The Atlantic: To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data
january 2012
The Berkman Center's David Weinberger, internet theorist and author of seminal books like The Cluetrain Manifesto and Small Pieces Loosely Joined, tackles a new subject: Big Data, and how to deal with it. This article offers an abstract of Weinberger's new book.
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january 2012
Global mobile statistics 2011: all quality mobile marketing research, mobile Web stats, subscribers, ad revenue, usage, trends… | mobiThinking
january 2012
A comprehensive, massive overview of mobile stats for 2011.
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What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?
january 2012
The copyright system is pretty badly broken. Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain shows a few of the cultural works that would have entered the Public Domain - allowing you to reproduce, remix, and share them - under the copyright law in it's 1978 version. That is, before copyright was extended from formerly 28 years after publication to last ridiculously long, namely for 70 years after the author's death. There is a whole treasure trove of culture, locked away and in many cases inaccessible.
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january 2012
Mashable: Louis CK Earns $1 Million in 12 Days With $5 Video
december 2011
American comedian Louis CK released a holiday special: Exclusive video material of one of his gigs for $5 - no DRM or other copy protection, no marketing. Just a very simple deal. Pay 5 bucks, get a video. In 12 days he made USD 1m, cutting out his publishers completely. Point proven.
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december 2011
The Guardian: Android and Apple win 6.8m phone activations on Christmas Day
december 2011
Impressive stats: Over Christmas alone, 6.8million Android phones and iPhones were activated. Android was ahead just a little with some 3.7m alone. To put this in context: That's up 353% from the usual daily activations.
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december 2011
Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users.…
december 2011
Remember Google+? After Google's social networking site started with a bang, it has become somewhat quiet around the new kid on the block. Partly, that was because Google had restricted users numbers to grow slowly while they tweaked the code. By now it's open, boasts some 85 million users and it turns out the service is growing fast. Very fast, indeed - at a rate of 625.000 new users per day, projected to hit 100 million in late February and 400 million by the end of 2012.
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december 2011
GigaOm: Why Berlin is poised to be Europe’s new tech hub
december 2011
Om Malik reports back from his visit in Berlin and shares his analysis of Berlin as a startup hub. His findings aren't terribly surprising (Berlin has lots of potential but the startup ecosystem is just beginning to bloom), yet it's always interesting to learn a Silicon Valley veteran's point of view about the city. Plus, plenty of our friends are featured, including our office mates Gidsy.
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december 2011
WIRED: How Smartphones Are Changing Photography: The Numbers Are In
december 2011
No day goes by where we don't snap a few shots with our camera phones. Yet, numbers on the overall role of smart phones in the world of photography were relatively rare. This just changed. Here are some solid statistics of "regular" cameras vs camera phones.
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december 2011
Market For TechCrunch: Mobile Health Apps Projected To Quadruple To $400 Million By 2016
december 2011
We've been confident that the market for Quantified Self and health apps would go through the roof over the next few years. Now Techcrunch has some numbers to back us up.
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december 2011
The Washington Post: Google tablet could be released within six months
december 2011
“In the next six months, we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality", says Google chairman Eric Schmidt. So far, real alternatives to the iPad have been rare, or rather non-existent. Let's see if Google can pull it off.
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december 2011
Presentation: Social, Digital and Mobile in Japan
december 2011
UK-based agency We Are Social compiled a solid overview of Japan's social & mobile usage statistics.
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december 2011
Tim O'Reilly: Publishers Finally Starting to Wake Up to the Consequences…
december 2011
"With great power comes great responsibility", reminds us Tim O'Reilly. Amazon has transformed the publishing industry. Now it needs to change its behavior, and show it knows how to handle the near-monopoly they have on digital publishing. Else, it's going to be a case for anti-trust regulation.
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december 2011
Business Insider: Facebook's Revenue Numbers Just Leaked, And The Numbers Look Underwhelming
december 2011
An interesting glimpse into what _seem_ to be Facebook's revenues. Let's just say: Facebook is definitely turning a solid profit, but failing the high expectations. Read the full article for some more concrete meat.
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december 2011
Nanode | Open Source Network Enabled Electronics
december 2011
Nanode is an open source Arduino-like board that has in-built web connectivity.
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december 2011
There is No ROI in Social Media Marketing | Copyblogger
december 2011
"People who use the term ROI see marketing as something to buy.
But smart companies see marketing as an integral part of doing business — a necessity no less important than the company email system, their computers, or their office lease."
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But smart companies see marketing as an integral part of doing business — a necessity no less important than the company email system, their computers, or their office lease."
december 2011
Homesense: Final Report
december 2011
Georgina Voss and Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino ran the Homesense project for two years, and helped a number of households enhance their homes through networked technology. (No internet fridges, though!) Here's the final report with their key findings.
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december 2011
Nieman Journalism Lab: The personal(ized) brand: Yet another reason The Economist is trouncing competitors
december 2011
The Nieman Labs look at the way the Economist adapts to a rapidly changing news marketplace, with a focus on the magazine as a brand, and on emerging consumption and sharing patterns. A must read if you work in media.
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december 2011
The Economist: More than just digital quilting
december 2011
The Economist compares the maker movement with their Arduinos and 3D printers to the hobby computer movement of the 70s. Could it also change how science is taught and foster innovation? We think so.
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december 2011
The Guardian: Welcome to the post-digital world, an exhilarating return to civility – via Facebook and Lady Gaga
december 2011
"Post-digital is not anti-digital. It extends digital into the beyond. The web becomes not a destination in itself but a route map to somewhere real. " Simon Jenkins on the post-digital.
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december 2011
The Internet, innovation and learning
december 2011
"The Internet isn't a technology, it's a belief system": Joi Ito regularly writes about innovation, particularly the cultural aspects inside organizations that foster innovation. The internet as a whole is facing issues similar to many institutions - concretely through regulation efforts. Here, he points out how Neoteny - the retention of childlike attributions in adulthood - can help us both innovate and save the internet.
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december 2011
Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis
december 2011
Clay Shirky, one of the most prolific researchers on all things media & business models, shares his view on the future of news. Particularly, he sees a risk in trying to back the established news institutions and rather calls for open minded experimentation instead. We couldn't agree more.
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december 2011
FAZ: Der Stromzähler ist ein Spion im Haus
december 2011
German newspaper FAZ looks at smart metering, but sadly focuses only on the privacy risks. We think there's much more to this field, and that the privacy implications can be solved.
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december 2011
Better Data for a Better Internet
december 2011
Jonathan Zittrain and John Palfrey elaborate on the importance of basing policy decisions on data. We have the data - let's make sure it's used in the political process.
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december 2011
NYTimes Labs: Reveal
december 2011
The New York Times R&D Labs came out with a quite interesting prototype. Combining an internet-enabled screen/mirror, a Microsoft Kinect and some speech recognition in one case, they created a bathroom mirror that can show you the weather, news, or your personal health data. This is something we've seen as design studies for years, but here it is, and it looks surprisingly smooth and, well, unobtrusive. This is one to watch, and there will soon be more like it. In fact, we expect a whole new market segment to emerge here over the next few years.
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december 2011
The Guardian: Know thyself: the Quantified Self devotees who live by numbers
december 2011
While we had to cancel our trip to the Quantified Self Europe Conference last week, the Guardian published a quite comprehensive summary of the event, and a good intro into the topic.
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december 2011
New Scientist: Taking the chance out of chance encounters
november 2011
In this double feature, the New Scientist touches on a fascinating concept: <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228405.900-presocial-network-finds-you-friends-in-your-hangouts.html">pre-social networks</a> that help match people based on interests and current or even future location. These articles only scratch the surface, but let the notion sink in for a while. There are huge implications to this idea.
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november 2011
WIRED: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
november 2011
Have you ever wondered what happened to Bitcoin?
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november 2011
CNET: How Facebook is ruining sharing
november 2011
Molly Wood shares this quite lovely rant on how Facebook tries to change the act of sharing information online, and ruins it. Great read.
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november 2011
NYTimes: Firewall Law Could Infringe on Free Speech
november 2011
Rebecca MacKinnon, founder of Global Voices, summarizes the damage the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act would have - a bill discussed in the US House of Representatives that would emulate China’s system of corporate “self-discipline,” making companies liable for users’ actions. The burden would be on the Web site operator to prove that the site was not being used for copyright infringement. The effect on user-generated sites like YouTube would be chilling.
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november 2011
Forbes: AT&T Plans To Sell Health-Tracking Clothing
november 2011
With AT&T, another big corporation, and a telecommunications provider, has entered the market for body tracking (otherwise known as Quantified Self). T-Com has some horses in that race already, and plenty of smaller companies have been pushing hard into this field.
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november 2011
Card Case: The new payments app that foretells a world without cash and credit cards - Slate Magazine
november 2011
Square has been innovation how we can pay with our phone for a while. Their new service Card Case takes this to a whole new level. "The experience was magical—almost creepily so. It happened so quickly, and lacked so many of the hassles of a normal transaction, that when I left the store with the cupcake it was hard not to feel like I’d just pulled off a heist."
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november 2011
Inside Groupon: The Truth About the World's Most Controversial Company
november 2011
We're not big fans of copycats; that said, it's fascinating to watch the rise and fall of Groupon. Here's an extensive inside perspective.
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november 2011
The continuing digital transformation of the New York Times
november 2011
Chairman of the New York Times Arthur Sulzberger gave a talk about the continuing digital transformation of the NYTimes. This is the full text.
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