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Global 500 2010: Maps - Top 500 Companies are ranked by total revenues for their respective fiscal years ended on or before March 31, 2015. All companies on the list must publish financial data and report part or all of their figures to a government agency. Figures are as reported, and comparisons are with the prior year’s figures as originally reported for that year. Fortune does not restate the prior year’s figures for changes in accounting. Revenues Revenue figures include consolidated subsidiaries and reported revenues from discontinued operations, but exclude excise taxes. Profits Profits are shown after taxes, extraordinary credits or charges, cumulative effects of accounting changes, and noncontrolling (minority) interests, but before preferred dividends. Balance Sheet Assets shown are those at the company’s fiscal year-end. Employees The figure shown is either a fiscal year-end or yearly average number, as published by the company. Medians Credits

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World Flag Database: Welcome Exciting Tools for Big Data: S4, Sawzall and mrjob! « Byte Mining This week, a few different big data processing tools were released to the open-source community. I know, I know, this is probably the 1000th blog post about this, and perhaps the train has left the station without me, but here I am. Yahoo’s S4: Distributed Stream Computing Platform First off, it must be said. S4 is a distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows users to create applications that process unbounded streaming data. Pieces of data, apparently called events, are sent and consumed by a Processing Element (yes, PE, but not the kind that requires you to sweat). emit another event that will be consumed by another PE, orpublish some result Streaming data is different from non-streaming data in that the user does not know how much data will be transmitted, and at what rate. More information can be found at the S4 Wiki and S4 main site, that contains tutorials, a manual, a cookbook as well as API documentation. Google made a contribution of its own.

learning to unlearn - The Pipeline Project In January this year, inspired by the awesome ‘Born to Run ’ story, I decided to try barefoot running. As I kid, I spent most winters cross-country running. I loved the isolation, being in nature and the endurance challenge of 10 miles of frozen fields and horizontal pissing rain. So most weekends this year I’ve been out running in these – barefoot/minimal running shoes. It’s actually been a very painful transition, because I’ve been learning to run again, but this time by ‘listening to my feet’, noticing how they feel against the terrain, responding to calf pains and achilles aches, understanding how the system works, tweaking my gait and posture accordingly. Learning to unlearn. So what’s this got to do with brands and business? Learning to unlearn is I think one of the uber challenges of the now for brands and business and more accurately the human folk and communities behind them. I think this is extremely relevant to business today. To ask ourselves why are we here? Why? Far out?

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Ten of the greatest maps that changed the world From the USSR's Be On Guard! map in 1921 to Google Earth, a new exhibition at the British Library charts the extraordinary documents that transformed the way we view the globe forever By PETER BARBER, Head of Map Collections at the British Library Updated: 21:00 GMT, 8 May 2010 The infant USSR was threatened with invasion, famine and social unrest. To counter this, brilliant designers such as Dimitri Moor were employed to create pro-Bolshevik propaganda. Using a map of European Russia and its neighbours, Moor's image of a heroic Bolshevik guard defeating the invading 'Whites' helped define the Soviet Union in the Russian popular imagination. 2. It's said that Columbus used this map or one like it to persuade Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile to support him in the early 1490s. The map was made by a German cartographer living in Florence and reflects the latest theories about the form of the world and the most accurate ways of portraying it on a flat surface. 5. 10.

Encyclopedia of the Nations - Information about countries of the world, United Nations, and World Leaders petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. Download the application Read the FAQ Authors Alasdair Allan (alasdair@babilim.co.uk) @aallan on Twitter Pete Warden (pete@petewarden.com) @petewarden on Twitter This application relies on map tiles from the volunteer-run OpenStreetMap project, so please consider supporting their great work. Download Source You can download this project in either zip or tar formats. You can also clone the project with Git by running: $ git clone Is there a Windows version? Is there a Windows version? The file exists on PCs too, but we haven't written a version of the application that runs on Windows ourselves. How does the application work? How can I examine the data without running the application? ~/Downloads/iphonels.py | grep "consolidated" No. It’s unclear.

10 Stories Beautifully Told with Animated Typography [VIDEOS] The power of the written word should not be underestimated, and while we are used to coping with more visual data than ever before, sometimes something as simple as text can cut through the white noise and make a big impact. We think moving type, or "kinetic typography" is a good example of just that. Thanks to some recent high profile examples like Cee-lo's video for his expletive-filled song, moving type is no longer relegated to the credit sequence of a film or a quiet corner reserved for Adobe After Effects fans on YouTube. We've selected 10 examples of what we think are some great creations in the moving type arena — sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking. Check out the gallery below and let us know which ones you like in the comments. More Typography Resources from Mashable

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