75 percent of all movies watched by Netflix members come from recommendations
Instead of the normal business card swapping that happens at the event, it’s sounding like Highlight is going to get some sort of feature for marking and saving the favorite people you meet in person. Thinking through the New York coffee shop scenario, imagine seeing a notification that says “You met Robert Scoble at the Trendy Startup BBQ party in Austin. Now he’s two blocks away at a bagel place. Go say hi!
Mr. Gundotra said that any advertisement on Google that has a “social annotation” to it, specifically someone who has clicked the +1 button on an ad, is experiencing a drastic uptick in engagement.
“We are seeing 5 to 10 percent click-through-rate uplift on any ad that has a social annotation on our own Web sites,”
If the app has a single feature that makes it worth downloading, it’s probably the playlist builder. As you come across audio clips and shows you want to hear, whether it be via search or by browsing, you can add queue them to play one after another. This ends up working like a sort of personalized radio station, not of songs, but of NPR’s best in-depth music coverage
A woman who creates stuffed animals based on children’s drawings has defied Internet protocol by doing something really cool, posting it online, and then asking that nobody talk about it.
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“My site has gone viral; people say that I’m on Pinterest; people are blogging about me,” she wrote on the Child’s Own Studio site. “But now I don’t know how long people will have to wait before I get to their order
— Hey Internet, Leave This Genius Crafter Alone - this is like one of those “don’t press this button” type things. But in a good way, her whole concept just makes you smile. I *love* the toys, they are so utterly charming
Want to find out who will be on your KLM flight? With Meet & Seat you can view other passengers’ Facebook or LinkedIn profile details and see where they’ll be sitting
(via Case Study: Heinz UK Fans Warm up to Facebook Personalization Campaign - eMarketer) I’m surprised there weren’t more sales but I guess it was only up for a short while
What Google did for organizing information, Pinterest does for curating inspiration
A new app from French 3D printing company Sculpteo now lets consumers upload a photo of themselves or a friend for incorporation into a designer vase, mug or other object
An effort to get back the previous (older) look of Gmail.
What does this UserStyle do:
* Changes new Gmail styles to the older ones (not all)
* Hides the annoying “About the new look” link
* Reverts back the Top Navigation to the classic one (in Gmail only)
* Implements Classic Gray-Blue Gmail theme
In the digital age we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts. That is a very significant difference. You may filter those 10 articles, but all the other ones will still show up in a search, or tomorrow you may get them in an email from a friend or Google+ recommending that particular link. Nothing is removed.
Described by some as a duct tape for the Internet, IFTTT allows you to program the Internet to work for you by creating tasks. If, for instance, someone posts a photo to Flickr, you can have a text message sent to you.
