July 2012
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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
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“More than a decade ago, Google built a new foundation for its search engine. It...”
– Google Remakes Online Empire With ‘Colossus’ | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
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Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it... →
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Man takes virtual augmented reality girlfriend for... →
Augmented reality (AR) hacks are really starting to take off… a Japanese YouTube user has produced a video of a virtual date with computerized J-pop star Hatsune Miku.
Using Asus’s Xtion Pro sensor, “alsionesvx” takes Miku to a park, demonstrating her position in the real world by having her stand behind a tree. He even interacts with her, moving her tie and hitting her...
