May 2011
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“It’s estimated that between 80 to 90% of all silent films, as well as a...”
– Crowdsourcing Project Will Help Identify and Recover Lost Films
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Watch(via Facebook Gets Roasted By Google, Twitter & Foursquare [VIDEO])
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“McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education are among the investors in the San...”
– Textbooks Go the iTunes Route, but Buying by Chapters May Not Save Students Money - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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“common turns of phrase, dissected and reassembled through cognitive linguistics,...”
– Why Are Spy Researchers Building a ‘Metaphor Program’? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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“According to the latest research (by Eurobarometer), over half of all European...”
– Poorly Translated Web Content Alienates European Internet Users
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“Chrome has rocketed through eleven versions in two and a half years”
– Coding Horror: The Infinite Version
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“Google Maps for mobile has now surpassed 200 million installs. And those are...”
– Google Maps For Mobile Crosses 200 Million Installs; In June It Will Surpass Desktop Usage
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“There are at least 61 publications currently active on Tumblr, including big...”
– Magazine Editors Are 100% Sure Tumblrs Are Driving Subscriptions, But They Can’t Prove It
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“Already, they have seen the system exhibit unexpected “intelligence”...”
– Hands-Off Training: Google’s Self-Driving Car Holds Tantalizing Promise, but Major Roadblocks Remain: Scientific American
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“John Leonard, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical and ocean...”
– Hands-Off Training: Google’s Self-Driving Car Holds Tantalizing Promise, but Major Roadblocks Remain: Scientific American
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The EU’s Eurostat database is great but also frustrating as I find I get lost in it. It is worth persevering though as you can unearth some great stats. Eg:
— around 80% of UK enterprises have a web presence - aka a website or homepage (database code: isoc_ci_cd_e) The actual figure is 79% but it’s for 2009 so 80% is a reasonable ballpark for now.
— 15% of UK...
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“60% of all respondents indicated that they expect to have an email response to a...”
– Consumer expectations: how slow is too slow for online support? - Spoken Communications
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“Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk …late last year launched a website and...”
– Drug Makers Replace Reps With Digital Tools - WSJ.com
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“Volkswagen UK’s Infographic site experience, True Life Costs.. invites you to...”
– Volkswagen’s Data Visualization Experience: What True Life Costs - PSFK
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“In its Q1 2011 Video Monetization Report, FreeWheel said the vast majority...”
– 80% of Mobile Video Views Happen on Apple Devices: Online Video News «
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“increasingly, and nearly invisibly, our searches for information are being...”
– When the Internet Thinks It Knows You - NYTimes.com
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“It took about 10 months from its public launch for Square to reach $1 million a...”
– Mo’ Money: Square Now Processing $3 Million A Day In Mobile Payments
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“BBC’s iPlayer streaming service accounts for 6.6% of peak period downstream...”
– www.sandvine.com/downloads/documents/05-17-2011_phenomena/Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report.pdf
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Troustories - POLO le bonbon le plus trou →
animated gifs again… although a bit more low brow. I do quite like them though especially how you just roll the mouse over and they go
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“Streamed live through CBS’s partnerships with YouTube, Ustream and...”
– ‘What’s Trending’ Isn’t Always What Matters - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic
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“(A new trend)… using the spoken output of Google Translate as the vocals...”
– Official Google Blog: Google Translate: the remix
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“The price of the average broadband Internet connection around the world has been...”
– Internet prices drop by 50% around the globe, still unaffordable for some countries - TNW Industry
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“The New York Public Library put out an app called Biblion that’s one of...”
– Did the New York Public Library Just Build the Magazine App of the Future? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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“before the iPad almost no one had a Tablet… since April 3rd 2010 nearly...”
– Digital Stats: An estimated 5% of the American population own a Tablet device
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“Amazon says that 2011 has had the fastest year over year growth rate for its...”
– That Was Fast: Amazon’s Kindle Ebook Sales Surpass Print (It Only Took Four Years)
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“Amazon is now selling more Kindle books than Print books…. Since April 1,...”
– Amazon Media Room:News Release
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“Tufte has shifted how designers approach the job of turning information into...”
– The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The Information Sage
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“In his 2007 book Beautiful Evidence, Tufte introduced what he called...”
– The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The Information Sage
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“In the public realm, data has never been more ubiquitous—or more valuable to...”
– The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The Information Sage
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“Internet users tap Facebook Inc.’s “Like” and Twitter...”
– ‘Like’ Button Follows Web Users - WSJ.com
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“275 million users have Liked a TV show on Facebook. Those that have Like an...”
– 1.65 Billion Likes of TV Shows Indicates Facebook’s Importance to Television
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“tablet users spend rather a lot of time consuming news on their devices – up to...”
– News is 5 times more engaging on a tablet than a website - TNW Media
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“motorists have struggled with untold hours of delay, one partial collapse, and a...”
– San Francisco Bay Bridge Becomes iPad Game
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“The photo, taken at the the FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Stoke City...”
– 360-Degree Wembley Stadium Panorama Gets Thousands of Facebook Tags
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“Netflix now comprises almost 30% of peak downstream traffic in North America.
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– Netflix Streaming Now the Largest Source of North American Internet Traffic
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“Amazon has expanded its trade-in program to allow customers to send in their...”
– Amazon Will Now Pay You For Your Old Electronics
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“about one out of every 14 programs downloaded by Windows users turns out to be...”
– Microsoft: One in 14 downloads is malicious
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“When you are cooking in the kitchen, a propped-up iPad would be perfect for...”
– Exclusive: Gilt Taste Is Cooking Up An iPad App That Will Let You Swipe Without Touching
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“Many feel like Flickr has swerved from its original course of being a community...”
– Flickr Designer Publicly Criticizes Flickr’s Design
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Attn Entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t the Role... →
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“The first spam email was sent to 600 people in 1978”
– 200 Years of the Advertising Business in One Handy Infographic | Adweek
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“Pizza Hut offered online ordering 4 years before Google existed”
– 200 Years of the Advertising Business in One Handy Infographic | Adweek
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“Google Hack day in Bangalore to see what people could built - they created new...”
– George Osborne at Google Zeitgeist - liveblog | Technology | guardian.co.uk 