May 2012
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“Over the last few decades, nearly all the economic growth and job growth in the...”
– Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact - Harvard Business Review
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April 2012
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“When they look back at this era, Internet historians will mark Facebook’s...”
– Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile
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What happens when you give Kindles to kids in... →
Kids learned to use e-readers quickly even though 43 percent of them had never used a computer before. Also, not surprisingly, they were quick to discover “the multimedia aspects of the e-reader, such as music and Internet features.”
Near-zero theft. Only two e-readers (out of 600) were lost in the whole study, partly because “community involvement was encouraged through e-reader...
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“Americans generate more trash than anyone else on the planet: more than 7 pounds...”
– Following Garbage’s Long Journey Around The Earth : NPR
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“Today there are 75 bits of Lego for every person on the planet.”
– Schumpeter: Simplify and repeat | The Economist (via interestingsnippets)
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“In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1...”
– Google research scientist | Google Now Translates As Much Text in a Day As Human Pros Can in a Year
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“As it is, women remain acutely underrepresented in the coding and engineering...”
– “Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem
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Predicted: In 15 Years, 90% of News Stories Will... →
Take, for example, Little League games. What grandparent wouldn’t love to read an account of the highlights from her kid’s game? But what newspaper is going to send reporters to cover them? None. Narrative Science has figured out a way to fill in that gap. With an iPhone app called GameChanger, parents can enter a game’s play-by-play, down to each pitch. Supplied with that data,...
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“Facebook has close to a billion active users, but it makes a remarkably tiny...”
– What if Facebook isn’t so special after all?
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Harvard Now Spending Nearly $3.75 Million on... →
Harvard may be the second-wealthiest nonprofit institution in the world (right behind the Catholic Church) but even so the price tag for its collection of academic journal bundles lining its libraries’ shelves is too high: close to $3.75 million, according to a memo from a faculty committee released last week. Some journals cost as much as $40,000.
The academic publishing industry is...
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“News to world: it generally takes longer than two years to create a billion...”
– Ben Horowitz | Andreessen Horowitz Made $78M Off $250,000 Investment in Instagram
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“‘They’re happy little doggy-dwarves who are always smiling....”
– Seriously, What’s So Great About Corgis? - The Atlantic
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“More than $12 billion was generated by mobile gaming in 2011 with 34% of the top...”
– The rise of the billion dollar mobile gaming market
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“It’s not just maps, photos and geo locations that number crunchers crave....”
– PAUL SMALERA: All your Tumblr are belong to Them (via reuters)
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“These micro- and supermicro-size social networks aren’t competing directly with...”
– Why Path is no Instagram
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The Sharing Economy: Is The Internet Making us... →
In the article, Margaret Donnelly, a bartender in Key West described recent spring breakers as “very prudish” and said there “are far fewer wet T-shirt contests— a spring break mainstay — in town today”. She commented, “They are so afraid everyone is going to take their picture and put it online. Ten years ago people were doing filthy, filthy things, but it wasn’t posted on Facebook.”
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“Thanks to technology’s mass appeal and accessibility, on a daily basis we...”
– Data wars: Unlocking the information goldmine (via myserendipities)
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“Even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation. When a platform is self-service,...”
– Jeff Bezos | Bezos Talks Innovation In The Publishing Space
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“The attention resulted in explosive growth. Since the launch of its Android app,...”
– TechCrunch
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“94% of adults with post-graduate degrees are online, but 57% of those without...”
– Report: One In Five U.S. Adults Does Not Use The Internet
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“General news is not relevant to young people because they don’t have context....”
– Said (Microsoft researcher) Danah Boyd, addressing why young people aren’t following traditional, regular news.
FJP: Can’t help but think of this, for one thing. Also, if you’re interested: Jonathan Stray on making news immersive.
via Poynter.
(via futurejournalismproject)
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“The average age of founders in all three ecosystems is about the same, with an...”
– Silicon Valley, London, NYC: How The World’s Top Tech Hubs Stack Up
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“Before Instagram, Facebook was used exclusively to share content - it...”
– 5 Things the Experts Say You Need to Know About the Facebook-Instagram Merger
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The world’s top 25 startup ecosystems, ordered by their average throughput:
Silicon Valley (San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, Oakland)
New York City (NYC, Brooklyn)
London
Toronto
Tel Aviv
Los Angeles
Singapore
Sao Paulo
Bangalore
Moscow
Paris
Santiago
Seattle
Madrid
Chicago
Vancouver
Berlin
Boston
Austin
Mumbai
Sydney
Melbourne
Warsaw
Washington D.C.
Montreal
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“It’s creepy because it seems designed to eliminate all the parts of life that...”
– Google’s New Glasses And The War On Serendipity : Monkey See : NPR (via new-aesthetic)
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“Just for perspective, Yahoo paid $35 million for Flickr.”
– Facebook’s Instagram Move
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“Silicon Valley needs to take itself more seriously? Why? Because it’s a...”
– Alexia Tsotsis | Silicon Valley Needs To Take Itself More Seriously*
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“Instagram had grown so fast that Systrom appeared on-stage last month at SXSW to...”
– From 0 To $1 Billion In Two Years: Instagram’s Rose-Tinted Ride To Glory
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“Facebook and Instagram are two distinct companies with two distinct...”
– Om Malik | Here is why Facebook bought Instagram
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“Facebook was scared shitless and knew that for first time in its life it...”
– Om Malik | Here is why Facebook bought Instagram
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“The very surprising announcement this morning that Facebook is acquiring...”
– With Instagram Buy, Facebook Officially Pushes M&A Strategy Beyond The ‘Acqui-hire’
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“It was only later that I realized the value of being bored was actually pretty...”
– Clay Shirky - How Will We Read (via bijan)
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Middle America Is Experiencing a Massive Increase... →
A new United States Geological Survey study has found that middle America between Alabama and Montana is experiencing an “unprecedented” and “almost certainly manmade” increase in earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater. In 2011, there were 134 events of that size. That’s six times more than were normally seen during the 20th century.
While the changes in the...
