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Marco De Cesaris – what my colleagues think about me

Marco De Cesaris - what my colleagues think about me

The below words cloud was built according to the public feedbacks provided by my colleagues and appearing on my linkedin profile and yahoo internal system. This is how it was built:   1. all the feedbacks were collected; 2. all the “feedbacks text” was copied and pasted into “content analyzer” (a tool that i built [...]

Marco De Cesaris – Cloud CV 2012

Cloud CV Expertise 2012 - Marco De Cesaris

The below words cloud was built according to my CV. This is how it was built:   1. all the words appearing in the cv were copied and pasted into “content analyzer” (a tool that i built few years back while at university). 2. all the words appearing in the cv were automatically weighted through [...]

Facebook Reveals its User-Tracking Secrets

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Facebook doesn’t track everybody the same way. It uses different methods for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, members who are logged-off and non-members. The first time you arrive at any Facebook.com page, the company inserts cookies in your browser. If you sign up for an account, it inserts two types [...]

The benefits of sorting data

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Sorting also can streamline processing. comScore sorts URL data to minimize Web site taxonomy lookups. Instead of loading the 40 URLs for Web site pages in the order they were visited during a session, sorting might reveal that 20 of those pages were on Facebook, 12 were on GMail and the balance were at NYTimes.com. [...]

How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel

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How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? To answer these sorts of question, the U.S. government has turned to a rich source: social media. The Associated Press reports that the CIA maintains a social-media tracking center operated out of an nondescript building in a Virginia industrial park. The intelligence analysts [...]

Server-Side Cookies vs Client-Side Cookies

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Here the main differences:

Server-side cookies are persistent data, similar to the usual client-side cookies. Whereas the size of cookies on the client is restricted to four kilobytes per cookie, 300 cookies in total, and 30 per server or domain, server-side cookies do NOT have any size or quantity restrictions.

Server-side cookies consist of large datasets that are customized and stored on the server. They are not transferred between client and server.

Source: SAP

The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies


Source: NewScientist

When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
26. Lloyds TSB Group plc
27. Invesco plc
28. Allianz SE 29. TIAA
30. Old Mutual Public Limited Company
31. Aviva plc
32. Schroders plc
33. Dodge & Cox
34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*
35. Sun Life Financial Inc
36. Standard Life plc
37. CNCE
38. Nomura Holdings Inc
39. The Depository Trust Company
40. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
41. ING Groep NV
42. Brandes Investment Partners LP
43. Unicredito Italiano SPA
44. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
45. Vereniging Aegon
46. BNP Paribas
47. Affiliated Managers Group Inc
48. Resona Holdings Inc
49. Capital Group International Inc
50. China Petrochemical Group Company

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qrcode in punta cana


I would never expect something like that: an advertising including qrcode in punta cana.
Of course this place is aimed to foreigners on holiday here…but still…it was very surprising especially if you think that rarely you see qrcodes in places like London.

PS
of course there was no optimised CTA, but just a simple link to their website.

qrcode in punta cana

qrcode in punta cana

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