far as the map I’m looking at goes) So any suggestions for anything from sights, to food, to places to stay, to good people along those stretches, to great audiobooks to fill up empty bits in the road are all appreciated.
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E.B. White: “There are roughly three New Yorks.”
“There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. […] Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.”
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Woman Troubles in Technology
The New York Times had an article today about the loss of women in the science and technology fields as they hit their 30s and beyond. It cites a report that blames a macho culture intrinsic to those fields. But it’s possible that readers in the tech field missed it as it only ran in the Style section of the paper’s web site rather than the Technology section. Because apparently the loss of female programming and engineering talent has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with the latest swimsuits. An article on the Wii Fit however, was deemed worthy of appearing in both sections.
I actually think the “macho culture” inherent to these fields has less to do with the lack of women sticking around than the persistent assumption that’s behind the NYTimes confining the article to the Style pages. The assumption is that work-life balance is a female issue. Aside from tales of overt sexual harassment, the main trends that emerge in the report are that women need to “act like a man” to succeed (code for working a lot and not talking about family), and that the hours are not conducive for working mothers.
Women aren’t less capable of doing math and science, but they do tend to be less available when it comes to working long hours after having a child, unless they have a husband with a 9-5 job. Those all-night programming sessions or the week-long visits to foreign fabs to make sure a chip design is implemented correctly are costly to families. For the type of competitive person who ends up in the technology field, deciding between giving 110 percent to solving a technological problem and giving 90 or even 100 percent when junior is sick, is too frustrating. So they back off, because if the game is rigged so you can’t win, smart people pick a new game.
These women aren’t dumb, but their employers might be. The Silicon Valley startup culture demands a person give 110 percent and can be gruelingly inflexible. Academia and research labs are similar. But after a child –or maybe a heart attack — people tend to look at the rigged game and decline to play. So either the culture in technology will be forced to change, or it will continue to feed on canon fodder in the form of youth and single men. Regardless, it’s not just a female problem.
Rapper Remy Ma gets 8 years Over Money
NEW YORK - A weeping Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub. “I feel so bad for all the physical and mental pain you’ve gone through,” the Grammy-nominated rapper told the victim. “This has taken a toll on us and both our families. I would never wish you harm and I pray the best for all of us.”
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NYC Closer to FiOS TV
It’s times like this I wish I still lived in Brooklyn. It looks like New Yorkers from Staten Island to the Bronx could eventually get Verizon’s FiOS TV service in their homes if regulators and city lawmakers approve. Verizon already offers its fiber to the home broadband service in portions of the five boroughs, but under this plan, 3.1 million homes within the city will have the ability to dump their cable provider for FiOS TV by mid-2014.
Major Live Nation, Jay-Z Deal Imminent
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Putting a value on MySQL
Since Sun announced its acquisition of MySQL for $1bn, there have been some suggestions that perhaps Sun paying too much for the open source database vendor. Calculating the multiple for MySQL has proved difficult because there are no official figures to go on, and also because many of the unofficial figures that are floating around are contradictory.
Prior to the acquisition being announced a number of revenue figures for MySQL had been publicly disclosed. For example:
- 2006 revenue of $50m, according to Cnet.
- 2005 revenue of $34m, according to Cnet.
- 2004 revenue of $20m, according to Forbes.
- 2003 revenue of $12m, according to Cnet.
- 2002 revenue of $6.5m, according to Cnet.
Based on those figures, 2007 revenue of between $70m-$80m seemed a fair estimate, so it was no surprise to hear Wall Street analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein state on the announcement conference call that he estimated trailing 12-month sales of between $60m and $80m. Elsewhere Wired cited an analyst estimate of $70m-$85m, while Ovum estimated 2007 revenue at $70m.
When it comes to calculating an acquisition multiple, estimates are good but official figures are better. Unfortunately, the fact that MySQL had been preparing for its IPO meant that executives had been unable talk about any numbers the last time we spoke. Sun also declined to provide official numbers following the acquisition announcement, but did point us to third party figures that indicated:
- 2006 revenue of $34m.
- 2005 revenue of $16m.
- 2004 revenue of $14m.
What to make of that? As can be seen from the Deal Analysis (subscribers only, but also covered by Matt Asay), we estimated “trailing 12-month (i.e., 2007) revenue to be about $48m, and if we assume slightly slower growth in 2008, we get to about $65m… Given that, it would mean Sun is paying 20.8 times trailing 12-month revenue and 15.4 times projected 2008 revenue.”
“I think this is roughly accurate. I’ve heard on good authority that MySQL’s 2007 bookings were close to $60 million,” noted Asay.
Other sources also indicated that MySQL’s 2007 revenue was less than had been previously estimated:
- “MySQL… had 2007 revenue of $53 million,” said The New York Times.
- “The company had $50 million in fiscal 2007 revenue,” said MarketWatch.
- “Sales at MySQL rose 50 percent to $50 million in fiscal 2007, Sun said,” noted Bloomberg.
Which appeared to settle the argument. Or maybe not:
- “Mr Schwartz said that MySQL had revenues last year of $70m,” said the Financial Times.
So which is it? This additional line from the Bloomberg report is enlightening:
- “Bookings also increased 50 percent, to $70 million.”
Clearly a mixture of revenue and bookings numbers are being thrown around here, which makes it difficult to come to a definitive conclusion. I don’t think anyone is being deliberately misleading here, but it would be nice to get a straight answer.
As MySQL’s revenue will shortly be subsumed into Sun’s there are probably a lot of people reading this and thinking “who cares?”. It is important when considering the potential value for future open source-related M&A’s however. The difference between $50m and $70m is significant and could be the difference between a 12-months trailing multiple of 20, and one of 14.3.
For a open source vendor with $25m in revenue, that could be the difference between deal worth half a billion dollars and one worth $357.5m. There will be plenty of open source executives and investors out there right now trying to work out which one is more likely.
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