October 2010
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“The Chilean daily newspaper La Nación is to abandon its print edition from next...”
– Chilean daily goes online only | Media | guardian.co.uk
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“The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs...”
– Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market | Wired Science | Wired.com
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“Keeping up the defensive posture, “I’d like to comment on the...”
– What is Steve Jobs so afraid of? | Betanews
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“Chance favours the connected mind”
– Steven Johnson: ‘Eureka moments are very, very rare’ | Science | The Guardian
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“One night in 1902, an ambitious young American engineer named Willis Carrier was...”
– Steven Johnson: ‘Eureka moments are very, very rare’ | Science | The Guardian
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“iPad now has over 35,000 apps on the App Store”
– Steve Jobs: why Android isn’t open, and we won’t build a 7” iPad | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“One naturally thinks that a seven-inch screen would offer 70% of the benefits of...”
– Steve Jobs: why Android isn’t open, and we won’t build a 7” iPad | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“Tweetdeck recently launched their app for Android. They reported that they had...”
– Steve Jobs: why Android isn’t open, and we won’t build a 7” iPad | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“Last week, Eric Schmidt reiterated that they are activating 200,000 Android...”
– Steve Jobs: why Android isn’t open, and we won’t build a 7” iPad | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“Wilson uses his phone’s LED camera flash to guide his steps as he takes...”
– Smartphones: Our national obsession - CNN.com
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“When the iPad is part of the mix, Apple’s share of the U.S. PC market is...”
– What if the iPad were a PC? - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
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“Statistics from Google Inc. show that more searches containing the world...”
– Vietnam’s hacker culture - techtoch’s posterous
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“Anyone can add a member to a Facebook group, for instance, but only that member...”
– The Many Faces of You - NYTimes.com
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“[Steve Jobs] felt that the computer was going to change the world and it it was...”
– John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
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“The possibility that music-streaming websites will turn CD buyers into...”
– What’s working in music: Having a ball | The Economist
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“Will Page of PRS for Music, which collects royalties on behalf of writers and...”
– What’s working in music: Having a ball | The Economist
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“Seventy-five percent of American respondents to a survey sponsored by the Wi-Fi...”
– Coffee, TV or Wi-Fi? - NYTimes.com
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“Last week, BodyMedia announced that its armband sensors would be able to...”
– Body Sensing Comes to Smartphones - NYTimes.com
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“Tumblr, based in New York, says it is drawing 30,000 new members a day”
– Tumblr Allows Sharing Online With More Than 140 Characters - NYTimes.com
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Bing, Now With Extra Facebook: See What Your... →
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“Google’s long claimed that over 200 factors are used to rank its search results....”
– Bing, Now With Extra Facebook: See What Your Friends Like & People Search Results
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“When a user searches for something like a movie, place or product on Bing,...”
– Microsoft’s Bing Gets a Social Aspect From Facebook - NYTimes.com
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“Google executives said real-time transactions on its DoubleClick Exchange more...”
– Agencies Tool Up for Data-Driven Media Buying | ClickZ
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“According to a May 2008 memo by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,...”
– Applying for U.S. Citizenship? Be Careful Who You “Friend”
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“In 2009, [Blurb] delivered $45 million in revenue, representing over 1.2 mm...”
– The Up Group’s Blog
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“The car is a project of Google, which has been working in secret but in plain...”
– Smarter Than You Think - Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic - NYTimes.com
Watchthe creative internet (106 things)
OK, so the embedding still doesn’t quite work, but hey… there’s still the link. Click on the link!! You won’t be sorry… it’s a really cool roundup of interesting arty / creative things from online in Tom’s inimitable style.
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the creative internet (106 things) →
Tom’s latest preso (sorry can’t figure out how to embed)
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Goollery - A collection of awesome Google-related... →
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“Some analysts estimate that emailing a 4.7-megabyte attachment — the equivalent...”
– Don’t forward those photos - The Boston Globe
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Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your... →
Woohoo, brilliant move. This alone makes me feel a lot more comfortable about using FB more. Up to now I’ve been careful to keep everything on other sites as I didn’t trust them to let me (easily) get it back.
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“Tablet users report dedicating 75% more time to reading newspaper articles than...”
– Tablets and E-Readers Give Hope to Publishers, but Not Broadcasters - DailyFinance
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“The app, called PetRescuers, taps into a database of 500,000 volunteers who...”
– An App Aspires to Be the Finder of Lost Pets - NYTimes.com
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“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and...”
– The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ.com
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“Earlier this year, Nike announced a new Web-based marketplace it calls the...”
– The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ.com
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“Johannes Gutenberg, for instance, took the older technology of the screw press,...”
– The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ.com
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“In the year following the 2004 tsunami, the Indonesian city of Meulaboh received...”
– The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ.com
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“A 2009 missive, entitled “We’re Not Running a Newspaper,” read: “At some media...”
– The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street
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“A small army of bloggers and tweeters is filling the gaps left by traditional...”
– Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico’s drug wars | World news | The Guardian
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YouTube - Volkswagen Talking Newspaper Ad →
Egad… I do not like this on so many levels (environmental, annoyance factor, gimmickry…)
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“One in eight Somali’s live abroad. Therefore, it’s not surprising that the...”
– Hawala Tech and Banks in Somalia — WhiteAfrican
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“on Sep 6 2010, Benz put up its 200 “smart” cars on Taobao‘s Groupon-like...”
– Benz sold 205 smart in three and half hours on Taobao | China Internet Watch
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“In 2006, downloaded albums accounted for less than 2% of the UK music industry’s...”
– Digital Stats: More than 50m digital albums have been sold in the UK
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“It’s always thrilling when somebody looks at the Way Things Have Always Been...”
– State of the Art - A Simple Swipe on the iPhone, and You’re Paid - NYTimes.com
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“Think of augmented reality as the pop-up books of the 21st century”
– Augmented Reality: From Baseball Cards to Books - NYTimes.com
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“NELL was at first quite accurate, easily identifying all kinds of pies, breads,...”
– Smarter Than You Think - Aiming to Learn as We Do, A Machine Teaches Itself - NYTimes.com 