Saturday, 26 September 2015

Public Sector numbers at record low


Statistic of the week

Britain’s public sector workforce has fallen by 960,000 since 2010, while the private sector has created 2.7 million jobs. The number of people employed by the civil service has fallen to 398,000 – down by almost 140,000 in ten years, and the lowest figure since 1939.

Office for National Statistics/The Times

 

Friday, 25 September 2015

Great video of Cape Town

Having seen this I would love to go. It all looks amazing.

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Polling on Corbyn

Worst start ever. It's going to be tough for Corbyn and co. I think there is a general malaise about politics and the general state of things but Corbyn is going to find it hard to be "the answer" outside of his core support.

 

How to make money from Facebook

Certainly saves time at the very least.

 

Thursday, 24 September 2015

GoPro Drones for 2016

TechCrunch got the news at their disrupt event.

"GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman confirmed that a GoPro drone was on its way in an interview with our own Matt Burns at Disrupt SF. “Development is on track for the first half of 2016. We have some differentiations that are right in the GoPro alley,” he said.

Other than that, Woodman didn’t give any hint about what this drone will do. But it’s clear that a GoPro drone makes a lot of sense given the company’s camera expertise.

For example, GoPro recently released the tiny Hero4 Session. “The Session doesn’t look like a GoPro that we’re used to. We tried to make the smallest, lightest, most convenient GoPro we could ever imagine. It’s waterproof out of the box,” Woodman said.

When it comes to sales, Woodman said that sales are going well but could be even better if the other GoPros weren’t so durable. The Hero4 Silver and the Hero4 Black are still selling well.

As this camera is perfect for a drone given how tiny it is, the conversation naturally shifted toward drone projects. “A drone opens up a perspective for our world that we’ve never seen before,” Woodman said. “I think it’s awe-inspiring to see yourself in the world in that way.”"

The rest of the article is here.