Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

"The common assumption that social networking users don't care about privacy is misguided. The majority of people who use social networks (nearly 60 percent or more) have already modified their privacy settings"

"'When someone makes a prediction, people post it to the site along with a brief description and a URL. We monitor it and change its status to true or false when appropriate."

A Twitter search engine that searches content of linked pages shared on Twitter, rather than the Tweets themselves.
Useful to find realtime news around a certain topic

Browser plugin and information card manager, changes search results depending in iCards you have in your wallet (the iCards indicate memberships, entitlements…)

"From the 1930s to the late 1970s wealth disparities in developed countries declined sharply [... but the] gap between rich and poor has been widening for 30 years [since].
… extensive study by economists has found little correlation, in either direction, between inequality and economic growth rates across countries. (And a negative correlation between income disparity and social mobility)"