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Will Soekarno-Hatta (CGK) be on the top 10 busiest airports?
It might be.
Soekarno-Hatta skrg ada di nomor 12 airport tersibuk di dunia, mengalahkan Changi, Dubai, Amsterdam dan New York JFK! twitpic.com/979qng
— Nugraha Sang Surya (@NNugie) April 8, 2012
Got the tweet from Daniel Giovanni (@qronoz), and I spent my time exploring the statistics at Wikipedia about World’s busiest airports by passenger traffic. Some interesting numbers there. According to the statistics in 2011, Soekarno-Hatta was ranked as the 12th busiest airport (by passanger traffic) in the world after Hong Kong International Airport and Denver International Airport. It’s bussier than John F. Kennedy International Airport and Singapore Changi Airport.
Still according to Wikipedia, “a passenger” is described as:
“someone who arrives in, departs from, or transfers through the airport on a given day”.
Seeing from the figure, I think Soekarno-Hatta might be on the top 10 list in 2012. Or, probably in 2013. Of course, there are some other factors involved, but let’s look closer on some facts about Soekarno-Hatta airport:
- Soekarno-Hatta began to operate in 1985. The current operator is PT Angkasa Pura II, anyway.
- Currently, there are 3 terminals (Terminal 1, Terminal 2, and Terminal 3). According to the plan, Terminal 4 will be build in 2013. In total, there are 45 gates.
- By passenger traffic, here are some statistics:
- In 2008, it was ranked number 36
- In 2009, it was ranked number 22
- In 2010, it was ranked number 16
- In 2011, it was ranked number 12 (19.3% change from the previous year, with the total passengers of 52,446,618). Compared to the other 29 airports on the list, Soekarno-Hatta had the biggest growth followed by Atatürk International Airport of Turkey (16.3%)
So, what do you think about the statistics in 2012?
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Yahoo just had Amanda Pires (from eBay) and Twitter grabbed Gabriel Stricker (from Google) as its new VP of Communications. [Link]
10 patents Facebook is suing Yahoo with
ZDNet has a list of 10 patents that Facebook is using to attack Yahoo. This is a simple list:
- Generating a feed of stories personalized for members of a social network (U.S. Patent No. 7,827,208)
- Tagging digital media (U.S. Patent No. 7,945,653)
- Headline posting algorithm (U.S. Patent No. 6,288,717)
- Method for enabling a user to fetch a specific information item from a set of information items, and a system for carrying out such a method (U.S. Patent No. 6,216,133)
- Customizing database information for presentation with media selections (U.S. Patent No. 6,411,949)
- System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications (U.S. Patent No. 6,236,978)
- System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications and for validating user rules (U.S. Patent No. 7,603,331)
- Architectures, systems, apparatus, methods, and computer-readable medium for providing recommendations to users and applications using multidimensional data (U.S. Patent No. 8,103,611)
- System for controlled distribution of user profiles over a network (U.S. Patent No. 8,005,896)
- System for controlled distribution of user profiles over a network (U.S. Patent No. 8,150,913)
Go to ZDNet for complete details of each patent. Other reading: Facebook countersues Yahoo over 10 patents.
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The simplest definition. Design is so many things, executed in many different ways, but the function is always the same. Whether it’s blueprints, a clever UI, a brochure, or a chair — design can help solve a visual or physical problem.
Startups, this is how design works: What is design?
Randomized Twitter’s Homepage Design
I don’t visit Twitter’s website regularly. I use Twitter from third party applications most of the time. Not sure when Twitter has another new look — the homepage has been changed few times — but when I open Twitter’s homepage, I got some different schemes.
Anyway, you probably remember about its major design few months ago. Now, Twitter randomize its homepage by having different color schemes. Not sure how many combinations it has, I found three. All of them give a short description: “Find out what’s happening, right now, with the people and organizations you care about.”
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