February 2012
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“In the future, everyone will be editor of TechCrunch for 15 minutes”
– Helpful Tips For Keeping Your Job As Editor Of TechCrunch « Uncrunched
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“Apps have also been important for streaming TV and film services such as Netflix...”
– How apps have taken over the world | Technology | The Guardian
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“Five months ago the BBC’s global iPlayer streaming video service was launched in...”
– Aussies flock to BBC iPlayer
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“The British music industry generates £3.8 bn per year and is the second largest...”
– Speech on UK Music Industry: building on a global success story - Harman | The Labour Party
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“On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new...”
– Robert McDowell: The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom - WSJ.com
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Watch(via GlobalWebIndex - GWI.6 trends - February 2012)
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“A series of short films featuring the personalities behind the experiments will...”
– http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/02/explore-mysteries-of-universe-on-google.html
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“Flickr (claims to have)… the Internet’s largest collection of geo-tagged...”
– Flickr Gets a Makeover, Looks Like Pinterest
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“When Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess told fans on his Twitter website he wanted...”
– Totes Amazeballs! Charlatans star Tim Burgess gets Kellogg’s to develop his zany breakfast cereal | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk
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“An amiable, 35-year-old Yale University librarian, Mugaburu spends his spare...”
– Mapmaking enthusiast celebrated by Google for contributions- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut
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“Code Hero is a game that teaches you to code.
The game is a co-op first-person...”
– ‘Code Hero’: Save the world and learn to code (Wired UK)
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We, the Web Kids - Alexis Madrigal - Technology -... →
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“more than 3.5 million photos are uploaded to Flickr via PC and mobile devices a...”
– Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
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“In a series of debates that the Paris Academy of Medicine hosted in 1854, top...”
– College of American Pathologists - President’s Desk
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“there’s something comforting about these reports of iPod adoption by people who...”
– Patrick (PatrickHeneghan) > The Perfect Thing
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“While only around 44 percent of projects on Kickstarter succeed, 89 percent of...”
– Kickstarter gets its third $1M project in the span of two weeks with Order of the Stick | VentureBeat
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“iCloud now has over 100M users. Just last month, Cook said that the service had...”
– There Are Now Over 100M iCloud Users
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“cyberflânerie seemed such an appealing notion in the early days of the Web. The...”
– The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
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“when we embrace a new medium, or new technology, we begin the process of...”
– How Tech Is Making Us More Aware of the Ways We Read - Alan Jacobs - Technology - The Atlantic
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Cats as Fonts - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats... →
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“I read that Charles Babbage, who invented the first computer, had seen the Turk...”
– A man and his machines - Boing Boing
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“This 1894 film, one of the earliest produced by Thomas Edison’s Black...”
– The Oldest Cat Video of All Time? - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - Video - The Atlantic
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“For the past 7 years, Joe has been digging out his basement at an average annual...”
– Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors - Slashdot
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The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile |... →
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Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Google, Safari, and a... →
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“If the app has a single feature that makes it worth downloading, it’s...”
– NPR’s Music App For iPad is What Radio Should Look Like in the 21st Century
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“Total digital music income – earnings from online downloads, subscriptions,...”
– BPI | RECORD COMPANY TRADE INCOME RESILIENT
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“Online shoppers in the United Kingdom spent approximately 68 billion pounds...”
– Top 300 Europe - U.K. online shoppers spent 16% more last year than in 2010 - Internet Retailer
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“Under the current system, if you lived to 70 years old and your descendants all...”
– Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs
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“Mr. Kariuki regularly sends out tweets about missing children and farm animals,...”
– A Kenyan village tweets to fight crime, foster hope - The Globe and Mail
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“saying kids are digital natives because they can text, send email, and use...”
– California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter (via ayjay)
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“Researchers found 66 per cent of people are terrified of being without their...”
– Rise in nomophobia: fear of being without a phone - Telegraph
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“ChefHangout is a site where chefs can charge for cooking lessons and it sits on...”
– ChefHangout Uses Google Hangouts to Make Money for Chefs
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“A surge in online pizza orders from Britons staying at home during the economic...”
– UPDATE 2-Domino’s Pizza UK boosted by online surge | Reuters
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“It’s like an arms race to hire statisticians nowadays,” said Andreas Weigend,...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
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“For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
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“The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States...”
– Economist Debates: Social networking: Statements
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“Annually, 6 trillion euros changes hands through global e-commerce. But here in...”
– EUROPA - Press Releases - Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Making online transactions easier, more trustworthy and more transparent Remarks at Press Conference on eCommerce Action Plan Communication Brussels, 11th January 2012
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“Within just 2 to 3 years, 90% of the TVs sold in Europe will be connectable to...”
– EUROPA - Press Releases - Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Creativity for the Creative Sector: Entertaining Europe in the Electronic Age European Parliament Intellectual Property Forum, European Parliament Brussels, 24 January 2012
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“ResearchGate, a small firm based in Berlin… is aiming to do for the...”
– Social networking for scientists: Professor Facebook | The Economist
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Michael Nielsen: Open science now! | Video on... →
In 2009 Field’s medallist Tim Gowers decided to experiment with crowdsourcing a solution to a difficult, previously unsolved, mathematical problem, in something he called the Polymath Project. He posted the problem to his blog along with his initial ideas on solving. Within 37 days, 27 different people had posted 800 substantive comments containing 170k words…. and the problem was...