May 2012
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All Your Social Media In One Place | Onepo.st →
I’ve just started using onepo.st and so far am loving it. Not only did it do functionally what I needed (display dropbox photo gallery in embeddable form), when they asked for feedback — which I gave them, mentioning something I felt was missing — within a few days they emailed me back to say they’d added it. So not only a great tool, great responsiveness too. With the...
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“If we all start wearing glasses with cameras, the process of seeing and...”
– How Google Glasses Make A Persistent, Pervasive Surveillance State Inevitable - Forbes
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“Forget a Post-PC world. Google’s playing for a Post-Phone world. I give these...”
– Forget the Post-PC World. Google Glasses are Preparing for the Post-Phone World. - Forbes
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“We’ve moved from an era in which a reporter writes a story and goes home and...”
– Alan Rusbridger on The Guardian’s open journalism, paywalls, and why they’re pre-planning more of the newspaper » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“Outbox … securely intercepts and scans physical, letter-sized mail,...”
– The Physical Mail Revolution Comes Knocking: Introducing Outbox | PandoDaily
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“In the EU27, the share of computing graduates was 3.4% of all university...”
– EUROPA - Press Releases - E-Skills Week 2012 Computer skills in the EU27 in figures
“One day after Inman posted the comic, searches on Google for Nikola Tesla...”
– Google Searches on Tesla Double thanks to The Oatmeal
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Milk.ly →
apparently this is like a London based version of Taskrabbit. I have been waiting for this for a while. Of course, whether they’ll have people in my neck of the woods is another question, but I can dream… :-)
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“A complex computer virus has been pilfering confidential information from...”
– Virus Infects Computers Across Middle East - NYTimes.com
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“the 468x60 banner… dropped down to 3% of all impressions. … nearly...”
– DoubleClick Publisher Blog: New industry metrics to help publishers chart their growth plan
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“(In Q1 2012) the BBC recorded 190 million requests for its content per...”
– iPlayer Users Switching From Desktop to Internet-Connected Devices
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“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind...”
– John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative | Brain Pickings
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“For every £40 spent by the UK state sector, nearly £1 goes on information and...”
– Bletchley Park: where government started computing | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional
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“This is a rich country, but its nature punishes those who fail to respect it and...”
– Sydney as the southern hemisphere’s Silicon Valley
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“Happy Hour, which will be unveiled to the public on May 28th, is one of several...”
– Recruitment: Work and play | The Economist
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“We don’t think of ads as punishments the users must endure, we think of ads done...”
– Google wants to be your new Flickr | VentureBeat
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“Google revealed that it takes down 250,000 search links each week over copyright...”
– Google takes down 1.2 million search links a month over piracy, copyright issues — Tech News and Analysis
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“Spammers create as many as 40 percent of the accounts on social-media sites,...”
– ‘Likejacking’: Spammers Hit Social Media - Businessweek
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“The decisions taken in Dubai in December have the potential to put government...”
– Keep the Internet Open - NYTimes.com
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Watch(via Google exec says web is ‘scarce resource’ | Video | Reuters.com) — hopefully full speech video will come soon, but in the meantime, I found this
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“(From Jan): Spanish banking giant BBVA is switching its 110,000 staff to use...”
– BBC News - Google persuades Spanish bank BBVA to use the cloud
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“A recent survey from the Cloud Industry Forum which investigated cloud adoption...”
– Why small businesses are embracing the cloud | Ingenious Britain
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“81% of high-growth companies — those with more than 10% growth in 2011 — already...”
– High-Growth Companies Embrace Social Media - Tech Europe - WSJ
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“Facing a sea of infinity, it’s easy to despair, sure that you will never...”
– Seth’s Blog: Dancing on the edge of finished
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“The Science Museum surveyed nearly 400 contemporary creative technologists to...”
– The Legacy of the BBC Micro – How to boost the UK’s computing skills - About us - Science Museum
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BBC News - Google funds computer teachers and... →
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“nearly every invention in the engineering or sciences is an improvement on what...”
– Nikola Tesla Wasn’t God And Thomas Edison Wasn’t The Devil - Forbes
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“Back in 2004, the web had some 50 million sites. (Today, it has more than 600...”
– The Internet at the Dawn of Facebook - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic
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“53 percent of (US) mobile commerce users have stopped an in-store purchase as a...”
– 53pc of mobile users stop an in-store purchase because of their phone - Mobile Commerce Daily - Research
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“DeAngelo struck upon the idea when his favorite 1980s video game – in which...”
– Hacked arcade game uses real-time traffic data | Springwise
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Roominate: Make It Yours! by Maykah Inc. —... →
(via Clay Shirky) Kickstart Roominate: Dollhouse kit for girls that includes circuit components: lights, fans, buzzers, etc. kck.st/KtNGho … I think this is a superb idea
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“the Adopt-A-Hydrant program, a first-of-its-kind effort, where residents can...”
– (Fire)man’s Best Friend « New Urban Mechanics
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Watch(via Emerging Bets at the Intersection of Technology & Culture)
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“Do Not Track is, at its core, a trade off. It asks of you: Do you prefer ease of...”
– What Twitter’s ‘Do Not Track’ Feature Will Mean For You [UPDATED]
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“Much of the success of Monmouthpedia comes from its ability to capture the...”
– Welcome to the world’s first Wikipedia Town — Wikimedia blog
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“The most important and paradoxical fact shaping the future of online learning is...”
– The Campus Tsunami - NYTimes.com
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“From Data Trails to Collective Intelligence… From Single to Multi-Threaded...”
– 6 Ways to Anticipate the Future of Digital Behavior
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“Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet...”
– How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
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“over the past few months, something has changed. The elite, pace-setting...”
– The Campus Tsunami - NYTimes.com
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“Twitter-sourcing is the laziest form of research. It’s like going to the...”
– 11 Ways You’re Annoying On Twitter
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“The Floppy Disk Icon means “save” for a whole generation of people...”
– The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore - Scott Hanselman
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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever... →
journo-geekery:
kurafire:
Best. Footnote. Ever:
“One could vaguely construe that Tesla’s cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived.”
If you’re not familiar with TheOatmeal’s comics, be prepared for some profanity and word usage like “amazeballs” to prove points. But beyond that it’s a good summary of reasons...
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“Self-expression is the new entertainment” Arianna Huffington”
– Twitter / @AdobeSummit : Self expression is the new … (via everythingisdisrupted) 