February 2012
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“To me Facebook already feels over. I really don’t feel like I’m missing...”
– - Dave Winer, Scoble: I’ll go down with the ship via Scripting News
Facebook is the new AOL, despite the market cap. But it’s headed for a hard landing for other reasons than Winer is pushing. Facebook will fail because of the imminent rise of social operating systems — future versions of iOS, Mac...
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Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself - NYTimes.com →
nevver:
in case you missed it
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“Some game developers — the digital-era equivalent of songwriters and authors, in...”
– Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio — Tech News and Analysis (via mediafuturist)
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Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By... →
infoneer-pulse:
The skies are going to look very different pretty soon, and it’s been a long time coming. Congress finally passed a spending bill for the Federal Aviation Administration, allocating $63.4 billion for modernizing the country’s air traffic control systems and expanding airspace for unmanned planes within three and a half years.
By Sept. 30, 2015, drones will have to have access...
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“@pewresearch: Just 20% get presidential campaign news from local newspaper, down...”
– February 08, 2012 at 06:41AM via http://bit.ly/ycpRxa (via stoweboyd)
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“On November 3, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R....”
– 23 Unusual Ways to Apply Crowdfunding | World Future Society (via mediafuturist)
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“When predicting technology trends, Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at...”
– Reshaping the Way We Think about RFID | ThingMagic’s RFID Blog - Radio Frequency Identification Company and Industry News (via smarterplanet)
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“Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)
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Stanford pioneering a wireless electric highway →
smarterplanet:
Stanford researchers may have solved the problem of range anxiety by wireless charging technology that could one day create an electric highway.
Wireless recharging already is used by some electric vehicle charging stations to fill up batteries without cords or plugging into an outlet. MIT helped pioneer this technology and spun it off into a wireless charging startup, WiTricity....
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“And then Schmidt’s stand-up act: beware billionaires describing technology as...”
– Stowe Boyd • Google Is Now Officially Evil (via mediafuturist)
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Stowe Boyd: The Point Of Social Leverage Is... →
stoweboyd:
I see that my old friend, Keith Teare, has written a guest post at Techcrunch, making the case that Facebook and Google have inherent ‘structural’ problems in the way they manage information sharing which have become starkly apparent with Google’s new privacy policy and Facebook’s endless privacy…
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“@nytimesbits: On Facebook’s big day, Fred Wilson explains how social media has...”
– February 01, 2012 at 01:50PM via http://bit.ly/z3B8fc (via stoweboyd)
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Crunchies 2011 - What Caught My Eye
arshednabeel:
The Crunchies 2011 Awards by TechCrunch has just been announced, and the results hold many an interesting tid-bit. Here’s a quick look at what caught my eye about this year’s Crunchies.
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The Future of the Book Is the Stream - The... →
courtenaybird:
“What if you could re-define books’ value proposition? What if book-buying became less about one-off salesmanship, and more about ongoing membership? What if you didn’t buy books so much as join them?”
My hesitation with ebooks is the price. For what they cost, I want something physical in return. This subscription model would be an appealing compromise.
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Watchfuturamb:
The future of 3D printing
Who will get the biggest slice of 3D-printed pie? | Crave - CNET
MakerBot’s Bre Pettis says his 3D printers are for everyone. 3D Systems’ Cathy Lewis begs to differ.
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“When you read this sentence to yourself, it’s likely that you hear the words in...”
– Telepathy machine reconstructs speech from brainwaves - health - 31 January 2012 - New Scientist (via wildcat2030)
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“But what makes it really fascinating is that it’s the democracy of the Internet...”
– Paul Higgins: Udate on 10th February - now at $582,142
Chris Sims at Comics Alliance marvels at the power of fans.
As of this moment, Order of the Stick has raised over $331k and is on track to become one of Kickstarter’s 10 Most Funded projects of all time.
Mind. Blown.
(via ensignau) ...
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The Keynesian Formula Will Not Solve Our... →
futuramb:
This is another article pointing which together with both Tyler Cowen and Joseph Stiglitz that the current economic situation is not just a financial crisis but a consequence of a deeper problem which must be fixed before. And depending on if we chose that way of looking at it or not, we will craft different futures.
The advanced countries have a choice. They can act as if all is...
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Bijan Sabet: Weekly All Hands Meeting →
bijan:
I worked at a number of startups and big companies before becoming a venture capitalist.
I’ve brought with me a number of lessons I try to keep in my brian so I remember what it was all about. But often I learn the best things from our portfolio companies.
An example of something I’ve learned…
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Now reading: Peter Gleick's incredible article... →
climateadaptation:
“In our oceans and rivers, a growing number of fish species are threatened or endangered by the human use of water. Some aquatic ecosystems have been completely destroyed or irreversibly modified by human water withdrawals. For example, the Aral Sea, nestled on the frontier between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the fourth-largest inland salt-water body. Today, it is...
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Robert Reich: The Biggest Risk to the Economy in... →
robertreich:
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos a few days ago, said the “critical risks” facing the American economy this year were a worsening of Europe’s chronic sovereign debt crisis and a rise in tensions with Iran that could stoke global oil prices.
What about…
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What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com →
futuramb:
The crucial new idea is that there are two different neural and psychological systems that interact to turn children into adults. Over the past two centuries, and even more over the past generation, the developmental timing of these two systems has changed. That, in turn, has profoundly changed adolescence and produced new kinds of adolescent woe. The big question for anyone who...
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Twitter Is a Critical Tool in Republican Campaigns... →
“Twitter has changed the whole way that politics works,” said Teddy Goff, the digital director of President Obama’s re-election campaign. “Not just the press element, but the organizing element and the fund-raising element and the relationship building that all campaigns try to do.”
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