July 2010
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“We flatter ourselves with endless talk about living at the “cutting...”
– Technology fetishism is skin deep | Guy Dammann | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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“half of all users on Facebook now play social games. More impressively, 40% of...”
– Half Of All Facebook Users Play Social Games — It’s 40% Of Total Usage Time
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“Before leaving, reporters from the three outlets sat down and divvied up some...”
– The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs : CJR
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“WikiLeaks was soaking, drowning in data,” Clay Shirky, the author of Cognitive...”
– How WikiLeaks Outsourced the Burden of Verification : CJR
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“If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere...”
– The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com
“The sunrise observed in a puddle”
– Aphorisms by Anna Kamienska > All Aphorisms, All the Time
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“In Cisco’s Mid-Year Security Report, the company cites research finding...”
– To Block or Not to Block Facebook and Social Media in the Workplace
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“Fifty Omo boxes implanted with GPS devices have been scattered around Brazil,...”
– Marketing: Omo Detergent Uses GPS to Follow Consumers - Global News - Advertising Age
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“the Internet, with its unparalleled ability to connect people throughout the...”
– Learning a Language From an Expert on the Web - NYTimes.com
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“before launching Flipboard, he made his engineers hook up double the amount of...”
– Flipboard CEO Mike McCue
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“I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12...”
– Amazon: E-books Will Overtake Paperbacks by the End of 2011
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“The American Museum of Natural History today unveiled the American Museum of...”
– Navigate the American Museum of Natural History with New iPhone and iPad Apps
“it is Russia’s self-destructive streak that has turned testing weather into a...”
– Russia’s heatwave: A hazy shade of summer | The Economist
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“mobile ads that offer a location generally see an average 8 percent increase in...”
– Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads
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“Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android...”
– Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads
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“humans generated more data in 2009 than in the previous 5,000 years combined,...”
– A Sensor In Every Chicken: Cisco Bets on the Internet of Things
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“There are already about 35 billion devices connected to the Internet, Evans...”
– A Sensor In Every Chicken: Cisco Bets on the Internet of Things
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“Just as Google Maps made it easy for any developer to add a map and display...”
– Google Places API Could Do For Check-ins What Google Maps Did For Maps
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“Google is very good at building these utility-type products — search,...”
– Google: The search party is over - Fortune Tech
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“There is no need to do a search,” McCue says. “We almost view it as...”
– Google: The search party is over - Fortune Tech
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“Consider the case of American graduate student James Buck. Egyptian police...”
– Google: The search party is over - Fortune Tech
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“Five years ago you would have simply Googled it, looked at the list of results,...”
– Google: The search party is over - Fortune Tech
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“eventually the books could regularly feature full-length movies and photo...”
– Multimedia E-Books, Adorned With Video Extras - NYTimes.com
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“A new graphical tool from Compuware, CloudSleuth, has arrived, in beta form, to...”
– How Fast Can a Cloud Run? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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“even after it provided the documents to the media outlets, WikiLeaks still...”
– Is WikiLeaks More Than Just a High-Tech Brown Envelope? Yes
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OpenHeatMap: Custom Heat Maps for Geo Data →
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TextArrest stops the kiddies from texting while... →
this seems pretty cool… it uses phone accelerometer to block texts from coming in when travelling above a certain speed, and you can set it to send an automatic reply when in a certain region
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BigOven Blog: Mechanical Turk can be Magical →
great example of using this
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“Last month Amazon sold nearly twice as many Kindle books as it did hardcover...”
– Why the iPad Hasn’t Killed Kindle - Newsweek
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“Forrester Research, a market-analysis firm, reckons Amazon will sell 3.5 million...”
– Why the iPad Hasn’t Killed Kindle - Newsweek
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“Ozcan has built a prototype whose cell phone camera sensor can detect a...”
– How your cell phone can diagnose disease | Health Tech - CNET News
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“Apple said last week that more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100 companies were...”
– Reuters BreakingViews - BlackBerry’s Era May Be Ending - NYTimes.com
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“Most people think Facebook would have been a phenomenon without games,” says Mr....”
– Will Zynga Become the Google of Games? - NYTimes.com
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“I have a very high-stress life,” says Alena Meeker, 32, a financial analyst at a...”
– Will Zynga Become the Google of Games? - NYTimes.com
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“While Facebook needed four and a half years to reach 100 million users, Zynga...”
– Will Zynga Become the Google of Games? - NYTimes.com
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“Editors watch Google to see which search terms are hot at any moment, then craft...”
– Has Arianna Huffington Figured Out the Future? - Newsweek
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“Is free satnav really good enough to keep pace with the paid-for software? Our...”
– Satnav challenge: the final verdict | Analysis | Features | PC Pro
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“India has come up with a 35-dollar touch-screen “laptop” — a...”
– India develops 35-dollar ‘laptop’ for schools
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Where Facebook's half a billion users reside -... →
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Digital Stats: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has... →
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“(From April 2010): This horse has generated $2 million in a little over 4 hours...”
– Digital Stats: World of Warcraft generated $2m in 4 hours from the sale of Celestial Steed ‘pets’ to players
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“Next week, FarmVille will, for the first time, offer its pretend farmers a...”
– Advertising - For FarmVille, a Crop From a Real Organic Farm - NYTimes.com
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“internet orders will account for almost 5% of the British grocery market this...”
– Online grocers: Keep on trucking | The Economist
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“Over time, the emergence of digital media has repeatedly altered the unit of...”
– Comments to FTC 20 July 2010
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“Google indexes more than 50,000 sources in dozens of languages from around the...”
– Comments to FTC 20 July 2010
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“In 1922 at the onset of the great Newspaper-Radio War, the same arguments and...”
– Comments to FTC 20 July 2010 