February 2012
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Morgan Missen: “Until now, it has been illegal to... →
morganmissen:
“Until now, it has been illegal to invest as little as $100 at a time into a new startup without first being an accredited investor. If you don’t have $1 million in assets or $200,000 in annual income, you don’t qualify and can’t invest. Until now, venture capital has been a game only for the…
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“@stoweboyd: 379.4M Europeans went online in November 2011 for an average of 27.8...”
– February 26, 2012 at 08:33AM via http://bit.ly/ybV3xv (via stoweboyd)
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“Once they join Prime, Amazon’s customers’ gross merchandise volume grows from...”
– Amazon Prime: 5 Million Members, 20 Percent Growth | Practical eCommerce (via soxiam)
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Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be... →
stoweboyd:
Eyal makes a good argument: that virality — users inviting their friends to try an app — is less important (and more annoying) than habitual use of apps: habit is the new viral.
Nir Eyal via TechCrunch
The Curated Web Will Run On Habits
Increasingly, companies will become experts at designing user habits. Curated Web companies already rely on these methods. This new breed of ...
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How technology in cities can help deliver a... →
smartercities:
“People want to live in cities where there’s a high quality of life. These demands are placing a huge strain on city infrastructures and the planet’s resources. We need a “smarter” approach to delivering vital services, such as transportation, healthcare, education, public safety, energy and water. It’s estimated that lost productivity and energy use due to traffic congestion...
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“@futurefeed: Social mobile on the rise http://t.co/a0gejQ5G More than half of US...”
– February 27, 2012 at 06:26AM via http://bit.ly/wG3meS (via stoweboyd)
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The Machines Are Talking a Lot - Technology Review →
smarterplanet:
The rise of sensors, surveillance cameras, and other automated devices can be seen in a new analysis of Internet traffic.
As one of the leading manufacturers of the equipment that routes data around the Internet, Cisco Systems is in good position to know just how many 0s and 1s go zipping around all day, every day. Today it released an annual analysis of how much Internet usage...
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Twitter Lets Oscar Fans Get “Extremely Loud”... →
smarterplanet:
USC, the Los Angeles Times and IBM Go Beyond
Best Picture to Look at the Bigger Picture
By Jonathan Taplin
Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab
The University of Southern California
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“When you arrive at your friends house, just press the doorbell and it will text...”
– Or you can just…
Pocket Doorbell for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
(via soxiam)
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Metatronic chip replaces electricity with light,... →
unexpectedtech:
Optical engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have created the first computer circuit where logic is performed with light instead of electricity. Dubbed “metatronics,” this light-based logic could enable smaller, faster, and more energy efficient computer chips.
The team, led by Nader Engheta, demonstrated that it’s possible to make resistors, inductors, and capacitors...
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the... →
http://helldesign.net, kurzweilai.net
Until now. Beyond reading email and surfing the Web, we will soon be checking our vital signs on our phone. We can already continuously monitor our heart rhythm, blood glucose levels, and brain waves while we sleep. Miniature…
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“9% are paying via smartphone — but 71% are interested in paying via smartphone.”
– Shop til you drop (calls): How iPhone users shop in stores (via courtenaybird)
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BBC.com launches Future – the home of new trends →
futuramb:
vahidmotlagh:
BBC.com launches Future – the home of new trends in the worlds of Science, Technology, Environment and Health
It is fabulous that so many are interested in the future - or at least are “pornographically” interested in the future - while so few are taking the steps to get there…
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With New Standard, Wi-Fi Could Become As... →
smarterplanet:
In late 2010, Verizon rolled out its 4G LTE network, which offers data speeds 10 times as fast as 3G networks. But as mobile data traffic continues to grow—experts anticipate that it will increase 26-fold in the next three years—it’s unlikely that any network will be able to keep up. Fortunately, something else is set to happen over the next three years: Wi-Fi could become as...
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“This is the renaissance! This is the great time of the cloud! We’ve all changed...”
– Marc Benioff | Marc Benioff Is Thinking Bigger (via courtenaybird)
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“Pinterest isn’t just for saving things. It’s curating things. Curating doesn’t...”
– Damien Basile (via courtenaybird)
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For a Growing Number of College Students,... →
Paul Higgins: Great Idea - Stop complaining about the dark and light a candle
infoneer-pulse:
Wikipedia doesn’t have a stellar reputation for scholarly accuracy, but its staggering collection of 20 million articles in 283 languages has nonetheless made it the go-to reference for the world’s students—it’s even the most plagiarized source on college campuses. Now, a growing number of...
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“Slowness, in this age of constant connectivity, is its own kind of value. Most...”
– ‘The Future of Email’ … Looks a Lot Like Twitter (via courtenaybird)
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”
– Alfred North Whitehead (via courtenaybird)
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Models Underestimate Future Temperature... →
Climate warming caused by greenhouse gases is very likely to increase the variability of summertime temperatures around the world by the end of this century, a University of Washington climate scientist said Friday. The findings have major implications for food production.
Full Story: Science Daily
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Are we at Peak Telecom? →
futuresagency:
Martin Geddes says we’re at ‘Peak Telecom’ — the maximum point of expansion of telecom companies, just before the Internet gobbles them up and changes the economics drastically, commoditizing them into pipe:
Peak Telecoms by Martin Geddes
We’re at “Peak Telecoms”
The telco voice and…
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Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong... →
courtenaybird:
“There seems to be a growing obsession with defining what journalism is, and who deserves (or doesn’t deserve) to be called a journalist. Is the man who live-blogged the Osama bin Laden assassination a journalist? Is National Public Radio’s Andy Carvin, who has been using Twitter as a one-man newswire during the Arab Spring, a journalist? Some mainstream journalists would answer...
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Stowe Boyd: Some notable dates in the far future →
intothecontinuum:
Compiled below is a selection of estimated dates for some events given certain assumptions in the evolution of Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe. Most events are of an astronomical and cosmological nature though some are geological. A more complete list from which…
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Construction firm aims at space elevator in 2050 →
unexpectedtech:
It may be possible to travel to space in an elevator as early as 2050, a major construction company has announced.
Obayashi Corp., headquartered in Tokyo, on Monday unveiled a project to build a gigantic elevator that would transport passengers to a station 36,000 kilometers above the Earth.
For the envisaged project, the company would utilize carbon nanotubes, which are 20...
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Amazon Pulls Thousands of E-Books in Dispute →
infoneer-pulse:
Amazon.com yanked the buy button on its site from thousands of e-books this week after failing to extract better terms from their distributor, the Independent Publishers Group.
I.P.G., one of the country’s largest distributors, said Amazon sought new discounts that it could not afford.
“There’s only so far we can go,” said Mark Suchomel, president of the Chicago-based outfit.
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Using Sustainable Systems Thinking in the Poorest... →
smartercities:
Last September, the New York Times ran a story highlighting my hometown. Reading, PA had officially “earned the unwelcome distinction of having the largest share of its residents living in poverty” among cities with populations greater than 65,000. Roughly 43% of our residents live in poverty – a staggering 36,000 people in my community of 88,000. Less than two months...
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
Paul Higgins: Agree with this and great example of seeking community input and feedback
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of...
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