July 2012
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“NBC’s official Olympic website describes Australia as located in central...”
– Australia Moves To Europe « Uncrunched Now I understand why nbcfail is trending…
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Neiman Marcus App Provides Sales Staff With... →
(Neiman Marcus) has developed a location-aware iPhone application called NM Service that adds a heightened level of personalization to its in-store shopping experience. The opt-in service allows a customer to program the app’s preferences to automatically alert sales associates when they walk into the store, providing staff with instant access to their shopping history and Facebook profile image,...
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“Much like 23andMe … the Cat Ancestry test – developed by Dr. Leslie Lyons...”
– Personal genomics for pet cats | Springwise — you take a cheek swab from your cat and it costs $120 apparently
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Internet Retailing » O2 opens up Priority Moments... →
From butchers, bookshops and bakers, to florists, hairdressers, driving schools and local tourist attractions, the next generation of Priority Moments will enable small local businesses up and down the country to create offers and experiences that are relevant, local and immediately redeemable, helping to drive footfall
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No credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint Cerf... →
Cerf: I would happily fertilize my tomatoes with Crovitz’ assertion
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“anyone who comes into an Oddbins branch wearing Nike trainers and has in their...”
– Pepsi-drinking, Nike-wearing, MasterCard-using customers to receive 30% off as part of anti-Olympics Oddbins campaign | The Drum…
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“Amazon …now accounts for 21.1% of entertainment product sales (in the UK)”
– Digital Stats: Amazon accounts for over a fifth of the UK’s entertainment retail market
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“A Nairobi start-up has created a service where pupils can subscribe to to take...”
– BBC News - Can robotics change the future of a nation?
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BBC News - Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia →
ClueBot NG, as the bot is known, resides on a computer from which it sallies forth into the vast encyclopaedia to detect and clean up vandalism almost as soon as it occurs. It is one of several hundred bots patrolling Wikipedia at any given time. Its role in repairing the Supreme Court article illustrates how bots have quietly become an indispensable - if virtually invisible - part of the...
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“there’s a very amusing billboard not far from where I live, advertising The...”
– BBC - Outriders
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“The idea of a meme is itself new. Coined in 1976, the word “meme” – something...”
– Tumblr Posts Start Memes and Win Jobs - NYTimes.com (via everythingisdisrupted)
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Supermarkets add mobile to the shopping list -... →
grocery retailer Ahold has a mobile shopping app called Scan It! that is available at 270 Stop & Shop locations in the Northeast. The app, which combines personalized offers, mobile self-scan and bag, and express checkout, helped boost the chain’s loyalty and drive an increase in sales“With shoppers ignoring 98 percent of the SKUs in a grocery store, personalization has an even greater...
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“(Acc to Ron Johnson, CEO of JCPenney)…
n addition to the planned mobile...”
– JCPenney to replace cash registers with mobile checkout devices by 2013 - Mobile Commerce Daily - Payments
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“The Sydney Opera House speaks of the internet as its eighth stage, allowing it...”
– Don’t get hung up, let’s just hang out
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Google Puts Social Twist on Ramadan Traditions →
Google+ will host a series of 30 Hangouts featuring celebrity chefs with their favorite Iftar (the sunset meal that breaks the fast) recipes, doctors with tips for eating healthy during Ramadan, poets discussing religious literature and even actors discussing their favorite religious shows.
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Amazon same-day delivery: How the e-commerce giant... →
Amazon’s tax capitulation is part of a major shift in the company’s operations. Amazon’s grand strategy has been to set up distribution centers in faraway, low-cost states and then ship stuff to people in more populous, high-cost states. … Now that it has agreed to collect sales taxes, the company can legally set up warehouses right inside some of the largest metropolitan areas in the...
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“Using lightweight tablet computers allows airlines to greatly reduce the weight...”
– Qantas to provide passengers with iPads
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The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy... →
If you put your clothes in the dryer, the energy you use is measured and counted, but if you hang them on the clothesline to be dried by the sun, the energy saved disappears from our accounting!… It’s called The Clothesline Paradox,and it made the point that … It struck me that open source is a lot like sunshine. It disappears from our economicaccounting.
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The Colorado shooting and the crowdsourced future... →
Although other sites put up Storify collections of tweets from individuals who were at the scene — including one of the victims — as a way of tracking how the news spread, the community of users at Reddit went a step further: they collaborated in real time to produce a continuously updated timeline of the event, complete with links to where they obtained the information. That kind of collaboration...
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AFP: Mobile phones trump computers among online... →
Mobile phones have overtaken computers as the most popular device for getting online in China, the government said Thursday, as it announced the number of web users had hit 538 million….
The number of people using mobile phones to go online rose to 388 million in the first half of this year, up 9.2 percent from the end of 2011, while 380 million used computers.
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How can museums preserve our digital heritage?... →
Digital is bringing people into conversations within the museum who would never normally be involved in the care of traditional physical objects. The IT department has never had to think of its servers as an extension of the museum’s photography store or general object store before… The server has become the latest museum site in addition to the physical building.
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Google executives say technology can be harnessed... →
connectivity will not, on its own, disrupt illicit networks. People tend to assume that “name and shame” will fix things — as though, once a video of wrongdoing is uploaded, the world will pressure the bad guys. It’s clear that external pressure seldom fixes weak or corrupt institutions. As we watch violence unfold in Syria, more than video is clearly needed. The pressure has to be internal, from...
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Crayola’s Colorful Evolution | Think Quarterly by... →
Crayola (is) integrating the old and the new. Take, for example, a new range of products like the iMarker, an all-in-one digital pen, crayon, and pencil, designed for use with the Color Studio HD iPad app. It’s similar to the traditional coloring book experience, but with added interactive sounds and motion. Or Lights, Camera, Color!, another HD application that allows kids to turn their favorite...
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“According to a study by Yale University, the smell of a fresh box of crayons is...”
– Crayola’s Colorful Evolution | Think Quarterly by Google … I am intrigued now to know what the first 17 are.
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Olympics Leave British Complaining Even More Than... →
While the world’s athletes limber up at the Olympic Park, Londoners are practicing some of their own favorite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities. Asked “What do you feel about the Olympics?” the other day, a random sampling of people here gave answers that included bitter laughter; the words “fiasco,” “disaster” and “police state”; and detailed explanations of how...
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Half of Bedtime Stories Now Read on E-Books -... →
Nearly 50% of U.K. parents say they now read books to their kids on e-readers or tablets or allow them to read on them, according to a survey carried out by Ipsos Mori…. one-in-four parents polled said they’d also bought their children an e-reader.
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European banks need to look beyond basic mobile... →
21 percent of Europeans with a mobile phone used at least one form of mobile banking in 2011, compared with 18 percent in 2010
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eBay's John Donahoe Seeing a "Staggering Surge" in... →
eBay apps have been downloaded 90 million times, up from 65 million in January. People are using the apps to list almost two million devices every week, and a handbag is purchased every 30 seconds
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Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones - WSJ.com →
Whereas RIM lacked the right product, Nokia actually developed the sorts of devices that consumers are gobbling up today. It just didn’t bring them to market. In a strategic blunder, it shifted its focus from smartphones back to basic phones right as the iPhone upended the market…
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A Wild Hangout | TIME For Kids →
Since June, Zoo Atlanta has done Hangouts about amphibians, giant pandas and macaws. Each Hangout is hosted by a keeper who can talk about his or her work at the zoo and who can answer questions about the specific animal
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Rapid response system An SMS service delivers... →
In recent years, the Zambia National Agricultural Information Services (NAIS) has been receiving an increasing number of questions from farmers concerned about unpredictable weather patterns…
NAIS developed a system, called SMSize to which farmers can send a question via an SMS from a cell phone. The question arrives directly at a server computer at the central office, where the producer...
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For cheaper drug options, send SMS - Times Of... →
The service, expected to be launched by the (Indian) government in August, will be available throughout the country…. Once the person sends a text message of the prescribed brand of drug to a particular number from his mobile, he will receive two to three options of the same medicine, along with the price differential. Say, a patient is prescribed a popular anti-infective like Augmentin...
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Washington state to register voters through... →
Washington state residents will soon be able to register to vote through Facebook, thanks to a new app (which) allows users to file voter registration forms directly from the secretary of state’s Facebook page.
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Marketers Track Retinas to Find What Draws... →
“With a virtual shelf set, in a few seconds, with a click of the mouse, you can modify your product, your pack, your display, and really co-create it with the consumer almost in real time,” … P&G said most physical prototypes cost more than $1,500. Now, 80% of the company’s new products are developed using some form of modeling or simulation.
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Marketers Track Retinas to Find What Draws... →
Kimberly-Clark’s researchers used computer screens outfitted with retina-tracking cameras when testing the newest packaging for its Viva paper towels in 2009… Their goal was to find which designs got noticed in the first 10 seconds a shopper looked at a shelf—a crucial window when products are recognized and placed in the shopping cart. They also wanted to know if the preferences held...
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Greek debt crisis: the agony of Athens | World... →
I’ve just set up this scheme, Gineagrotis – “Become a farmer”. It’s not complicated: city-dwellers rent a patch of land from a farmer, tell him what they want him to grow on it, and get their own fresh vegetables delivered to them weekly.
… The farmer’s happy because he knows in advance what and how much he has to plant, and he sells all he grows. It’s a...
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“Real breakthroughs aren’t always immediately identifiable as breakthroughs....”
– Clamshell! The Story of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time | Techland | TIME.com
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YouTube Transforms News Coverage - Software -... →
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) studied 260 videos on YouTube’s “News & Politics”channel and found an evolving, symbiotic relationship developing between traditional news outlets and citizen journalists.
YouTube is not so much killing traditional TV journalism as it is transforming it. Over a third of the most-watched news videos come...
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“In the beginning, most traffic came to Tumblr from without; but now more than 70...”
– Can Tumblr’s David Karp Embrace Ads Without Selling Out? - NYTimes.com
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Yahoo! Appoints Marissa Mayer Chief Executive... →
This gives me hope for Flickr’s future, and for that I am thankful
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Asia Digital Marketing Year Book →
you need to register to download this but it’s free. has loads of stats about APAC and it’s in English
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www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2012/traffic_and_market_r... →
I’m late posting this — catching up on reading — but wanted to make a note for future reference as has some useful predictions relating to mobile stats
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Three-quarters of smartphone owners use... →
74% of (US) smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends
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www.iab.gr/files/1/downloads/Research/Adex... →
IAB Europe’s ad spend report for 2011
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old.grey.com/greymatter/pdfs/GreyMatter97Retro.pdf →
From Oct 1946: “We must blaze a trail to new media… television is just one phase of a new advertising age (we might call) the ‘electronic age’… “
From June 1947: “Give TV a chance — Video’s skeptics … expect to be able to say ‘see we told you so. Television is a flop!…. We say: give television 5 years…”
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“aged between six and 12. Half of British children that age have, or used to...”
– Children and computers: State of play | Technology | The Observer
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/75817162/Bóson de... →
The melody of Higgs
