Monday 27 October 2014

Apple Yosemite Spotlight

Currently I have Mavericks installed on my iMac and last weekend considered updating to Yosemite, but thought I might leave it a couple of weeks. While out shopping I was in a shop that sold Apple products so I thought I would have a quick look at Yosemite. My first impression was not good, firstly the close button in the windows did not look central, when clicking on a program sometimes it opened the right click menu and I was not convinced with the flatter look. 

I did not spend much time looking at it, but the main change I did not like was spotlight, I could not move the dialog can could not get rid of the explanation of it. I looked at the possible settings, but could not find anything. 

I have decided to wait until Apple sort these issues out, I did think what would Steve Jobs think about it, especially the off centre icon seeing how much of a perfectionist he was.

Monday 13 October 2014

How many people write Wikipedia pages?

A couple of years ago someone I worked with mention that most of Wikepedia entries were written by a few hundred people, I have since heard the bulk of entries are written by 1400 writers. However I find this very hard to believe seeing as there are over 33 billion pages on Wikepedia, that would mean if there was just 1400 people they would have each written over 23 million pages each, even if you said they wrote 20% that is still 4.7 million pages, so I find it very hard to believe there is a relatively small group of people busy writing the bulk of wikipedia.

How much big internet companies make

Here is a list of internet companies and their revenue and market value.

Company Revenue ($bn) Market Value ($bn)
Amazon
74.5
150
Google
15.7
378.5
Yahoo
4.7
36.9
eBay
6.6
62.8
YouTube
5.6
21.3
Facebook
7.9
161.4
LinkedIn
1.5
19.1
Twitter
0.2
20.1

These values show how much in turnover the company makes and the market value of the company, it would be useful to know the profit value to make a more realistic comparison with the companies. I was surprised how little revenue Twitter makes, I am not sure how popular it is in Asia and Europe.