April 2011
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“the idea that app companies are eavesdropping on private moments creeps...”
– Snooping: It’s not a crime, it’s a feature OK, the only one of these that does freak me a little bit is Color - since I had no idea they were activating the microphone on my phone. Hmmm.
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“IntoNow has roughly 600,000 users and typically sees 25,000 to 35,000 tags per...”
– Tag a TV Ad, Get a Free Pepsi
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“Just 12 weeks post launch, IntoNow, makers of an iPhone app that “listens to”...”
– Yahoo Acquires TV-Tagging Startup IntoNow for $20M to $30M
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“the company claims more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Dropbox, either...”
– Dropbox: 25 million users and counting - Fortune Tech
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“since January 2010, [Dropbox] has exploded, from [users growing from] 4 million...”
– Dropbox: 25 million users and counting - Fortune Tech
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“Today, Google says mobile searches are growing as quickly as Web searches were...”
– Google, Already Dominant in Mobile Search, Isn’t Resting - NYTimes.com
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“It’s the right thing to do” cuts both ways. Customers who have...”
– In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your...”
– Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves - O’Reilly Radar - I’m actually kind of bummed I can’t see this data for myself. I tried downloading the viewer app the article references, but it says it doesn’t work with my version of OSX. I’d love to be able...
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“Amazon today announced Kindle Library Lending, a new feature launching later...”
– Amazon Media Room: News Release
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“News.me is a newsfeed that uses artificial intelligence to monitor what people...”
– News.Me, Social News Service, Debuts for iPad - NYTimes.com - Excellent, this uses Readability’s model for dolling out a share of revenue based on readership. Much fairer than the old way. I think I will actually subscribe and try this…
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Watch(via Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com)
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“The concept of The Stream is actually a web community that has its on daily...”
– Al Jazeera’s Social Media Experiment “The Stream” Launches Online Today | Fast Company
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“Eisler, who has been a NY Times Best Selling author of a variety of thrillers,...”
– Best Selling Author Turns Down Half A Million Dollar Publishing Contract To Self-Publish | Techdirt
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“the music industry is economically quite small and unimportant compared to the...”
– open…: Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry
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“During awards shows such as the Oscars and Grammys, Twitter has seen viewers...”
– Is Social Media Killing TV? | Digital - Advertising Age
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“Eric Schmidt was much more than Google’s front man; as Google’s peacetime Chief...”
– Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO // ben’s blog
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“Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette noted that Chrome was being heavily...”
– Google Is A Bit Unpolished When It Comes To Chrome
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Digital Stats: The average Spotify listener... →
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“Somebody once told me that a newspaper is like a high-minded lecture series held...”
– No Bob Woodward, Google Did Not Kill Newspapers - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic
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“Animated GIFs are celebrated on the Internet because they’re tacky and...”
– Highbrow Animated GIFs Starring Supermodel Coco Rocha - Rebecca Greenfield - Technology - The Atlantic
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The World's Largest Collection of Historic Water... →
I don’t know why this intrigues me but it does. So bonkers that such a collection even exists, but cool in a strange way too.
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“Ever wanted to get more information about a TV show, film or advert on TV? Of...”
– TVTak is like Shazam for TV (initially for France, Israel)
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7 Things "Dexter" Taught Me About the Future of TV →
refreshingly fresh way of recapping the points here
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“The same people who never question why someone would sit on a couch and watch TV...”
– Arianna Huffington: About That Lawsuit…
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“mainstream mass media broke an ancient (and by ancient, I mean as old as...”
– NYT Paywall, Huffpo Lawsuit – Symptoms of the same misconception | Chris Saad
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“people have historically paid for the medium not the content.
They pay for...”
– NYT Paywall, Huffpo Lawsuit – Symptoms of the same misconception | Chris Saad
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“Called Team LifeLens, the students from universities across the country...”
– U.S. grad students create app to diagnose malaria | Health Tech - CNET News
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“[In Afghanistan] the Interior Ministry says a pilot project to pay police via...”
– Afghan Police Paid by Phone to Cut Graft in Anti-Taliban War - Bloomberg
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“Gareth Lloyd scraped all geotagged Wikipedia articles with time attached to...”
– History of the world in 100 seconds, according to Wikipedia
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“35,000 #TrumpRoast Tweets during the 90-minute roast. That’s an average of 6.5...”
– The #TrumpRoast record – Twitter Media
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“UK Armed Forces are developing a line of solar-powered uniforms capable of...”
– textually.org: Solar Powered Clothing: The Future of Mobile Charging, 2 Years Out?
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“The Global Heritage Fund has recently launched an early warning and threat...”
– The Global Heritage Network | Google Earth Blog
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“Auchan Drive turns out to be satisfyingly French in that it’s absurdly...”
– Profile Of A Typical Family In France - PSFK - brilliant! a way that internet shopping can work even in rural areas. OK, it’s not so great as having them deliver it to your door, but at least it saves you traipsing round the actual shop
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WatchBlödes Orchester (by white tube) - “arranged like a symphony orchestra, 200 antique vacuums mixers and washers are transformed into musical instruments”
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“The world’s roughly 27 million computer servers processed 9.57 zettabytes...”
– Business information consumption: 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes per year
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“In 1999, there were twice as many fixed telephone lines as mobile telephone...”
– 1999: Twice as many fixed-line phones as mobile phones; 2011: 18% of the world has fixed line phones, 67% has mobile phones - techtoch’s posterous
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“When farmers buy seeds, fertilizers, or other agro-chemicals—even in small...”
– Latest insane use of mobile phones in remote agricultural communities: buying crop insurance, getting payouts - techtoch’s posterous
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“Consider what communicating in France must have been like 35 years ago, in 1970,...”
– The past is another country: in 1970, France had only 8 phones per 100 people - techtoch’s posterous
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“In 2009, in the EU27, 1.5 million people worked as writers or artists,...”
– Eurostat press release
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“Cultural goods account for a larger share of EU exports than imports. In 2010,...”
– Eurostat press release
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10 Vintage Visions of the Future [VIDEOS] →
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“data from the dives will be captured and added to Google Earth. Details...”
– Diving deep with Richard Branson | Google Earth Blog
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“ReadSocial has developed a proof-of-concept project that uses Google Books and...”
– Long Live Marginalia! ReadSocial Brings Annotations to Digital Literature
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“A really good news application/interactive story/editorial search engine should...”
– Jonathan Stray » The editorial search engine 