May 2012
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2012 Internet Trends - KPCB/Mary Meeker
KPCB Internet Trends 2012
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Revolutionary User Interfaces →
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Graphic of social marketing products and services... →
Its actually missing quite a few others - Pinterest, Fancy etc.
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Infographic on current state and future for mobile... →
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Secrets to lighting fast mobile user experience -... →
April 2012
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What happens when you give Kindles to kids in... →
Primary school students with access to e-readers showed significant improvement in reading skills and in time spent reading, and the program is cost-effective. The theft rate was “near-zero,” but nearly half the e-readers broke.
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Scaling Instagram - solid tips on building and... →
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This is how design works →
March 2012
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Amazing example of CSS and JS in a modern browser... →
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ThoughtWorks Technology Radar 2012 - what is hot...
ThoughtWorks continues to map the latest technology trends.
Quick look what is hot and what is not. The overall theme appears to be around addressing scale and also massively growing mobile/web/tablet applications.
Techniques
Increasing use of agile in DWH, BI and Analytics - real time data transfer over batch based approach
Continuous Delivery, single command deploy, improved testing and...
February 2012
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UX of signup and login simplified →
January 2012
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Visa invests $40M in TrialPay →
Mountain View, Calif.-based TrialPay will use the money to expand into new markets and innovate in “transactional advertising.”
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Microsoft to discontinue its virtual currency... →
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SVPG: Product Management Then and Now →
Amazon releases DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable... →
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Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The...
Great infographic from Business Insider on what happens on the Internet during 60 seconds.
The biggest chunk is consumed by the following services
164 million emails
11 million IM-s
694,445 Google searches
695,000 Facebook status updates
510,040 Facebook comments
370,000 Skype voice calls (actually I think that with paid calls comes around 506k as per latest published stats)
98,000...
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December 2011
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The origins of social media
The Economist (How Luther went viral) draws interesting parallels with the social media movement we know today and the spread of Reformation 500 years ago. The technology of the time (printing press) was important but so was the wider sharing of media among social circles. Thus the television, internet, Twitter and Facebook today merely enable a faster and arguably wider distribution of media and...
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Fast Company: The Race For Mobile Payments →
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A view of game industry with a focus on London →
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Estonia as global centre for cyber security... →
Major General Jonathan Shaw, head of the defence cyber operations group at the MoD, singled out a Baltic state as a leading light when it comes to cyber readiness and being prepared for “a one-nation response”.
The MoD in Estonia told SC Magazine that its ‘cyber leader’ role stems from its highly developed information society where the Estonian public and private sector...
November 2011
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ArcticStartup: Wrapp Explodes Out Of Sweden,... →
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With Square's Card Case, Pay By Saying Your Name →
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Network of global corporate control visualized
Researchers have created an algorithm to map and visualize corporate ownership and control across 37 million corporations globally.
It turns out there are 147 companies that with stakes in each other control 40% of all wealth in the network. Not surprisingly these are mostly banks and financial institutions.
Forbes article here and the research paper is here.
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October 2011
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Wired: Brave New Thermostat: How the iPod’s... →
A household device in widespread use that has not seen innovation or indeed modern design in decades being reworked.
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Google+ feedback system
Loving the feedback system on Google+. You can highlight areas of the page you want to call out at the same time blocking out private information. Google likely can pick up the story or item automatically based on my selection.
The Economics of Social Gaming [INFOGRAPHIC] →
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Opower - Facebook social energy app →
Using social and game mechanics to help people understand their energy usage and efficiency.
Microsoft Kinect brings motion-sensing tech to the... →
Google debuts Dart, a new programming language for...
Via Venturebeat:
This language is, as a product of the 21st century, designed with modern web browsers and modern devices — from tablets to server — in mind.
According to a reportedly leaked email from last year, the language “aims to maintain the dynamic nature of JavaScript but have a better performance profile and be amenable to tooling for large projects.”
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NYT: A Game to Make Zynga Nervous →
Over the last month 66.5M people have played the Sims Social on Facebook. That is more than double the audience who tuned in for Ashton Kutcher’s recent debut on the hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” It is roughly twice the number of copies of “The Catcher in the Rye” sold during the last 60 years. And it is about 20 million more people than have ever purchased Pink Floyd’s...
Flight search apps - OnTheFly and Google Flight... →
I’m sure most of you are similarly frustrated with the lack of great products to fill the seemingly simple user need or problem of flexible flight search (without actually conducting 200 searches on 10 websites or spending hours on the phone with agents). OnTheFly a mobile app from Google looks like a great step forward, so is Google flight search (this one is US only unfortunately)....
September 2011
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ERTS a transformer →
Electronic Arts (EA) CEO John Riccitiello on Cramer.
Facebook and your data
Facebook is clearly moving more towards richer user data but also improving the data quality (different types of status updates - health and wellness, milestones, living etc.).
While trying to get rid of spam they are also making untagging yourself on a photo harder (can now ask the person who tagged the photo to take it down also or block the person in the same flow)
Fascinated by Google Books Ngram Viewer. →
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New Startup Shaker Aims To Turn Facebook Into A...
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August 2011
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Lorem Ipsum for hipsters →
Great story. Doing social right. Makes me want to... →
Research: On Facebook 3% To 7.5% Of Fans See Your... →