May 2013
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“When the centers opened in the 1990s as quaintly termed “Internet hotels,” the...”
– North Jersey Data Center Industry Blurs Utility-Real Estate Boundaries - NYTimes.com
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“the Royal Shakespeare Company will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream to a...”
– RSC and Google team up for online Midsummer Night’s Dream | Stage | guardian.co.uk
April 2013
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“One million songs were downloaded in the store’s first week, 25 million by the...”
– iTunes Store at 10: how Apple built a digital media juggernaut | The Verge
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“For more than thirty years, computers have mostly just been about tasks, and...”
– Vision | Dustin Curtis
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“It is easy to write off Grindr as a hookup application… But the company,...”
– Digital Stats: Grindr has more than 5 million users
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“Today, Google is arguably one of the most influential nonstate actors in...”
– New Digital Age: How Google took on jobs that used to be reserved for government. - Slate Magazine
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“The group who chooses to turn Facebook off permanently is relatively small, but...”
– Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
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“when you unlock your phone, you’re presented with the “home screen”—the...”
– Facebook Home: The Facebook phone is not as dumb as I thought it was going to be. - Slate Magazine If I used FB more I can imagine this being useful, in that I like the idea of being able to interact without unlocking
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“Worldwide crowdfunding volumes reached $2.66 billion in 2012, up from $1.47...”
– Global crowdfunding volumes rise 81 percent in 2012 | Reuters
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“G.E. announced a partnership with Quirky, a New York-based start-up that is a...”
– G.E. Turns to the Crowd for Help in Creating Consumer Products - NYTimes.com
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“About 1,500 cities, including Chicago and, last year, New York, have also...”
– Participatory politics: Processing power | The Economist
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“What does it mean that Google really is trying to build the Star Trek computer?...”
– Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer. - Slate Magazine
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“European buyers of the Ford Focus, a mid-sized car, can now leave it to drive...”
– Driverless cars: Look, no hands | The Economist
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“in Kenya the National Health Insurance Fund reduced its administrative costs...”
– Google Europe Blog: Harnessing the Internet to boost Africa’s economy
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Survey of 1,300 organizations in the UK and the U.S., including 1,000 SME’s and 300 enterprises with 1,000 employees or more found that: 64% SMEs / 74% of large enterprises agree that cloud computing has reduced their IT costs; 58% of SMEs / 66% large businesses said that they can focus more on strategy and innovation as a result of not needing a dedicated IT team
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“The paper, Growth in a Time of Debt, was written by economists Carmen Reinhart...”
– Microsoft Excel: The ruiner of global economies? | Ars Technica Oh my. Here’s why I never just add data to blank rows at the bottom of spreadsheets with formulas but instead insert them midway. I sympathise with the spreadsheet creators though hugely; I only learned to do that after having...
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“Mecca Bingo reports that a fifth of the money it now takes is online, rather...”
– BBC News - Online bingo: A very full house
March 2013
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Precorder Ensures You Never Miss a Moment with... →
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“Wi-Fi Posters are exactly what they sound like: posters that are turned into...”
– Movie Posters Double As WiFi Hotspots - PSFK - PSFK
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“In 2011 the two developers launched Toca Tea Party. The game is not all that...”
– The Touch-Screen Generation - Hanna Rosin - The Atlantic
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“(Flickr has) more than eight billion photos from more than 87 million users,...”
– The man behind Flickr on making the service ‘awesome again’ | The Verge
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YouTube now has more than a billion unique users every single month... Nearly one out of every two people on the Internet visits YouTube.
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“Founded in 2005, Kiva lenders crowdfunded almost $500,000 in loans in the first...”
– Good crowdfunding: Kiva hits $400m in micro-loans, reaching 1 million borrowers - The Next Web
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“Google just launched The Peanut Gallery, a new tool for its Chrome browser,...”
– Google’s Peanut Gallery: Silent Movie Title Cards DIY | TIME.com
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“Google announced … that it has added a feature to its image search tool...”
– Google Now Allows You To Search Solely For Animated GIFs
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“it’s a disaster. I completely rely on Reader so much for research, finding...”
– Killing Google Reader is like killing the bees: we’ll all be worse off | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“That whooshing sound is “Google Reader” shooting to the top of...”
– Hey Google, We Still Love Reader … :( I am in mourning, words cannot express how sad I am about this looming shut-down.
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““I’m about 95 percent certain,” he says, “that if I’d met Rachel offline, and if...”
– A Million First Dates - Dan Slater - The Atlantic
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“The third map plots innovations, measured as patents per capita. Now, the United...”
– The World’s Leading Nations for Innovation and Technology - Richard Florida - The Atlantic Cities
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“From a low point of 51 375 EU-27 patent applications filed with the...”
– Patent statistics - Statistics Explained
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“A company called Euclid Analytics uses the Wi-Fi antennas inside stores to see...”
– Technology Turns to Tracking People Offline - NYTimes.com
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“of 12 countries studied, revenues from digital sales and rentals for two studios...”
– Study Suggests Megaupload Shutdown Boosted Legal Movie Sales | Variety
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“Don’t Be Ugly”… Google is getting better at design faster...”
– Google: Don’t be ugly | The Economist
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“For three days now, players have complained of issues connecting with SimCity’s...”
– SimCity launch debacle drags on, as EA disables features | PCWorld
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“The key experiential question of Google Glass isn’t what it’s like to wear them,...”
– The Google Glass feature no one is talking about — Creative Good
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“And so, for a brief and literally shining moment early in the days of...”
– Tower of Light: When Electricity Was New, People Used It to Mimic the Moon - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
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“The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has launched an initiative to collect...”
– DeMOGraphics: Cat Map plots locations, names and colours of London felines (Wired UK)
February 2013
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“Niels Provos is a Google software engineer who spends his weekends forging...”
– The swordsmith who keeps Google safe from barbarian hordes (Wired UK) … there’s something that’s just satisfyingly apt about a computer security expert being an expert sword maker
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“Human beings have developed a new problem since the advent of the iPhone and the...”
– I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates | The Verge 