May 2010
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“The World Bank estimates that one-third of the world’s adult population...”
– The smoking toddler: Who’s to blame? - YouTube - Salon.com
May 31st
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“nearly all technologies are combinations of other technologies and new ideas...”
– Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed - WSJ.com
May 30th
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“the sophistication of the modern world lies not in individual intelligence or...”
– Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed - WSJ.com
May 30th
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“We’ve gone through a period where everyone downloaded everything for...”
– BBC News - Sir Mick Jagger goes back to Exile
May 30th
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“the financial technology at banks and most corporate treasuries tends to be an...”
– Google’s Latest Launch: Its Own Trading Floor - BusinessWeek
May 30th
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“Two billion video streams on YouTube - it’s a large number but on average...”
– BBC News - YouTube at five- 2 bn views a day
May 26th
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“The (fabulous personalised) campaign was one of the most successful online...”
– Radiotjänst: “Hero” viral (Brief Case Study) | Chris Rawlinson
May 26th
“(Pizza Hut iphone app is) directly responsible for “millions of dollars in...”
– StorefrontBacktalk » Blog Archive » Pizza Hut CIO Proving The Unprovable: Mobile ROI
May 25th
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“More than 90% of books in Europe’s national libraries are no longer...”
– EUROPA - Press Releases - Viviane Reding EU Commissioner for Telecoms and Media Digital Europe – Europe’s Fast Track to Economic Recovery The Ludwig Erhard Lecture 2009 Lisbon Council, Brussels, 9 July 2009
May 25th
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European Digital Competitiveness report →
includes comparison of internet use across select countries
May 25th
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Country profiles - stats from EU digital agenda... →
May 25th
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“In 2009, 37 % of Europeans aged 16-74 ordered goods or services for private...”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“In 2009, only 38% of EU citizens used the internet for accessing eGovernment...”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“150 million Europeans – some 30% - have never used the internet. Often they say...”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“Europe continues to under-invest in ICT related research and development....”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“in recent years, spam emails have grown to the point of heavily congesting...”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“Less than one in ten eCommerce transactions are cross-border, and Europeans...”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“Europe is lagging behind its industrial partners. Today there are four times as...”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“The ICT sector is directly responsible for 5% of European GDP, with a market...”
– via Digital Agenda (full text)
May 25th
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“Even a small slowdown in Web performance can have large consequences. Google...”
– For Google, faster is better, more profitable - The Boston Globe
May 25th
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“At Intercontinental Hotel Group, a British company that owns Holiday Inn, Google...”
– For Google, faster is better, more profitable - The Boston Globe
May 25th
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“AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense...”
– Inside AdSense: The AdSense revenue share
May 25th
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“5.5 billion videos were viewed online in the U.K. in February 2010, up 37...”
– U.K. Online Video Viewing Up 37 Percent During Past Year - comScore, Inc
May 24th
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“Smartphone adoption in the EU5 (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown...”
– UK Leads European Countries in Smartphone Adoption with 70% Growth in Past 12 Months - comScore, Inc
May 24th
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“50.8 percent of the total online population in the Asia-Pacific region visited a...”
– Social Networking Habits Vary Considerably Across Asia-Pacific Markets - comScore, Inc
May 24th
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“total worldwide search market boasted more than 131 billion searches conducted...”
– comScore Reports Global Search Market Growth of 46 Percent in 2009 - comScore, Inc
May 24th
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“I understand the IT person’s position: “I was hired to protect the...”
– From the Desk of David Pogue - Online, How Much Security Is Too Much? - NYTimes.com
May 24th
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“If you are looking at your profile page and you click on an ad, you are telling...”
– Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
May 24th
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“Can monopolies exist online, when competition is only a click away? What...”
– Regulators Are Watching Google Over Antitrust Concerns - NYTimes.com
May 24th
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“Latitude, Google’s location-based service, has 3 million active users — and some...”
– Google Latitude Has 3 Million Active Users, Check-Ins Likely On The Way
May 20th
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“The Web is the most important platform of our generation,” said Vic Gundotra,...”
– Google Pitches a Web-Centric Future - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
May 20th
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“Prizes have been around for three centuries, dating back to 1714 when the...”
– Can Offering Prizes for Innovative Solutions Save the Gulf? | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
May 20th
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“25-year-old Gong Xiawei is the founder of “The Eye of God,” the...”
– EastSouthWestNorth: Daily Brief Comments, May 11-20, 2010
May 20th
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“Hotmail Highlights, breaks out your messages according to where they’re coming...”
– Meet The New Hotmail: Sleeker & Faster, With Some Powerful Weapons Against Inbox Overload
May 20th
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“Data are becoming the new raw material of business: an economic input almost on...”
– A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist
May 14th
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Get your dream job - through Google Ads | Media |... →
May 14th
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“The Incumbent’s Curse works like a neurotransmitter disease: it starts slowly,...”
– The Incumbent’s Curse: HP | Monday Note
May 14th
“The 9100A is expensive; in 1968, $5,000 is a lot of money ($31,000 in today’s...”
– The Incumbent’s Curse: HP | Monday Note
May 14th
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“on Christmas Eve afternoon in 1964 the calculator was totally functional. I...”
– Osborne’s Story
May 14th
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“Location-based social network Foursquare counted its 40 millionth checkin a...”
– Foursquare Exceeds 40 Million Checkins
May 12th
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“In the U.S., mobile advertising accounted for $416 million in spending in 2009 —...”
– Are Mobile Ads the Next Big Thing? Maybe Not - Digits - WSJ
May 12th
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“(In April GfK reported) that almost one in five smartphones now sold in the UK...”
– iPhone overtaken by Android in the US | Technology | The Guardian
May 12th
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“I asked everyone I interviewed to predict which organizations would be providing...”
– The Atlantic :: Magazine :: How to Save the News
May 12th
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“an accumulation of small steps can together make a surprisingly large...”
– The Atlantic :: Magazine :: How to Save the News
May 12th
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“a faddishness of coverage—when Michael Jackson dies, other things cease to...”
– The Atlantic :: Magazine :: How to Save the News
May 12th
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“The typical newspaper costs much more to print and deliver than a subscriber...”
– The Atlantic :: Magazine :: How to Save the News
May 12th
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“Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business. Few people know how...”
– The Atlantic :: Magazine :: How to Save the News
May 12th
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“Microsoft’s translating telephone uses a combination of speech recognition...”
– Hands-on with Microsoft’s translating telephone | Beyond Binary - CNET News
May 12th
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“A few months back, four geeky college students… decided to build a social...”
– About New York - Creating a Network Like Facebook, Only Private - NYTimes.com
May 12th
“how a German metal band destroyed Twitter, sort of”
– The Real Story Behind Twitter’s Ridiculous Follow Bug - Twitter bug - Gizmodo
May 12th