February 2012
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“The primary problem movie studios have to realize is that everything they charge...”
– You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You - Forbes
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“The doll is about 18 inches high. … . She was created in 1784, just before...”
– The Wilson Quarterly: Man as Machine by Max Byrd
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“While 6%-12% of the UK book market is digital, depending on whom you speak to,...”
– Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction | Books | The Guardian
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“BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they...”
– Don’t break stories on Twitter, BBC journalists told | Media | guardian.co.uk
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“While private venture capital firms and the investment wings of big corporations...”
– Google to the rescue - Boston.com
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“By playing EteRNA, you will participate in creating the first large-scale...”
– EteRNA - Played by Human, Scored by Nature
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High Tech | Latest Thinking | Impact of the... →
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“What Google did for organizing information, Pinterest does for curating...”
– Why Pinterest Is Like No Other Social Network « « Digital Connections - 360i Blog, Digital Marketing Agency Digital Connections – 360i Blog, Digital Marketing Agency
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“Out of all smart phone users, Android fans are most likely to have a one-night...”
– Android users are more likely to have sex on first date | VentureBeat
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“Shazam is better-known as an app for identifying music, but it recently brought...”
– Mobile TV Apps Shazam, IntoNow Reveal Super Bowl Plans | TechCrunch
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“According to the GSMA, a worldwide association of mobile operators and related...”
– Get Ready For a World of Connected Devices
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“Women make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third...”
– Official Google Blog: education and research
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“Zuckerberg didn’t just wait. He obsessively learned what being a CEO was about....”
– Mark Zuckerberg Loves It When A Plan Comes Together | PandoDaily
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“Pinterest is now driving more referral traffic on the web than Google+, YouTube,...”
– Study: Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google , nearly on par with Twitter — Tech News and Analysis
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“Li-Fi is a really neat idea that essentially promises to replace your wireless...”
– Li-Fi Could Transform Both Public and Private Spaces (If It Doesn’t Give You a Splitting Headache) - Core77
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“As of the end of 2011, here’s how its 845 million monthly active users broke...”
– Facebook Still Growing Everywhere, Europe Leads At 229M, Asia Catching Up With 212M | TechCrunch
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“Revenue from Zynga games contribute 12% of Facebook’s bottom line. Facebook said...”
– Facebook IPO Reveals How It Makes Money
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“A new app from French 3D printing company Sculpteo now lets consumers upload a...”
– 3D printing app can incorporate your face into designer objects | Springwise
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“Google’s lead product manager for mobile search ads, Surojit Chatterjee, tells...”
– Google Mobile Search Ad Requests More Than Doubled In 2011 | TechCrunch
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Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker →
I have a love hate relationship with the New Yorker. I’m a long time subscriber. Like nearly 20 years. Yet I find it infuriating that it’s so impossible to make notes from. Their online archive is in a stupid image format that is hard to read, and impossible to highlight snippets in. Anyway, this article is pretty good - especially when it talks about MIT’s Building 20....
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“Codecademy’s “Code Summer+” will teach the basics of programming online as an...”
– Codecademy and White House To Train Low-Income Youth
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“Kodak’s problem was not an inability to see what the future held but a...”
– After a century, the Kodak moment has finally faded beyond recognition (Wired UK)
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“Robert Scoble tweeted that “only about 30% of Davos attendees are on Twitter.”
– Tech Dispatches from Davos: The Jeans and Hoodie Class | PandoDaily
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“Data is not the target. Data is not the answer. Data is not the insight.
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– Just to Clarify: Stories are the Last Mile in Big Data
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“Thrun told the story of his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class, which...”
– Udacity and the future of online universities | Felix Salmon
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“We live in a three-dimensional world. Our hands are designed for moving and...”
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
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How to Get the News You Want Without Being... →
This is pretty close to my system too… except that I mostly do reading in Reader itself, and use Instapaper mainly as a way to get non-time sensitive articles across to my Kindle… There’s a setting so you can auto-bundle up to 20 articles at a time from your Instapaper feed and have it sent to your Kindle. Those articles have now become my main reading on planes.
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“85% of Tumblr users post more than 20 times a month on average”
– Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream | Media | The Guardian
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“We are the number one company not in the U.S. but in the world in terms of...”
– Starbucks is worldwide leader in mobile payment transactions: exec - Mobile Commerce Daily - Payments
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“One of the strange hangovers of the...”
– Google Prods Korean Webmasters to Be Indexed on Global Search Engines - Korea Real Time - WSJ
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“Identified has discovered that a growing number of company founders and CEOs...”
– New Identified Research Reveals Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies - Identified (It’s an interesting hint and I want it to be true although I’d take the research with a grain of salt. It’s based on Facebook data and I’m not sure how robustly...
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“With a significant percentage of Topshop’s online sales already coming from...”
– Topshop’s iPhone app lets customers keep up with new product introductions - Mobile Commerce Daily - Applications
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“at its core, Pinterest is a site that connects people who are passionate about...”
– And The Crunchie Goes To…Pinterest, Best New Startup Of 2011 | TechCrunch
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January 2012
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Fix My Street – anywhere! | Jon Worth →
links to local variants on ‘fixmystreet’ from around the world
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“The key to public speaking is establishing a routine that solves for the thirty...”
– Public Speaking for Normal People
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“as soon as Codecademy first launched, the site was inundated by requests from...”
– Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials | TechCrunch
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“As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon...”
– Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011 - ReadWriteCloud
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“Sound historians Patrick Feaster and Stephan Puille have managed to pull the...”
– Edison’s Files Reveal the Only Known Voice Recording of Someone Born in the 18th Century - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
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“The problem, I began to realize, was my own understanding of how the iPads...”
– Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps
This teacher gets it, and her article perfectly summarizes my feelings on educational technology, why it fails, and why it succeeds.
(via world-shaker)
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“Twenty-five years after the fact, Allan Scherr, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT in the...”
– The World’s First Computer Password? It Was Useless Too | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
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“iPads are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made”
– iNdustrial Revolutions | TechCrunch