March 2012
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“Google Consumer Surveys,” which allows publishers to glean a little more revenue...”
– Google Partners With Publishers on a New Kind of Paywall
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“That precocious Charlie is more than a finger-biter — he’s a moneymaker. The...”
– ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ Has Earned $500,000 in 5 Years [VIDEOS]
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“(Wikipedia) is ranked fifth in the world, with 480 million visitors per month,...”
– Arabic is One of the Fastest Growing Communities on Wikipedia
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“While Norwegian is spoken by 4.6 million people, there are 300,000 articles on...”
– Arabic is One of the Fastest Growing Communities on Wikipedia
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“in 2011, Lawee shepherded Google’s purchase of at least 25 firms, or one every...”
– Google acquisitions: The search company’s startling transformation under CEO Larry Page. - Slate Magazine
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“There are nearly 7 billion people in the world. In 2011, a smart device - be it...”
– In 2011, a Billion Smart Devices and Counting
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“Today the Obama administration announced that the US will invest $200 million to...”
– Obama administration announces $200 million ‘big data’ research and development initiative | The Verge (via everythingisdisrupted)
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“Powered by The Art Genome Project, an ongoing study of the characteristics that...”
– The Most Comprehensive Online Art Database Maps Connections Between Works @PSFK
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“1. Of iPhone 4s users, 62% use Siri for some function at least several times a...”
– And Now for the Rest of the Siri Story
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“During World War II, the US government invested $2 billion into the development...”
– The Idea Factory: Insights on Creativity from Bell Labs and the Golden Age of Innovation | Brain Pickings
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“Domino’s has announced that it took over £1m in sales through its mobile...”
– Digital Stats: Domino’s Pizza generated £1m in sales through its mobile platform in one week
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“$1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms bit.ly/GUQaSQ...”
– Twitter
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“1947 vocational film from the Your Life’s Work series, courtesy of the...”
– Why Typesetting Is the Career of the Future (or Was—in the 1940s) - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - Technology - The Atlantic
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“A young man who calls himself MaxSGB built a calculator in Minecraft. But this...”
– Now Is The Time For All Good 16-Year-Olds To Make Scientific Calculators In Minecraft | TechCrunch
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“Recently, the venerable news organization started experimenting with how to use...”
– How The Wall Street Journal Uses Pinterest - 10,000 Words
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“Johnson and his team are currently working on futurecasting 2020. Obviously,...”
– Brian David Johnson: Intel’s Guide to the Future - Forbes
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““It sounds science-fictiony,” he laughs. “But it’s ultimately pragmatic. Chip...”
– Brian David Johnson: Intel’s Guide to the Future - Forbes
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“Red Tomato Pizza in Dubai has developed a fridge magnet that you sync and set-up...”
– This Fridge Magnet Lets You Order Pizza
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“Colourlovers makes the art of creating colors and patterns come alive, even for...”
– Colourlovers Buys Forrst to Build an Etsy for Digital Bling | PandoDaily
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“for just $25, you can help us commission pieces by joining our editorial board....”
– MATTER by Matter — Kickstarter
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“Matter, which aims to provide a new outlet for long-form science and technology...”
– Crowd-funded tech journalism project Matter raises $140k | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
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“So what does it look like? When a reader approaches the Guardian from the US,...”
– Mission America: How the Guardian’s US move has added 4m readers | Online Journalism Features | Journalism.co.uk
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“Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by...”
– Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia aha! So this is what this blog is. Thanks to Alan Jacobs for the insight (via http://ayjay.tumblr.com/)
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““Virtually all young people are familiar with electronic games and social...”
– EC Warns Youth Are Not ‘Digitally Competent’ | TechWeekEurope UK (via ayjay)
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“Message Optimizer turns every mobile phone into a mobile computing and mobile...”
– allAfrica.com: Africa: Mobile Phones are Getting Smarter in Rural Africa
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“When we think about the great consumer electronics technologies of our time, the...”
– Guess What’s the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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“In June 2011, researchers reported that time spent on apps began to outpace time...”
– Introduction and overview of responses | Pew Internet & American Life Project
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“nearly 37 percent of smartphone users in EU5 reported accessing news sites via...”
– Number of European Smartphone Users Accessing News Surges 74 Percent Over Past Year - comScore, Inc
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“Taking in responses from some 15,000 U.S. consumers, the company found that 96...”
– Home Is Where The Mobile Game Is: 96% Play Games In The House, 53% In Bed | TechCrunch
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“Lawn signs are a metaphor for campaign frustration, whether its a race for city...”
– Twitter And The Republican Primary Campaign | TPM2012
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“These photos are special, and what they show is something that the vast majority...”
– Historic photos of female scientists at work - Boing Boing
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“On April 6, 2010, an AT&T Inc. manager pondered a drop in volume in the...”
– Suit Claims AT&T Billed U.S. for Nigerian Scam - WSJ.com
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“the world’s friendliest photo editor got a chance to start again. If you loved...”
– PicMonkey Was Created by The Picnik Team And It’s Awesome
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“Who could fail to remember that comforting cluckety-cluck of a 5.25-inch floppy...”
– 20 iconic tech sounds bound for extinction | ITworld
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The Case for Google →
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The Case Against Google →
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“there are rumours going around that Amazon is looking at operating a domestic...”
– Amazon rumoured to be eyeing Australia, but experts say there are still opportunities for local booksellers OH!!! I pray this is true. Because if they start selling books there, then they’ll likely expand to other things and it may shame local retailers into joining the 21st century. I...
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“Penguin also reported a massive increase in digital book sales, up 106%...”
– Penguin eBook Sales More than Double During 2011, “Not There Yet” With a Library Business Model « INFOdocket
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“Software called Lifebrowser processes photos, e-mails, Web browsing and search...”
– Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past - Technology Review I wish this existed beyond the lab, it sounds like it could be really useful, especially if it let you plug all your various stashes online in
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Internet Access More Important Than Sex, Alcohol:... →
infoneer-pulse:
Americans are more connected than ever — at least to the Internet.
A new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) attempts to quantify just how much we value access to the World Wide Web and its findings are somewhat surprising.
Asked what they would give up for a year in order to maintain access to the Internet, 77 percent of Americans said they’d forgo chocolate, 73...
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Fish: a tap essay →
This interface was surprising engaging, and it’s not a bad story either
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“a web app called NoRedInk that creates quizzes to teach grammar skills. Instead...”
– English Teacher Rethinks Grammar Lessons — With an App
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Microsoft – A Year In The Like | Adverblog →
