March 2011
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“there are 3X as many smartphones being activated every minute around the world...”
– Smart Phones & Devices Now Growing 3X As Fast as Babies Are Born [Stats]
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“click it any time nytimes.com blocks you on a page. It does nothing on any other...”
– Work around New York Times 20 article limit
(I’m not sure I’ll hit the 20 article limit regularly but this is a handy tool to have as a backup, and easier than trawling that twitter feed. $15 is a lot to pay if it’s just the odd 1 or 2 articles that I’d go over. $5 aka cup...
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“Copyright is proving to be an obstacle to creating new digital businesses even...”
– What The Collapse Of The Google Books Deal Really Means | paidContent
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“This month — and for the first time — Facebook started to mine...”
– Facebook Test Mines Real-Time Conversations for Ad Targeting | Digital - Advertising Age
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“Bringing together seed capital, Google mentorship, ‘Angel’ investors, local tech...”
– Official Google Africa Blog: Got a great idea for our first African tech incubator?
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“Page has little patience for the bureaucracy that most large companies require....”
– Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots | Magazine
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“To Page, the only true failure is not attempting the audacious. “Even if you...”
– Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots | Magazine
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“to most, Page is just one of the seemingly interchangeable pair of wacky “Google...”
– Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots | Magazine
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“the Minister of Education for the African country of Zambia, and the...”
– Read Write Web
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“Today, when we enter a room, we automatically look for the light switch, since...”
– What happens when computers stop shrinking? - Computers - Salon.com
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“when you receive a birthday card in the mail, it often has a chip that sings...”
– What happens when computers stop shrinking? - Computers - Salon.com
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“The top minority languages on Twitter are currently Haitian creole, Basque and...”
– Using Twitter to Preserve Minority Languages
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“Brewster Kahle, a U.S. computer engineer who in the late 1980s invented the Wide...”
– In 1995 “You could actually wrap your arms around the Web.” - techtoch’s posterous
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“Text content is still predominant among senior execs: Only 22% say they’re...”
– Rippling Media » Online Video is Becoming a Key Source for Business Information
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“a recent Forbes survey showing that 59% of senior executives prefer to watch...”
– Senior executives prefer video as a way to get their information from the Web - techtoch’s posterous
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“The idea is that, if you’re online and in the air… you can access...”
– stamen design | Mondo WIndow: what you’re looking at out your airplane window
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“Gadget accessories manufacturer M-Edge unveiled a new web app Wednesday that...”
– HOW TO: Design Your Own iPad, Kindle or Nook Cover
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“In November 2010 Google launched Google Hotpot. There are now 3 million ratings...”
– Marissa Mayer: 40% Of Google Maps Usage Is Mobile (And There Are 150 Million Mobile Users)
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“While programming began five years ago, it wasn’t until eight days later, on...”
– 5 Years Later, Jack Dorsey Tweets About Twitter’s Beginning
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“(In 2010) Blogger users published more than half a billion blog posts, which...”
– Blogger Buzz: What’s New With Blogger
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“when everyone knows everything you’ve done online, you’re a lot more worried...”
– 4chan founder: Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity | VentureBeat
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“That audaciousness — the ambition to tackle a seemingly unsolvable problem...”
– Google: The Quest
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“Expect Page to launch even more initiatives that may seem futile when considered...”
– Google: The Quest
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“A related danger of the merging of online and offline life, says business...”
– SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian
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“the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students...”
– SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian
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“Videogame designers, the logic goes, have become the modern world’s...”
– SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian
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“Big ideas are like locomotives,” says Tim O’Reilly, a computer book...”
– SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian
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“it could be that everyone is looking in the wrong place and the real innovation...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“The media talk is about smartphones, because African coverage of technology is...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“There are over 100 African languages with 1m or more speakers… some of the...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“Shujaaz, a comic read by about half the children in Kenya. It is among the first...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“Big Brother Africa”, a television reality show, for instance, had 100,000...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“A characteristic of Facebook in Africa, so far, is the way acquaintances from...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“Globally, there are 94 web domains per 10,000 people. In Africa, it’s 1 per...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“[Facebook] was zero-rated in 2010—that is, made almost free of data charges in...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“There are already 84m internet-enabled mobiles in Africa. It is predicted that...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“In 2000 Kenya’s largest mobile-phone operator, Safaricom, had 20,000 customers....”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“EASSY and other fibre-optic cables are freeing Africa from the costs and...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“There are a billion Africans, and they use only 4% of the world’s electricity....”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“According to a recent intelligence estimate by a defence contractor, 24% of...”
– DIGITAL AFRICA | More Intelligent Life
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“this crisis has shown the role that Google plays in our lives: the smart,...”
– Five Things I Am Learning from #JapanQuake, #tsunami, #prayforjapan - DNAinfo.com
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“THIS IS THE MOST DOCUMENTED EVENT IN HISTORY: As we know, most Japanese have...”
– Five Things I Am Learning from #JapanQuake, #tsunami, #prayforjapan - DNAinfo.com
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“Berners-Lee told the meeting that “every customer should be able to access...”
– Berners-Lee warns ISPs on net neutrality | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day from the first Tweet to get to the billionth...”
– New Twitter Stats: 140M Tweets Sent Per Day, 460K Accounts Created Per Day
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“The Wall Street Journal has added 200,000 paying subscribers via tablets such as...”
– Wall Street Journal claims 200,000 tablet subscribers | Media | guardian.co.uk
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“Some of our products should be features, like Latitude and Google Hotpot,”...”
– Google’s Marissa Mayer on the location-based ‘fast, fun and future’ | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“About 40% of Google Maps usage is mobile, according to Mayer, with 150 million...”
– Google’s Marissa Mayer on the location-based ‘fast, fun and future’ | Technology | guardian.co.uk 