Big investors rethinking social media. (08-27) 15:26 PDT San Francisco -- Editor's note: A quote has been removed from this story after venture capitalist Promod Haque, who was reached on a bad mobile connection at a noisy airport, said the reporter misheard him.
The market pummeling of Facebook, Zynga and Groupon has forced some soul searching in Silicon Valley. Venture capitalists and angel investors so hot on social media just months ago have largely turned their backs on the space, investors say. Even for the most promising social startups, they won't pay nearly as high a price to get into deals as they would have a year ago. That's true in part because the markets have shown that public investors won't dumbly buy in at the inflated prices set by private exchanges and late-stage rounds. But it's also true because some investors who scored a piece of those hot companies in the last funding rounds before the initial public offerings ended up in the red themselves, sometimes deeply.
Dumping shares Sheep, not wolves. Hello Web - Processing.js Test. Safer roads ahead. It is hoilday time and for many Europeans it means packing up the car and hitting the road.
Sadly not everyone will return home safely. More than 30 thousand people are killed and 1.5 million injured every year on EU roads. Croatia, which expects to join the EU in 2013, is a major test site of a European project to equip all cars with a wireless “emergency call” system. The technology informs the emergency services immediately if there is an accident. Potentially saving lives: Ante Sarjanovic is the Project manager, HAK Hrvatski autoklub: “This car is not normal – it’s equipped with the eCall device, which is capable to perform a special call which is initiated manually or automatically by the unit which is placed within the car… If we’re witnessing a serious accident on the other side of the road, we can just stop the car safely… and we can push the eCall button.”
The communication device makes a mobile call to a single European emergency number. How to Teach a Journalist Programming. Earlier this year I set out to tackle a problem that was bothering me: journalists who had started to learn programming were giving up.
They were hitting a wall. In trying to learn the more advanced programming techniques - particularly those involved in scraping - they seemed to fall into one of two camps: People who learned programming, but were taking far too long to apply it, and so losing momentum - the generalists. People who learned how to write one scraper, but could not extend it to others, and so becoming frustrated - the specialists. In setting out to figure out what was going wrong, I set myself a task which I have found helpful in taking a fresh perspective on an issue: I started writing a book chapter. The nice thing about writing books is that they force you to put together a coherent and complete narrative about an entire process. So my starting point was this: what is a good way to learn how to write scrapers? That's a different question to 'How do I write a scraper? ' What is linked data? - From head to the Web. Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space.
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