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SoftBank Pantone 5 107SH hands-on: radiation detection comes to Android | The Verge
Smartphones have been really taking off recently, after highly specialized Japan-only phones (sometimes more smart, sometimes less) had been dominating the phone market for ages. Japanese carrier SoftBank now introduced a new model of one of their more popular Android devices, one that is also very specialized to Japan: It has a built-in sensor for radiation. Let's see how the consumers take to it.
3wfav  design  radiation 
4 days ago by thewavingcat
Doc Searls Weblog · After Facebook fails
Says Doc Searls: "Tracking and “personalizing”—the current frontier of online advertising—probe the limits of tolerance. While harvesting mountains of data about individuals and signaling nothing obvious about their methods, tracking and personalizing together ditch one of the few noble virtues to which advertising at its best aspires: respect for the prospect’s privacy and integrity, which has long included a default assumption of anonymity."
3wfav  advertising  personalization  targeting  facebook  anonymity  bubble 
8 days ago by thewavingcat
Nest | The Learning Thermostat | Meet your Energy Report.
Having a learning thermostat is good, but the Nest smart meter goes a step further: It helps consumers understand better how they consume energy, with plenty of data, visualization and insight.
energy  smartmeter  smartenergy  3wfav 
10 days ago by thewavingcat
Parsing a new Pew report: 3 ways the Internet is shaping healthcare - O'Reilly Radar
This new PEW report covers how the internet, and data, is changing healthcare. This includes the quantified self, of course, but also goes beyond that and puts it into the larger context of healthcare.
health  quantifiedself  data  healthcare  3wfav 
10 days ago by thewavingcat
GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Pay Off - WSJ.com
Bad news for Facebook: General Motors decided to dial down advertising on Facebook after finding it has little impact on consumers' car purchases. If Facebook's customers don't trust in the platform's effectiveness, this could put quite a damper on the IPO due this Friday.
3wfav  facebook  ads  generalmotors  advertising 
17 days ago by thewavingcat
Northeastern students create a shirt that knows when you're slacking off on your workout - Innovation Economy - Boston.com
As body sensors become more and more ubiquitous, we see them integrated in more day to day products and in some highly specialized niches. In this case, we see a prototype for a shirt that's packed with sensors to monitor your body (heart rate and all) for further analysis. While for now this is aimed at elite athletes and other gym rats, we expect to see the technology trickle down to more consumer grade goods quite soon.
3wfav  qs  quantifiedself  apparel  tech  sensors  iot 
23 days ago by thewavingcat
UNIQLO Wake Up - App - iPhone - Android - Review | Selectism.com
Japanese apparel producer UNIQLO shows how brands can add both value for, and touchpoints with, their customers. In this case, they built a gorgeous multi-platform wake up app that pulls in live ambient data to create customized wake up ring tones.
3wfav  branding  mobile  platform  apparel  business 
23 days ago by thewavingcat
To Facebook You’re Worth $80.95 - The CIO Report - WSJ
3wfav  facebook  monetization  value 
23 days ago by thewavingcat
Carl Bass of Autodesk, on Setting a Clear Course - NYTimes.com
"The thing that I worry about a lot is how companies measure themselves. The analogy is that you can see light from a star that burned out a long time ago — it’s 100 light years away, and three years ago that star died." Autodesk CEO Carl Bass on leadership and the importance of evaluating if your big company is still innovating.
3wfav  innovation  evaluation  leadership 
26 days ago by thewavingcat
Wired: How to Spot the Future
Wired Magazine's Thomas Goetz wrote a great piece on a topic that's very dear to us: How to spot the future? Must read.
3wfav  future  spotting  trend  analysis  research  TheGood  Guys 
5 weeks ago by thewavingcat
The Media Piracy Report
The American Assembly at Columbia University compiled a report on media piracy, looking at emerging economies and how the economics of media piracy work in these markets, where piracy is the primary form of access to many kinds of digital goods. More importantly, the report explores what business opportunities can emerge at the low end of these media markets that could address several billion media consumers.
media  piracy  innovation  distribution  3wfav 
5 weeks ago by thewavingcat
Publishers Weekly: A Whip to Beat Us With
Author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow sheds light on the twisted logic connecting publishers, ebooks, DRM and user lock-in into certain ebook platforms.
3wfav  publisher  DRM  amazon  interoperability  books  copyright  ebooks 
6 weeks ago by thewavingcat
Barclay’s Launches The First Social Credit Card @PSFK
3wfav  creditcard  finance  social 
11 weeks ago by thewavingcat
The quantified self: Counting every moment | The Economist
"Seeing the facts on your computer screen makes them difficult to ignore." The Economist gives a solid overview of the Quantified Self, aimed at a mainstream, non-geeky audience. We read it like a reality check on the QS.
3wfav  quantifiedself  selftracking 
12 weeks ago by thewavingcat
Martin Varsavsky: On managing my time
Martin Varsavsky's blog post on time management is overall quite an excellent read even for those who don't have a private jet. But in particular, the way he uses social media is quite interesting to see: "I use social media to take notes, like I have an idea for a business and I blog it, I share it, I work collectively with people, social media looks like a waste of time for others but it saves me time, I recruit on twitter, I brainstorm on Google+ or my blog, I work inside social media, get ideas, its a sanity check many times, crowdsourcing saves me time."
3wfav  time  management  social  media 
february 2012 by thewavingcat
Undercurrent – What Is Strategy?
Our good friend and occasional collaborator Mike Arauz wrote a great piece on the Undercurrent blog - nice infographic included. If there's one company out there we really share an understanding with of what strategy is, it's Undercurrent. Must read.
3wfav  digital  strategy  TheGoodGuys 
february 2012 by thewavingcat
Nielsen: Cord Cutting And Internet TV Viewing On The Rise
More and more US households use broadband internet, but cut their TV subscriptions and switch to free broadcasts only. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that TV is over, but it certainly indicates that consumers use different channels to get their TV series shots.
3wfav  stats  tv  media  internet  streaming 
february 2012 by thewavingcat
Altes Haus Potsdam
3wfav  berlin  retreat  location  seminar 
february 2012 by thewavingcat
NYTimes: The Death of the Cyberflâneur
Whatever happened to the vision of an internet roamed by Cyberflâneurs?
3wfav  cyberculture  culture  cyberflaneur 
february 2012 by thewavingcat
Imperica: The future of the future
Leila Johnston and Chris Heathcote discuss the future of ... the future, and of advertising. As our notion of the future has become very much blurry compared to the 50s, their grasp of the current state of futurism is a must read. Along the way we learn that advertising can stay relevant, particularly if it fulfills a need beyond just advertising a product.
3wfav  future  futurism  interview 
february 2012 by thewavingcat
NYTimes: Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China
An alarming article about the human costs of our gadget lust. While we won't pretend that we'd stop buying gadgets anytime soon, this investigative piece is an urgent reminder that we should demand higher labor standards from Apple & Co.
3wfav  ipad  allpe  foxconn  production  globalization  sweatshops 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
PEW: Tablet and e-book reader ownership surge in the holiday gift-giving period
In a few years, we might look at the last holiday season and mark it as the breakthrough point for tablets and ebooks: In the US, tablet and ebook ownership each nearly doubled from mid-December to early January from 10% to 19%. The share of Americans who own at least one of these devices is now at almost a third. From kinda-niche to full-on mainstream in 3 weeks.
3wfav  stats  tablet  ebook  kindle 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Nielsen Wire: 40% of Tablet and Smartphone Owners Use Them While Watching TV
While TV consumption is on the rise, increasingly people don't watch TV exclusively anymore. (As if they ever did.) 40% of tablet and smartphones owners use their devices while watching TV. That's almost half - broadcasters better take that into account when planning their programming.
tablet  tv  twitter  2screen  stats  usage  media  3wfav 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
The Pirate Bay: Evolution
The Pirate Bay goes physical, announces to also share blueprints for 3D models: "We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles." Expect to print your own knock-off Legos soon.
3wfav  3d  printing  future  fablab  piracy  piratebay 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Reuters: Facebook's newest frontier: inside the car
Facebook is extending to new platforms, namely TVs and cars. These announcements around CES is an indicator of ever-increasing overlap of some so-far largely separated spheres. Publishers and broadcasters have long been looking into getting their products ready for Social Primetime. More recently, the automotive industry has realized that the cars they build should be made a platform - CarOS, so to speak. Getting a slimmed-down version of Facebook on your Mercedes Benz is one early step into that direction.
3wfav  facebook  automotive  auto  socialmedia  social  platform 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Golem.de: Quantified Self: Ich tracke, also bin ich
We wrote two articles for Golem (in German). #1 is live now.
quantifiedself  self  article  de  3wfav  mystuff 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Big Spaceship : 2011: What We Learned
In a pretty neat summary of learnings of the last year, the Big Spaceship teams reflects on the day-to-day agency work as well as a litmus test for quality, cutting out distractions, the merits of offline time and saying "I don't know" more often.
3wfav  agencies  digital  2011 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
German Hackers Are Building a Popular Science: DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space
In a somewhat larger-than-usual DIY project, a group of hackers and IT experts announced plans to build an alternative infrastructure for uncensored internet. Meet The Hackerspace Global Grid, a network of communication satellites that serves as the new backbone. Welcome to the future, everyone.
3wfav  hackerspace  DIY  internet  backbone 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
TechCrunch: Payoff.com Raises $2M, ‘Gamifies’ Personal Finance Management
Payoff adds a game layer to personal financing, essentially trying to create incentives to work towards individual financial goals. While they have been working on this since 2009, a new round of financing seems to verify the concept. Gamification has officially reached personal finance.
3wfav  business  banking  gamification  tools  finance  financing 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Fast Company: This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
Excellent article about the way the world is changing with increasing speed, and in increasingly chaotic ways: "The next decade or two will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The most valuable insight is that we are, in a critical sense, in a time of chaos."
3wfav  business  culture  future  trends 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
The Next Web: Luxembourg VAT Cut is Good for Amazon, but Not the UK
Without making much fuss, Luxembourg cut the VAT, and in effect ebook prices for consumers. Ebooks, unlike paper books, are subject to full VAT across the EU. So this could change market dynamics quite a bit: Both Amazon and Apple sell their ebooks from Luxembourg, and might now be able to undercut local book prices.
3wfav  ebooks  tax  amazon 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
CNN: Digital music sales top physical sales
Digital music purchases accounted for 50.3% of music sales in 2011. That's a first, and proves beyond any doubt that consumers are willing to pay for online content, and that the CD won't be missed for long. Now the big question is: Will we see music purchases rise further, or see on demand streaming take over? In other words, is it ownership or access to music that consumers are willing to pay for?
3wfav  music  online  sales  business 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
NYTimes.com: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right
Vint Cerf, one of the original inventors of the internet, says the internet should not be a human right. Sounds outrageous? The point Cerf makes is an excellent one, actually: It's important not to protect the tool, but rather its empowering qualities. A must read.
3wfav  rights  internet  policy 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
GigaOM: You are what you curate: Why Pinterest is hawt
A nice overview of a trend that's been surging for awhile now, and is still gathering steam: Online content curation. Focusing on Pinterest, GigaOM explains why curation services are so successful and why we can expect a wave of services that make curation even more streamlined and structured.
3wfav  startups  curation 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Clay Shirky: Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users
Newspapers have been experimenting with paid vs free content for a number of years, sometimes more, often less successfully. Clay Shirky thinks that 2012 might be the year where newspaper economics could start working out. That is, they might work out once newspapers stop treating all news as a product and all readers as customers.
3wfav  newspapers  news  journalism  media  TheGoodGuys  business 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
brand eins: Das digitale Urheberrecht steht am Abgrund
Brand Eins, certainly one of the best business magazines in Germany, inquires into the way copyright works - or fails to work - in a digital context. It's a long, in-depth interview in German. Well worth reading.
3wfav  copyright  urheberrecht 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
The Atlantic: To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data
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.
3wfav  science  TheGoodGuys  bigdata  data  theory 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Global mobile statistics 2011: all quality mobile marketing research, mobile Web stats, subscribers, ad revenue, usage, trends… | mobiThinking
A comprehensive, massive overview of mobile stats for 2011.
3wfav  mobile  stats  2011  compilation 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 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.
3wfav  copyright  culture  law 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
Mashable: Louis CK Earns $1 Million in 12 Days With $5 Video
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.
3wfav  content  disruption  distribution  business  model  louisck  video 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
The Guardian: Android and Apple win 6.8m phone activations on Christmas Day
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.
3wfav  mobile  stats  iphone  ios  android 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users.…
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.
3wfav  googleplus  google  google+  stats 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
GigaOm: Why Berlin is poised to be Europe’s new tech hub
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.
3wfav  berlin  startups 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
WIRED: How Smartphones Are Changing Photography: The Numbers Are In
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.
3wfav  photography  digital  culture  smart  phones  cell  camera 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Market For TechCrunch: Mobile Health Apps Projected To Quadruple To $400 Million By 2016
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.
3wfav  quantifiedself  health  med  bodytracking  fitness  healthcare 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
The Washington Post: Google tablet could be released within six months
“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.
3wfav  mobile  tablet  android  ipad  google  apple 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Presentation: Social, Digital and Mobile in Japan
UK-based agency We Are Social compiled a solid overview of Japan's social & mobile usage statistics.
3wfav  presentation  stats  japan  asia 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Tim O'Reilly: Publishers Finally Starting to Wake Up to the Consequences…
"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.
3wfav  publishing  publishing2.0 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Business Insider: Facebook's Revenue Numbers Just Leaked, And The Numbers Look Underwhelming
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.
3wfav  facebook  revenue  business 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Homesense: Final Report
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.
3wfav  homesense  report  tinker  design  smarthome  iot 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Nieman Journalism Lab: The personal(ized) brand: Yet another reason The Economist is trouncing competitors
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.
3wfav  economist  futureofmedia  journalism  media  brand 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
The Economist: More than just digital quilting
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.
3wfav  diy  maker  arduino 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
The Guardian: Welcome to the post-digital world, an exhilarating return to civility – via Facebook and Lady Gaga
"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.
3wfav  postdigital 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
The Internet, innovation and learning
"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.
3wfav  innovation  neoteny 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis
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.
3wfav  media  businessmodels  institutions 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
FAZ: Der Stromzähler ist ein Spion im Haus
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.
3wfav  smartmeter  smartgrid  electricity 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Better Data for a Better Internet
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.
3wfav  data  policy 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
NYTimes Labs: Reveal
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.
3wfav  screen  interface  glanceable  research  labs  nytimes 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
The Guardian: Know thyself: the Quantified Self devotees who live by numbers
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.
3wfav  quantifiedself  qseurope 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
russell davies: again with the post digital
3wfav  postdigital  TheGoodGuys  DIY 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
New Scientist: Taking the chance out of chance encounters
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.
3wfav  social  networks  matching  serendipity  presocial 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
WIRED: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
Have you ever wondered what happened to Bitcoin?
3wfav  bitcoin 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
CNET: How Facebook is ruining sharing
Molly Wood shares this quite lovely rant on how Facebook tries to change the act of sharing information online, and ruins it. Great read.
3wfav  facebook  sharing 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury - Food - GOOD
coffee  3wfav  culture  barista 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
NYTimes: Firewall Law Could Infringe on Free Speech
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.
3wfav  sopa  internet  censorship 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
Card Case: The new payments app that foretells a world without cash and credit cards - Slate Magazine
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."
3wfav  app  banking  ecommerce  mobile  payment 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
Inside Groupon: The Truth About the World's Most Controversial Company
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.
3wfav  groupon  business  startup 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
The continuing digital transformation of the New York Times
Chairman of the New York Times Arthur Sulzberger gave a talk about the continuing digital transformation of the NYTimes. This is the full text.
3wfav  media  socialmedia  change  journalism 
november 2011 by thewavingcat
The Post-Functional Paradigm: Why all designs are compensations for telepathy and teleportation. – marks.dk
Our friend Mark Jensen (@marks), currently working as a design intern at Google, sums up his thesis on post-functional design as a paradigm. Fantastic work.
3wfav  design  postfunctional  functional  thesis  UX 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
Emo Touch Screen Future
Toby Barnes of Mudlark started a somewhat ironic tumblelog: Emo Touch Screen Future features (often somewhat failed or misguided) visions of how touch screens will revolutionize our day-to-day lifes.
3wfav  screens  future  futurism  visions  fails 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
Fast Company: Bill Nguyen, The Boy In The Bubble
Fast Company portraits Bill Nguyen, the founder of Color, a photo sharing app for the iPhone that has become synonymous for over-eager venture capitalists throwing money at startups based on nothing but buzz words and hype.
3wfav  color  startups  fail 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
Nieman Journalism Lab: Word clouds considered harmful
"Every time I see a word cloud presented as insight, I die a little inside." We agree. Data visualization is an art form, or a craft. Peeling away layers and layers of data sets to surface the story hidden inside, adding context, supporting insight. And then there's word clouds, that show you nothing but how many times a word was mentioned. Excellent stuff.
3wfav  dataviz  visualization  wordclouds  design  datajournalism  data  journalism 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
Bitcoin's value falls to 10 percent of June peak (Wired UK)
It looks like the first hype around the new, anonymous crypto currency Bitcoin is over and reality is kicking in. Now that the honeymoon period is over and the value of one Bitcoin is headed for a US Doller equilibrium, it'll be interesting to watch what the real deal is.
3wfav  bitcoin  currency 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
Online Music Tools and Services Help You Find New Tunes - NYTimes.com
Confused by which service to use to find and listen to new music? The NYTimes made a nice, very useful overview of the best online music services.
3wfav  online  music 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
The Kaiser Rises: Identity in the age of digital reproduction
Marcus Brown on his experiments with automating himself on the social web, with some help by our friends at the Philter Phactory. This is only one first glimpse into what will be a huge discussion in the upcoming years: How we define identity online when we can have bots/weavrs help us exist online. Think Social Cyborgs.
3wfav  identity  socialmedia  identity2.0  weavrs 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
Politik und Internet: Mein neues Leben unter Piraten - Digitales Denken - FAZ
Peter Altmeier, Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, veröffentlicht in der FAZ einen deutlichen Weckruf an die Politik, die Bedeutung des Internet anzuerkennen und im politischen System festzuschreiben. Das Internet, so Altmeier, hat inzwischen eine Bedeutung, die derjenigen des Zugangs zu Wasser sehr nahe kommt.
3wfav  politik  internet  grundrecht 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
FAZ Blogs: Der Medienwandel hat sich nochmals beschleunigt
A recent study provides some hard facts & figures about the internet as a news source in Germany. While the trend towards the web as main news source is obvious, it's noteworthy how dramatically this differs depending on education levels.
de  3wfav  media  germany  internet  news 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
A Unified Theory for Information Consumption
The infamous CmdrTaco, founder of Slashdot, shares some deeper insights about how we consume information, and how tools could be better structured to allow for more human consumption of the amounts of info we dig through every day.
3wfav  information  consumption  rss  flow 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
Adrian Short: the end of the web as we know it
"The promise of the open web looks increasingly uncertain": an excellent, in-depth essay about the meaning & necessity of the open web, and insisting on controlling our own infrastructure.
3wfav  facebook  privacy 
october 2011 by thewavingcat
What I like about Facebook Timeline and why Open Graph could undermine the internet as we know it – marks.dk
Mark Jensen analyzes the new Facebook interface, the new Timeline feature as well as Facebook's goals with its (so-called, but not really open) "Open Graph".
3wfav  facebook  timeline  opengraph 
september 2011 by thewavingcat
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