February 2011
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“a publisher on the private Reading2.0 mailing list has said, to effect: there is...”
– The Very Rich Indie Writer – Novelr - Making People Read
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“The book, about making a profit in publishing, scarcely qualifies as a literary...”
– Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins - NYTimes.com
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“police and the Anaheim Union High School District are turning to GPS tracking to...”
– Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS - Slashdot
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“Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But...”
– Official Google Blog: Finding more high-quality sites in search
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“Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product...”
– A VC: Marketing
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“With 34 million users in 150 countries and one in two British children having...”
– The Moshi Monsters have escaped from the computer. Be afraid – very afraid | Media | The Guardian
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“Microsoft has taken an unusual step. It has relaxed a strict rule and will let...”
– Microsoft’s Effort to Build Apps and Reward Engineers - NYTimes.com
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“Google, Facebook, and Twitter are all confronting the kind of moral and...”
– Google, Twitter, Facebook, and the Arab revolt: What the uprising in the Middle East reveals about the corporate values of the world’s key tech companies. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
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“I’ve seen 9 mobile platforms in 9 years (PalmOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Java,...”
– Calling the end of innovation in mobile computers | asymco
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Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office →
So I got quite excited about this… and then sad when I learned it wasn’t for Mac :-(
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“People turn out to be sensitive to the slightest delays. An internal study...”
– The Slow-Motion Internet - Technology Review
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“Internet time is as much about having a short memory as speed of evolution”
– Lessons for dot.coms from class of 2004 - Business Analysis & Features, Business - The Independent
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“In 2004, the only social networking site to make the list was Friends Reunited....”
– Lessons for dot.coms from class of 2004 - Business Analysis & Features, Business - The Independent
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“About one percent of the queries on Google are for recipes”
– Google Recipe Search Cooks Up Next Gen of Search | Epicenter | Wired.com
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“As I leave my post as world affairs correspondent for the BBC News website, I...”
– BBC News - A glimpse of journalism’s future
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“A whopping 99% of the internet traffic in Kenya is done via mobile operators,...”
– Kenya’s Mobile & Internet, by the Numbers (Q4 2010) — WhiteAfrican
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“Mr. Slomovitz, a music industry veteran, spends his days tracking down hot new...”
– Shazam’s Search for Songs Creates New Music Jobs - NYTimes.com
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Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices & Challenges... →
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“Ghonim has started a Google Moderator page for Egypt.
Entitled, “Egypt...”
– Protesters Use Google Moderator to Brainstorm Egypt’s Future
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“Metaio’s demo shows how augmented reality can be used to recognise objects and...”
– Think Augmented Reality is just a gimmick? Watch this. [Video]
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“A new project that sells individual stories is also hoping that readers’...”
– MediaShift . How the Kindle Made Single-Story Sales a Reality for Magazines | PBS
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“Following up their creation of an exact replica of King Tut’s mummy,...”
– Using 3D Printing to Repair Rodin’s Thinker
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“[Instapaper] acts like a TiVo for words (I love this analogy)”
– Will ‘TiVos for Reading’ Save Old Media? - BusinessWeek
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“500+ million users, 1 in every 13 people on Earth logs into Facebook each day”
– Levchin and Gurley Say That Next Big Company Will Capture The Interest Graph
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“Nearly half of all internet users in Spain use services that distribute music...”
– Piracy in Spain: Ending the open season on artists | The Economist
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“Moshi Monsters… virtual world for kids that is signing up a new member...”
– Moshi Monsters Aims To Become The Facebook for Kids (TCTV)
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“the service works with your Gmail credentials. You login and it begins indexing...”
– Attachments.me Puts A Visual, Social Spin On Email Attachment Search
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“Just as factory jobs were eliminated in the 20th century by new assembly-line...”
– Watson Jeopardy! computer: Ken Jennings describes what it’s like to play against a machine. - By Ken Jennings - Slate Magazine
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“Watson has lots in common with a top-ranked human Jeopardy! player: It’s...”
– Watson Jeopardy! computer: Ken Jennings describes what it’s like to play against a machine. - By Ken Jennings - Slate Magazine
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“Websites like Things Organized Neatly and Collection A Day have come to replace...”
– PSFK » How Digital Presentations Are Replacing Physical Collections
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“Robh was the Art Director on the massive PS3 hit Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. In...”
– Official Google SketchUp Blog: The art and design of Uncharted 2
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“what blew the journalists in the room away, was an idea for a new editorial...”
– Guardian Hacks SXSW: Beyond words, a judge’s view | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“So we’ve struck gold, and we mean Android gold, finding the actual Google...”
– Limited edition Android pin badges: 86 to collect! - Pocket-lint
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WatchA Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals (by clement valla) …. Best visual illustration I’ve come across of “chinese whispers” and how something gets distorted in the retelling
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“Two upcoming Android devices from INQ, the Cloud Touch and Cloud Q, feature new...”
– A Better Mobile Experience (1)
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“when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share;...”
– A Round-Up of Reactions: Apple’s Greedy, Anti-Competitive, Evil, Brilliant Announcement
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“Several cities have developed apps that allow citizens to report things like...”
– Boston’s ‘Street Bump’ App Tries To Automatically Map Potholes With Accelerometers and GPS | Popular Science
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“The Laugh & Learn Baby iCan Play Case is a fun and colorful way to let...”
– Fisher Price Introduces Toddler Ready iPhone/iPod Case | PadGadget
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“latest stats from Foursquare: 6,500,000 users, 2 million checkins per day,...”
– Foursquare Gets Translated into 5 New Languages Mashable | The Social Media Guide Foursquare Gets Translated into 5 New Languages | The Social Media Guide
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“log in to Skype at over 200,000 WiFi hotspot locations worldwide and connect for...”
– Skype wifi Access - Skype
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“The Heat MWC app from Google is a new real time heat map. Follow where people go...”
– Heat MWC from Google
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“On Wednesday evening, Google began what it calls a “manual action” against...”
– Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets - NYTimes.com
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“when thousands of documents are dumped online without context or explanation,...”
– The Guardian’s Wikileaks Book Is This Generation’s “All The President’s Men”
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