"There’s a lot of discussion in the world about the two billion that are connected. We spend all day talking about the issues of e-commerce and start-ups and globalisation and so forth, and we forget that the majority of people are not online and that they will come online, the majority of them in the next five years.
It’s going to happen very fast. It’s going to happen in countries which don’t have the same principles that we in America have from the British legal system – around law and privacy and those sorts of things. All sorts of crazy stuff is going to happen. Human societies can’t change that fast without both good and negative implications.
…The future for us is great. The quality of life of the first world just gets better and better and better. But for these people, they’re going to go through a rough patch where all this information shows up and they can’t quite figure out what to do."
- Eric Schmidt | The future according to Mr Google (via ParisLemon)
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"Our heavy investments in Prime, AWS, Kindle, digital media, and customer experience in general strike some as too generous, shareholder indifferent, or even at odds with being a for-profit company. “Amazon, as far as I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers,” writes one outside observer.
But I don’t think so.
To me, trying to dole out improvements in a just-in-time fashion would be too clever by half. It would be risky in a world as fast-moving as the one we all live in.
More fundamentally, I think long-term thinking squares the circle. Proactively delighting customers earns trust, which earns more business from those customers, even in new business arenas. Take a long-term view, and the interests of customers and shareholders align."
- Jeff Bezos | Amazon’s Letter To Shareholders Should Inspire Every Company In America
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Thanks to DVR and Streaming Services, “Binge” TV Viewers Abound
A February 2013 study by market research firm Harris Interactive looked at how consumers used TV advancements to watch when they want and “binge-view” TV content. According to the findings, nearly eight out of 10 US adult internet users watched TV on their own schedule. Of those consumers, 41% did so through a cable or satellite on-demand service. 40% did so through a web-based streaming service like Hulu, Hulu Plus or Netflix. 37% used a recording device like Tivo or DVR, and 29% watched physical DVDs.
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"On paper, literally everything about Google Fiber makes standard digital-cable service look like something that was cobbled together by members of a lesser phylum."
- Google Fiber Set to Challenge Data/TV Providers | Adweek
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Data science is “the sexiest job in the 21st century,” says Harvard Business Review. (via NYTimes.com)
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"Remove all the space within the atoms making up the human body, and every person that’s ever lived would fit inside a baseball."
- Brian Greene (via parislemon)
(via parislemon)
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- There are currently 102 million Tumblr blogs. (Tumblr)
- The total number of Tumblr posts to date is 44.6 billion. (Tumblr)
- Tumblr had 29.2 million unique visitors in March 2013. (ComScore)
- Tumblr had 6.6 billion pageviews per month in March 2013. (Quantcast)
- The average usage days per visitor in March 2013 was 4.8. (ComScore)
- Users spent 154.1 minutes on average on Tumblr (per user) in March 2013. (ComScore)
- Users viewed 30.6 pages per visit on average in March 2013. (ComScore)
- 17 percent of Tumblr’s U.S.-based visitors come to Tumblr via mobile devices. (Quantcast)
- 52 percent of Tumblr visitors are male. (ComScore)
- 46.5 percent of Tumblr visitors are 18-34-years-old. (ComScore)
- 67 percent of Tumblr users have no children. (Quantcast)
- 35.2 percent of Tumblr visitors have a household income greater than $100,000 (ComScore).
- 19 percent of Tumblr visitors are Hispanic, which is is almost two times the Internet average. (Quantcast)
- 18.1 percent of Tumblr visitors live in the Pacific time zone. (ComScore)
- The minimum cost for a brand to buy advertising on the site’s “Radar,” where Tumblr highlights blog posts from its users and seen by everyone using the Tumblr dashboard, is $25,000. (Digiday)
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Hyper-lapse photography combines time-lapse, sweeping camera movements, precision, and hours editing. These guys simplified it using Google Street View. Amazing.
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