December 2010
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What happened in my birth year? →
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“More than 3,000 Gawker users chose ‘123456’ as their...”
– How to tighten up your passwords | Media | The Guardian
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“according to internal Google data, in Q3 Google searches from mobile devices...”
– Better shopping with the Seller Ratings extension for mobile - Google Mobile Ads Blog
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“Time It Took To Get To 6 Million Daily Active Users
FarmVille: 46 days...”
– CityVille Hits 6 Million Daily Active Users In 8 Days
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“An astounding 25 billion Tweets were sent in 2010.”
– textually.org: 25 billion Tweets were sent in 2010
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“Crandall’s team found that two people have a 5 per cent chance of knowing...”
– Online photo coincidences betray your friends - tech - 10 December 2010 - New Scientist
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“1 in 5 children in the UK say that they have gone without food or sleep to stay...”
– googlebarometer.blogspot.com/2010/12/latest-insights-trends-from-google.html
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The Atlantic - The Most Damning Wikileaks Cable... →
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“Serendipity and personalization are in fact two sides to the same coin. ...”
– The Myth Of Serendipity
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“(A selection of Gartner’s predictions):
By 2015, a G20 nation’s...”
– 8 Predictions for IT in 2015 From Gartner
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“almost three-quarters of UK adults check Facebook in bed (72%)… 18% of UK...”
– Almost three-quarters of Brits check Facebook in bed, while one in five text during sex
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“Instagram is now seeing two to three photo uploads per second… the...”
– Instagram Now Seeing Two to Three Photo Uploads Per Second
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“curiosity is competitive advantage” when the Internet gives easy access to...”
– Twitter / @Tim O’Reilly: “curiosity is competitive …
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Social Networking: The Future →
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“Google has found that Gmail Priority Inbox users spend 43 percent more time...”
– Gmail: Priority Inbox Is Working; Users Spending 15 Percent Less Time Reading Email
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“After a week of clumsy American-inspired attempts to shut WikiLeaks down, it is...”
– Dealing with WikiLeaks: The right reaction | The Economist
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“If the e-reader is the digital equivalent of the brown-paper wrapper, the...”
– Romance Books Are Hot in the E-Reading Market - NYTimes.com
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“Navigating around an OS that is essentially a browser feels a little weird at...”
– A Walk In The Cloud: My First Day With Google’s Chrome OS
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“Facebook is now market leader in 115 out of 132 countries”
– World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook’s Ever-Increasing Dominance
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“In the summer of 2009 we launched Google Trader in Uganda, a free classifieds...”
– Official Google Africa Blog: Google Trader comes to Ghana
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“Twitter enthusiasts now have a new way to enjoy the holiday season — by creating...”
– Customize Your Gift Wrap With Tweets
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“Google’s Chrome browser is now being used by 120 million people on a daily...”
– Chrome Browser, Now Used By 120 Million People, Just Cranked Up Its Speed
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“Foursquare now has 2 million check-ins and 25K new users a day, with the average...”
– Foursquare Hits 2 Million Check-ins, 25K New Users Daily
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“Foursquare has 5 million users, increasing its user base by a factor of 10 in...”
– Foursquare Surpasses 5 Million Users
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“more than 250 million people are using Facebook Connect on third-party sites...”
– Each Month 250 Million People Use Facebook Connect on the Web
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“Where 3D is really exciting is where it brings our inaccessible, buried past to...”
– Under a Medieval Castle and a Neolithic Village, Archaeology Goes 3D
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“what Google is calling “contextual discovery”. This means being able to look at...”
– Marissa Mayer’s Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search
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“re than 300,000 Android phones are activated every day”
– Google Exec: More Than 300K Android Phones Activated Daily
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8% of online Americans use Twitter | Pew Research... →
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“Evernote has 160,000 premium users paying $5 per month…. While less than...”
– Evernote By the Numbers [STATS]
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“The idea came to Vuka Crnjanski when she heard a government official say of a...”
– “Truth-O-Meter” Encourages Accountability in Serbia | NDI
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“MKRISHI, whose name combines “m” for “mobile” and...”
– Tata Consultancy Launches Mobile-Phone Farming - WSJ.com
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“Only 40% of Japanese send text messages, while two-thirds of Americans and 82%...”
– No Text (Messages) Please, We’re Japanese - Japan Real Time - WSJ
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“Almost three out of every four responders (to survey by US Red Cross) said they...”
– 74% of Social Media Users Expect Cries for Help to Be Answered Within an Hour
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“Real-time entertainment dominates data consumption on both mobile and fixed...”
– World Wide, Web Surfing Down as Entertainment, P2P Dominate Global Internet Usage - NYTimes.com
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“In the previous era of the Web, the so-called Web 2.0, RSS Readers and start...”
– How Online Reading Habits Have Changed Over 2010
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“Mercy Corps, through a United States government-financed program, is providing...”
– I’ve Seen the Future (in Haiti) - NYTimes.com
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“In Bangladesh the BBC Janala service, targeted at rural and urban poor, has...”
– Language reaches poor by mobile phone | Education | Guardian Weekly
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“exploring how technology is changing our understanding of the liberal arts. This...”
– Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology - NYTimes.com
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“In 2011 IDC predicts half of the 2.1 billion people who regularly use the...”
– Smartphones and Tablets Will Take Over in 2011, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com
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“Police in China caught the murderers of a three year old girl with the help of...”
– Chinese microbloggers helped in the capture of girl’s murderers | Shenzhen Standard
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“EA’s most popular game, Pet Society, has 20 million users, nearly double...”
– “Pet Society” Sells 90 Million Virtual Goods Per Day
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“Here’s a sound bite I can sign up for, from Simon Phipps: “Wikileaks is like...”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · WikiLeaks
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“(From ~8min in): Tippex Shoot the Bear campaign on YouTube had 43m words typed...”
– Internet Advertising Bureau UK: trade association for the internet marketing industry
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“Economics tells us that the right thing to do is run the factory until the last...”
– Seth’s Blog: The inevitable decline due to clutter
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“a new site offers to help find a custom-builder for virtually any product a...”
– Connecting consumers with makers of custom goods - Springwise 