April 2010
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Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline |... →
Apr 30th
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“Android currently runs on 9 percent of smartphones in the United States,...”
– Google’s Andy Rubin on Everything Android - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Apr 29th
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“There are people who ride technology for as long as it can be ridden without...”
– BBC News - The mystery of the mega-selling floppy disk
Apr 29th
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“Chávez opened a Twitter account yesterday, using the tag “cadanga”,...”
– Hugo Chávez embraces Twitter to fight online ‘conspiracy’ | World news | guardian.co.uk
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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“the number of noncash transactions in the United States grew from fewer than 250...”
– Cellphone Payments Offer Alternative to Cash - NYTimes.com
Apr 29th
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OECD Broadband Portal →
includes stats for each country about broadband subscribers, and broadband access per population, etc. 
Apr 29th
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“Copying, he points out, can be catastrophic — the history of market bubbles is...”
– The Imitation Economy - The Boston Globe
Apr 29th
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“In a provocative new paper from the journal Science, a team of researchers...”
– The Imitation Economy - The Boston Globe
Apr 29th
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“Shenkar traces our innovation fetish back to the late 18th century. Before that...”
– The Imitation Economy - The Boston Globe
Apr 29th
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“invaluable though innovation may be, our relentless focus on it may be obscuring...”
– The Imitation Economy - The Boston Globe
Apr 29th
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“a week after f8, 50,000 websites now feature the Like button and the other new...”
– 50,000 Websites Have Already Integrated Facebook’s New Social Plugins
Apr 29th
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“Verbatim, a UK manufacturer which makes more than a quarter of the floppies sold...”
– BBC News - The mystery of the mega-selling floppy disk
Apr 28th
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“Fake anti-virus software that infect PCs with malicious code are a growing...”
– BBC News - Google warning on fake anti-virus software
Apr 28th
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“The International Monetary Fund raised its 2010 world growth forecast to 4.2...”
– Business finance news - currency market news - online UK currency markets - financial news - Interactive Investor
Apr 28th
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Great article about use of mobiles in local... →
Includes lots about Kiwanja’s FrontlineSMS…   Now used in > 50 countries; over 5k downloads by users looking to create SMS ventures.
Apr 28th
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“In Africa, urban churches record sermons with cellphones, then transmit them to...”
– Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com
Apr 28th
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“Plastic cards have become the reigning instruments of payment in the West, but...”
– Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com
Apr 28th
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“Babajob, in Bangalore, India, and Souktel, in the Palestinian territories, offer...”
– Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com
Apr 28th
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“The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion...”
– Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com
Apr 28th
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“From Brazil to India to South Korea and even Afghanistan, people are seeking...”
– Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com
Apr 28th
ONE DROP Foundation →
25k people in Honduras and Nicaragua are getting better access to clean water thanks to One Drop; other projects soon to start in El Salvador and Haiti
Apr 28th
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Kiva - Facts & History →
Latest Kiva stats: (checked today): >700k Kiva users from 196 countries have loaned >$130bn to 340k entrepreneurs
Apr 28th
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“The days of the 3.5-inch floppy disk are now officially numbered. Sony, which...”
– Sony delivers floppy disk’s last rites | Business Tech - CNET News
Apr 28th
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“Western European region added an impressive 13.4 million new broadband...”
– Western Europe Broadband Forecast: 1H2009
Apr 27th
“In a column for the Daily Mail, BT chief exec Ian Livingston has stated that the...”
– Fibre optic broadband ‘will flourish in 2010’
Apr 27th
“Motorola plan to launch 20 new smartphones in 2010, the majority Android based. ...”
– Motorola, Inc. - Investor Relations
Apr 27th
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“According to AdMob, Motorola Droid was the leading Android handset in March 2010...”
– AdMob Report: One Third Of Android Phones Account For 96 Percent Of Traffic, Motorola Droid Takes The Lead
Apr 27th
“@mattmiesnieks from Layar speaking. now creating #ar ecosystem, dev network....”
– Brian Blau (legba42) on Twitter
Apr 27th
“We are very proud of the great number of 41 new layers which have been launched...”
– Blog – Augmented Reality Browser: Layar
Apr 27th
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“We try very hard to be upfront about the data we collect, and how we use it,”...”
– Word War III: Google vs. Governments | Epicenter | Wired.com
Apr 26th
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“Sophisticated spammers are paying people in India, Bangladesh, China and other...”
– Spammers Paying Others to Solve Captchas - NYTimes.com
Apr 26th
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“Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck...”
– McAfee antivirus program goes berserk, freezes PCs - San Jose Mercury News
Apr 24th
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BBC News - Facebook shut its Lite site after just... →
Apr 21st
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Easter egg hunt in supermarket App(ie) « Amsterdam... →
I love this concept.  :-)
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
ALL THE →
cute way of illustrating all the different banner formats
Apr 20th
“We sold more than a million copies of Heavy Rain worldwide,” Cage said....”
– Heavy Rain Sales Top One Million Worldwide - PlayStation 3 News at IGN
Apr 20th
“(Unlike other games) Heavy Rain embeds moments of moral decision deeper inside...”
– Heavy Rain - the future of interactive drama? / Controller Throw / Contagious Magazine
Apr 20th
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“Now the SXSW dust has settled, Foursquare are claiming over 600,000 users - with...”
– Location app wars / / Contagious Magazine
Apr 20th
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“Imagine signing in to your online-banking account and finding promotions linked...”
– Cardlytics’ New Ad Medium: Online Bank Statements - Advertising Age - News
Apr 20th
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“study of more than 800,000 Facebook users and ads from 14 brands in a variety of...”
– Nielsen: Facebook’s Ads Work Pretty Well - Advertising Age - Digital
Apr 20th
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FarmVille's Newest Money-Maker: Brand-Sponsored... →
Apr 20th
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“Micro-blogging service Twitter can be used to predict the future box-office...”
– BBC News - Twitter used to predict box office hits
Apr 20th
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“In the 1970s, libraries nationwide saw a spike in interest after the...”
– Why NBC Universal shows, from “30 Rock” to “Top Chef,” are sending viewers signals to recycle, exercise and eat right. - WSJ.com
Apr 20th
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“In just one week on NBC, the detectives on “Law and Order”...”
– Why NBC Universal shows, from “30 Rock” to “Top Chef,” are sending viewers signals to recycle, exercise and eat right. - WSJ.com
Apr 20th
11 Funny Graphs About Twitter - 11Points.com →
Apr 20th
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“two-thirds of the Fortune 100 have at least one Twitter account. Actually, they...”
– Social Media Trends at Fortune 100 Companies [STATS]
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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“Easyjet has recently launched an Holiday Planner within its Facebook fan page....”
– Adverblog: Easyjet, ecommerce and Facebook
Apr 20th