July 2011
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“In our testing we have seen speed improvements of 25% to 60% on several sites....”
– Page Speed Service: Web performance, delivered. - The official Google Code blog
Jul 29th
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“Backseat Driver, the first product introduced by ToyToyota, is an iPhone...”
– ToyToyota
Jul 24th
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“The line-ups for the ‘Like It Live, Like It Together’ experiences — hosted in...”
– Bacardi turns Facebook ‘likes’ into real-world events | Springwise (hat tip to Dan Calladine for the link)
Jul 24th
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“Richard Paterson (aka The Nose) at the distiller Whyte & Mackay, who is...”
– Digital Examples: Whyte & Mackay’s Whisky tasting on Google
Jul 24th
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(via Next Generation Media Quarterly July 2011)
Jul 23rd
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“Skin Scan is an iPhone app that… helps users analyze and keep an archive...”
– Mobile app scans for melanoma and maps the results globally | Springwise
Jul 21st
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Mikko Hypponen on fighting online crime [TED Talk] →
Jul 20th
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“Google isn’t making us stupider, it’s simply making us realise that...”
– Why McLuhan’s chilling vision still matters today | Douglas Coupland | Comment is free | The Guardian
Jul 20th
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“It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn’t go about their daily...”
– Why McLuhan’s chilling vision still matters today | Douglas Coupland | Comment is free | The Guardian
Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
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“Imagine standing in a place and getting a notification on your phone with a...”
– NY Daily News points you to historical photos of the place you’re standing
Jul 19th
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“Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they’re not making any more of it....”
– Seth’s Blog: Paying attention to the attention economy (via mediafuturist)
Jul 19th
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Infographic: A Look at Twitter's Explosive... →
Jul 19th
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Kindle lets students rent digital textbooks →
infoneer-pulse: Amazon.com on Monday began letting students rent textbooks on Kindle electronic readers. Kindle Textbook Rentals lets students pay based on how long they want to use textbooks, with periods ranging from 30 days to 360 days. » via Yahoo! News
Jul 19th
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“Sebastian bought a domestic earthquake detector for only $75. He then replaced...”
– Meet the Chilean Teen Who Warns of Earthquakes on Twitter - TNW Latin America
Jul 19th
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“the digital humanities have grown from the simple use of databases in scholarly...”
– James Murdoch Lecture: Celebrating Copyright’s 300th Birthday | paidContent
Jul 18th
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“recommendations account for about 60% of all video clicks from the [YouTube]...”
– http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1864770
Jul 18th
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“Amazon makes 20-30% of its sales from recommendations … (via class taught...”
– kiwitobes.com » Lessons on recommendation systems
Jul 18th
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“Clearly something dramatic has happened to the news business. That something is,...”
– Bulletins from the future | The Economist
Jul 18th
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“One in ten of all UK pets have their own Facebook page, Twitter profile or...”
– One in ten pets is on Facebook - Telegraph
Jul 17th
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“Over 10M people have joined Google+ … We are seeing over 1 billion items...”
– Larry Page - Google
Jul 14th
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“of all people getting married in the U.S., approximately 1 in 6 met on an online...”
– Stay Up to Date: Introducing the Official Match.com Blog « Official Match.com Blog
Jul 13th
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“The two-year-old venture arm of Google Inc. is doubling its investment in...”
– Google Ventures Scaling Up With More Cash, ‘Googlers In Residence’ - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
Jul 13th
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“On one occasion one of the founders tasked him with coming up with 100 banner...”
– I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 eBook: Douglas Edwards: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Jul 13th
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“THE final edition of News of the World has given liberal middle earners a...”
– The Daily Mash - Guardian readers finally get excuse to buy a tabloid
Jul 13th
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Jul 13th
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“For the sake of this discussion, we’ll assume that the TV is a digital TV or set...”
– BBC - Research and Development: Orchestrated Media - beyond second and third screen (II)
Jul 12th
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“As with movies, the introduction of broadcast radio in the 1920s was accompanied...”
– The Future of Children -
Jul 11th
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“what is the effect of these broadcasts on the growing minds ? I quote in...”
– Article | BOOK REVIEWS Film Music. By Kurt London, with a foreword by Constant Lambert. (Faber & Faber, 12s. 6d.). | Page 30 - September 1936 - Gramophone Archive
Jul 11th
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A history of media technology scares, from the... →
Jul 11th
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Jul 11th
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“soon, thanks to two Australian entrepreneurs, you will be able use (your iphone)...”
– How about a beer with your iPhone? | Reuters
Jul 9th
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“Across the board, consumers are using their smartphone while in a store: US-82%,...”
– Global mobile research on the smartphone user and the mobile marketer from the MMA and Google - Google Mobile Ads Blog
Jul 8th
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“40 percent of those who accessed the Internet via mobile phones or tablet...”
– Digital Stats: 40% of American - & 25% of British - mobile web users use mobile banking services
Jul 8th
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“Kickstarter has become a much larger source of funding for comic book...”
– Digital Stats: Crowdfunding site Kickstarter is effectively the 3rd largest funder f Indie comics in the US
Jul 8th
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“Just like everybody else, South Koreans are busy at home and tired after a long...”
– Tesco builds virtual shops for Korean commuters - Telegraph
Jul 8th
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Jul 8th
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“A friend of mine who works on Air Traffic Controller apparatus told me that they...”
– russell davies: secondary attention and the subsequent thoughts
Jul 8th
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“The Mosquito Buster is an Android app (soon to be released for the iPhone as...”
– Smartphones Ward Off Mosquitoes
Jul 8th
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IBM's First 100 Years: A Heavily Illustrated... →
Jul 8th
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“what you will find, if you take the trouble, is real innovation. Angry Birds?...”
– Loic Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Silicon Valley
Jul 8th
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“Skype users are averaging 300 million minutes per month of video calling. Bates...”
– Skype Averaging 300M Minutes Of Video Calling Per Month; Represents 50 Percent Of Traffic
Jul 8th
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“More than 3,000 companies around the world sign up to Google Apps each day”
– Google Apps Attracts 3000 New Businesses a Day, Search Giant Says | PCWorld Business Center
Jul 8th
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“In typical Zynga fashion, PrivacyVille isn’t your average dull privacy education...”
– Zynga Combines Privacy Education, Gaming And Rewards With PrivacyVille
Jul 8th
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“He always said that his creation had been prompted by a toddler’s innocent...”
– Polaroid’s SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible
Jul 8th
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“Edwin Land was brilliant, prescient, prickly, and demanding, and hounded his...”
– Polaroid’s SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible
Jul 8th
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“Norran, a large regional daily in the north of Sweden, has opened up its...”
– #su2011: New online open newsroom a hit for Swedish newspaper | Editors’ Blog | Journalism.co.uk
Jul 8th
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“The Google Goggles team has worked with The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles...”
– Official Google Blog: The J. Paul Getty Museum collection comes alive with Google Goggles
Jul 8th
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““There’s this notion of connected devices working in concert with...”
– BBC focused on dual screen iPad experience - Pocket-lint
Jul 8th
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Google launches crowd-sourcing competition site... →
Jul 8th