May 2012
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2012 Internet Trends - KPCB/Mary Meeker
KPCB Internet Trends 2012
May 30th
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Revolutionary User Interfaces →
May 18th
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Graphic of social marketing products and services... →
Its actually missing quite a few others - Pinterest, Fancy etc.
May 18th
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Infographic on current state and future for mobile... →
May 3rd
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Secrets to lighting fast mobile user experience -... →
May 1st
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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.
Apr 29th
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Apr 18th
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Scaling Instagram - solid tips on building and... →
Apr 12th
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This is how design works →
Apr 3rd
March 2012
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Amazing example of CSS and JS in a modern browser... →
Mar 28th
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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...
Mar 23rd
February 2012
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UX of signup and login simplified →
Feb 15th
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.”
Jan 31st
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Microsoft to discontinue its virtual currency... →
Jan 27th
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SVPG: Product Management Then and Now →
Jan 24th
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Amazon releases DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable... →
Jan 19th
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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...
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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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...
Dec 26th
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Fast Company: The Race For Mobile Payments →
Dec 14th
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A view of game industry with a focus on London →
Dec 9th
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Dec 4th
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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...
Dec 2nd
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November 2011
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ArcticStartup: Wrapp Explodes Out Of Sweden,... →
Nov 14th
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With Square's Card Case, Pay By Saying Your Name →
Nov 3rd
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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.
Nov 1st
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Nov 1st
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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. 
Oct 25th
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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.
Oct 21st
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Oct 18th
The Economics of Social Gaming [INFOGRAPHIC] →
Oct 18th
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Opower - Facebook social energy app →
Using social and game mechanics to help people understand their energy usage and efficiency.
Oct 17th
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Microsoft Kinect brings motion-sensing tech to the... →
Oct 12th
Oct 12th
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.”
Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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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...
Oct 9th
Oct 6th
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)....
Oct 5th
September 2011
8 posts
Sep 29th
ERTS a transformer →
Electronic Arts (EA) CEO John Riccitiello on Cramer.
Sep 27th
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)
Sep 25th
Sep 21st
Fascinated by Google Books Ngram Viewer. →
Sep 20th
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Sep 20th
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Sep 17th
New Startup Shaker Aims To Turn Facebook Into A...
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Sep 15th
August 2011
3 posts
Lorem Ipsum for hipsters →
Aug 21st
Great story. Doing social right. Makes me want to... →
Aug 18th
Research: On Facebook 3% To 7.5% Of Fans See Your... →
Aug 8th