June 2012
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“A quarter of all undergraduates and more than fifty per cent of graduate...”
– Stanford’s Top Major Is Now Computer Science
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“According to the most recent available data from comScore, Microsoft’s...”
– Whoa: It’s 2012, and the World’s Most Popular Email Service Is … Hotmail
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“By 2018, there will be 1.4 million computer science-related job openings, yet...”
– Twitter Supporting Girls Who Code
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Pew: 17% Of U.S. Cell Phone Users Now Mostly Use... →
infoneer-pulse:
17% of U.S. adult cell phone owners now go online using their phones more than their desktops, laptops or tablets. That’s the number for all cell phone owners in the U.S, including those with feature phones. Just looking at those who already use their phones to go online (55% of all cell phone owners), a whopping 31% now say they mostly use their phones to go online.
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“During the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, Facebook had 100 million users and...”
– Olympic Social Media Guidelines Muzzle Athletes
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THE COOLEST TOY FOR GIRLS EVER →
wiredinsider:
The electric dollhouse kit encourages girls aged 6 to 10 to create their own wired dollhouses (think fans, lights, motors, and buzzers) with circuits and wooden building components. The stackable rooms attach to one another to create a home. Instead of playing princess, girls are playing architect, artist, and engineer.
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“We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are...”
– Is modern technology creating a culture of distraction?
“78% of Americans can name Larry, Moe and Curley. Yet only 42% can identify the...”
– 11 Bizarrely Wrong Beliefs Americans Have About Themselves
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It Takes More Than 3 Gallons of Water to Make a... →
Below, the water requirements for some of the things you might be wearing/eating/using right now:
One pair of shoes: 2,257 gallons
One pair of jeans: 2,636 gallons
One chocolate bar: 454 gallons
One piece of beef: 4,000 gallons
One hamburger: 632 gallons
One plain-cheese pizza: 321 gallons
One slice of cheese: 40 gallons
One pint of beer: 45 gallons
One cup of coffee: 35 gallons
One...
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When Twitter Stumbles, Sites Across the Web Go... →
If we continue down the path… in which Twitter is central to the functioning of high-impact, time-sensitive capabilities, systemic risk will become a serious concern. And it will require an attendant level of risk-management regulation and oversight. The question then becomes: At what point is a for profit-service so interconnected and critical that it should be thought of as something...
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“YouTube users upload 48 hours of video, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of...”
– How Much Data is Created Every Minute? (via infoneer-pulse)
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“The biggest mistake we make in life is that we end up spending most of it trying...”
– Om Malik | Mistakes we make
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You think the internet is big now? Akamai needs to... →
The Akamai network currently handles over 2 trillion requests a day, [Akamai CEO Paul Sagan] said, and about 3,000 hours worth of content every minute — that’s 2 trillion transactions of some kind involving content that needs to be moved across the network from one of the company’s thousands of nodes in hundreds of countries around the world. And the bulk of that isn’t really content but...
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“Consider this: In the first quarter of 2011, Facebook made up 88% of the social...”
– E-Commerce Is Head Over Heels for Pinterest, and for Good Reason D
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Twitter’s expanded tweets are a double-edged sword →
One of the mainstream media’s favorite criticisms about Google News has been that the excerpts the company includes — which News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and others have described as theft of their content — are often enough for most readers who just want a summary of what is happening in the world, and therefore rob media websites of traffic. If someone can watch a video or read a summary...
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“One of the big problems of newspapers is that they saw they had text, bylines,...”
– Anya Grundmann Is Reinventing Public Radio For A Post-Radio Generation
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“By divorcing the composer from the content, sharing starts to feel like shouting...”
– Facebook and Twitter Sharing Through Apple Notifications Could Make Us Egotistical
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“I’ve got a few simple frameworks for thinking about things. In social...”
– Fred Wilson | A VC: Feature Friday: Liking A Checkin
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NASCAR, a case study for sports marketing →
“Marketing executives realize that stock car racing is more than a sport; it’s a lifestyle.”
Of NASCAR’s 75 million fans, 40% are women
NASCAR is the nation’s No. 1 spectator sport
17 of the 20 most-attended sporting events in the country are NASCAR
It is the second-most-watched sport in the United States, after the NFL
More than 21% of fans are minorities, and more than 50% of...
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The office is shrinking as tech creates workplace... →
Offices traditionally use 200 to 300 square feet per worker — an average of everything from clerks’ cubicles to executive suites. By encouraging staff to work from home, getting rid of offices, even resorting to “hoteling” — workers check in when they’re in the office and get assigned a desk for the day — some companies are slashing average square footage per worker to...
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“If you just walk down the street, it seems hard to imagine that the generations...”
– MediaShift . Why We Need a Technology Sabbath | PBS (via infoneer-pulse)
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