- Does the government need 8,000 IT staff?
"Despite the government having outsourced the majority of its IT delivery, research by Computer Weekly has revealed that Whitehall still has 8,000 in-house IT staff." Although it's not clear if these are people on the helpdesk, configuring tank systems, or anything else. (dopost employment government )
- Coding Horror: Farewell Stack Exchange
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror is leaving Stack Exchange: "Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange have been wildly successful, but I finally realized that success at the cost of my children is not success. It is failure." (dopost jobs stack_exchange )
- 5,000 APIs: Facebook, Google and Twitter Are Changing the Web
"Our API directory has hit another major milestone. We now list 5,000 APIs, just a short four months since passing 4,000. No longer is the web simply about links connecting one site to another. Instead, developers are using tools to connect data and functionality from one site to another site." (dopost apis )
- Is GigaOM Buying paidContent? – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD
"Who wants to pay for paidContent? We’ll find out soon, it seems, because the sales process for the pioneering blog and its parent company ContentNext appears to be wrapping up." (acquisition dopost paid_content )
- Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online
"Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic." (dopost privacy facebook )
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